LI NA WINS FIRST MATCH IN SONY OPEN TENNIS 2014.

No. 2 ranked Li Na had to wait until Sunday to make her debut at the 2014 Sony Open Tennis, but when the Australian Open champion finally did make it on the courts she got into the swing of things quickly in getting past big-hitting American Madison Keys in a 7-6(3), 6-3 slugfest in the first match on Stadium Court. 
The women's third round match featured plenty of penetrating groundstrokes and numerous unforced errors in the first set before Na held her nerve to best Keys in the first set tie-break. Neither player had much success holding serve in the first set as both Na and Keys were broken three times and the trend continued early in the second, at least for Na as she lost her first serve game in the second set, dropping behind 0-2. 
But the charismatic Na would battle back and regained her form to take a 5-2 lead before closing out the match 6-3. Na's second match at the Sony Open in the woman's fourth round will be against the winner of the Carla Suarez Navarro--Kai Kanepi match to be played later in the day.