And when she pounced on Radwanska's misfiring serve in the second game of set two, the fifth seed had no reply.
Watson lost seven games in a row against world number 44 Pironkova but secured her first break of the match in the seventh game of set two and soon took charge of the deciding set, surging into a 4-0 advantage.
Right now, she is back on the Game Of Thrones set.
For Korchnoi acknowledges that this game of set patterns, confined by 64 squares, contains within it so many different possibilities that it emboldens the instincts of liberation.
The top-seeded Nadal broke in the first game of each set against the big-serving Ebden.
The Queen's trip to the Game of Thrones set in Belfast last month must have had an impact.
Down in Strangford village, even the Cuan guesthouse is cashing in on the Game of Thrones set on its doorstep.
This guy went straight from the Game of Thrones set to Davos pic.twitter.com/RCp9bxuBlR.
It's the kind of game — set of games, actually — that you have to finish.
But the 2008 champion was pegged back as Kerber wrestled the third and fourth games of the set her way.
In the ninth game of the set, he broke again to clinch the victory.
