Tashkent Open 2011: Ksenia Pervak Claims Title

Written by: Staff on 17th September 2011

Tashkent Open 2011: Ksenia Pervak Claims Title

Ksenia Pervak of Russia hits a return to Ana Ivanovic of Serbia during their first round match on the second day of the 2011 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA 30 August 2011. The US Open runs through 11 September 2011. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO |

TASHKENT OPEN

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

September 12-17, 2011

$220,000/International

Hard/Outdoor

Results – Saturday, September 17, 2011

Singles – Final

(1) Ksenia Pervak (RUS) d. Eva Birnerova (CZE) 63 61

Doubles – Final

(2) Daniilidou/Diatchenko (GRE/RUS) d. Kichenok/Kichenok (UKR/UKR) 64 63

Final Facts

– Pervak, 20, wins her first WTA singles title from her second final. She was runner-up to Vera Zvonareva at Baku in July.

– No.1 seed at a WTA tournament for the first time, Russia’s Pervak is the 10th top seed to lift a singles trophy in 2011, and the third first-time title winner of the season after Alberta Brianti (Fès) and Polona Hercog (Bastad).

– Pervak did not drop a set in her five matches at Tashkent this week.

– Five Russians have now won singles titles this year. The list also includes Zvonareva (Doha, Baku), Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Monterrey), Maria Sharapova (Rome, Cincinnati) and Nadia Petrova (College Park).

– Pervak began the year ranked No.97; she wins this title on a ranking of No.52 and is projected to improve on her career high of No.51, achieved in July.

– Birnerova, who turned 27 during the week, was contesting her first WTA singles final, having never previously been past three quarterfinals reached (most recently at Stockholm in 2006).

– Birnerova advanced to the final when defending champion and No.6 seed Alla Kudryavtseva retired in the second set of their semi (left hamstring strain).

– Eleni Daniilidou and Vitalia Diatchenko win their first WTA doubles title as a team. Daniilidou now has three doubles titles to her name, while the win marks Diatchenko’s first WTA title of any kind; she had been a finalist four times, including here in 2009 (w/Dzehalevich).

– 19-year-old Ukrainian twins Lyudmyla and Nadiya Kichenok were contesting their first WTA final.