Final Update – Wanlima Guangzhou Women’s Open

Written by: on 24th September 2011
US Open 2011
Final Update - Wanlima Guangzhou Women's Open

Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa hits a return to Francesca Schiavone of Italy during their third round match on the sixth day of the 2011 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA 03 September 2011. The US Open runs through 11 September 2011. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT  |

WANLIMA GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S OPEN

Guangzhou, China

September 19-24, 2011

$220,000/International

Hard/Outdoors

Results – Saturday, September 24, 2011

Singles – Final

(7) Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) d. (8) Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 62 62

Doubles – Final

Hsieh/S.Zheng (TPE/CHN) d. C.Chan/Han (TPE/CHN) 62 61

Final Facts

– Scheepers wins her first WTA title (she had never been beyond the quarterfinals of any WTA tournament before this week).

– Scheepers saved match point in her second round match against Hsieh Su-Wei (she is the eighth player this year to save a match point en route to a WTA title).

– Scheepers is the first South African to win a WTA title since Amanda Coetzer won Acapulco in 2003.

– Rybarikova was playing in her third WTA final (she is now 2-1 in those).

– Scheepers and Rybarikova had taken out the Top 2 seeds en route to the final (Scheepers beat No.1 seed Maria Kirilenko in the semifinals, Rybarikova beat No.2 seed and defending champion Gajdosova in the quarterfinals).

– Hsieh and Zheng (Saisai) win their first WTA doubles title together; Hsieh wins her eighth WTA doubles title, Zheng wins her first WTA title of any kind.

Final Quotes

Chanelle Scheepers, 2011 WANLIMA Guangzhou International Women’s Open singles champion:

“All of my other matches were tough, but today was the day it all clicked. I thought I was hitting my groundstrokes well. I was really consistent and tried to move her around. I didn’t give her a lot of mistakes.”

“The title means a lot to me because I’ve worked so hard – to finally win one is really rewarding. Being the first since Amanda Coetzer is the cherry on the cake.”








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