Today’s Women’s News: Bogota tournament

Written by: Staff on 13th February 2012

Today's Women's News: Bogota tournament

Vania King of USA (R) and Yaroslav Shvedova of Kazakhstan returns the ball toKatarina Srebotnik of Slovenia and Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic during their double semi final match at the WTA Championships tennis tournament in Istanbul, Turkey on 29 October 2011. EPA/TOLGA BOZOGLU |

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Bogota

The cutoff for seeding here is around #100, so you can imagine what the qualifying is like! We aren’t even going to try to talk about the qualifying final; we’ll just say that the qualifiers were #1 qualifying seed Paula Ormaechea, #2 Sesil Karatancheva, #4 Yaroslava Shvedova (good to see her win, even if it is in the qualifying of one of the weakest events on the Tour), and #7 Ines Ferrer Suarez.

Singles – First Round: Valeria Savinykh def. (6) Mathilde Johansson 7-6(7-2) 3-6 7-5

Mathilde Johansson was last year’s finalist, so this will cost her dearly — she will fall to around #100.

Singles – First Round: Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino def. (8) Patricia Mayr-Achleitner 6-1 3-6 7-6(7-3)

We always get more than a little worried when Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino wins, because there are so many ways to mis-type her name — but when the weight of carrying all those letters around isn’t bothering her, she seems to be a pretty good player. This isn’t a huge surprise.

Singles – First Round: Mariana Duque-Marino def. Tetiana Luzhanska 3-6 6-4 7-5

Mariana Duque-Marino won her only title here; it is surely one of her favorite tournament sites. So no surprise that she won, even though she is in terrible form these days.

Singles – First Round: Petra Rampre def. (WC) Karen Castiblanco 6-3 6-4

Want to know what this field is like? Petra Rampre is #173 — and she had direct entry….

Doubles – First Round: Castano/Duque-Marino def. (2) Fichman/Sun 6-2 6-4

Fichman/Sun have a combined ranking of #238, and yet they are seeded #2 here. Even the #1 seeds are a combined #159. Seedings probably won’t mean much in this field. The big question is not how the seeds will do; it is how Dulko/Suarez — the potential Argentine Olympic team — perform.

Doubles – First Round: Gallovits-Hall/Knapp def. (3) Luzhanska/Woerle 7-6(12-10) 2-6 10-4 (Match TB)

Doubles – First Round: Dominguez Lino/Oprandi def. Alves/Cohen 6-1 6-0

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