Daily Women Tennis Update (04/09/12)

Written by: Staff on 9th April 2012

Daily Women Tennis Update (04/09/12)

epa03157489 Serena Williams of the US hits a return to Roberta Vinci of Italy at the Sony Ericsson Open on Key Biscayne, Florida, USA, 24 March 2012. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT |

Charleston

Singles – Final: (5) Serena Williams def. (9) Lucie Safarova 6-0 6-1
Good thing the audience had already paid for its tickets, eh? This took a hair less than an hour, and Serena Williams won two-thirds of the points. What can you say about such a match? We can at least say that it is Serena’s first title since last year’s Canadian Open, and her first on clay since she won here all the way back in 2008. A fitting occasion for her to rise to #9. It will probably be quite a while before she can go any higher, though; she is well behind #8.
Lucie Safarova will rise to #23, but she fails to win her first big title; indeed, she hasn’t won anything at all since mid-2008. Which may explain why she didn’t really seem to be there….

Singles – Final: (WC) Pavlyuchenkova/Safarova def. Medina Garrigues/Shvedova 5-7 6-4 10-6 (Match TB)
It took some work, but at least Lucie Safarova earned a title at Charleston. That’s perhaps even a bigger deal than the singles title, for her — because she never won a doubles title before. Not at the Tour level, anyway; she did it in a Challenger. But it’s nice to have that honest-to-gosh trophy, just to say, “Yes, I could win in doubles too.” Pavlyuchenkova didn’t have that problem, but she wins her first doubles title since January 2011.

Estimated WTA Rankings As of April 8, 2012

Rank &
Prior
Rank …Name …………. Points
1..(1) Azarenka ………..8980
2..(2) Sharapova ……… 7930
3..(3) Kvitova ……….. 7095
4..(4) Radwanska ……… 6710
5..(5) STOSUR ………….5825
6..(6) Wozniacki ……… 5450
7..(7) BARTOLI ……….. 5020
8..(8) Li ……………..4880
9.(10) SWILLIAMS ……… 4300*
10..(9) ZVONAREVA ……… 3895
11.(11) Petkovic ………..3410
12.(12) Schiavone ……… 3380
13.(13) LISICKI ……….. 3251
14.(14) Ivanovic ………..2785
15.(16) Kerber ………….2775
16.(15) Goerges ……….. 2735
17.(18) Cibulkova ……… 2545
18.(19) Vinci …………. 2470
19.(20) Hantuchova ………2450
20.(17) JANKOVIC ………..2430
21.(21) Kirilenko ……… 2410
22.(22) PAVLYUCHENKOVA …..2305
23.(26) SAFAROVA ………..2255
24.(24) Pennetta ………..2155
25.(23) Peng ……………2050
26.(27) MEDINA GARRIGUES …1940
27.(25) Kuznetsova ………1902
28.(28) Cetkovska ……… 1860
29.(29) Niculescu ……… 1840
30.(30) WICKMAYER ……… 1745

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