Daily Women Tennis News – Stuttgart, Fes, Ranking (04/24/12)

Written by: Staff on 25th April 2012

Stuttgart

Singles – First Round: (5) Samantha Stosur def. Peng Shuai 6-2 6-2

Add Peng Shuai to the list of players who could have played Fed Cup for all it matters. This leaves her Top 25 ranking in some danger.

Singles – First Round: (7) Marion Bartoli def. (Q) Iveta Benesova 6-3 6-2

Iveta Benesova will remain right around #44.

Singles – First Round: (8) Li Na def. Lucie Safarova 7-6(7-4) 6-4

Lucie Safarova played Fed Cup; Li Na didn’t. This was close enough that you wonder if it might not have made the difference. It certainly costs Lucie Safarova her Top Twenty chance.

Singles – First Round: Francesca Schiavone def. Monica Niculescu 6-3 7-5

Monica Niculescu was defending more than a hundred points, so this could cost her her Top Thirty spot. Francesca Schiavone can’t move above #11 this week no matter what.

Singles – First Round: Angelique Kerber def. Roberta Vinci 6-2 6-3

Roberta Vinci was defending a title this week, so this hits her hard. #18 coming in, she falls to no better than (although, it appears, no worse than) #23. Angelique Kerber remains at #14 — she needs a semifinal to climb. If she can make that, though, she will become Germany’s #2 player (ahead of Sabine Lisicki but behind Andrea Petkovic).

Singles – First Round: Julia Goerges def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 5-7 6-3 6-4

Given how much Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has been struggling, this is not a good sign for Julia Goerges. But it is perhaps a slight help to Goerges’s hopes of returning to the Top Twenty — which, due to the losses by Peng, Safarova, Pavlyuchenkova, and Vinci, now look pretty good.

Singles – First Round: Andrea Petkovic def. (WC) Kristina Barrois 6-1 6-4

Good news for Andrea Petkovic after her layoff, although she will need more than this to move in the rankings.

Singles – First Round: (Q) Greta Arn def. (LL) Kateryna Bondarenko 7-5 6-3

Kateryna Bondarenko made the main draw when Flavia Pennetta pulled out — but couldn’t take advantage of what should have been one of the best spots in the draw.

Singles – First Round: (Q) Alize Cornet def. (Q) Anna Chakvetadze 6-3 6-4

Merely qualifying will take Anna Chakvetadze to around #375, but she clearly still has a long way to go.

Doubles – First Round: (1) Peschke/Srebotnik def. Klepac/Rosolska 6-0 6-2

That’s the best we’ve seen from Peschke/Srebotnik lately. Maybe Katarina Srebotnik is finally coming around.

Doubles – First Round: Dulko/Suarez def. (4) Grandin/Uhlirova 7-6(7-4) 6-4

Paola Suarez has been climbing fast. We can probably expect her to climb even faster now that we’re on clay!

Doubles – First Round: (5) Benesova/Zahlavova Strycova def. Gajdosova/Hantuchova 6-3 6-2

Benesova/Zahlavova Strycova were promoted after Mirza/Pennetta withdrew. Looks like they deserved it.

Fes

Singles – First Round: (2) Svetlana Kuznetsova def. Eleni Daniilidou 6-1 7-5

Svetlana Kuznetsova has plenty of room to add points, but she will need at least a final to return to the Top 25.

Singles – First Round: (3) Petra Cetkovska def. (Q) Melinda Czink 6-4 6-2

No points yet for Petra Cetkovska, but her Top Thirty spot looks pretty secure — indeed, she appears likely to rise a little.

Singles – First Round: (5) Simona Halep def. (WC) Fatima Zahrae El Allami 6-1, retired (GI Illness)

The sarcastic part of us can’t help but think that if a country wants to offer wildcards ranked below #750, there should at least be an obligation that they be healthy. It’s not fair to award points for wins over them otherwise. To be sure, Simona Halep doesn’t earn anything that counts as a result of this win. But one more would put her very close to a return to the Top Fifty.

Singles – First Round: Arantxa Rus def. (7) Klara Zakopalova 6-4 5-7 7-6(11-9)

This was the match that was suspended at 5-5 in the third the day before. They seemed to be trying to make a full-length match of it today, too. This will cost Klara Zakopalova at least one, and possibly two, ranking spots.

Singles – First Round: (8) Shahar Peer def. Magdalena Rybarikova 5-7 6-3 7-5

One more win might put Shahar Peer back in the Top Fifty. Can she win another match after this, though? It took two hours and fifty minutes.

Singles – First Round: Laura Pous-Tio def. Olga Govortsova 6-2 6-1

A technical upset, but Govortsova was unable to play reverse singles in Fed Cup, so this isn’t too surprising. She did at least win in doubles.

Singles – First Round: Timea Bacsinszky def. (Q) Arina Rodionova 2-6 4-0, retired (left wrist)

These days, Timea Bacsinszky will take points any way she can get them. She will probably rise more than 100 places, leaving her a little below #450.

Singles – First Round: (Q) Garbine Muguruza Blanco def. Anna Tatishvili 7-5 5-7 6-4

Garbine Muguruza Blanco is struggling a lot on the clay, but she still keeps climbing….

Singles – First Round: (Q) Kiki Bertens def. Urszula Radwanska 6-4 7-5

Kiki Bertens scores one of the better results of her career — but she will move only slightly, because she was defending 24 points.

Singles – First Round: (LL) Mathilde Johansson def. (WC) Nadia Lalami 6-1 6-1

As we said yesterday, Mathilde Johansson truly was lucky in her draw…. If she can somehow win one more match, she’ll be on the brink of a return to the Top Hundred.

Doubles – First Round: (3) Bratchikova/Jurak def. Lee-Waters/Moulton-Levy 7-6(7-5) 7-5

Doubles – First Round: (4) Govortsova/Savchuk def. (WC) Czink/Scheepers 6-1 6-3

Doubles – First Round: U.Radwanska/Tatishvili def. Husarova/Marosi 5-7 6-1 10-8 (Match TB)

Doubles – First Round: Babos/Minella def. Cabeza Candela/Pous-Tio 6-3 6-1

Estimated WTA Rankings As of April 24, 2012

Rank &

Prior

Rank …Name …………. Points

1..(1) AZARENKA ………..8980*

2..(2) SHARAPOVA ……… 7930*

3..(3) KVITOVA ……….. 7095*

4..(4) RADWANSKA ……… 6630*

5..(5) STOSUR ………….5825*

6..(6) WOZNIACKI ……… 5330*

7..(7) BARTOLI ……….. 5020*

8..(8) LI ……………..4880*

9..(9) SWilliams ……… 4300

10.(10) Zvonareva ……… 3895

11.(11) SCHIAVONE ……… 3380*

12.(12) PETKOVIC ………..3350*

13.(13) Lisicki ……….. 3201

14.(14) KERBER ………….3065*

15.(15) IVANOVIC ………..2785*

16.(16) CIBULKOVA ……… 2715*

17.(17) JANKOVIC ………..2500*

18.(19) HANTUCHOVA ………2450*

19.(20) Kirilenko ……… 2410

20.(21) GOERGES ……….. 2335*

21.(22) SAFAROVA ………..2255

22.(23) PAVLYUCHENKOVA …..2246

23.(18) VINCI …………. 2230

24.(24) Pennetta ………..2155

25.(25) PENG ……………2050

26.(27) KUZNETSOVA ………1931*

27.(28) Errani ………….1840

28.(30) CETKOVSKA ……… 1800*

29.(31) WICKMAYER ……… 1745

30.(29) NICULESCU ……… 1740

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