Today’s Women’s News (10/01): Beijing & Las Vegas Challenger

Written by: Staff on 1st October 2012

Today's Women's News (10/01): Beijing & Las Vegas Challenger

epa03371684 Julia Goerges of Germany hits a return to Kristyna Pliskova of the Czech Republic during their match on the first day of the 2012 US Open Tennis Championship at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York, USA, 27 August 2012. The US Open runs through Sunday 09 September 2012. EPA/PETER FOLEY |

> Beijing

> Singles – First Round: (1) Victoria Azarenka def. Alize

> Cornet 6-1 6-0

> Evidently Victoria Azarenka was right when she said her

> medical results came back clean! If she keeps playing like

> this, she’ll clinch the year-end #1 this week. She leaves

> Alize Cornet still below #40.

> Singles – First Round: (2) Maria Sharapova def. Simona Halep

> 7-5 7-5

> Maria Sharapova didn’t play here last year, so all the

> points are a bonus, but she can’t take #1 this week, or even

> get particularly close.

> Singles – First Round: (10) Caroline Wozniacki def. Chanelle

> Scheepers 7-5 6-7(6-8) 6-2

> Caroline Wozniacki keeps her Top Ten hopes alive, but she’ll

> need at least two more wins and probably more. And she must

> be very tired.

> Singles – First Round: Sabine Lisicki def. Anabel Medina

> Garrigues 6-3 5-7 6-2

> Because so many points are going off and coming on this

> week, this moves Sabine Lisicki very close to a return to

> the Top 25.

> Singles – First Round: Sorana Cirstea def. Sofia Arvidsson

> 6-2 6-3

> Sorana Cirstea’s Top Thirty spot now appears sure; one more

> win might take her to the Top 25.

> Singles – First Round: (Q) Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino def.

> Zheng Jie 6-2 6-4

> That’s the first disappointing result for China’s Big Three

> of Li, Zheng, and Peng. Zheng Jie loses her chance to hit

> the Top Twenty.

> Singles – First Round: (Q) Polona Hercog def. Anastasia

> Pavlyuchenkova 5-7 6-4 3-0 retired (GI Illness)

> Illness is much the standard story of the Asian swing —

> presumably the combination of long plane flights and jet

> lag. But Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was defending

> quarterfinalist points; she will fall out of the Top

> Thirty.

> Singles – Second Round: Carla Suarez Navarro def. (4) Petra

> Kvitova 6-3 6-2

> After actually looking good this summer, Petra Kvitova seems

> to be back in her funk. She won’t rise above her current #5.

> We still say she’ll qualify for Istanbul, but this may slow

> down the announcement.

> Singles – Second Round: (11) Ana Ivanovic def. Varvara

> Lepchenko 4-6 7-5 6-1

> This raises a slight possibility that Varvara Lepchenko will

> lose her Top Twenty spot. Certainly she won’t rise above

> #19.

> Singles – Second Round: Peng Shuai def. Yaroslava Shvedova

> 5-7 7-5 6-2

> It’s likely that Yaroslava Shvedova will hit the Top Thirty

> this week, but this loss means she’ll have to wait a little

> longer to clinch. Peng Shuai will probably hit the Top Forty

> as a result of this.

> Singles – Second Round: (Q) Elena Vesnina def. Tamira Paszek

> 7-6(7-5) 6-2

> If Elena Vesnina is trying to reclaim a lost year, she has

> at least one significant barrier in her way: She is likely

> to face Azarenka next. Still, it’s a big week for her. She

> costs Tamira Paszek her Top 25 chance.

> Doubles – First Round: Goerges/Zahlavova Strycova def.

> Raymond/Stosur 7-6(7-4) 4-6 10-6 (Match TB)

> Lisa Raymond is on her own while Liezel Huber and her

> husband adopt a child, so she decided to play with Stosur —

> but she and Stosur always seem to need time to jell.

> Doubles – First Round: Bacsinszky/Martinez Sanchez def.

> Tatishvili/Voskoboeva 6-7(1-7) 6-2 10-4 (Match TB)

> Doubles – First Round: (WC) Tang/Tian def. (WC) Yan/S.Zheng

> 3-6 6-1 13-11 (Match TB)

> We’ll say it again: If Yan Zi wants to have a comeback, she

> needs to find a real partner. Note that that is the “other”

> Zheng….

> Doubles – Second Round: Dushevina/Rosolska def. (Alt)

> Liu/Sun 6-4 7-6(7-5)

> A funny team, the Chinese pair. Or at least a funny team

> name. Note that that is not the long-since-retired pair of

> Li Ting and Sun Tiantian; it’s Liu Wan-Ting and Sun

> Shengnan. Who made the main draw only because Errani/Vinci

> pulled out. So they don’t earn any points.

> Las Vegas Challenger

> This finished on Sunday, but it was already Monday Beijing

> time, so we couldn’t wait to get the results. The Las Vegas

> singles title went to Lauren Davis, who beat Shelby Rogers

> 6-7 6-2 6-2 despite needing a medical timeout in the first

> set (she said afterward that she thought she had gotten

> dehydrated. Perhaps understandable after playing ten matches

> in two weeks, winning nine of them). Her goal was to hit the

> Top Hundred before she turned 19, and she made it with two

> weeks to spare; she is up to #91. More on this in the

> feature. The doubles title went to the Rodionova sisters,

> who beat Bovina/Gallovits-Hall in a match tiebreak.

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