Women’s Tennis Update (5/14) – Rome

Written by: on 14th May 2013
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Women's Tennis Update (5/14) - Rome

epa03686140 Spanish tennis player Carla Suarez Navarro returns the ball to Estonia's Kaia Kanepi during their semi final match at the Portugal Open tennis tournament at Jamor complex in Oeiras, outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal, 03 May 2013. EPA/JOSE SENA GOULAO  |

Rome

 

Former Rome Masters champion Venus Williams heads into the French Open in less than a fortnight without a win on European clay after losing 6-3, 6-2 to Briton Laura Robson at the Foro Italico in blustery, sandstorm conditions. The 32-year-old American played and lost in Rome after pulling out last week in Madrid before the first round with back pain.

The game of the 1999 Rome winner who made her last major impression on the event seven years ago in the semi-finals, was barely a match for her teenaged opponent ranked 39 to the 24th of Williams. The quality of the competition was not helped by a swirling wind which could have put any desert to shame and forced both players to halt their serves on occasion and turn away from the blowing clay dust.

“I always have trouble with the dust and so it was kind of tough in the first set but then it sort of settled down,” said Robson. “The hardest part for me was on my service games, having to wait so long between the first and the second serves. I just got used to it.”

Five-time Wimbledon winner Williams went down six double-faults and lost her serve five times. Robson saved 10 or the 12 break points she faced in her struggling victory. The Briton now faces a huge task as she takes on younger Williams sister Serena after the American won her second straight title at Madrid with a 12th consecutive defeat of rival Maria Sharapova.

Australian ninth seed Samantha Stosur, the French Open finalist three years ago, earned her first European clay win on her third try this spring, beating Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan 6-2, 6-3.

Stosur lost in the Madrid first round to Carla Suarez Navarro and immediately came to Rome to practice. “I really like here is the surface, the clay courts here are very light and the ball gets through the air pretty quickly,” she said. “As long as it’s not too windy it’s great.”

German Sabine Lisicki reached the second round over American Madison Burdette 6-1, 6-2 but sixth seed and Madrid semi-finalist Angelique Kerber of Germany withdrew with an abdominal strain.

China’s Peng Shuai beat Romanian Monica Niculescu 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 while Italian Nastassja Burnett beat 2008 finalist Alize Cornet 6-2, 6-2. Former No. 1 Serb Jelena Jankovic beat Tsvetana Pironkova 6-3, 6-0 while Kiki Bertens knocked out 2010 French Open holder Francesca Schiavone 7-6 (7-5), 6-1. Romanian Simona Halep Paris winner Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 6-1, 6-1.

 

RANKINGS

 

Estimated WTA Rankings As of May 12, 2013

Rank &

Prior

Rank….Name…………..Points

1 (1) SWILLIAMS 10945*

2 (2) SHARAPOVA 9795*

3 (3) AZARENKA 8390*

4 (4) ARADWANSKA 6475*

5 (6) ERRANI 5640*

6 (5) LI 5335*

7 (7) KERBER 5310*

8 (8) KVITOVA 5175*

9 (9) WOZNIACKI 3625*

10 (10) STOSUR 3540*

11 (11) PETROVA 3065*

12 (12) KIRILENKO 2971*

13 (14) Bartoli 2845

14 (13) IVANOVIC 2800*

15 (15) VINCI 2730*

16 (16) CIBULKOVA 2535*

17 (17) STEPHENS 2420*

18 (18) JANKOVIC 2345*

19 (19) PAVLYUCHENKOVA 2010*

20 (21) FLIPKENS 1872*

21 (20) MAKAROVA 1815

22 (22) SUAREZ NAVARRO 1805*

23 (23) Zakopalova 1745

24 (26) CIRSTEA 1595

25 (28) Shvedova 1572

26 (29) Paszek 1568

27 (25) GOERGES 1565*

28 (24) VWILLIAMS 1550

29 (30) CORNET 1530

30 (34) LISICKI 1526*

 

DRAWS

 

Rome — Week of May 13

 

1 S Williams

–bye

V Williams

Robson

Makarova

Oudin (Q)

Mladenovic

14 Cibulkova

 

11 Petrova

Suarez Navarro

Pavlyuchenkova

Oprandi

Flipkens

Wickmayer

–bye

6 Kerber

 

4 A Radwanska

–bye

Kuznetsova

Halep (Q)

Burnett (WC)

Cornet

Vesnina

13 Vinci

 

10 Wozniacki

Jovanovski

Jankovic

Pironkova

Zheng

Rybarikova

–bye

5 Li

 

8 Kvitova

–bye

Lisicki

Burdette (Q)

Niculescu

Peng

Hsieh

9 Stosur

 

15 Ivanovic

U. Radwanska

Cirstea

Morita

Goerges

Hlavackova (Q)

–bye

3 Azarenka

 

7 Errani

–bye

Knapp (WC)

McHale

Tsurenko (Q)

Lepchenko

Medina Garrigues (Q)

12 Kirilenko

 

16 Stephens

Pennetta (WC)

Schiavone

Bertens

Muguruza (Q)

Johansson (Q)

–bye

2 Sharapova

 

MONDAY

Rome

Singles – First Round

(9) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) 62 63

Jelena Jankovic (SRB) d. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 63 60

Sabine Lisicki (GER) d. (Q) Mallory Burdette (USA) 61 62

Peng Shuai (CHN) d. Monica Niculescu (ROU) 46 63 62

Laura Robson (GBR) d. Venus Williams (USA) 63 62

Ayumi Morita (JPN) d. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 61 63

Kiki Bertens (NED) d. Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 76(5) 61

(Q) Simona Halep (ROU) d. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 61 61

(Q) Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) d. (Q) Mathilde Johansson (FRA) 16 60 62

(Q) Melanie Oudin (USA) d. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 26 75 42 ret. (left Achilles injury)

(WC) Nastassja Burnett (ITA) d. Alizé Cornet (FRA) 62 62

Doubles – First Round

Kudryavtseva/Rodionova (RUS/AUS) d. (5) Kops-Jones/Spears (USA/USA) 75 75

Cibulkova/Niculescu (SVK/ROU) d. (8) Zhang/Zheng (CHN/CHN) 63 61

Hlavackova/Martic (CZE/CRO) d. Birnerova/Buryachok (CZE/UKR) 60 61

Govortsova/Moulton-Levy (BLR/USA) d. Chan/Jurak (TPE/CRO) 36 63 1311 (Match TB)

Marosi/Tatishvili (HUN/GEO) d. (WC) Burnett/McHale (ITA/USA) 57 64 106 (Match TB)








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