Sat. French Open Results Ladies

Written by: on 8th June 2013
French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros
Sat. French Open Results Ladies

epa03736698 Maria Sharapova of Russia in action during her final match against Serena Williams of the USA in action during the French Open tennis tournament at Roland Garros in Paris, France, 08 June 2013. EPA/IAN LANGSDON  |

Roland Garros

 

Singles – Final: (1) Serena Williams def. (2) Maria Sharapova 6-4 6-4

This wasn’t a blowout, but it was pretty straightforward. Maria Sharapova started strong, winning the first couple of games, but then Serena Williams got her serve working, and there really wasn’t much else to say about the match.

There is, of course, plenty to say about the record books. Whichever player won would have her second Roland Garros title — but, for Serena, that means she now has at least two of every Slam (and a lot more than two of most of them). She becomes the oldest player to win the French Open, surpassing Chris Evert’s record by several months.

And, of course, she is an even stronger #1. Her lead over Victoria Azarenka is now almost 4000 points. In other words, she’ll be #1 even if she doesn’t play Wimbledon. No question at all about who is the dominant player in tennis right now!

All the talk, of course, is about Serena’s Slam total, but there are plenty of other amazing numbers; she is now 41-2 in 2013, with a withdrawal (95.3% not counting the withdrawal). She has nine events, and has won six of them, including her last five straight. She has won 29 matches in a row. She is 23-0 on clay. She already has almost 7000 points this year — meaning that, if she doesn’t play another match this year, she would end the year probably #3 or #4! (We show Sharapova with 5790 points this year, to Serena’s 6961; Azarenka is at 4920.) This should surely cause her to be qualified for the year-end championships.

Maria Sharapova won thirteen straight matches here, but that of course means that she didn’t defend her points. She falls from #2 to #3, behind Azarenka. She is a strong #3, and will have a shot at getting the #2 spot back at Wimbledon — but she (and everyone else) will still have Serena to contend with…. At least she, like Serena, should have qualified for the Championships.

****** TODAY’S FEATURE ******

 

Women’s Look Forward: Birmingham, Nurnberg

 

One of life’s little mysteries is why the WTA keeps scheduling clay events for the week after Roland Garros. Sure, they need to put tournaments somewhere — but there are enough grass slots at Birmingham (it’s a 56-draw) that they don’t absolutely need a second event this week, and it’s tough to get a decent clay field at a time when Roland Garros is over and Wimbledon just two weeks away. The events scheduled in this slot tend not to last long, and they don’t get many players.

Hence Nurnberg, which is a new event and which has a main draw cutoff around #140. It did manage to draw one big name: Jelena Jankovic took a wildcard to earn the #1 seed. But the #2 seed is Klara Zakopalova. Alize Cornet, who won Bad Gastein at this time last year, is #3. Struggling Julia Goerges is #4. Lucie Safarova, who is also struggling, is #5. Lourdes Domingues Lino has the #6 seed, with Simona Halep #7 and Annika Beck #8 — meaning that we have several seeds ranked below #50. The most noteworthy unseeded players are probably Anabel Medina Garrigues, who could face Jankovic in round two, and wildcard Andrea Petkovic, a potential second round opponent for her countrywoman Goerges.

The competition with Nurnberg probably didn’t hurt Birmingham much, but it isn’t very strong — the top players who want a grass warmup will be playing Eastbourne instead. It doesn’t have a star like Jankovic; the #1 seed is Kirsten Flipkens. It does have a lot of pretty good grass players — although a surprising number of them are unseeded. Defending champion Melanie Oudin, for instance, is drawn to meet top seed Flipkens in the second round. The #2 seed is Ekaterina Makarova, who will have to hurry in from the Roland Garros doubles final. Sorana Cirstea is #3, with Tamira Paszek #4. Sabine Lisicki is #5, Mona Barthel #6, Laura Robson #7, and Urszula Radwanska — who likes grass a lot — is #8 and has the last bye. The lower seeds are #9 Yanina Wickmayer, #10 Hsieh Su-Wei, #11 Ayumi Morita, #12 Kristina Mladenovic (who, given her recent doubles results, seems likely to be a grass threat), #13 Bojana Jovanovski, #14 Heather Watson, #15 Francesca Schiavone, and #16 Magdalena Rybarikova. That means that the cutoff for seeds is right around #50.

Still, we could see more tough early matches here than in Nurnberg. In addition to that second round contest between Flipkens and Oudin, Hsieh has to open against red-hot Jamie Hampton, with Madison Keys to follow. Cirstea will play her opener against Tsvetana Pironkova — who really likes grass — or Lauren Davis. Wickmayer would play her second round against Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, who long, long ago was a Wimbledon semifinalist. Watson’s second round could be against Kimiko Date-Krumm, who had big Wimbledon results even longer ago. Robson could play Daniela Hantuchova in round two. And Makarova will face either Marino Erakovic, another grass-lover, or promising Elina Svitolina.

The Rankings

The events last year at this time were Birmingham and Bad Gastein, but the points were the same, so the schedule change doesn’t matter much. Melanie Oudin was a shock winner at Birmingham; she beat Jelena Jankovic. Ekaterina Makarova and Zheng Jie were semifinalists (Zheng, oddly enough, as a qualifier, even though she would have been about the #7 seed had she filed her entry papers properly!). The title at Bad Gastein went to Alize Cornet, with Yanina Wickmayer the finalist and Ksenia Pervak and Mandy Minella semifinalists.

You’ll notice a lot of struggling names in that list. Oudin’s and Minella’s Top Hundred spots appear to be in danger, and Wickmayer may well lose her Top Fifty spot.

At the top, on the other hand, no one is in danger of anything. Serena Williams is going to stay #1 by a wide margin, and the rest of the Top Ten is also safe.

And all of this matters because the rankings after this week will be used to seed Wimbledon. We will of course keep you up to date on that. Right now, it looks as if the most interesting contest is for the #16 Wimbledon seed, since Jankovic comes in at #16 but with points to defend (although her lead over #17 Stephens is a lot more than the points she has to defend). We’ll also have a contest for the #22-#24 seeds, with Makarova, Cornet, Cirstea, Peng (who isn’t playing), and Lisicki being the leading contenders. There will also be a contest for the last seeds, with Zakopalova, Goerges, Robson, Mladenovic, and maybe Jovanovski in the hunt for the last two or three spots. We might note that Venus Williams’s decision not to play this week pretty well takes her out of the contest for a seed.

KEYWORDS: Preview Birmingham Nurnberg

******** THIS WEEK IN TENNIS ********

 

THIS WEEK ON THE WTA:

Roland Garros (Slam/Clay). Defending Champion: Maria Sharapova

NEXT WEEK ON THE WTA:

Birmingham (International/Grass). Defending Champion: Melanie Oudin

Nurnberg (International/Clay). Defending Champion: New Event (Cornet won Bad Gastein in this slot)

************ STATS AND FACTS ************

 

**RANKINGS

 

Estimated WTA Rankings As of June 8, 2013

 

Rank &

Prior

Rank….Name…………..Points

1..(1) SWILLIAMS ………13615*

2..(3) AZARENKA ………..9625

3..(2) SHARAPOVA ……… 9415

4..(4) ARADWANSKA ………6465

5..(5) ERRANI ………….5335

6..(6) LI ……………..5155

7..(8) KERBER ………….4915

8..(7) KVITOVA ……….. 4555

9.(10) WOZNIACKI ……… 3565

10.(12) KIRILENKO ……… 3436

11.(15) VINCI …………. 3060

12.(14) IVANOVIC ………..2920

13.(11) PETROVA ……….. 2910

14..(9) STOSUR ………….2905

14.(13) BARTOLI ……….. 2905

16.(18) JANKOVIC ………..2900

17.(17) STEPHENS ………..2530

18.(16) CIBULKOVA ……… 2140

19.(20) SUAREZ NAVARRO …..2095

20.(21) FLIPKENS ………..1978

21.(19) PAVLYUCHENKOVA …..1950

22.(22) MAKAROVA ………..1811

23.(27) CORNET ………….1765

24.(30) CIRSTEA ……….. 1750

25.(23) PENG ……………1685

26.(34) LISICKI ……….. 1681

27.(39) KUZNETSOVA ………1662

28.(25) LEPCHENKO ……… 1566

29.(33) PASZEK ………….1539

30.(29) SAFAROVA ………..1500

30.(35) BARTHEL ……….. 1500

**DRAWS

 

Roland Garros — Week of May 26

WINNER: Serena Williams

……………….3R………………4R…………….QF………..SF………F

1 S Williams…….(1)S.Williams…….S.Williams……..Williams…..Williams…Williams

26 Cirstea………(26)Cirstea

19 Pavlyuchenkova..Cetkovska

15 Vinci………..(15)Vinci………..Vinci

 

10 Wozniacki…….Jovanovski

22 Makarova……..Kuznetsova……….Kuznetsova……..Kuznetsova

29 Lepchenko…….(29)Lepchenko

8 Kerber………..(8)Kerber………..Kerber

 

4 A Radwanska……(4)A.Radwanska……Radwanska………Radwanska

30 V Williams……Pfizenmaier(Q)

24 Goerges………Razzano(WC)

14 Ivanovic……..(14)Ivanovic……..Ivanovic

 

11 Petrova………Puig

20 Suarez Navarro..(20)Suarez Navarro..Suarez Navarro

32 Lisicki………(32)Lisicki

5 Errani………..(5)Errani………..Errani…………Errani…….Errani

 

6 Li……………Mattek-Sands……..Mattek-Sands

27 Shvedova……..Ormaechea(Q)

23 Zakopalova……Voegele

12 Kirilenko…….(12)Kirilenko…….Kirilenko………Kirilenko

 

13 Bartoli………(13)Bartoli

21 Flipkens……..Schiavone………..Schiavone

31 Cornet……….(31)Cornet

3 Azarenka………(3)Azarenka………Azarenka……….Azarenka…..Azareka

 

7 Kvitova……….(7)Kvitova

25 Safarova……..Hampton………….Hampton

18 Jankovic……..(18)Jankovic……..Jankovic……….Jankovic

9 Stosur………..(9)Stosur

 

16 Cibulkova…….Erakovic

17 Stephens……..(17)Stephens……..Stephens

28 Paszek……….Zheng

2 Sharapova……..(2)Sharapova……..Sharapova………Sharapova….Sharapova..Sharapova

 

STATUS OF SEEDS

1 S Williams

2 Sharapova

3 Azarenka……….lost SF (Sharapova)

4 A Radwanska…….lost QF (Errani)

5 Errani…………lost SF (S. Williams)

6 Li…………….lost 2R (Mattek-Sands)

7 Kvitova………..lost 3R (Hampton)

8 Kerber…………lost 4R (Kuznetsova)

9 Stosur…………lost 3r (Jankovic)

10 Wozniacki……..lost 2R (Jovanovski)

11 Petrova……….lost 1R (Puig)

12 Kirilenko……..lost QF (Azarenka)

13 Bartoli……….lost 3R (Schiavone)

14 Ivanovic………lost 4R (A. Radwanska)

15 Vinci…………lost 4R (S. Williams)

16 Cibulkova……..lost 2R (Erakovic)

17 Stephens………lost 3R (Sharapova)

18 Jankovic………lost QF (Sharapova)

19 Pavlyuchenkova…lost 2R (Cetkovska)

20 Suarez Navarro…lost 4R (Errani)

21 Flipkens………lost 2R (Schiavone)

22 Makarova………lost 1R (Kuznetsova)

23 Zakopalova…….lost 1R (Kanepi)

24 Goerges……….lost 1R (Z Kucova)

25 Safarova………lost 1R (Hampton)

26 Cirstea……….lost 3R (S. Williams)

27 Shvedova………lost 2R (Ormaechea)

28 Paszek………..lost 1R (Oudin)

29 Lepchenko……..lost 3R (Kerber)

30 V Williams…….lost 1R (U. Radwanska)

31 Cornet………..lost 3R (Azarenka)

32 Lisicki……….lost 3R (Errani)

Birmingham — Week of May 10

 

1 Flipkens

–bye

Oudin

Qualifier

Cetkovska

Johansson

South (WC)

16 Rybarikova

 

10 Hsieh

Hampton

Keys

Tsurenko

Dolonc

Koehler

–bye

6 Barthel

 

3 Cirstea

–bye

Pironkova

Davis

Hlavackova

Puckova

Bouchard

13 Jovanovski

 

11 Morita

Qualifier

Qualifier

Cepelova

Giorgi

Vekic

–bye

8 U. Radwanska

 

5 Lisicki

–bye

Vandeweghe

Kr. Pliskova

Lucic-Baroni

Ka. Pliskova

Putintseva

9 Wickmayer

 

14 Watson

Czink

Qualifier

Date-Krumm

Keothavong (WC)

Qualifier

–bye

4 Paszek

 

7 Robson

–bye

Qualifier

Hantuchova

Qualifier

Konta (WC)

T Moore (WC)

12 Mladenovic

 

15 Schiavone

Tatishvili

Qualifier

Babos

Svitolina

Erakovic

–bye

2 Makarova

Nurnberg — Week of May 10

 

1 Jankovic (WC)

Rus

Larsson

Medina Garrigues

Minella

Pegula

Duque-Marino

6 Dominguez Lino

 

4 Goerges

Cadantu

Petkovic (WC)

Arvidsson

Knapp

Pfizenmaier (WC)

Bratchikova

8 Beck

 

7 Halep

Qualifier

Cabeza Candela

Qualifier

Qualifier

Voskoboeva

Parmentier

3 Cornet

 

5 Safarova

Karatantcheva

Torro-Flor

Pereira

Qualifier

Cohen

Hercog

2 Zakopalova

******** SCORES ********

 

SATURDAY

Roland Garros

Singles – Final

(1) Serena Williams def. (2) Maria Sharapova 6-4 6-4

Girls’ Singles – FInal

(2) Belinda Bencic def. (5) Antonia Lottner 6-1 6-3

Girls’ Doubles – Final

(2) Krejcikova/Siniakova def. Gonzalez/Haddad Maia 7-5 6-2

©Daily tennis news wire

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