Women’s Tennis Update

Written by: Staff on 11th July 2013

Women's Tennis Update

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Budapest

Singles – Second Round: (6) Chanelle Scheepers def. Petra Martic 7-5 6-4

Petra Martic came in at #109; this appears to mean no Top Hundred spot.

Singles – Second Round: Shahar Peer def. (8) Anna Tatishvili 6-1 6-1

Anna Tatishvili is slumping (she just fell out of the Top Hundred, although she may well make it back this week). Slumping opponent or not, this is one of the best results for Shahar Peer in recent months. Maybe she can build on it.

Singles – Second Round: Danka Kovinic def. Valeria Solovyeva 6-1 3-6 6-1

Both these two are ranked below #180, but Valeria Solovyeva at least has some experience. Danka Kovinic posts the best WTA result of her career; unfortunately, she was defending some points, so she will rise only a few places — from #183 to probably around #175.

Singles – Second Round: Alexandra Cadantu def. Andrea Hlavackova 4-6 7-5 4-0, retired

It looks as if this means Andrea Hlavackova will remain below #100. It’s tough to rebuild your ranking when you can’t stay healthy….

Doubles – First Round: Klemenschits/Klepac def. (2) Babos/Rosolska 7-5 6-1

This leaves us with only one seeded team left in the draw. Of course, since there were only eight teams in the field, there were only two seeded pairs to start with….

Doubles – First Round: Bratchikova/Tatishvili def. (WC) Bukta/Jani 7-5 6-3

Palermo

Singles – Second Round: (2) Roberta Vinci def. Polona Hercog 6-2 7-6(7-3)

It’s looking as if we might well see a final between the two doubles partners, Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci. Ironic, given that neither one can move in the rankings no matter what happens here.

Singles – Second Round: Estrella Cabeza Candela def. (3) Kristina Mladenovic 6-3 2-6 7-6(8-6)

This is pretty shocking, given how well Kristina Mladenovic has been playing lately. She will be no better than #38.

Singles – Second Round: (4) Klara Zakopalova def. Karin Knapp 6-3 4-6 6-4

This took more than two and a half hours (not the best news when they had another match to play!), and Klara Zakopalova failed miserably to serve it out, but she finally won it with a break. That ought to put Zakopalova back in the Top Forty.

Singles – Second Round: (5) Lourdes Dominguez Lino def. Nastassja Burnett 7-5 4-6 6-3

This will probably take Lourdes Dominguez Lino back above #55.

Doubles – Quarterfinal: (3) Voracova/Zahlavova Strycova def. Birnerova/Buyachok 6-0 6-2

Voracova/Zahlavova Strycova probably deserve to be seeded higher than #3 at a very weak international event. As that scoreline perhaps demonstrates.

Doubles – Quarterfinal: Pliskova/Pliskova def. Duque-Marino/Pereira 6-3 6-7(1-7) 12-10

Doubles – Quarterfinal: Garcia/Zanevska def. Knapp/Pennetta 7-6(10-8) 7-6(7-4)

Correction

Yesterday’s match by Sara Errani was incorrectly listed as a first round match. It was a second round match.

As Never Was

For seven years now, we have been computing mixed doubles rankings. That’s well and good and of interest to, oh, maybe 5% of the tennis world.

But, ironically, we never looked at the history of those rankings until two years ago. Of course, they don’t change much — just four times a year. But maybe it’s time to look at those rankings. At least we can look at the history of #1.

We started publishing Mixed ranks at Wimbledon 2005 (inspired by the fact that Wimbledon in that year arbitrarily tampered with the Wimbledon seeds, giving seeds to Knowles/V. Williams and O. Rochus/Clijsters even though it meant seeding players with no rankings in doubles). We’ve been doing it ever since. So here are the histories of the men’s and women’s Mixed #1 ranking. All rankings below are the rankings following the Slam listed.

Women’s #1:

Roland Garros 2005: Navratilova

Wimbledon 2005: Navratilova

U. S. Open 2005: Navratilova

Australian Open 2006: Navratilova

Roland Garros 2006: Navratilova

Wimbledon 2006: Zvonareva

U. S. Open 2006: Navratilova

Australian Open 2007: Navratilova

Roland Garros 2007: Likhovtseva

Wimbledon 2007: Likhovtseva

U. S. Open 2007: Likhovtseva

Australian Open 2008: Dechy

Roland Garros 2008: Azarenka

Wimbledon 2008: Srebotnik

U. S. Open 2008: Srebotnik

Australian Open 2009: Srebotnik

Roland Garros 2009: Huber

Wimbledon 2009: Huber

U. S. Open 2009: Huber

Australian Open 2010: Black

Roland Garros 2010: Black

Wimbledon 2010: Black

U. S. Open 2010: Black

Australian Open 2011: Black

Roland Garros 2011: Black

Wimbledon 2011: Black

U. S. Open 2011: Srebotnik

Australian Open 2012: Srebotnik

Roland Garros 2012: Vesnina

Wimbledon 2012: Vesnina

U. S. Open 2012: Vesnina

Australian Open 2013: Vesnina

Roland Garros 2013: Vesnina

Wimbledon 2013: Hradecka

Men’s #1:

Roland Garros 2005: B. Bryan

Wimbledon 2005: B. Bryan

U. S. Open 2005: Bhupathi

Australian Open 2006: Bhupathi

Roland Garros 2006: Bhupathi

Wimbledon 2006: Bhupathi

U. S. Open 2006: B. Bryan

Australian Open 2007: B. Bryan

Roland Garros 2007: B. Bryan

Wimbledon 2007: B. Bryan

U. S. Open 2007: A. Ram

Australian Open 2008: A. Ram

Roland Garros 2008: B. Bryan

Wimbledon 2008: B. Bryan

U. S. Open 2008: B. Bryan

Australian Open 2009: B. Bryan

Roland Garros 2009: B. Bryan

Wimbledon 2009: B. Bryan

U. S. Open 2009: Paes

Australian Open 2010: Paes

Roland Garros 2010: Paes

Wimbledon 2010: Paes

U. S. Open 2010: Paes

Australian Open 2011: Paes

Roland Garros 2011: Paes

Wimbledon 2011: Paes

U. S. Open 2011: Paes

Australian Open 2012: Paes

Roland Garros 2012: Paes

Wimbledon 2012: Paes

U. S. Open 2012: Paes

Australian Open 2013: Paes

Roland Garros 2013: Paes

Wimbledon 2013: Soares

To summarize, we have had ten #1 female players in this time: Azarenka*, Black, Dechy*, Hradecka* (our new #1), Huber, Likhovtseva, Navratilova, Srebotnik, Vesnina, Zvonareva* (players marked * were #1 on only one ranking list.) <{>Amazingly, we have had only five #1 men, all of them still active: Bhupathi, B. Bryan, Paes, A. Ram, and now (for the first time) Bruno Soares.

Bob Bryan was #1 on fully 12 of our 37 ranking lists — and might well still be up there if he hadn’t cut back on playing Mixed. Until Wimbledon 2013, Paes has been on top for the entire time since Wimbledon 2009. Clearly the two were dominant in their heydays. On the women’s side, we don’t find a dominant player; Navratilova and Black, each with seven Slams’ time atop the list, come closest. (Fascinating to note that both the latter achieved their status at the very end of their careers — or at least Black’s first career). Vesnina might have been able to threaten them, but now that she is doing so well in singles and women’s doubles, she is another who has cut back on playing mixed.

RANKINGS

Estimated WTA Rankings As of July 11, 2013

Rank &

Prior

Rank….Name…………..Points

1..(1) SWilliams ……… 11650

2..(2) Sharapova ……… 9235

3..(3) Azarenka ………..8825

4..(4) ARadwanska ………5965

5..(5) Li ……………..5555

6..(6) ERRANI ………….5100*

7..(7) Bartoli ……….. 4625

8..(8) Kvitova ……….. 4435

9..(9) Kerber ………….3970

10.(10) Wozniacki ……… 3660

11.(11) VINCI …………. 3060*

12.(12) Kirilenko ……… 2976

13.(13) Stosur ………….2965

14.(14) Jankovic ………..2925

15.(15) Flipkens ………..2888

16.(16) Stephens ………..2870

17.(17) Ivanovic ………..2740

18.(18) Lisicki ……….. 2650

19.(19) Petrova ……….. 2505

20.(20) Suarez Navarro …..2430

21.(21) Cibulkova ……… 2245

22.(22) Vesnina ……….. 1889

23.(23) Pavlyuchenkova …..1805

24.(24) Kanepi ………….1781

25.(25) Makarova ………..1742

26.(30) HALEP …………. 1675*

27.(28) Kuznetsova ………1657

28.(29) SAFAROVA ………..1655

29.(31) Hampton ……….. 1627

30.(32) CORNET ………….1605

DRAWS

Budapest — Week of July 8

…………….QF

1 Safarova……Kovinic

6 Scheepers…..(6)Scheepers

4 Beck……….(4)Beck

5 Larsson…….Meusburger

7 Torro-Flor….Babos

3 Halep………(3)Halep

8 Tatishvili….Peer

2 Cornet……..Cadantu

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Safarova…….lost 1R (Solovyeva)

2 Cornet………lost 1R (Hlavackova)

3 Halep

4 Beck

5 Larsson……..lost 2R (Meusburger)

6 Scheepers

7 Torro-Flor…..lost 2R (Babos)

8 Tatishvili…..lost 2R (Peer)

Palermo — Week of July 8

………………..QF

1 Errani (WC)…….(1)Errani(WC)

7 Soler-Espinosa….(7)Soler-Espinosa

4 Zakopalova……..(4)Zakopalova

8 Ka. Pliskova……Pfizenmaier

6 Begu…………..Voracova

3 Mladenovic……..Cabeza Candela

5 Dominguez Lino….(5)Dominguez Lino

2 Vinci………….(2)Vinci

STATUS OF SEEDS:

1 Errani (WC)

2 Vinci

3 Mladenovic……..lost 2R (Cabeza Candela)

4 Zakopalova

5 Dominguez Lino

6 Begu…………..lost 1R (Voracova)

7 Soler-Espinosa

8 Ka. Pliskova……lost 1R (Pfizenmaier)

THURSDAY

Bupdapest

Singles – Second Round

(6) Chanelle Scheepers def. Petra Martic 7-5 6-4

Shahar Peer def. (8) Anna Tatishvili 6-1 6-1

Danka Kovinic def. Valeria Solovyeva 6-1 3-6 6-1

Alexandra Cadantu def. Andrea Hlavackova 4-6 7-5 4-0, retired

Doubles – First Round

Klemenschits/Klepac def. (2) Babos/Rosolska 7-5 6-1

Bratchikova/Tatishvili def. (WC) Bukta/Jani 7-5 6-3

Palermo

Singles – Second Round

(2) Roberta Vinci def. Polona Hercog 6-2 7-6(7-3)

Estrella Cabeza Candela def. (3) Kristina Mladenovic 6-3 2-6 7-6(8-6)

(4) Klara Zakopalova def. Karin Knapp 6-3 4-6 6-4

(5) Lourdes Dominguez Lino def. Nastassja Burnett 7-5 4-6 6-3

Doubles – Quarterfinal

(3) Voracova/Zahlavova Strycova def. Birnerova/Buyachok 6-0 6-2

Pliskova/Pliskova def. Duque-Marino/Pereira 6-3 6-7(1-7) 12-10

Garcia/Zanevska def. Knapp/Pennetta 7-6(10-8) 7-6(7-4)

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