Tennis results / Ladies

Written by: on 3rd August 2013
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Tennis results / Ladies

epa03794486 American tennisplayer Serena Williams cheers after winninge the semifinal against tjeckian tennis player Klara Zakopalova in the semifinal in women's single match at the Swedish Open tennis tournament in Bastad, Sweden, on July 20, 2013. Williams opponant in the finally will be Swedish player Johanna Arvidsson. EPA/BJORN LARSSON ROSVALL  |

Carlsbad

 

Australian Samantha Stosur and Virginie Razzano of France both reached their first semi-finals of the season with labored wins. Former US Open champion Stosur, seeded fifth, put out second seed Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, taking two and a half hours on a day of lengthy matches to go through. The unseeded Razzano fulfilled her wild card entry an more by stunning 2011 Wimbledon winner and third seed Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic in a 6-7 (6-8), 7-5, 7-6 (10-8) marathon which took more than three and a half hours.

The Frenchwoman ranked number 131, may have taken some inspiration from compatriot Marion Bartoli’s Wimbledon win of last month as she reached a semi for the first time in more than four years (Eastbourne, June, 2009).

The 30-year-old winner wasted a quartet of match points in the epic and saved two from her high-profile opponent on the way to the upset.

A Kvitova double-fault ended the struggle. “I was nervous, I’m human, not a robot,” said Razzano. “You sometimes feel stress. I tried to focus on the points.” The contest turned into the second longest on the WTA this season after Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Anastasia Rodionova went 3:42 at Charleston four months ago.

Razzano had not beaten a top 10 players since stunning Serena Williams in the first round of the French Open a year ago. The winner battled back from a 5-2 deficit in the final set with the Czech.

Top seed Victoria Azarenka overcame six double-faults as she beat Urszula Radwanska of Poland 6-1, 6-2. Azarenka is playing for the first time since withdrawing from Wimbledon with an ankle injury six weeks ago.

Washington DC

 

Comeback candidate Andrea Petkovic upheld German honor with her 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 quarter-final defeat of Argentine Paula Ormaechea as compatriot and top seed Angelique Kerber lost to holder Magdalena Rybarikova 7-6(0), 3-6, 6-3.

The Slovak winner lost her second set of the week but it hardly mattered as she completed her upset win in two and a quarter hours with six double-faults from Kerber, ranked ninth on the WTA.

The defending champion admits she is under the gun at this edition.

“For sure, there is a lot of pressure this year. Kerber’s a great player, a Top 10 player, and I has to play relaxed,” she said of the first-time meeting. Kerber struck six double-faults in defeat. Added Kerber: “It was a close match. but I couldn’t find my rhythm at all the whole [match.] It was not my day today.”

Rybaricova will next line up against Russian third seed Ekaterina Makarova, who beat Monica Niculescu but barely lifting a racquet 1-0 when the Romanian retired. French fourth seed Alize Cornet put out Romania’s other hope with her defeat of fifth seed Sorana Cirstea 7-6(5), 6-2.

 

RANKINGS

 

Estimated WTA Rankings As of July 28, 2013

 

Rank &

Prior

Rank….Name…………..Points

1..(1) SWilliams ……… 11705

2..(2) Sharapova ……… 9235

3..(3) Azarenka ………..8825

4..(4) ARADWANSKA ………6045*

5..(5) Li ……………..5555

6..(6) Errani ………….5100

7..(7) Kvitova ……….. 4435

8..(8) Bartoli ……….. 4365

9..(9) Kerber ………….3970

10.(10) Wozniacki ……… 3660

11.(11) Vinci …………. 3220

12.(12) Kirilenko ……… 2976

13.(13) STOSUR ………….2965

14.(14) Flipkens ………..2886

15.(15) Stephens ………..2870

16.(16) Jankovic ………..2865

17.(17) Ivanovic ………..2740

18.(18) Lisicki ……….. 2650

19.(19) Suarez Navarro …..2430

20.(20) Petrova ……….. 2306

21.(25) CIBULKOVA ……… 2095*

22.(21) Vesnina ……….. 1889

23.(22) Halep …………. 1885

24.(29) HAMPTON ……….. 1826*

25.(23) Pavlyuchenkova …..1795

26.(24) Kanepi ………….1781

27.(26) Makarova ………..1742

28.(32) CIRSTEA ……….. 1700

29.(27) Kuznetsova ………1657

30.(28) Safarova ………..1655

 

DRAWS

 

Carlsbad — Week of July 29

 

1 Azarenka

–bye

Pennetta

Schiavone

U Radwanska

Qualifier

Burdette

6 Jankovic

 

4 Vinci

–bye

Puig

Mattek-Sands

Qualifier

Kiick (WC)

Cibulkova

7 Ivanovic

 

8 Suarez Navarro

Qualifier

Kuznetsova

Razzano (WC)

Robson

Morita

–bye

3 Kvitova

 

5 Stosur (WC)

Lepchenko

Goerges

Qualifier

Hantuchova

Paszek

–bye

2 A Radwanska

Washington — Week of July 29

 

1 Kerber (WC)

Qualifier

Oudin

An. Rodionova

Cepelova

Bertens

McHale

7 Rybarikova

 

3 Makarova

Bouchard

Garcia

Tatishvili

Townsend (WC)

Niculescu

Qualifier

8 Keys

 

5 Cirstea

Tsurenko

King

Riske

Qualifier

Watson

Wickmayer

4 Cornet

 

6 Barthel

Voegele

Qualifier

Petkovic

Ormaechea

Capra (WC)

Puchkova

2 Stephens

FRIDAY

Carlsbad

Singles – Quarterfinals

(1) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) d. Urszula Radwanska (POL) 61 62

(5/WC) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. (2) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 75 26 63

(WC) Virginie Razzano (FRA) d. (3) Petra Kvitova (CZE) 67(6) 75 76(8) (saved 2mp)

(7) Ana Ivanovic (SRB) d. (4) Roberta Vinci (ITA) 61 67(1) 62

Doubles – Quarterfinals

Black/Erakovic (ZIM/NZL) d. (2) Huber/Llagostera Vives (USA/ESP) 64 36 1210 (Match TB)

(3) Kops-Jones/Spears (USA/USA) d. (WC) Hantuchova/Hingis (SVK/SUI) 46 75 103 (Match TB)

 

Washington DC

Singles – Quarterfinals

(7) Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) d. (1/WC) Angelique Kerber (GER) 76(0) 36 63

(3) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) d. Monica Niculescu (ROU) 10 ret. (left wrist injury)

(4) Alizé Cornet (FRA) d. (5) Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 76(5) 62

Andrea Petkovic (GER) d. Paula Ormaechea (ARG) 46 61 63

Doubles – Semifinals

(1) Aoyama/Dushevina (JPN/RUS) d. Álvarez Terán/Wong (BOL/USA) 64 63

Bouchard/Townsend (CAN/USA) d. (2) Falconi/Hrdinova (USA/CZE) 64 62








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