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Written by: Staff on 3rd November 2013

Tennis Garanti Koza tournament of Champions

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epa03934896 Simona Halep of Romania returns the ball to Samantha Stosur of Australia during their final match for the 2013 Garanti Koza tennis tournament of Champions in Sofia, Bulgaria, 03 November 2013. EPA/VASSIL DONEV |

****** EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ******

* Halep closes out breakthrough season with Sofia title

* Italy breezes to Fed Cup

****** TODAY’S WOMEN’S NEWS ******

Sofia

Singles – Final: (1) Simona Halep def. (4) Samantha Stosur 2-6 6-2 6-2

Simona Halep can’t seem to get off to an easy start these days. She must be getting really tired. On the other hand, she has the whole off season to rest….

And what a breakthrough year. Six titles: Nurnberg, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Budapest, New Haven, Moscow, and Sofia. The first three are Internationals, but New Haven and Moscow are Premier events, and Sofia is the next best thing. And she won those titles on all four different surfaces — she, not Serena Williams, can claim the year’s only surface sweep. She ended the year with a nine match winning streak. Her record at the WTA level this year is 50-17 (and, since Roland Garros, 39-6!). She ends the year at a career-high #11, with every reason to think she will go higher. If she doesn’t win some sort of Most Improved award, there is something wrong with the system….

Samantha Stosur fails to win her third title of 2013, but on the whole, she has done a lot to rescue what started as a dreadful year. Having gone only 14-10 through Roland Garros, she has gone 26-11 since. She ends the season at #18, but if she can keep up that second half pace, she could get close to the Top Ten again.

Fed Cup

We had expected substitutions on day two. But we didn’t expect that it would be the Russians substituting. They didn’t have much to substitute with. But Alexandra Panova had played for three hours the day before, so she was tired. Plus the most experienced player on the Russian side was Alisa Kleybanova, even if her form is still off and she hadn’t played on clay for two and a half years. So the Russians ran Kleybanova out to play the first reverse singles against Sara Errani.

It didn’t help. Errani reeled off a 6-1 6-1 victory to clinch the Cup. Which meant that Roberta Vinci, the other player in that day one marathon, didn’t have to play her reverse singles match; they called it off and went to the doubles. Italy’s Flavia Pennetta and Karin Knapp shouldn’t have had any trouble with Irina Khromacheva and Margarita Gasparyan — but on the other hand, they didn’t have any motivation. It took Knapp and Pennetta a set and a half to get into things — but eventually they pulled it out 4-6 6-2 10-4. That meant that Italy won its fourth Fed Cup title by a score of 4-0.

Nanjing $125K

It wasn’t much of a final. #4 seed Ayumi Morita retired with a left hamstring injury after losing the first set 6-4 to #3 Zhang Shuai. For Zhang, that means she will end the year just below the Top Fifty — maybe higher, if she does well at Taipei (where she is expected to be the #3 seed, just as here. The Taipei draw is very similar to the Nanjing draw: Kimiko Date-Krumm is #1 and Yanina Wickmayer #2, Zhang is #3 and Morita #4).

Zhang also played the doubles final, along with Yaroslava Shvedova; they lost 6-1 6-4 to Doi/Xu.

****** TODAY’S FEATURE ******

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

THIS WEEK ON THE WTA:

Challengers Only

NEXT WEEK ON THE WTA:

Challengers Only

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

**RANKINGS

Estimated WTA Rankings As of November 3, 2013

Rank &

Prior

Rank….Name…………..Points

1..(1) SWilliams ……… 13260

2..(2) Azarenka ………..8046

3..(3) Li ……………..6045

4..(4) Sharapova ……… 5891

5..(5) ARadwanska ………5875

6..(6) Kvitova ……….. 4775

7..(7) Errani ………….4435

8..(8) Jankovic ………..4170

9..(9) Kerber ………….3965

10.(10) Wozniacki ……… 3520

11.(14) HALEP …………. 3335*

12.(11) Stephens ………..3185

13.(12) Bartoli ……….. 3172

14.(13) Vinci …………. 3170

15.(15) Lisicki ……….. 2920

16.(16) IVANOVIC ………..2850

17.(17) Suarez Navarro …..2735

18.(19) STOSUR ………….2675

19.(18) KIRILENKO ……… 2640

20.(20) Flipkens ………..2495

21.(21) Kuznetsova ………2341

22.(22) Cirstea ……….. 2170

23.(23) Cibulkova ……… 2076

24.(24) Makarova ………..2066

25.(25) VESNINA ……….. 2005

26.(26) PAVLYUCHENKOVA …..1965

27.(27) CORNET ………….1840

28.(28) Hampton ……….. 1781

29.(29) Safarova ………..1775

30.(30) Kanepi ………….1752

**DRAWS

Sofia — Week of October 28

GROUP SERDIKA……HALEP….KIRIL….PAVLY….CORNE….SVITO….W/L….Sets

1 Halep…………XXXXX….XXXXX….HALEP….HALEP….HALEP….3/0….6/0

5 Pavlyuchenkova…HALEP….XXXXX….XXXXX….PAVLY….PAVLY….2/1….4/2

7 Cornet………..HALEP….CORNE….PAVLY….XXXXX….XXXXX….1/2….2/4

3 Kirilenko……..+++++….XXXXX….+++++….CORNE….XXXXX….0/1….0/2

9 Svitolina……..HALEP….XXXXX….PAVLY….XXXXX….XXXXX….0/2….0/4

GROUP SREDETS……IVANO….STOSU….VESNI….PIRON….W/L….Sets

2 Ivanovic………XXXXX….IVANO….VESNI….IVANO….2/1….5/3

4 Stosur………..IVANO….XXXXX….STOSU….STOSU….2/1….5/2

5 Vesnina……….VESNI….STOSU….XXXXX….VESNI….2/1….4/4

8 Pironkova……..IVANO….STOSU….VESNI….XXXXX….0/3….1/6

SEMIFINAL………..FINAL…..WINNER

1 Halep………….Halep…..Halep

2 Ivanovic

4 Stosur…………Stosur

6 Pavlyuchenkova

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

SUNDAY

Sofia

Singles – Final

(1) Simona Halep def. (4) Samantha Stosur 2-6 6-2 6-2

Fed Cup — Final

Saturday: Italy leads 2-0

Roberta Vinci def. Alexandra Panova 5-7 7-5 8-6

Sara Errani def. Irina Khromacheva 6-1 6-4

Sunday: Italy wins 4-0

Sara Errani def. Alisa Kleybanova 6-1 6-1

Roberta Vinci vs. Irina Khromacheva NOT PLAYED

Knapp/Pennetta def. Gasparyan/Khromacheva 4-6 6-2 10-4

Topics: 10sballs, Alexandra Panova, Roberta Vinci, Samantha Stosur, Sara Errani, Simona Halep, Sports, Tennis, Tennis News, Wta

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NoEsteSistema says:

November 3, 2013 at 4:36 pm

RT @josejaviergud: Halep closes out breakthrough season with Sofia title http://t.co/nUN3vw2UsR

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