Women’s Pro Tour News

Written by: Bob Larson Tennis on 14th January 2014

Women's Pro Tour News

epa04020667 Maria Sharapova of Russia during her first round match against Bethanie Mattek-Sands of the US at the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 14 January 2014. Sharapova won the match. EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON |

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

PRO TOUR NEWS – WOMEN

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

* Kvitova’s Top Five chances fading fast after shocking loss to newcomer Kumkhum

* No Top Five spot for Errani either after loss to Goerges

* Errani’s partner Vinci free to concentrate on doubles after loss to Zheng means no Top Ten spot

* Still-hurting Vesnina loses Top Thirty spot after easy loss to Riske

* Bencic wins Battle of the Ages over Date-Krumm

* Serena cruises past Barty

* Hantuchova survives comeback attempt by Watson

* Stosur gains revenge on Zakopalova, who will fall to around #35

* Pironkova beats Soler-Espinosa to extend winning streak to six plus qualifying

* Zvonareva wins only four games against Dellacqua in latest comeback attempt

* Li loses only two games in first match, but still needs more to stay Top Five

* Makarova comes from behind against Venus, who will fall below #45

* Hurting Robson wins only three games against Flipkens, will fall below #55

****** TODAY’S WOMEN’S NEWS ******

Australian Open

Thai qualifier Luksika Kumkhum produced the first major upset of the fortnight with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-4 first-round knockout of of former Wimbledon winner and sixth seed Petra Kvitova. The 21-year-old Asian pulled off the opening-day surprise of the tournament in nervy style. “It’s really exciting, I’m really happy today that I did well. I just love hard court. I’m happy to play and excited, I just tried to do my best. That’s it, there was no secret.”

The loss was the earliest for the sixth-ranked Kvitova in Melbourne since 2009 and left the Czech as stunned as her opponent. “I really wanted to know what’s happen out there, but unfortunately I didn’t play well. I didn’t play my game what I really tried all off season to work on. It was great off season. I was really excited to be here, feeling good.

“But I think that probably I wanted too much, and then everything just fell down.”

top seed Serena Williams crushed Aussie teenager Ashleigh Barty 6-2, 6-1. 2013 finalist and fourth seed Li Na started with a rout of Croatian teenager Ana Conjuh, losing just two games.

German ninth seed Angelique Kerber, losing finalist in Sydney, beat Jarmila Gajdosova 6-3, 0-6, 6-2. Former number one Ana Ivanovic, the No. 14, beat Kiki Bertens 6-4, 6-4.

Seven-time grand slam winner Venus Williams lost as Russian Ekaterina Makarova completed a matches set of Williams sister upsets at the tournament with her 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 comeback win against the injured veteran who was playing the event for only the second time in four years. Makarova also beat No. 1 Serena in the fourth round two years ago.

Swiss 16-year-old Belinda Bencic began showing her long-term potential as a star-to-be by defeating 43-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. Date-Krumm was born six years before Bencic’s own mother by way of comparison.

Casey Dellacqua earned an Australian win over Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-2. Canadian teen Eugenie Bouchard defeated China’s wild card Chen Tang Hao, the number 431, by a 7-5, 6-1 scoreline while American Madison Keys needed seven match points to stop Patricia Mayr-Achleitner 6-2, 6-7 (8-10), 9-7. Australian Samantha Stosur, never past the fourth round at home, started with a defeat of Klara Zakopalova 6-3, 6-4.

****** TODAY’S FEATURE ******

KEYWORDS: No Feature Today

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

THIS WEEK ON THE WTA:

Australian Open (Slam/Hard). Defending Champion: Victoria Azarenka

NEXT WEEK ON THE WTA:

Australian Open (Slam/Hard). Defending Champion: Victoria Azarenka

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

Rankings

Estimated WTA Rankings As of January 13, 2014

Rank &

Prior

Rank …Name …………. Points

1 (1) SWILLIAMS 12830*

2 (2) AZARENKA 6161*

3 (3) SHARAPOVA 5186*

4 (5) ARADWANSKA 4980*

5 (6) KVITOVA 4745

6 (4) LI 4640*

7 (7) ERRANI 4440

8 (8) JANKOVIC 4080*

9 (9) KERBER 3860*

10 (11) HALEP 3340*

11 (10) WOZNIACKI 3250*

12 (12) VINCI 3020

13 (15) LISICKI 2980*

14 (14) IVANOVIC 2800*

15 (17) STOSUR 2645*

16 (16) SUAREZ NAVARRO 2625*

17 (18) Kirilenko 2325

18 (19) FLIPKENS 2255*

19 (13) STEPHENS 2185*

20 (21) CIRSTEA 2020*

21 (23) KANEPI 1932*

22 (29) PENNETTA 1805*

23 (24) CIBULKOVA 1766*

24 (25) CORNET 1750*

25 (26) SAFAROVA 1745*

26 (30) PAVLYUCHENKOVA 1720*

27 (20) KUZNETSOVA 1712*

28 (31) BOUCHARD 1659*

29 (22) MAKAROVA 1631*

30 (27) Hampton 1601

Draws

Australian Open (Slam — Weeks of January 13-26)

1 S Williams

Barty (WC)

Dolonc

Arruabarrena

Parmentier (WC)

Ka. Pliskova

Watson (Q)

31 Hantuchova

17 Stosur

Zakopalova

Pironkova

Soler-Espinosa

Beck

Martic

Bertens

14 Ivanovic

12 Vinci

Zheng

Mayr-Achleitner

Keys

Dellacqua (WC)

Zvonareva

Robson

18 Flipkens

30 Bouchard

Tang (WC)

Van Uytvanck

Razzano

Vickery (WC)

Davis

Goerges

7 Errani

4 Li

Konjuh (Q)

Bencic (Q)

Date-Krumm

Vekic

Hradecka (Q)

Glushko

26 Safarova

22 Makarova

V Williams

Medina Garrigues

Falconi (LL)

Peer

Niculescu

Lucic-Baroni

15 Lisicki

9 Kerber

Gajdosova (WC)

Garcia

Kudryavtseva (Q)

Pfizenmaier

Wickmayer

Riske

23 Vesnina

28 Pennetta

Cadantu

Puig

Tatishvili (Q)

Zhang

Barthel

Kumkhum

6 Kvitova

8 Jankovic

Doi

N Kichenok

Morita

Nara

Peng

Petkovic

32 Rybarikova

21 Cirstea

Erakovic

Diyas (Q)

Siniakova (Q)

Tsurenko

Lepchenko

Piter (Q)

11 Halep

16 Suarez Navarro

King

Voskoboeva

Begu (Q)

Mladenovic

Voegele

Schiavone

20 Cibulkova

25 Cornet

Hercog

Giorgi

Sanders (WC)

Ormaechea

Knapp

Mattek-Sands

3 Sharapova

5 A Radwanska

Putintseva

Govortsova

Duan (Q)

Witthoeft (Q)

Minella

Pereira

29 Pavlyuchenkova

24 Kanepi

Muguruza

Babos

Schmiedlova

McHale

Y Chan

Dominguez Lino

10 Wozniacki

13 Stephens

Shvedova

Majeric

Tomljanovic

Rogowska (WC)

Duque-Marino

Svitolina

19 Kuznetsova

33 Jovanovski

Cepelova

Scheepers

Meusburger

Hsieh

Zahlavova Strycova

Larsson

2 Azarenka

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

MONDAY

Australian Open

Singles – First Round

(1) Serena Williams (USA) d. (WC) Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 62 61

(4) Li Na (CHN) d. (Q) Ana Konjuh (CRO) 62 60

Luksika Kumkhum (THA) d. (6) Petra Kvitova (CZE) 62 16 64

Julia Goerges (GER) d. (7) Sara Errani (ITA) 63 62

(9) Angelique Kerber (GER) d. (WC) Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS) 63 06 62

Zheng Jie (CHN) d. (12) Roberta Vinci (ITA) 64 63

(14) Ana Ivanovic (SRB) d. Kiki Bertens (NED) 64 64

(15) Sabine Lisicki (GER) d. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) 62 61

(17) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 63 64

(18) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) d. Laura Robson (GBR) 63 60

(22) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) d. Venus Williams (USA) 26 64 64

Alison Riske (USA) d. (23) Elena Vesnina (RUS) 62 62

(26) Lucie Safarova (CZE) d. Julia Glushko (ISR) 75 36 61

(28) Flavia Pennetta (ITA) d. Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) 60 62

(30) Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) d. (WC) Tang Hao Chen (CHN) 75 61

(31) Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) d. (Q) Heather Watson (GBR) 75 36 63

Madison Keys (USA) d. Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (AUT) 62 67(8) 97

Mona Barthel (GER) d. Zhang Shuai (CHN) 76(4) 63

Annika Beck (GER) d. Petra Martic (CRO) 60 60

Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) d. Sílvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) 63 62

Monica Puig (PUR) d. (Q) Anna Tatishvili (GEO) 62 64

Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Dinah Pfizenmaier (GER) 76(5) 63

Monica Niculescu (ROU) d. Shahar Peer (ISR) 64 61

Lauren Davis (USA) d. (WC) Sachia Vickery (USA) 63 63

Karolina Pliskova (CZE) d. (WC) Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 60 61

Virginie Razzano (FRA) d. Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL) 76(3) 76(3)

(Q) Lucie Hradecka (CZE) d. Donna Vekic (CRO) 63 61

(Q) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) d. Caroline Garcia (FRA) 62 76(7)

(Q) Belinda Bencic (SUI) d. Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) 64 46 63

(LL) Irina Falconi (USA) d. Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 63 61

(WC) Casey Dellacqua (AUS) d. Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 62 62

****

AUSTRALIAN OPEN

Melbourne, Australia

January 13-January 25, 2014

$13,615,654/Grand Slam

Hard/Outdoors

Results – Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Singles – First Round

(2) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) d. Johanna Larsson (SWE) 76(2) 62

(3) Maria Sharapova (RUS) d. Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 63 64

(5) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d. Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) 60 57 62

(8) Jelena Jankovic (SRB) d. Misaki Doi (JPN) 61 62

(10) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d. Lourdes Domínguez Lino (ESP) 60 62

(11) Simona Halep (ROU) d. (Q) Katarzyna Piter (POL) 60 61

(13) Sloane Stephens (USA) d. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 76(1) 63

(16) Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) d. Vania King (USA) 63 62

Elina Svitolina (UKR) d. (19) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 63 63

(20) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) d. Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 63 64

Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) d. (24) Kaia Kanepi (EST) 62 26 62

(25) Alizé Cornet (FRA) d. Polona Hercog (SLO) 10 ret. (right rib injury)

(29) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. Teliana Pereira (BRA) 76(7) 64

(32) Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) d. Andrea Petkovic (GER) 62 63

(33) Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) d. Jana Cepelova (SVK) 67(7) 61 63

Karin Knapp (ITA) d. Paula Ormaechea (ARG) 64 62

Stefanie Voegele (SUI) d. Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 75 75

Yvonne Meusburger (AUT) d. Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) 76(3) 64

Varvara Lepchenko (USA) d. Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 26 63 64

Ayumi Morita (JPN) d. Nadiya Kichenok (UKR) 62 76(5)

Christina McHale (USA) d. Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) 75 64

Ajla Tomljanovic (CRO) d. Tadeja Majeric (SLO) 36 76(1) 64

Kurumi Nara (JPN) d. Peng Shuai (CHN) 75 46 63

Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) d. (Q) Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) 75 46 75

Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) d. Timea Babos (HUN) 46 64 75

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) d. Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) 61 46 61

Olga Govortsova (BLR) d. (Q) Duan Ying-Ying (CHN) 60 76(6)

Camila Giorgi (ITA) d. (WC) Storm Sanders (AUS) 46 61 64

Mandy Minella (LUX) d. (Q) Carina Witthoeft (GER) 61 64

(Q) Zarina Diyas (KAZ) d. (Q) Katerina Siniakova (CZE) 62 64

(WC) Olivia Rogowska (AUS) d. Mariana Duque-Mariño (COL) 63 63

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