Stosur, Ivanovic, Mattek-Sands All Win

Written by: on 12th February 2014
Tennis Australian Open 2014
Stosur, Ivanovic, Mattek-Sands All Win

epaselect epa04030023 Ana Ivanovic of Serbia celebrates after winning her match against Serena Williams of the USA in round three of the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, Australia, 19 January 2014. EPA/JOE CASTRO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT  |

PRO TOUR NEWS – WOMEN

 

* Horrid day for seeds; Stosur, Ivanovic only seeds to win first round matches

* Suarez Navarro pulls out with elbow injury, loses Top Fifteen chance

* Cibulkova retires against Kleybanova, no chance to rise above #13

* Flipkens in some danger of losing Top Twenty spot after loss to Safarova

* No new high for Bouchard after loss to Mattek-Sands

* Hantuchova’s retirement before Ivanovic will cost her her Top Thirty spot

* Voegele gives Swiss some revenge on France with win over Cornet, who will fall out of Top 25

* Struggling Wickmayer shows signs of life with win over Petkovic

* Lucic-Baroni close to Top Hundred return after win over Meusburger

 

 

****** TODAY’S WOMEN’S NEWS ******

 

Doha

 

Ana Ivanovic emerged as the only winning seed on the day as the No. 9 advanced into the second round when Daniela Hantuchova retired injured trailing 7-5, 1-0. A similar fate befell Australian Open finalist Dominika Cibulkova as the tenth seed was unable to continue at 5-5 against Russian cancer survivor Alisa Kleybanova.

American Bethanie Mattek-Sands knocked out 15th seeded teenager Eugenie Bouchard 7-5, 6-1 after the Canadian flew in form and Fed Cup duty at the weekend, Lucie Safarova beat 16th seed Kirsten Flipkens 5-7, 6-4, 6-4.

Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia beat Italy’s former French Open winner Francesca Schiavone 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(3) to set up a match with Australian Open champion Li Na after a three-hour thriller. “It was a very tough match today,” said the winner. “Not only does Francesca have a tricky game, but it was pretty windy out there, and the temperature kept changing too – it was hot at the beginning but then it got colder as the match went on. I’m just happy I could make the second round.”

In other matches, Yanina Wickmayer stopped Andrea Petkovic 6-4, 6-4, Italy’s Karin Knapp put out beat Caroline Garcia 6-4, 6-1 and Swiss Stefanie Voegele upset Frence’s Alize Cornet 7-6(6), 7-5. Sorana Cirstea beat Alla Kudryavtseva 2-6, 6-1, 7-5, and Kaia Kanepi defeated American Varvara Lepchenko 6-3, 6-4.

 

THIS WEEK ON THE WTA:

Doha (Premier Five/Hard). Defending Champion: Victoria Azarenka

NEXT WEEK ON THE WTA:

Dubai (Premier/Hard). Defending Champion: Petra Kvitova

Rio de Janeiro (International/Clay). Defending Champion: New Event

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

 

Rankings

Estimated WTA Tour Rankings

As of February 11, 2013

 

Rank &

Prior…Player………..Points

 

1 (1) SWilliams 12660

2 (3) LI 6570*

3 (2) Azarenka 5681

4 (4) ARADWANSKA 5475*

5 (5) Sharapova 5206

6 (6) KVITOVA 4645*

7 (7) ERRANI 4325*

8 (8) JANKOVIC 4310*

9 (9) KERBER 4005*

10 (10) HALEP 3660*

11 (11) WOZNIACKI 3200*

12 (12) IVANOVIC 3155*

13 (13) CIBULKOVA 3056

14 (14) VINCI 3020

15 (15) Lisicki 2820

16 (17) Suarez Navarro 2685

17 (16) STOSUR 2605*

18 (18) STEPHENS 2415

19 (19) BOUCHARD 2355

20 (20) FLIPKENS 2295

21 (21) PAVLYUCHENKOVA 2240*

22 (22) PENNETTA 2165

23 (24) Kirilenko 2046

24 (23) Makarova 2011

25 (27) KANEPI 1991*

26 (25) CORNET 1985

27 (26) CIRSTEA 1940*

28 (28) SAFAROVA 1775*

29 (29) Kuznetsova 1617

30 (31) Hampton 1601

 

Draws

Doha — week of February 10, 2014

1 Li

–bye

Schiavone

Rybarikova

Zhang

Zanevska (Q)

Cetkovska (Q)

14 Stephens

 

9 Ivanovic

Hantuchova

Svitolina

Zakopalova

Ka. Pliskova

Buyukakcay (WC)

–bye

6 Kerber

 

3 Kvitova

–bye

V Williams

Martic (Q)

Peng

Petrova (Q)

Safarova

16 Flipkens

 

10 Cibulkova

Kleybanova (WC)

Voegele

Cornet

Knapp

Garcia

–bye

5 Jankovic

 

7 Halep

–bye

Kanepi

Lepchenko

Barthel

Beck

Pironkova (Q)

11 Vinci

 

15 Bouchard

Mattek-Sands

Niculescu

Al Nabhani (WC)

Hsieh (Q)

Pennetta

–bye

4 Errani

 

8 Wozniacki

–bye

Petkovic

Wickmayer

Mladenovic

Cepelova

Erakovic

12 Stosur

 

13 Suarez Navarro

Pavlyuchenkova

Lucic-Baroni (Q)

Meusburger

Kudryavtseva (Q)

Cirstea

–bye

2 A Radwanska

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

 

TUESDAY

Doha

Singles – First Round

(9) Ana Ivanovic (SRB) d. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 75 10 ret. (right knee injury)

(WC) Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) d. (10) Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 55 ret. (GI illness)

(12) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. Marina Erakovic (NZL) 64 62

Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) d. (15) Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 75 61

Lucie Safarova (CZE) d. (16) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) 57 64 64

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. (LL) Tadeja Majeric (SLO) 57 62 63

Sorana Cirstea (ROU) d. (Q) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) 26 61 75 (saved 1mp)

Kaia Kanepi (EST) d. Varvara Lepchenko (USA) 63 64

Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) d. Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 75 46 76(3)

Klara Zakopalova (CZE) d. Elina Svitolina (UKR) 62 64

Karin Knapp (ITA) d. Caroline Garcia (FRA) 64 61

Stefanie Voegele (SUI) d. Alizé Cornet (FRA) 76(6) 75

Zhang Shuai (CHN) d. (Q) Maryna Zanevska (UKR) 63 62

Karolina Pliskova (CZE) d. (WC) Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR) 63 63

Monica Niculescu (ROU) d. (WC) Fatma Al Nabhani (OMA) 61 60

Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Andrea Petkovic (GER) 64 64

Jana Cepelova (SVK) d. Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 64 76(5)

(Q) Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) d. Yvonne Meusburger (AUT) 46 62 63

Doubles – First Round

(6) Kops-Jones/Spears (USA/USA) d. Barthel/Moulton-Levy (GER/USA) 64 76(5)

(7) Pavlyuchenkova/Petrova (RUS/RUS) d. (WC) Beygelzimer/Savchuk (UKR/UKR) 36 64 105 (Match TB)

Raymond/Zhang (USA/CHN) d. Husarova/Rosolska (SVK/POL) 62 63

Chan/Huber (TPE/USA) d. Klemenschits/Olaru (AUT/ROU) 62 63

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