Serena and Venus Williams Both Win In Dubai & More Results

Written by: Staff on 20th February 2014

Serena and Venus Williams Both Win In Dubai & More Results

epa04090562 Venus Williams of the US returns the ball to Flavia Pennetta of Italy during the quarter final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis WTA Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 20 February 2014. EPA/ALI HAIDER |

PRO TOUR NEWS

* Serena, Venus both still in Dubai draw; could meet in final

* Cornet, Wozniacki are other semifinalist

* No seeds left in doubles

****** TODAY’S WOMEN’S NEWS ******

Dubai

Singles – Quarterfinal: (1) (WC) Serena Williams def. (5) Jelena Jankovic 6-2 6-2

It’s interesting to realize that Serena Williams can’t add any points here — her results are so strong that a mere Premier title doesn’t count for her! She drops Jelena Jankovic to #8 — meaning that Simona Halep, despite her injury, will be hitting a new high of #7.

Singles – Quarterfinal: (8) Caroline Wozniacki def. Sorana Cirstea 6-1 6-2

This will let Caroline Wozniacki keep the #11 ranking, which is the best she can hope for this week. Sorana Cirstea loses her Top 25 chance.

Singles – Quarterfinal: (WC) Venus Williams def. (Q) Flavia Pennetta 6-3 7-5

That ends Flavia Pennetta’s Top Twenty chance. Venus Williams should rise to #35 or so.

Singles – Quarterfinal: Alize Cornet def. Carla Suarez Navarro 7-5 6-3

Carla Suarez Navarro will end up at #15. It looks as if Alize Cornet is up to #23.

Doubles – Quarterfinal: Kops-Jones/Spears def. (1) Errani/Vinci 6-4 6-1

This makes it quite certain that Errani/Vinci won’t be returning to #1 in doubles any time soon. They are really struggling with consistency.

Doubles – Quarterfinal: Kudryavtseva/Rodionova def. (2) Makarova/Vesnina 6-4 6-4

Makarova/Vesnina beat the Williams Sisters and can’t beat Kudryavtseva/Rodionova? A crazy place — we now have no seeded teams left. And that’s in what was a pretty strong doubles draw.

Doubles – Quarterfinal: Hlavackova/Safarova def. Raymond/Zhang 6-3 7-5

Doubles – Quarterfinal: (WC) Pennetta/Stosur def. Groenefeld/Rosolska 6-3 7-5

Rio de Janeiro

Later

****** TODAY’S FEATURE ******

The Harder They Fall, Part II

Some weeks ago, we did a feature about the 25 biggest upsets of the year 2013. But we can do more with that upset data than just look for the biggest upsets. We can also try to figure out who gets upset the most.

The idea is pretty simple: We sat down and looked at every loss a player suffered, and compared her ranking with that of the player who beat her. If the ratio was greater than 1:1, it was an upset. We then counted the upsets suffered by each player.

Here, then, are the fifty most upset player on the WTA Tour:

1. Kvitova: 18 upsets

1. Vinci: 18 upsets

3. Kerber: 17 upsets

3. Wozniacki: 17 upsets

5. Goerges: 16 upsets

6. Stosur: 15 upsets

7. Barthel: 14 upsets

7. Cibulkova: 14 upsets

7. Cirstea: 14 upsets

7. Flipkens: 14 upsets

7. Radwanska, A: 14 upsets

7. Safarova: 14 upsets

13. Errani: 13 upsets

13. Lepchenko: 13 upsets

15. Bartoli: 12 upsets

15. Begu: 12 upsets

15. Cornet: 12 upsets

15. Zakopalova: 12 upsets

15. Mladenovic: 12 upsets

15. Puig: 12 upsets

15. Radwanska, U: 12 upsets

15. Robson: 12 upsets

15. Scheepers: 12 upsets

24. Dolonc: 11 upsets

24. Paszek: 11 upsets

24. Stephens: 11 upsets

24. Suarez Navarro: 11 upsets

28. Beck: 10 upsets

28. Hantuchova: 10 upsets

28. Hsieh: 10 upsets

28. Jankovic: 10 upsets

28. Kirilenko: 10 upsets

28. Petrova: 10 upsets

28. Pironkova: 10 upsets

28. Schiavone: 10 upsets

28. Shvedova: 10 upsets

28. Soler Espinosa: 10 upsets

28. Tatishvili: 10 upsets

28. Torro-Flor: 10 upsets

28. Wickmayer: 10 upsets

41. Erakovic: 9 upsets

41. Ivanovic: 9 upsets

41. Larsson: 9 upsets

41. Morita: 9 upsets

41. Peng: 9 upsets

41. Pliskova, Ka: 9 upsets

41. Pliskova, Kr: 9 upsets

41. Rodionova: 9 upsets

49. Keys: 8 upsets

49. Lisicki: 8 upsets

49. McHale: 8 upsets

49. Minella: 8 upsets

49. Peer: 8 upsets

49. Rybarikova: 8 upsets

49. Svitolina: 8 upsets

49. Voegele: 8 upsets

49. Watson: 8 upsets

Figuring out who is least likely to be upset is a trickier matter, because it depends on number of events played. (A player who had only WTA main draw, and lost to a seed, will be listed as having no upsets. Is she really less upsettable than Serena Williams?) But what we can do is take number of upsets and divide by number of events and see what we get. We set a minimum of five WTA events for this. To our surprise, there were fully eleven players who had at least five WTA main draws and were never upset: Baltacha, Barty, Cetkovska, Dulgheru, Foretz Gacon, Glushko, Mayr-Achleitner, Rezai, Schmiedlova, Tomljanovic, and Wozniak. Voskoboeva was upset only once in 18 tries, Burdette only once in 16 — we had to go through about thirty names before we reached our first year-end Top Twenty player. But here are the upset rates for the least upsettable top players (a lower rate means she’s less likely to be upset).

Serena Williams: 19% of matches ended in upsets

Bouchard: 20%

Sharapova: 30%

Pavlyuchenkova: 32%

Vesnina: 33%

Kuznetsova: 33%

Makarova: 33%

Azarenka: 40%

The most upsettable?

Kvitova: 82%

Kerber: 81%

Petrova: 77%

Bartoli: 75%

Woznaicki: 74%

Vinci: 72%

Stosur: 68%

KEYWORDS: Upsets 2013 Women

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

THIS WEEK ON THE WTA:

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

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

NEXT WEEK ON THE WTA:

Florianopolis (International/Clay). Defending Champion: Monica Niculescu

Acapulco (International/Hard). Defending Champion: Sara Errani

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

Rankings

Estimated WTA Rankings As of February 20, 2014

Rank &

Prior

Rank Name Points

1 (1) SWILLIAMS 12380*

2 (2) Li 6690

3 (3) ARADWANSKA 5705

4 (4) Azarenka 5681

5 (5) Sharapova 5206

6 (8) KERBER 4490

7 (9) HALEP 4435

8 (7) JANKOVIC 4380

9 (6) KVITOVA 4365

10 (10) ERRANI 4195

11 (11) WOZNIACKI 3185*

12 (12) IVANOVIC 3155

13 (13) Cibulkova 3056

14 (14) VINCI 2940

15 (16) SUAREZ NAVARRO 2725

16 (15) LISICKI 2650

17 (17) STOSUR 2605

18 (18) STEPHENS 2415

19 (19) BOUCHARD 2366

20 (20) FLIPKENS 2285

21 (22) PENNETTA 2260

22 (21) Pavlyuchenkova 2240

23 (26) CORNET 2100*

24 (24) MAKAROVA 2065

25 (23) Kirilenko 2046

26 (25) KANEPI 1991

27 (27) CIRSTEA 1980

28 (28) SAFAROVA 1820

29 (29) Kuznetsova 1598

30 (30) Hampton 1532

Draws

Dubai — week of February 17, 2014

…………….QF…………….SF

1 S Williams….(1)S.Williams

5 Jankovic……(5)Jankovic

3 Kvitova…….Suarez Navarro

7 Halep………Cornet

8 Wozniacki…..(8)Wozniacki……Wozniacki

4 Errani……..Cirstea

6 Kerber……..V.Williams(WC)….V.Williams

2 A Radwanska…Pennetta(Q)

STATUS OF SEEDS

1 S Williams

2 A Radwanska….lost 2R (Pennetta)

3 Kvitova……..lost 2R (Suarez Navarro)

4 Errani………lost 2R (Cirstea)

5 Jankovic

6 Kerber………lost 1R (Ivanovic)

7 Halep……….lost 1R (Cornet)

8 Wozniacki

Rio de Janeiro — week of February 17, 2014

…………………..QF

1 Zakopalova………..(1)Zakopalova

7 Zahlavova Strycova…Piter

4 Cadantu…………..

8 King……………..

6 Torro-Flor………..Burnett(Q)

3 Ormaechea…………(3)Ormaechea

5 Nara……………..

2 Schiavone…………

STATUS OF SEEDS

1 Zakopalova

2 Schiavone…………lost 1R (Dominguez Lino)

3 Ormaechea

4 Cadantu…………..lost 1R (Pereira)

5 Nara

6 Torro-Flor………..lost 1R (Burnett)

7 Zahlavova Strycova…lost 1R (Pfizenmaier)

8 King……………..lost 1R (Begu)

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

THURSDAY

Dubai

Singles – Quarterfinal

(1) (WC) Serena Williams def. (5) Jelena Jankovic 6-2 6-2

(8) Caroline Wozniacki def. Sorana Cirstea 6-1 6-2

(WC) Venus Williams def. (Q) Flavia Pennetta 6-3 7-5

Alize Cornet def. Carla Suarez Navarro 7-5 6-3

Doubles – Quarterfinal

Kops-Jones/Spears def. (1) Errani/Vinci 6-4 6-1

Kudryavtseva/Rodionova def. (2) Makarova/Vesnina 6-4 6-4

Hlavackova/Safarova def. Raymond/Zhang 6-3 7-5

(WC) Pennetta/Stosur def. Groenefeld/Rosolska 6-3 7-5

Topics: 10sballs, Alize Cornet, Angelique Kerber, Caroline Wozniacki, Flavia Pennetta, Jelena Jankovic, Petra Kvitova, Roberta Vinci, Samantha Stosur, Sara Errani, Serena Williams, Simona Halep, Sorana Cirstea, Sports, Tennis, Tennis News, Venus Williams, Wta

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February 20, 2014 at 2:42 pm

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