Tennis News From a Key Biscayne / Miami Ladies Results / Update

Written by: on 19th March 2014
GDF Suez Tennis Open in Paris
Tennis News From a Key Biscayne / Miami Ladies Results / Update

epa04049844 Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium returns the ball to Maria Sharapova of Russia during their quarter final match for the GDF Suez Tennis Open tournament in Paris, France, 31 January 2014. EPA/YOAN VALAT  |

Headlines.

 

* Rybarikova, top player in action on day one, falls to Puig; remains below #35

* Schiavone may well lose Top Fifty ranking after loss to Shvedova

* No Top Fifty spot for Mattek-Sands

* Oprandi starts comeback bid with win over Jovanovski

* Dellacqua stays on hot streak with upset of Voegele

* Still no luck for Melzer in singles comeback; loses to Kleybanova

* Nara tops Beck to move closer to Top Forty

* Top qualifying seed Cepelova upset by Bertens; #4 Peer top player to reach main draw

 

 

TODAY’S WOMEN’S NEWS

 

Miami

 

Top seed and holder Williams will open on Thursday in the second round after a bye against Yaroslava Shvedova, who beat former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone 6-4, 6-2 in first-round play. Ukrainian Elina Svitolina put out American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Australian Casey Dellacqua stopped Swiss Stefanie Voegele 6-3, 6-2 and Caroline Garcia defeated Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak 6-3, 7-5.

There were also victories after a rainy start to opening day at Crandon Park, with Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova putting out Galina Voskoboeva of Kazakhstan 6-2, 7-5. Japan’s Kurumi Nara advanced past German Annika Beck 7-6 (7-2), 6-4. Monica Puig of Puerto Rico overcame Slovak Magdalena Rybarikova 6-1, 7-6 (9-7) while Varvara Lepchenko earned an American win after last week’s debacle at Indian Wells, beating Yanina Wickmayer 7-5, 6-1. Dutch newconmer Indy de Vroome stopped Anna Schmiedlova and South African Chanelle Scheepers put out Sílvia Soler-Espinosa 6-3, 6-0.

 

Estimated WTA Rankings As of March 18, 2014

 

Rank &

Prior

Rank …Name …………. Points

 

1 (1) SWILLIAMS 11670*

2 (2) LI 6945*

3 (3) ARADWANSKA 5775*

4 (4) Azarenka 5441

5 (5) HALEP 4705*

6 (8) KVITOVA 4165*

7 (6) JANKOVIC 4150*

8 (9) KERBER 3980*

9 (10) ERRANI 3590*

10 (7) SHARAPOVA 3581*

11 (11) CIBULKOVA 3340*

12 (12) PENNETTA 3215*

13 (13) IVANOVIC 3010*

14 (14) VINCI 2685*

15 (15) LISICKI 2665*

16 (17) SUAREZ NAVARRO 2550*

17 (18) WOZNIACKI 2535*

18 (16) STEPHENS 2495*

19 (19) BOUCHARD 2445*

20 (20) STOSUR 2430*

21 (21) PAVLYUCHENKOVA 2245*

22 (24) MAKAROVA 2130*

23 (22) CORNET 2100*

24 (25) KANEPI 2055*

25 (23) FLIPKENS 1975*

26 (27) SAFAROVA 1885*

27 (26) CIRSTEA 1780*

28 (29) Kirilenko 1516

29 (30) KUZNETSOVA 1513*

30 (31) VWILLIAMS 1507*

 

Draws

Miami — week of March 17, 2014

1 S Williams

–bye

Shvedova

Schiavone

Garcia

Wozniak (WC)

–bye

27 Zakopalova

 

21 Pavlyuchenkova

–bye

Qualifier

Erakovic

Qualifier

Duval (WC)

–bye

16 Stosur

 

9 Errani

–bye

Knapp

Qualifier

Barthel

Peterson (WC)

–bye

23 Makarova

 

25 Cirstea

–bye

Voskoboeva

Pironkova

Peng

Ka. Pliskova

–bye

5 Kerber

 

4 Sharapova

–bye

Beck

Nara

Qualifier

King

–bye

26 Safarova

 

19 Flipkens

–bye

Watson (WC)

Qualifier

Petrova (WC)

U Radwanska

–bye

14 Lisicki

 

12 Ivanovic

–bye

Zhang

Davis

Qualifier

Qualifier

–bye

20 Pennetta

 

28 Kuznetsova

–bye

Qualifier

Qualifier

Ormaechea

Qualifier

–bye

8 Kvitova

 

6 Halep

–bye

Dellacqua (WC)

Voegele

de Vroome (WC)

Schmiedlova

–bye

29 V Williams

 

22 Cornet

–bye

Torro-Flor

Petkovic

Meusburger

Dominguez Lino

–bye

10 Cibulkova

 

13 Vinci

–bye

Niculescu

Zahlavova Strycova

Mattek-Sands

Svitolina

–bye

18 Bouchard

 

32 Vesnina

–bye

Riske

Qualifier

Jovanovski

Oprandi

–bye

3 A Radwanska

 

7 Jankovic

–bye

Wickmayer

Lepchenko

Tomljanovic

Mladenovic

–bye

30 Muguruza

 

17 Stephens

–bye

Qualifier

Cadantu

Puig

Rybarikova

–bye

11 Wozniacki

 

15 Suarez Navarro

–bye

Soler-Espinosa

Scheepers

McHale

Zheng

–bye

24 Kanepi

 

31 Hantuchova

–bye

Kontaveit (WC)

Keys

Melzer

Kleybanova

–bye

2 Li

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

 

TUESDAY

Results – Tuesday, March 18, 2013

Singles – First Round

Elina Svitolina (UKR) d. Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA) 63 36 63

Kurumi Nara (JPN) d. Annika Beck (GER) 76(2) 64

Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) d. Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 62 75

Varvara Lepchenko (USA) d. Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 75 61

Monica Puig (PUR) d. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 61 76(7)

Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) d. Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 64 62

Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) d. (WC) Indy de Vroome (NED) 75 57 62

Caroline Garcia (FRA) d. (WC) Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) 63 75

Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) d. Sílvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) 63 60

Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) d. Iveta Melzer (CZE) 76(3) 61

Romina Oprandi (SUI) d. Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 62 64

(WC) Casey Dellacqua (AUS) d. Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 63 62

Singles Qualifying – Final Round

Kiki Bertens (NED) d. (1) Jana Cepelova (SVK) 64 64

(22) Donna Vekic (CRO) d. (3) Johanna Larsson (SWE) 61 61

(4) Shahar Peer (ISR) d. Luksika Kumkhum (THA) 62 61

(5) Virginie Razzano (FRA) d. Hsieh Su-Wei (TPE) 46 63 64

(6) Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (AUT) d. Nastassja Burnett (ITA) 61 57 62

(23) Nadiya Kichenok (UKR) d. (7) Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) 61 57 63

(13) Olga Govortsova (BLR) d. (8) Julia Goerges (GER) 76(3) 62

(20) Estrella Cabeza Candela (ESP) d. (10) Petra Cetkovska (CZE) 64 64

(11) Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) d. (WC) Françoise Abanda (CAN) 76(4) 46 64

(15) Katarzyna Piter (POL) d. (WC) Irina Khromacheva (RUS) 26 75 43 ret. (muscle cramping)

Coco Vandeweghe (USA) d. (16) Sharon Fichman (CAN) 64 63

Zarina Diyas (KAZ) d. (WC) Varvara Flink (RUS) 75 61

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