US NATIONAL INDOOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS – Marina Erakovic Wins

Written by: Staff on 24th February 2013

US NATIONAL INDOOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS - Marina Erakovic Wins |

US NATIONAL INDOOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Memphis, USA

February 17-23, 2013

$235,000/International

Hard/Outdoors

Results – Saturday, February 23, 2013

Singles – Final

Marina Erakovic (NZL) d. (3) Sabine Lisicki (GER) 61 ret. (GI illness)

Doubles – Final

(2) Mladenovic/Voskoboeva (FRA/KAZ) d. Arvidsson/Larsson (SWE/SWE) 76(5) 63

Final Facts

– Erakovic wins her first WTA title (she is now 1-2 in WTA finals).

– Erakovic is the first player from New Zealand to win a WTA title since Belinda Cordwell won in Kallang, Singapore in 1989 (Erakovic was born in 1988).

– Erakovic is the first player this year to save match point en route to a WTA title (she saved one match point in her first round match against Annika Beck).

– Lisicki is now 3-4 in WTA finals.

– Mladenovic and Voskoboeva win their first WTA doubles title together; Mladenovic now has three WTA doubles titles to her name, Voskoboeva four.

Final Quotes

Erakovic: “I think it means quite a bit for New Zealand. We’re a small place, we’ve got about four million people, and tennis isn’t the most popular sport – but whenever I’m somewhere else in the world and someone asks me where I’m from, and I say New Zealand, they always say they love New Zealand. And there are always a lot of Kiwis supporting me around the world. So this is great.”

Lisicki: “It’s very unfortunate I wasn’t able to finish the match. I put all the energy I had left in my body into the match, but I just couldn’t keep going. I had been sick the last three days already. But Marina had a great tournament and I want to congratulate her for her first WTA title.”

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