Archive: anastasia-pavlyuchenkova
Click here to see the latest photos from the ladies Fed Cup in Prague.
The ITF has announced the latest results for the Fed Cup by BNP Paribas Final between Czech Republic and Russia in Prague on 14-15 November.
Defending Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open champion Petra Kvitova battled her way past rising star Daria Gavrilova with a hard-fought 6-3 4-6 7-5 in the evening session on Tuesday.
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Martina Hingis spent last year’s Mutua Madrid Open celebrating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova’s – the player she was training at the time – doubles victory alongside Lucie Safarova, and this time round she’ll be in the thick of the action herself.
Eugenie Bouchard (Westmount, QC) advanced to the fourth round of a WTA Premier event for the first time in her career of Sunday at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California.
Less than a month ago Australian Open semi-finalist Eugenie Bouchard was the talk of women’s tennis but this weekend she is forced to play the qualifying rounds of the next week’s Dubai Duty Free Championships.
This arguably should have gone the other way, and in straight sets. Sara Errani seemed to be cruising into the second set, breaking in Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova's first service game -- only to lose seven straight games. It looked as if the marathon she had played the night before had cost her.
Maria Sharapova's extremely disappointing 2014 continues. This event should have been her chance to get back to #4. Instead, after firing back-to-back double-faults to lose the final game of the match, she stays stuck at #5.
Czech Karolina Pliskova produced the first minor upset of the week as she put out American seventh seed Bethanie Mattek-Sands 6-2, 6-4 in a re-run of the Kuala Lumpur final from 2013. Svetlana Kuznetsova passed a personal milestone as she claimed her 500th career victory.
A strange match -- and not just because it featured #1 versus #2 in the semifinal. Simona Halep started reasonably well in the first set, collapsed, took charge in the second, went down a break in the third, then took charge again.
When Elena Vesnina lost the second set of this, we couldn't help but think, "Well, that's that." But this is the new model Vesnina. She came back to win -- and leave her record at 2-1, the same as Ivanovic's.
Russia has announced it will field a Fed Cup team.
The Fed Cup is supposedly the foremost team competition in the female tennis world but while the currently fit top eight players are battling it out in this week’s TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships in Istanbul, next week’s Italy v Russia final in Cagliari, Sardinia is descending into farce.
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