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Women’s Draw: US Open 2012 Preview and Analysis
The final grand slam of 2012 is just around the corner and in a few days the WTA’s top players will descend upon Flushing Meadows in New York to compete for the U.S. Open Title. The women’s singles draw and just been released and looks to set up some tantalizing [...] -
US Open 2012 Women’s Draw
(1) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) v Alexandra Panova (RUS) Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) v qualifier Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) v qualifier Virginie Razzano (FRA) v (28) Jie Zheng (CHN) (18) Julia Goerges (GER) v qualifier Mandy Minella (LUX) v Olivia Rogowska (AUS) Stephanie Foretz Gacon (FRA) v Anna Tatishvili (GEO) Sorana [...] -
Young guns impress at the 2012 US Open qualifications
The U.S. Open qualifications are well under way, with the second round to be played this Thursday, and if, ranking-wise, there have been a few upsets, there haven’t been many surprises. In fact, to me, the biggest surprise was seventh-seed Vasek Pospisil’s demise in straight sets to former University of [...] -
Dellacqua knocks out Wozniak in Dallas, plays Jankovic in semis
The Australian player, Casey Dellacqua, who is number 106 on the WTA’s rankings list and who caused quite a sensation at the Texas Tennis Open being played in Dallas this week when she ousted the tournament’s number four seed, the hard hitting Belgian Yanina Wickmayer (ranked 28), 6-4 6-4, had [...] -
Vinci to meet Jovanovski in Texas Open semifinals
The second semi final to be played on Thursday at the Texas Open Tennis tournament in Dallas will be between the Italian third seed, Roberta Vinci, who has been quietly making her way through the draw; and the unseeded wildcard, Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia. Vinci took out the Taiwanese player, [...] -
Wozniacki and Cibulkova move into New Haven quarters
The great Dane, Caroline Wozniacki, is having a good week at the Connecticut Tennis Centre at Yale in reaching the quarter final stage, by defeating Sophia Arvidsson of Sweden, 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 on Wednesday in a match lasting almost an hour and a half, when all second round matches were [...] -
New York’s Unassuming Defending Champion
While there are only a handful of women considered true contenders for this year’s U.S. Open women’s title, should it be a surprise that defending champion Sam Stosur is not one of them? Maybe it’s partly due to many still trying to wrap their heads around the improbable run of [...] -
Tsonga and Isner cruise in Winston-Salem
Top seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga advanced into the quarterfinals of the Winston-Salem Open on the hardcourts at Wake Forest University after defeating Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky 7-6 (1) 6-4. With this win, the world no.6 Tsonga improved his head to head against Stakhovsky to 3-0 and will be facing Spaniard Marcel Granollers [...] -
US Open 2012 Draw To Be Announced on Thursday
US Open 2012, the fourth Grand Slam Tournament of the year, will commence on Monday (27th August – 9th September). The Draws for both men’s and women’s competitions are to be released tomorrow (Thursday 23rd August) at 12pm ET and stevegtennis will bring you a detailed preview and analysis. Seeding [...] -
Roddick out of Winston-Salem, Dolgopolov beats Nalbandian
Former world no.1 Andy Roddick fell short of reaching the quarterfinals of the 2012 Winston-Salem Open as he went out to Steve Darcis in two tiebreaks, with the Belgian prevailing 7-6 (6) 7-6 (3) in one hour and 52 minutes. The no.5 seed American, who is currently ranked 21, failed [...] -
Tsonga beats Bellucci in Winston-Salem, Berdych also through to round three
World no.6 and top seed at the Winston-Salem Open Jo-Wilfried Tsonga advanced into the third round after a straight sets victory over Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, beating him 6-3 7-6 (3). The Frenchman, who is appearing at this pre US Open warm-up event for the first time, also managed to overcome [...] -
Jankovic and Cirstea through to quarterfinals in Dallas
In the final warm up before the start of the US Open this coming Monday, some of the WTA’s top players decided not to take a week off, but to keep competing in the hope of getting in some good match practice. This seems to have been a good strategy [...] -
Defending champion Isner overcomes scare in Winston-Salem 2nd round match
Defending champion John Isner came back from a set down to battle his way through to the third round of the 2012 Winston-Salem Open. The American overcame Slovak Martin Klizan after a slow start, eventually winning 4-6 6-3 7-5. The Slovak leftie got off to a dream start, breaking Isner [...]
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