Archive for category: WTA Tour
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Kvitova and Bartoli advance to Paris Open quarter-finals
The 45th ranked German Mona Barthel, defeated Urszula Radwanska, younger sister of the more famous Agnieszka, in the first round of the 2013 Paris Open. In her second round match, she took on the tournament’s 5th seed, Italian Roberta Vinci, who had earlier defeated Simona Halep. In a very good [...] -
Errani through to Paris Open QFs, Cibulkova out
The top seeded Italian Sara Errani, has had very little time on court this week at the Open GDF Suez tournament in Paris, as she had a bye in the first round and, after less than half an hour on court on Thursday, got the W next to her name [...] -
Ivanovic out of Pattaya Open, Kirilenko and Hantuchova through
Ana Invanovic’s struggle to get back up to the top of the game continued in the first round at the Pattaya Open when she lost a tight three setter to the Japanese player Ayumi Morita, who is ranked on the WTA list at number 60. Ivanovic, the top seed in [...] -
Azarenka beats Li Na and wins second Australian Open title
Victoria Azarenka is the 2013 Australian Open Women’s Singles Champion, having successfully defended the title she won last year with a three sets 4-6 6-4 6-3 win over Li Na in today’s final. Coming on court to a packed Rod Laver Arena, Azarenka received some applause, but it was clearly [...] -
Errani/Vinci win Australian Open doubles title, Gajdosova/Ebden mixed doubles champions
It is a very long time since Australia has had one of its players in a final of its own Grand Slam, but at the 2013 Australian Open four players reached this point – one pair in the Ladies’ Doubles and one pair in the Mixed Doubles. Late on Friday [...] -
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Azarenka beats Stephens, plays Li Na in Australian Open final
In the second semi final match on Rod Laver Arena on Thursday, top seed Victoria Azarenka took on the bright new star in the women’s game, the 28th seeded American Sloane Stephens. At just 19 years old, Stephens was a cool customer the day before when she defeated her idol, [...] -
Li Na beats Sharapova to reach Australian Open 2013 final
Maria Sharapova, the 2nd seed, came on to Rod Laver Arena to do battle with Na Li, the 6th seed, for a place in the final in blistering 44° heat. After the departure of Serena Williams in the quarters on Wednesday, the ruthless Russian was the firm favourite to lift [...] -
Stephens upsets Serena Williams to advance to Australian Open semis
After the excitement of the first set in the first match on Rod Laver Arena between Victoria Azarenka and Svetlana Kuznetsova, everyone’s favourite to take the title Down Under, Serena Williams, came on court to play Sloane Stephens, the 29th seed and now the American number two. Serena was unbelievably [...] -
Azarenka defeats Kuznetsova to reach Australian Open semis
In the first match on Rod Laver Arena on Day 10 of the Australian Open on Wednesday, world number one Vika Azarenka took on Sveta Kuznetsova, former world number 2 and twice a Grand Slam champion who is now ranked 75 after not playing the entire second half of the [...] -
Sharapova to play Li Na in Australian Open semi-final
Going into what all the pundits expected to be a very tough battle, Na Li held a 5-4 head to head advantage over Agnieszka Radwanska and the Pole also had a 5 to 1 losing record in Grand Slam quarter final matches, but Radwanska had beaten Li in their last [...] -
Serena Williams to play Stephens in Australian Open quarters
Serena Williams has touted 19 year old Sloane Stephens as a future world number one and her talent was clearly on show on Monday in the Hisense Arena. The American 29th seed took on the other remaining youngster in the draw, Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia, who is ranked at 56. [...] -
Azarenka into Australian Open QFs, Kuznetsova beats Wozniacki
It is amazing to see that Svetlana Kuznetsova is ranked at 75, but this is because she was off the tour for the second half of the 2012 season with a right knee injury. On Day 8 of the Australian Open she faced off against Caroline Wozniacki, the 10th seed. [...]
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