Archive for category: WTA Tour
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WTA Championships Istanbul 2012 Draw Preview and Analysis
The draw for the season-ending WTA championships was made in Istanbul on Sunday evening, at a high-profile ceremony featuring all of the title contenders. The elite tournament sees the eight best-performing players of the year split into two round robin groups, with the top two from each making it through [...] -
WTA Top Players: The Road to WTA Championships in Istanbul
The TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships is the culmination of the 2012 season with the tour’s elite eight players competing for the coveted title. Here’s a look at how each woman booked her place in this week’s event. 1. Victoria Azarenka: After having long been touted as a future Major [...] -
Venus Williams lifts trophy in Luxembourg, beats Niculescu in final
Venus Williams, who has not played since being knocked out in the second round of the US Open, due to the effects of an ongoing auto immune disease and a bad back injury, took a familiar place on court in a tournament final on Sunday in Luxembourg. Up against the [...] -
Wozniacki beats Stosur to win Kremlin Cup 2012 title in Moscow
The final of the Kremlin Cup tournament in Moscow on Sunday was everything the spectators had hoped for – the number 1 seed Sam Stosur against the number 3 Caroline Wozniacki. Stosur was going for her 4th career title, while Wozniacki was gunning for her 20th. This time it was [...] -
Venus Williams beats Petkovic, plays Niculescu in Luxembourg final
In an unusual semi final afternoon at the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg 2012 tournament, none of the four competitors were seeded as the last seed standing number 1 Roberta Vinci was eliminated by Venus Williams in the quarter final round; and all of them have suffered from varying degrees of [...] -
Stosur beats Ivanovic, plays Wozniacki in Moscow final
The first semi final match at the Kremlin Cup on Saturday afternoon was between Caroline Wozniacki, the wild carded 3rd seed from Denmark and the unseeded Swede Sofia Arvidsson. Although Wozniacki led the head to head 6 to 2, the Dane had a long three setter in the quarters and [...] -
Venus Williams beats Vinci, plays Petkovic in Luxembourg semis
Top seed in this tournament Roberta Vinci of Italy faced off against Venus Williams in the quarter-final match in the top half of the draw at the Luxembourg WTA tournament. Vinci battled for three sets to take out Olga Govortsova in the first round and had a straight sets win [...] -
Hantuchova to face Niculescu in Luxembourg semifinals
Both unseeded and in the bottom half of the draw, two veterans of the WTA tour, Slovak Daniela Hantchova and Spaniard Lourdes Dominguez Lino met in the first match on centre court at the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg 2012 tournament on Friday afternoon. Dominguez Lino is ranked at 54, while [...] -
Ivanovic to play Stosur in Kremlin Cup semifinals in Moscow
The top half of the draw featured the number 4 seeded Serb Ana Ivanovic, who took on her countrywoman Vesna Dolonc, the qualifier who was having a great tournament. Having won three rounds in qualies, including taking out the number 3 and 5 seeds, Dolonc, who is ranked at 160, [...] -
Wozniacki defeats Cibulkova to reach Moscow semis, Kirilenko out
All four quarter final matches were set for Friday at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow. First up was the defending champion Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia against Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark, who got a wild card into this tournament. Cibulkova was seeded 5, while Wozniacki was the number 3 seed. Wozniacki’s [...] -
Stosur, Kirilenko and Ivanovic through to Moscow quarterfinals
Second round matches at the Kremlin Cup tournament in Moscow got underway on Thursday afternoon with the Serbian WTA number 12 and 4th seed Ana Ivanovic, taking on the Russian qualifier Valeria Solovieva, ranked at a career high 216 who mostly plays on the ITF circuit. On paper this looked [...] -
Venus Williams reaches Luxembourg Open quarters, Goerges out
Venus Williams, now 32 and on the professional tour since 1994, has had a rough time of late with injuries and illness keeping her out of tournaments. Not having played since the US Open (where she lost in the second round), her ranking has dropped to 48. On Thursday afternoon [...] -
Petkovic beats Jankovic to reach Luxembourg QFs, Hantuchova also wins
Kirsten Flipkens’ great run for the last week and a half came to an end on Thursday afternoon when Daniela Hantuchova defeated her in the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open second round. Hantuchova, ranked at number 5 at the height of her career in 2003, is now ranked at number [...]
