Archive for category: WTA Tour
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Defending champion Stosur through to second round at US Open
While rain interrupted matches of other seeded players, Samantha Stosur advanced to the second round of 2012 US Open with ease. Defending champion Australian Stosur cleared her first hurdle on the way to repeating last year’s US Open success. It took her no more than 53 minutes to cruise past [...] -
Kvitova defeats Kirilenko and captures New Haven title
Petra Kvitova seems to be unstoppable at the moment. Sevent-seeded Russian Maria Kirilenko was more than a worthy opponent in New Haven final match, but was quite far from success against second seed Czech. There was practically nothing that could separate the two players in an entertaining first set. We [...] -
Vinci takes Dallas trophy after beating Jankovic in final
Third seed Roberta Vinci overcomes second-seeded Jelena Jankovic in an exciting more than two hours long 2012 Texas Open final match. End score: 7-5, 6-3. This was a seventh WTA cup 29-years old Italian Vinci raised in her career, and the first one this season. As she admitted in her [...] -
Kvitova breezes past Errani, faces Kirilenko in New Haven final
2nd seeded Petra Kvitova booked herself a place in New Haven final after overpowering Italy’s Sara Errani 6-1 6-3. The Czech 2011 Wimbledon champion looked impressive throughout the match and after taking the first set in a mere 24 minutes, she took Errani’s serve twice more in the second set [...] -
Kirilenko advances to New Haven final after Wozniacki retires
Russia’s Maria Kirilenko will play for the New Haven Open title after the no.3 seed Caroline Wozniacki retired from their semifinal encounter whilst trailing 7-5. The Dane was forced to finish the match due to a knee injury and this is her first loss in 21 appearances here at the [...] -
Wozniacki eliminates Cibulkova, will play Kirilenko in New Haven SFs
Both Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Kirilenko brushed away their 2012 New Haven quarterfinal opponents in two straight sets in and will meet in semis next. Third seed Wozniacki beat recent Carlsbad winner Dominika Cibulkova in New Haven quarterfinal match. While Dane Wozniacki was hardly troubled at her serve, she converted practically [...] -
Kvitova to face Errani for a place in New Haven final
The clash between fourth seed Italian Sara Errani and fifth-seeded French Marion Bartoli promised to be a tight encounter, but was rather one-sided in the end. Errani, who already won in Barcelona, Budapest, and Palermo this year, got off to a better start going 4-0 up in the first set, [...] -
Jankovic to play Vinci for Texas Open Trophy
No surprises in 2012 Dallas semifinals as both Roberta Vinci and Jelena Jankovic finish off their unseeded opponents in two straight sets. Unseeded Serbian player Bojana Jovanovski will be leaving Texas Open in Dallas with mixed feelings. On one hand, she reached semifinal of a WTA tournament, on the other [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...] -
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 [...]
