Archive for category: WTA Tour
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Bartoli and Errani to clash in New Haven quarters
French player Marion Bartoli, the number five seed at the New Haven Open at Yale tournament being played this week in the run up to the US Open, made hard work of her match on Tuesday against the fast rising, stylish, accurate and hard hitting young American, Sloane Stephens. Often [...] -
Barthel beats Hantuchova in New Haven, Errani and Kirilenko also through
German Mona Barthel started her New Haven campaign with a straight sets 6-3 7-5 win over Slovak Daniela Hantuchova. This was the first meeting between the two players, with Hantuchova having 5 WTA career titles to her name against Barthel’s one title. However, the Slovak has been struggling with her [...] -
Wickmeyer and Wozniak through at the Texas Open in Dallas
The final tournaments before the start of the US Open which will commence this coming Monday have got underway in Dallas, Texas and New Haven, Connecticut with some of the WTA’s top players in action. Play in the main draw at the Texas Tennis Open started on Sunday, with the [...] -
Cirstea, Jovanovski and Cornet book a place in the second round of the Texas Tennis Open
The twenty two year old Romanian player, Sorana Cirstea, who turned professional in 2006, is one of the streakiest players on the WTA tour. She is a very talented player who, when on top of her game, lets rip with some wonderful and beautifully executed shots but, on her bad [...] -
Li Na beats Kerber and captures Cincinnati title
Chinese Li Na won her 6th career title after defeating Angelique Kerber in Sunday’s final at the Cincinnati Open. Li came back from a set down on her way to victory against the German, winning 1-6 6-3 6-1. Kerber started the match flawlessly, and not only did she cruise through [...] -
Surprise final at the WTA Cincy – Li Na to play Kerber for the title
Both semifinal matches at the WTA Cincinnati Open ended with a slightly surprising result. Li Na defeated Venus Williams to book her place in the Sunday’s final, winning in three sets 7-5 3-6 6-1. The Chinese played a fantastic match, although Venus was experiencing back problems that stopped her from [...] -
Kvitova powers into Western & Southern Open semis
There will definitely be one leftie in the final of the Western and Southern Open to be played on Sunday, as both Petra Kvitova and Angelique Kerber won their respective quarter final matches on Friday and will face each other in one of the semi final matches. Kvitova, the Czech [...] -
Kerber Breaks Serena’s Nineteen Match Winning Streak to advance into Cincy SFs
The quarter final match between Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber on Centre Court was delayed by an hour so that American TV – and the spectators who were lucky enough to be courtside – could watch to the end of the great match between Venus Williams and Sam Stosur on [...] -
Venus battles past Stosur to advance into Cincy SFs, Li Na demolishes Top seed Radwanska
First on court in Friday afternoon’s session of the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati was Venus Williams, unseeded in this tournament and ranked 64 on the WTA’s rankings list. Across the net was 3rd seeded Sam Stosur, last year’s US Open titlist, who is the WTA’s 6th ranked player. [...] -
Wozniacki eliminated in Cincinnati, Li Na wins with ease
Li Na advances into Cincinnati quarterfinals after an easy victory, whilst former number one Wozniacki is ousted by unseeded Pavlyuchenkova. Birthday girl Johann Larsson’s 2012 Cincinnati adventure ended in the third round. The Swedish qualifier, who turned twenty-four on the day of the match, did not stand a chance against [...] -
Serena Williams and Stosur ease into Cincy QFs
Serena Williams, the second seed at the Western and Southern Open being played in the steamy heat of Cincinnati this week, had another lucky escape in her third round match against Ursula Radwanska, winning in straight sets 6-4 6-3. As was the case in her second round match yesterday against [...] -
Venus back to her best, beats Errani in third round of Cincinnati
After having to slog her way out of trouble in tough three setters in both the first and second rounds of the Southern and Western Open being played in Cincinnati this week, Venus Williams booked her place in the quarters with a demonstration of near perfect exhibition class tennis yesterday. [...] -
Kvitova and Kerber reach Cincy QFs
Petra Kvitova and Angelique Kerber became expected 2012 Cincinnati Masters quartefinalists after grabbing two-set wins against Peng Shuai and Andrea Hlavackova respectively. Fourth seed Kvitova, 2011 Wimbledon champion, had no real troubles in third round of Cincinnati Masters as she finished off unseeded Chinese Peng Shuai in less than an [...]
