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Robson beats Venus Williams in first round of Internazionali BNL Italia in Rome
First round play in the Internazionali BNL Italia got underway on Monday on the red clay courts in the Italian capital – the last premier tournament before the French Open which starts on May 26. Although unseeded, it was still a surprise to see Venus Williams, who is now ranked [...] -
Serena Williams beats Sharapova to win Madrid Open 2013 title
The dream final of the Matua Madrid Tennis Open was played on Sunday afternoon on the Manolo Santana centre court between the world’s top two players – number one Serena Williams and number two Maria Sharapova. By winning her semi final against Ana Ivanovic, the Russian won her 500th professional [...] -
Serena Williams to play Sharapova in Mutua Madrid Open 2013 final
In the first of the two semi final matches on Saturday, top seed Serena Williams took on seventh seed Sara Errani. In their quarter final matches, Serena dropped the second set to love against Anabel Madina Garrigues – only the sixth time in her entire career that that has happened [...] -
Serena and Sharapova book Madrid Open semi-final place
In the first of the quarter final matches being played on Madrid on Friday, top seed Serena Williams took on the 63rd ranked Spaniard, Anabel Madina Garrigues, who made it this far in the tournament when Yaroslava Shvedova pulled out of their third round match. Both in the thirties, these [...] -
Ivanovic beats Kerber to reach Madrid semis, Errani also through
The 24th seed Ekaterina Makarova, the Russian giant killer who ousted both 3rd seed Victoria Azarenka and 14th seed Marion Bartoli on her way to the quarters, took on the Italian 7th seed Sara Errani. The Italian got the early breaks and led 2-1 and 4-2 in the first set, [...] -
Sharapova beats Lisicki, plays Kanepi in Madrid quarter-finals
In a third round match in the bottom half of the draw, 2nd seeded Russian Maria Sharapova took to the Manolo Santana Centre Court at the Matua Madrid Open to play against the 39th ranked German, Sabine Lisicki. Sharapova had to work hard in the second set of her first [...] -
Serena defeats Kirilenko to book Madrid quarter-final place
At the one hour mark in the match between 13th seeded Russian Maria Krirlenko and top seeded American Serena Williams, the score stood at 6-3 5-0. That was when the Russian got on the scoreboard for the first time in the second set, but the American served out the set [...] -
Hantuchova beats Kvitova in Madrid, Kirilenko also through
Angelique Kerber, the German 6th seed played against Svetlana Kuznetsova, the 40th ranked Russian who took out her compatriot, 11th seeded Nadia Petrova, in the second round. Games went with serve until Kuznetsova got a break to go 5-3 ahead with her serve to come. Continuing her great serving and [...] -
Makarova upsets Azarenka in second round of Madrid Open
Victoria Azarenka, the tournament’s third seed, had a tough two tie break sets win against 19th ranked Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the first round. Her opponent in her second round match, the 24th ranked Russian leftie, Ekaterina Makarova, took out another leftie, Lucie Safarova, in straights in her first round encounter. [...] -
Kuznetsova beats Petrova to reach 3rd round in Madrid, Cibulkova out
Slovak 15th seed, Dominika Cibulkova, defeated the 73rd ranked qualifier Lesia Tsurenko, in her first round match with the loss of just five games. On Tuesday she played the 39th ranked German, Sabine Lisicki, who also easily won her first round match in straights against Sofia Arvidsson. With nothing separating [...] -
Serena Williams moves into third round in Madrid
Second round matches continued on Tuesday at the Matua Madrid Open tournament. 36th ranked Kazakh Yaroslava Shvedova, who took out 10th seed Caroline Wozniacki in the first round, played against 22nd ranked Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium, who beat Mona Barthel in her first round encounter. The Kazakh got the breaks [...] -
Sharapova and Errani reach third round of Mutua Madrid Open
Sara Errani, the Italian 7th seed, had to draw on all her experience and use all her renowned clay court skills to get past the 26th ranked Roumanian, Sorana Cirstea, in her second round match on Monday. The Italian took out Ursula Radwanska in straight sets in the first round, [...] -
Robson upsets Agnieszka Radwanska to advance in Madrid
10th seed Caroline Wozniacki started the run of seeds to fall in the first round of the Premier Level Matua Madrid Open on Sunday, followed later that day with the demise of 5th seed Na Li and 12th seed Roberta Vinci. In the start of second round play on Monday, [...]
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