Post Tagged with: "Bethanie Mattek-Sands"
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Sharapova defeats Kerber, faces Li Na in Stuttgart final
The first of the two semi final matches played at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart on Saturday was between top seed, Maria Sharapova, and the only remaining German in the draw, 3rd seeded Angelique Kerber. Shaparova only just squeaked past both Lucie Safarova and Ana Ivanovic, both in [...] -
Li Na defeats Kvitova to advance to WTA Stuttgart semis
The first match in the night session on Friday was between Sabine Lisicki and Bethanie Mattek-Sands. 47th ranked Lisicki took out qualifier Nastasia Burnett in the first round and Jelena jankovic in the second, both in straight sets, while qualifier Mattek-Sands, the 104th ranked American, took out Yanina Wickmayer in [...] -
Sharapova defeats Safarova to reach 3td round in Stuttgart, Errani out
Top seed Maria Sharapova took to the court in the evening session at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart to play against 25th ranked Czech, Lucie Safarova, who had taken out Germany’s 28th ranked Mona Barthel in straight sets in the first round. Sharapova had a first round bye. [...] -
McHale and Keys through to second round in Miami
Christina McHale, Jamie Hampton, Madison Keys, Victoria Duval and Bethanie Mattek-Sands all made it to the second round at the Miami Open on Wednesday, to score a good day for Americans at a home tournament. The 376th ranked 17 year old Victoria Duval, playing in just her second WTA main [...] -
Pliskova defeats Mattek-Sands to lift Kuala Lumpur trophy
The final of the BMW Malaysian Open was a seesaw three setter played between the American Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic. Mattek-Sands, making a comeback after a string of injuries which saw the former top 30 player fall out of the top 200, is now ranked [...] -
Mattek-Sands to play Pliskova in Malaysia Open final
After top seed Caroline Wozniacki’s surprise loss to the Chinese qualifier Qiang Wang, in the first round of the BMW Malaysia Open, the top half of the draw opened up giving a great chance of progressing further into the tournament for the other players in that section. Czech Karolina Pliskova, [...] -
Goerges beats Hantuchova in Linz, Mattek-Sands defeats Paszek
Veteran Slovak Daniela Hantuchova, now ranked at number 38 (her highest ranking was number 5 at the beginning of 2003) took on the German number 2 who is number 19 in the WTA rankings and the 5th seed in this tournament, Julia Goerges. The first set was very tightly fought, [...] -
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 [...] -
Mattek-Sands/Tecau win Australian Open mixed doubles
Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Horia Tecau captured the 2012 Australian Open mixed doubles title as they beat the Russian-Indian duo, Elena Vesnina and Leander Paes, in a three tough sets 6-3, 5-7, 10-3. The American-Romanian duo got off to a stronger start, breaking their opponents serve twice in the first set, [...]





