Post Tagged with: "Daniela Hantuchova"
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Hantuchova to face Vekic in Birmingham final
The first semi final of the very rain delayed Aegon Classic tournament being played in Birmingham, England, on grass this week was between 16th seed Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia and the very talented Croatian teenager, sixteen year old Donna Vekic, who is ranked at 89. Their only previous meeting was [...] -
Stosur, Jankovic and Bartoli all advance at the French Open
Play got underway three hours late on Tuesday because of strong rain and the damp atmosphere when the matches started made the ball heavy and slow. 42 year old Kimiko Date-Krumm who is ranked at 81 played Aussie 9th seed Sam Stosur. The first three games were very tightly fought, [...] -
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 [...] -
Hantuchova beats Stephens at Madrid Open, Goerges also through
The first round of the 64 player draw of the Premier Level Mutual Madrid Open got underway on Saturday on the red clay of the La Caja Magica courts. In a matchup of two unseeded players, the 76th ranked Slovak veteran, Daniela Hantuchova, took on the up and coming 17th [...] -
Azarenka beats Hantuchova to reach third round of Indian Wells
With Serena Williams continuing her boycott of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells for the 12th straight year, world number two Victoria Azarenka is the top seed at this year’s tournament. She took on the Slovakian veteran, Daniela Hantuchova, now ranked at 73, in her first match, having had [...] -
Hantuchova into second round in Indian Wells, Arvidsson beats Robson
Three big names on the WTA tour who were not seeded in the BNP Paribas Open being played in the desert town of Indian Wells, California, this week and next have made it to the second round of this huge tournament, just a step down from a Grand Slam. The [...] -
Azarenka beats McHale, Errani defeats Hantuchova at Qatar Open
In third round play at the Qatar Total Open being played in Doha, 6th seeded Italian Sara Errani took on the unseeded Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia on Thursday afternoon. Errani had a bye and an easy straight sets win to get to the third round, while the Slovak had an [...] -
Kirilenko and Lisicki reach Pattaya Open quarters, Hantuchova out
Sabine Lisicki of Germany, ranked at 52 and seeded 5th, had an easy 6-2 6-3 first round win over her compatriot Tatjana Malek. In the second round she faced off against 103rd ranked Alexandra Panova of Russia, who got the W next to her name after her first round opponent, [...] -
Ivanovic out of Pattaya Open, Kirilenko and Hantuchova through
Ana Invanovic’s struggle to get back up to the top of the game continued in the first round at the Pattaya Open when she lost a tight three setter to the Japanese player Ayumi Morita, who is ranked on the WTA list at number 60. Ivanovic, the top seed in [...] -
Stosur and Goerges into 2nd round of Australian Open
Sam Stosur, the 9th seed, came on to the Rod Laver Arena to face off against a player who had beaten her in their last match – Kai-Chen Chang of Taiwan, who is ranked at 86. She also lost in the first round of the Australian Open in 2012 and [...] -
Zheng beats Stosur in Sydney, Hantuchova also out
Sam Stosur has an unbelievably bad record of playing on Australian soil ever since winning the US Open in 2011. With a world ranking of 9 and seeded 6 at the Apia International Sydney tournament, Stosur played in the last match on Monday on the Ken Rosewall Arena against Jie [...] -
Serena Williams reaches Brisbane semis, Tsurenko also wins
After the demise of so many of the seeds early on in the Brisbane International tournament, it must be heartening for the organisers to see the number one seed Victoria Azarenka, and the number three seed Serena Williams both still in the draw. These two players, whose seeding reflects their [...] -
Pavlyuchenkova beats Kvitova in Brisbane, Hantuchova through
In the third big upset of the Brisbane International 2013 WTA tournament after Caroline Wozniacki and Sam Stosur both lost their first round matches, Anastasia Pavlyuchenko of Russia, ranked at 36 took out the 2011 champion Petra Kvitova, the WTA’s 8th ranked player and seeded at 6 for this tournament, [...]





