Post Tagged with: "Julia Goerges"
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Li Na beats Schiavone, Goerges defeats King at China Open 2012
Li Na overcame Francesca Schiavone with a 6-2 6-3 victory to advance into the second round of China Open 2012. Julia Goerges came back from a set down to defeat Vania King 6-7 (9) 7-5 6-2 and booked herself a next round ticket. Li earned BP on Schiavone’s opening service [...] -
Ivanovic, Petrova and Goerges ease into 2nd round of Tokyo
Ana Ivanovic, Julia Goerges, and Nadia Petrova moved into the second round of 2012 Tokyo WTA tournament with a minimum of fuss. Former top-ranked Serbian Ivanovic has obtained eleven WTA titles in previous years, but has not managed to lift any trophies in 2012 yet. She started Toray Pan Pacific [...] -
US Open Round 1: Bartoli Strolls into R2, Cirstea and Pliskova Pull Off Upsets over Germans Lisicki and Goerges
Bartoli defeats Hampton, 6-3 7-6(5) France’s Marion Bartoli (11th seed) breaks in the opening game, to go up 2-0 in the first set. Bartoli is working a point beautifully, managing to wrongfoot America’s Jamie Hampton, but Hampton recovers and Bartoli nets an easy BH at 30-40 on Hampton’s serve at [...] -
Seeds Kvitova and Pavlyuchenkova Progress in Cincinnati
Fourth seed Petra Kvitova suffered a scare in the early stages of her second round match up against Germany’s Mona Barthel in Cincinnati. The former Wimbledon Champion and world no.5 was beginning her Western and Southern Open campaign after receiving a bye in the first round, but suddenly found herself [...] -
Peng beats Jankovic in a thriller, Goerges ousts Peer in Cincinnati
Former world no.1 Jelena Jankovic won’t have very good memories on Monday night in Cincinnati. China’s Peng Shuai defeated her in the first round after a three set thriller, winning 5-7 7-5 7-6 (8). Jankovic has also lost in the opening round of last week’s Rogers Cup in Montreal, going [...] -
Paszek defeats Goerges in Montreal
Play got underway yesterday at the Rogers Cup WTA tournament in Montreal, Canada, with sparkling tennis being played and tight matches being fought by some of the stars of the WTA. After her success in last year’s tournament already marked her as a crowd favourite, Italy’s Roberta Vinci fought ferociously [...] -
Azarenka overcomes Petrova in London, Kirilenko joins her in the QFs
After rain suspended play soon after matches started today, number one seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus took on the experienced Russian, Nadia Petrova, seeded sixteen, in what turned out to be a real battle which lasted almost two hours. The first set went to a tiebreaker, which Azarenka took 8-6; [...] -
Sharapova defeats battling Robson, advances into third round at the Olympics
Maria Sharapova had to dig deep to book herself a place in the third round of the 2012 London Olympics. The Russian defeated the British young talent Laura Robson, needing a tiebreak in the first set, just before closing out the match with a 7-6 (5) 6-3 scoreline. The players [...] -
Radwanska beaten by Goerges in Olympics first round
Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland’s second ranked player on the WTA, has just lost her opening match in the 2012 London Olympics to Germany’s Julia Goerges, ranked 24. The match was played under the closed roof of centre court because of the rainy and cold weather around Wimbledon, with large swathes of [...] -
Swedish surge at the Sony Swedish Open
Two Swedish players, Johanna Larsson and Sophia Arvidson, are through to the quarterfinal of the Sony Swedish Open. Both of them are unseeded – Larsson beat third seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain 6-4 6-4 , while her compatriot Arvidson defeated the young Dutch player Aranxa Rus with a 6-4 [...] -
Azarenka cruises into Luxembourg QFs, Ivanovic out
Top seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarusia crushed Italian Alberta Brianti in the second round of the Luxembourg Open, dropping only one game 6-0, 6-1. Azarenka will play Czech Iveta Benesova in the quarterfinals. Qualifier Anne Keothavong of Britain upset the former world no.1 Ana Ivanovic of Serbia, beating her 6-3, [...] -
Keothavong wins, Baltacha out in Luxembourg
Anne Keothavong of Britain made her way into the second round at the Luxembourg Open as she defeated Mandy Minella of Luxembourg 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Keothavong played a very solid tournament at the Generali Ladies Open last week where she lost to Jelena Jankovic in three sets. The Brit will [...] -
Pavlyuchenkova, Goerges and Lisicky out of Linz
Sorana Cirstea of Romania surprisingly defeated fourth seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 4-6, 6-0, 6-4 in the second round of the Generali Ladies Linz tennis tournament in Austria. Pavlyuchenkova couldn’t find her serve as she made 11 double faults. Cirstea will play either Lucie Safarova or Alberta Brianti next. This [...]
