Post Tagged with: "Kirsten Flipkens"
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Serena beats Li Na, plays A.Radwanska in Miami semi-finals
For the third match in a row 4th seed Agnieszka Radwanska had a real battle on her hands when she played the Belgian 30th seed Kirsten Flipkens. Radwanska had dropped a set in her two previous matches and on Tuesday this pattern repeated itself when Flipkens, playing her wonderfully varied [...] -
Errani beats Ivanovic to reach Miami QFs, Vinci also advances
Italian 8th seed Sara Errani, the WTA’s leading match winner this season, had a first round bye and dropped only two games in her two matches leading up to her fourth round match against 12th seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia. The Italian started poorly and the Serb swept through the [...] -
Kvitova and Wozniacki defeated in third round in Miami
In windy, hot and humid conditions at the Miami Open on Saturday Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Andrea Petkovic all lost their third round matches to open up the draw which now offers some very interesting match ups. Venus Williams is also out, as she had to withdraw with a [...] -
Azarenka beats Flipkens in Indian Wells, Barthel defeats Ivanovic
Ana Ivanovic, the 11th seed at this year’s BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, continued with her very up and down season when she lost in the third round to Mona Barthel of Germany, the 24th seed, in an equally seesaw match. The German came out of the blocks on [...] -
Sharapova to play Makarova in Australian Open quarter-finals
Opening proceedings on Rod Laver Arena on Day 7 of the Australian Open were the Russian 19th seed Ekaterina Makarova and the German 5th seed Angelique Kerber. Both lefties, these two hit powerful serves and great groundies, so a good match was anticipated – and a good match it turned [...] -
Mona Barthel and Elena Vesnina advance to Hobart final
In semi final play at the Moorilla Hobart International on Friday, the up and coming German Mona Barthel, the only seeded player remaining in the tournament, took on Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium to battle for a place in the final. The 9th seed is the reigning champion in Hobart, but [...] -
Barthel and Flipkens to face each other in Hobart semis
Mona Barthel of Germany, the 9th seed in the Moorilla Hobart International tournament being played this week in the capital of Tasmania, beat the unseeded Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova, to book her place in the semi final in the top half of the draw. These two players had not met before [...] -
Flipkens, Niculescu and Pironkova through to Hobart quarters
The Belgian Kirsten Flipkens, who is ranked at 51, took on the Serbian Bojana Jovanovski, who is ranked at 56, for a place in the semi finals at the Moorilla Hobart International on Wednesday. Flipkens is a wily all court player with great hands at the net and a good [...] -
Petkovic beats Jankovic to reach Luxembourg QFs, Hantuchova also wins
Kirsten Flipkens’ great run for the last week and a half came to an end on Thursday afternoon when Daniela Hantuchova defeated her in the BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open second round. Hantuchova, ranked at number 5 at the height of her career in 2003, is now ranked at number [...] -
Flipkens defeats Lisicki in first round of Luxembourg Open
Kirsten Flipkens has continued her good run which started last week in Linz where she reached the semi finals, as on Tuesday in Luxembourg she took out the German umber 8 seed Sabine Lisicki, now ranked at 24 (down from a career high of 12 in May this year). The [...] -
Azarenka to play Goerges in Generali Ladies Linz final
Victoria Azarenka cruised into the Generali Ladies Linz final after beating Irina-Camelia Begu of Romania in two easy sets 6-2 6-1. World no.1 Azarenka, who has already got 5 titles to her name this year, dropped her very first service game against Begu, but then went on to dominate in [...] -
Flipkens beats Ivanovic to reach Linz semis, Goerges also wins
World number 21 and 5th seed at the Generali Ladies Linz tournament, German Julia Goerges, was on court against the Swede Sofia Arvidsson, ranked at number 47 in the first of the day’s quarter-final matches. Both offensive players with hard hit groundies and good serves, this looked to be a [...] -
Kirsten Flipkens wins her first WTA trophy in Quebec
Kirsten Flipkens caps off a tournament of her career with defeating Lucie Hradecka in 2012 Challenge Bell final in Quebec. Unseeded Belgian had a fairy-tale week in Quebec. Sending home top seed Cibulkova in the first round indicated that Flipkens might just be the most prepared player of the tournament. [...]
