Post Tagged with: "Marion Bartoli"
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Jankovic Defeats Last Year’s Finalist Petkovic at China Open 2012
In a match-up between last year’s China Open finalist Andrea Petkovic, who has spent the better part of this year recovering from injury, and former world no. 1 Jelena Jankovic, Jankovic took quick command of the match to advance to the second round with a 6-2 6-4 victory. Jankovic [...] -
Errani and Petrova through to last 8 of the Toray Pan Pacific Open
Sara Errani’s great year continues, as the diminutive Italian took out the very in form Marion Bartoli of France in three tightly fought sets, 3-6 6-2 6-2, in just over two hours twenty minutes on court. Even though Bartoli, the number nine seed, initially led 6-2 1-0 with points for [...] -
Pavlyuchenkova, Bartoli and Schiavone advance into 2nd round in Tokyo
In one of the closest games of recent times, former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone, now ranked at 37, battled on court for close to three hours to close out her match against the up and coming Kazakhstani player Yaroslava Shvedova, finally capturing a 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win. The [...] -
Sharapova maintains perfect three-set record to reach US Open semi-finals
For the second match in a row, a rain delay gave Maria Sharapova the chance to sort out her mind, sort out her game and overcome a tricky and determined opponent. Just as her fortunes changed after the one-hour delay against Nadia Petrova in the fourth round, when she was [...] -
Rain Delay at US Open: Latest update and scores from New York
After a couple of hours of rain delay, play should resume shortly in New York… The weather forecast wasn’t looking so good for today at the Flushing Meadows, with the matches at Arthur Ashe and Luis Armstrong stadiums being interrupted due to rain. Tuesday’s Matches: Victoria Azarenka def. Sam [...] -
2012 US Open Day 9: Matches To Watch
As the US Open moves into the second week, singles remain only on the show courts with the men completing the fourth round while the women move into the quarter finals. Here are my top picks from the men’s and women’s draw. [3] Maria Sharapova (RUS) vs [11] Marion Bartoli [...] -
Bartoli beats Kvitova in the fourth round of US Open 2012
In a contest featuring one of the tour’s quirkiest players, Marion Bartoli, and one of the game’s most unpredictable competitors, Petra Kvitova, it should perhaps come as no surprise that the scoreline should be so erratic. Bartoli eventually managed to upset the 2011 Wimbledon champion Kvitova, defeating her 1-6 6-2 [...] -
Kvitova reaches round of sixteen at 2012 US Open
Petra Kvitova confirms her good form in third round of 2012 US Open as she dismisses Pauline Parmentier in straight sets. Her next challenger will be Marion Bartoli. Fifth seed Czech Kvitova has been invincible for the last few weeks and has extended her unbeaten run with a third round [...] -
Robson forces 4 time Grand Slam Champion Clijsters into retirement
There was great happiness and lots of sadness on Arthur Ashe Stadium on Wednesday, when the up and coming British eighteen year old, Laura Robson, took out one of her idols, Kim Clijsters in straight sets 7-6 (4) 7-6 (5) to make it to the third round of the 2012 [...] -
Sharapova easily through to the third round of the 2012 US Open
4-time slam champion Russian Maria Sharapova is through to the third round of the 2012 US Open after a comfortable 6-0 6-1 win over Spanish player Lourdes Dominguez-Lino in a match that lasted 54 minutes. The world number 3 was clearly the better player from the beginning of the match [...] -
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 [...] -
Kvitova to face Errani for a place in New Haven final
The clash between fourth seed Italian Sara Errani and fifth-seeded French Marion Bartoli promised to be a tight encounter, but was rather one-sided in the end. Errani, who already won in Barcelona, Budapest, and Palermo this year, got off to a better start going 4-0 up in the first set, [...] -
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 [...]
