Post Tagged with: "Yaroslava Shvedova"
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Keys beats Li Na in first round of Madrid, Shvedova ousts Wozniacki
Play on Day 2 of the Mutua Madrid Open on Sunday threw up some surprises and saw quite a two injury retirements. Serena Williams was taken to a first set tie breaker by a qualifier and Francesca Schiavone lost to a qualifier, while Marion Bartoli and Sorana Cirstea won by [...] -
Sharapova to play Kerber in Stuttgart semi-finals
Angelique Kerber, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix’s third seed and home favourite, stated quarter final play on Friday afternoon in Stuttgart against Yaroslava Shvedova, the 37th ranked Kazakh. The German started well, but Shvedova fought back bravely before Kerber broke away again to take the first set 5-3. Kerber built [...] -
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. [...] -
Barthel through to Hobart QFs, Cirstea and Shvedova out
Mona Barthel of Germany, ranked at 39 and seeded 9th at the Moorilla Hobart International tournament being played this week in Tasmania, beat the heat and her opponent Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa, in the second round on Tuesday. This match was fiercely fought by both players and the score [...] -
Barthel, Cirstea and Shvedova all advance in Hobart
In searing heat and some of the highest temperatures ever recorded in Tasmania, play on the third day of the Moorilla Hobart International got under way on Monday. In the third match on centre court, the second seed Sorana Cirstea of Romania, took on the lucky loser from the qualifiers [...] -
Petrova out of Moscow, Cibulkova and Shvedova through to 2nd round
Dominka Cibulkova of Slovakia, ranked at number 14 and seeded 5th at the Kremlin Cup tournament being played in Moscow this week, started off proceedings on centre court in the massive but almost empty Olympic Stadium on Tuesday against Moscow’s Ekaterina Makarova, now ranked at a career high 20. The [...] -
Robson and Lucic through to 2nd round in Osaka, Shvedova out
Laura Robson, Mirjana Lucic and Tamarine Tanasugarn entered second round at HP Japan Women’s Open in Osaka. Ffith seed Shvedova was eliminated. Eighth-seeded British tennis hope Robson is past her first hurdle at the Osaka WTA tournament. Experienced Greek Eleni Daniilidou generated more break points in the opening set, but [...] -
Kvitova beats Hantuchova in first round of China Open 2012
World no.5 Petra Kvitova entered the China Open 2012 with a very convincing win over Slovak Daniela Hantuchova, dismissing her in straight sets 6-2 6-3. The first break of the match came in the fifth game of the first set as the Czech took Hantuchova’s serve, going 3-2 up. Not [...] -
Vinci, Jovanovski and Shvedova win opening matches at 2012 US Open
Roberta Vinci seems to be on top form after outclassing young Pole Urszula Radwanska in two easy sets. Bojana Jovanovski and Yaroslava Shvedova also progress into the second round of US Open 2012 . Vinci, who wasn’t very successful in her previous ten US Open appearances, is probably playing the [...] -
Jankovic and Cirstea through to quarterfinals in Dallas
In the final warm up before the start of the US Open this coming Monday, some of the WTA’s top players decided not to take a week off, but to keep competing in the hope of getting in some good match practice. This seems to have been a good strategy [...] -
Shvedova Through to Second Round in Cincinnati, Pavlyuchenkova joins her
Kazakhstan’s Yaroslava Shvedova is becoming name to be feared on the WTA tour. Normally a doubles specialist, this year’s singles tour has seen her reach the quarter finals of the French Open and of course produce that now famous golden set against the much fancied Sara Errani at Wimbledon. Against [...] -
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 [...] -
Venus Williams beats Wozniak, Lisicki sees of Shvedova in the second round of Olympics
In a very tightly fought second round match, Sabine Lisicki of Germany overcame the spirited play of the unseeded Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, 4-6 6-3 7-5. Play was suspended at a critical point in the match, when Shvedova led 6-4 3-6 3-2, once again because of the rain which has [...]
