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Post by janie on Feb 18, 2013 13:06:33 GMT -5
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Post by janie on Feb 22, 2013 19:44:48 GMT -5
(1)Petra Martic v BYE
(wc)Fernanda Hermenegildo v (11)Beatriz Garcia Vidagany
(2)Julia Glushko v BYE
(wc)Samantha Czarniak Rego v (12)Chieh-Yu Hsu
(3)Tereza Mrdeza v BYE
Laura Pigossi v (7)Florencia Molinero
(4)Veronica Cepede Royg v Oksana Kalashnikova
(wc)Carla Forte v (10)Kristina Barrois
(5)Maria Irigoyen v Roxane Vaisemberg
Andrea Gamiz v (9)Michaela Honcova
(6)Paula Kania v Mailen Auroux
(wc)Ingrid Gamarra Martins v (8)Adriana Perez
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Post by DBBN on Feb 22, 2013 20:08:09 GMT -5
6 qualifiers. Really. Lolz.
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 23, 2013 4:32:54 GMT -5
Seriously, why?
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Post by DBBN on Feb 23, 2013 11:55:56 GMT -5
If Paula Kania is seeded to qualify, you're doing it wrong.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 23, 2013 19:16:04 GMT -5
(1)Venus Williams (USA) v Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO)
Garbine Muguruza (ESP) v Q
Q v Nina Bratchikova (RUS)
Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) v (5)Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK)
(3)Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) v Olga Puchkova (RUS)
Caroline Garcia (FRA) v Q
(wc)Paula Cristina Goncalves (BRA) v Jana Cepelova (SVK)
(wc)Maria Fernanda Alves (BRA) v (8)Annika Beck (GER)
(6)Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) v Monica Niculescu (ROU)
Shahar Peer (ISR) v Q
Valeria Savinykh (RUS) v Timea Babos (HUN)
Q v (4)Chanelle Scheepers (RSA)
(7)Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) v Anne Keothavong (GBR)
Tatjana Malek (GER) v Teliana Pereira (BRA)
Q v (wc)Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA)
Melinda Czink (HUN) v (2)Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)
Better than Kuala Lumpur main draw.
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Post by janie on Feb 23, 2013 20:15:37 GMT -5
Mirjana will win 1 or 2 games in the first set then hit every ball 25 feet out.  |
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 24, 2013 3:22:56 GMT -5
Better than Kuala Lumpur main draw. Makes more sense as a hard-court warm-up for IW (though apparently the connecting flights mean it takes just as long to travel to IW from here as from KL). Interesting draw, anyway. Wonder if their friendly draws can help Beck and Shvedova out of their slumps. |
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Post by DBBN on Feb 24, 2013 14:46:38 GMT -5
With the LOLifiers added. (1)Venus Williams (USA) v Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO) Garbine Muguruza (ESP) v (Q)Kristina Barrois (GER) (Q)Beatriz Garcia Vidagany (ESP) v Nina Bratchikova (RUS) Kimiko Date-Krumm (JPN) v (5)Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) (3)Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) v Olga Puchkova (RUS) Caroline Garcia (FRA) v (Q)Maria Irigoyen (ARG) (wc)Paula Cristina Goncalves (BRA) v Jana Cepelova (SVK) (wc)Maria Fernanda Alves (BRA) v (8)Annika Beck (GER) (6)Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) v Monica Niculescu (ROU) Shahar Peer (ISR) v (Q)Tereza Mrdeza (CRO) Valeria Savinykh (RUS) v Timea Babos (HUN) (Q)Adriana Perez (VEN) v (4)Chanelle Scheepers (RSA) (7)Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) v Anne Keothavong (GBR) Tatjana Malek (GER) v Teliana Pereira (BRA) (Q)Chieh-Yu Hsu (USA) v (wc)Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA)  Melinda Czink (HUN) v (2)Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) Martic lost in qualies, even though she is highly-ranked enough to easily be in the main draw.  |
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 24, 2013 14:52:58 GMT -5
I think Martic is coming back from injury - I read something about how she was going to pull out of the AO but presumably flew down there to pick up her 1R cheque. Anyway, I put money on her losing here  Weirdly, only one WTA MD debutante among those LOLifiers - Adriana Perez, the first VEN in a WTA draw since...Sequera? Vento-Kabchi? Can't remember which of those retired first. Beatriz Haddad Maia is meant to be a decent prospect, I believe. Let's see what she can do with about as easy a 1R as she could have hoped for. |
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Post by DBBN on Feb 24, 2013 15:11:24 GMT -5
Boy, you've been betting a lot. I don't think I'm going to become a freelance writer after all. Did you drive Marino away?
Chieh-Yu Hsu has played a Tour event!??!?!?!?!?!
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Post by DBBN on Feb 24, 2013 15:13:34 GMT -5
Found it.
Cincinnati Tier III Hard Jul 22 2007
1 Akgul Amanmuradova-Q - Hsu-WC 6-1 6-3
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 24, 2013 15:32:12 GMT -5
Yes, that stuck in the mind because 1) it was such a random-ass WC, 2) IIRC Akgul was just on the verge of breaking the top 100 at the time, and getting such a lucky break in that 1R match helped her on her way.
Thing with freelancing is that it leaves you TIME to bet, look up H2Hs etc. Also, wta96.com is so goddamn quick and easy to use, is there an ATP equivalent? I hate both official sites.
I was surprised Irigoyen had played a WTA event, but never underestimate how many random Latina ITF scrubs get to grace WTA MDs thanks to all the tournaments like...this one.
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 24, 2013 15:32:49 GMT -5
Also, TF confirms that Martic actually had knee surgery the day after she lost 1R at the AO |
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Post by Old Hag on Feb 24, 2013 16:23:52 GMT -5
Who would have thought that Venus and Mirjana would play a WTA match 11 years after their infamous double bagel at the US Open. God, I'm old.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 24, 2013 17:07:52 GMT -5
That was 11 years ago?!?!?!?!? #dead
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 24, 2013 17:54:52 GMT -5
God, and THAT match was a "can you believe they're finally playing half a decade after they broke through" moment, too.
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 26, 2013 13:11:54 GMT -5
Another outdoor tournament in the tropics, another rain-ravaged event. Why is the WTA so intensely stupid?
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Post by Grarliner on Feb 26, 2013 16:47:31 GMT -5
Lucic got more games than I thought she would - 6.
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Post by janie on Feb 27, 2013 7:18:16 GMT -5
Guga was at that match.  |
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 27, 2013 13:56:37 GMT -5
Beatriz Haddad Maia is meant to be a decent prospect, I believe. Let's see what she can do with about as easy a 1R as she could have hoped for. An easy win, but then she blew three MPs to lose to Czink in R2, 61 26 67  Two separate BRA players winning WTA matches in successive weeks Babos reaches her first WTA QF since she won Monterrey last year - she's well out of the top 100 now but maybe she can start rebuilding her career. She's still ranked ahead of poor Caroline Garcia though, who'd love to have come close to the top 100 ever. Garcia got a jackpot R1 but couldn't handle Olga Puchkova (who, TBH, is also a jackpot) in R2 |
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Post by lexpretend on Feb 28, 2013 9:24:11 GMT -5
The White Mug played very well against Venus - I watched the first two sets - but ultimately fell. She hasn't really made the progress we expected after Miami last year, a nice reminder that she has skills.
QFs - quite a nice line-up:
(1) Venus WILLIAMS (USA) vs. (5) Magdalena RYBARIKOVA (SVK)
Olga PUCHKOVA (RUS) vs. Jana CEPELOVA (SVK)
Monica NICULESCU (ROU) vs. Timea BABOS (HUN)
(7) Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA) vs. Melinda CZINK (HUN)
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Post by lexpretend on Mar 1, 2013 15:19:51 GMT -5
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Mar 1, 2013 18:22:02 GMT -5
Vee lost to Poochie?! Jeez.
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Post by Wagasi on Mar 1, 2013 18:49:42 GMT -5
Our very own FSG could become a titlist!
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Post by janie on Mar 1, 2013 20:14:36 GMT -5
Vee lost to Poochie?! Jeez. Sad I don't think Venus traveled all the way down there just to see Brazil, win a match or two, and then lose to the likes of La Pooch. It's always difficult to watch athletes in the late stages of decline, but this one is especially hard (for me). It's not just her illness, it's her head now, too, and that's just very painful to see. Maybe Vee will turn out to be like Elbo, hanging on, and on and on and on and on, just because they love playing tennis, even when they're shadows of their former selves. But I hope not. I hope she'll find something else she loves to do just as much and go do that, and have a great life. |
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Post by Grarliner on Mar 1, 2013 20:17:59 GMT -5
Before I even realized she made the final here I was going to post regarding Lex's earlier comment about Puchkova - remember when she was a touted prospect, oh, seven years ago?
Oh and the WTA has an article about it. I apologize if this is old news but ...
Puchkova says that after her 2006 breakthrough season and subsequent career high ranking of #32 the next year, everything fell apart as her Dad/coach got cancer! Apparently Daddy recovered though, which is nice.
And now she will play for the title after her biggest win in half a decade or so. Maybe ever.
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Post by Grarliner on Mar 1, 2013 20:23:45 GMT -5
Vee lost to Poochie?! Jeez. Sad I don't think Venus traveled all the way down there just to see Brazil, win a match or two, and then lose to the likes of La Pooch. It's always difficult to watch athletes in the late stages of decline, but this one is especially hard (for me). It's not just her illness, it's her head now, too, and that's just very painful to see. Maybe Vee will turn out to be like Elbo, hanging on, and on and on and on and on, just because they love playing tennis, even when they're shadows of their former selves. But I hope not. I hope she'll find something else she loves to do just as much and go do that, and have a great life. Janie, she's already hanging on and on and on. She lost first round at Wimbledon, for God's sake! I wonder whether she might have one or two more big moments, though. I doubt she'll ever win anything big anymore but I could see her beating someone in the top ten in a Slam or something. |
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Post by Old Hag on Mar 1, 2013 21:55:36 GMT -5
Vee still has the first serve and power in her strokes to make the occasional run, but she's done and she knows it. I'm really surprised she's still playing stuff like this. I guess all that blather about the Williams' having such incredible lives outside of tennis was nonsense. So shocking.
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Post by Old Hag on Mar 1, 2013 21:57:29 GMT -5
Another outdoor tournament in the tropics, another rain-ravaged event. Why is the WTA so intensely stupid? There's not much left since US and Euro indoor events don't want to bother with SEWTA. |
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