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Post by DBBN on Mar 19, 2013 22:02:29 GMT -5
Serena Williams USA 1
Sara Errani ITA 8
Samantha Stosur AUS 9
Sloane Stephens USA 17
Lucie Safarova CZE 18
Venus Williams USA 20
Carla Suarez Navarro ESP 21
Jelena Jankovic SRB 23
Julia Goerges GER 25
Varvara Lepchenko USA 26
Tamira S. Paszek AUT 27
Mona Barthel GER 28
Sorana Cirstea ROU 29
Elena Vesnina RUS 30
Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ 34
Sabine K. Lisicki GER 36
Heather Watson GBR 39
Kaia Kanepi EST 41
Laura Robson GBR 43
Francesca Schiavone ITA 47
Christina M. McHale USA 48
Kristina Mladenovic FRA 51
Lourdes Dominguez Lino ESP 54
Lucie Hradecka CZE 57
Romina S. Oprandi SUI 59
Chanelle Scheepers RSA 60
Anna Tatishvili GEO 61
Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP 62
Marina Erakovic NZL 63
Jamie L. Hampton USA 64
Andrea Hlavackova CZE 65
Olga Govortsova BLR 67
Silvia Soler-Espinosa ESP 68
Arantxa Rus NED 70
Stefanie Voegele SUI 71
Daniela Hantuchova SVK 73
Madison Keys USA 77
Pauline B. Parmentier FRA 78
Camila Giorgi ITA 80
Polona Hercog SLO 81
Mathilde C. Johansson FRA 82
Melanie J. Oudin USA 85
Ksenia Pervak KAZ 93
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Post by janie on Mar 29, 2013 19:58:06 GMT -5
Ah, so here we find the explanation for that KrisPlis fail at Osprey:
(1)Karolina Pliskova v Alison Riske
Arina Rodionova v (9)Vania King
(2)Mallory Burdette v Valeria Solovyeva
(wc)Louisa Chirico v (15)Yuliya Beygelzimer
(3)Kristyna Pliskova v Chiara Scholl
(wc)Sanaz Marand v (11)Caroline Garcia
(4)Sesil Karatantcheva v Catalina Castano
Shelby Rogers v (16)Grace Min
(5)Teliana Pereira v Jennifer Elie
(wc)Victoria Duval v (10)Paula Ormaechea
(6)Eugenie Bouchard v Katalin Marosi
Paula Cristina Goncalves v (14)Irina Falconi
(7)Shuai Zhang v Petra Rampre
Ashleigh Barty v (12)Nastassja Burnett
(8)Michelle Larcher De Brito v (wc)Hayley Carter
Jill Craybas v (13)Jessica Pegula
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Post by lexpretend on Mar 30, 2013 10:27:09 GMT -5
Barty/Burnett again  Wonder if Barty can put things right this time. Will be interesting to see how well Burdette transfers to clay. Thunder to flop to Castano again, I expect. |
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Mar 30, 2013 12:26:41 GMT -5
Barty/Burnett again Wonder if Barty can put things right this time. 1-6 1-6  |
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Post by DBBN on Mar 30, 2013 18:36:19 GMT -5
Barty  There is just NO ONE good coming up. We're stuck with Serena/Maria/Vika for at least 10 more years. Sesil survived Castano, but will get walloped by Min. |
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Post by DBBN on Mar 30, 2013 19:49:17 GMT -5
Main Draw
[1] Serena Williams vs. Bye
Mandy Minella vs. Camila Giorgi
Q vs. Kristina Mladenovic
Anna Tatishvili vs. [15] Sabine Lisicki
[11] Sorana Cirstea vs. Tatjana Malek
Arantxa Rus vs. Anabel Medina Garrigues
Romina Oprandi vs. Mirjana Lucic-Baroni
[6] Lucie Safarova vs. Bye
[4] Sloane Stephens vs. Bye
Anastasia Rodionova vs. [WC] Bethanie Mattek-Sands
Alexandra Cadantu vs. Madison Keys
Q vs. [13] Tamira Paszek
[12] Varvara Lepchenko vs. Christina McHale
Melinda Czink vs. Mathilde Johansson
Monica Puig vs. Andrea Hlavackova
[5] Venus Williams vs. Bye
[8] Mona Barthel vs. Bye
Garbine Muguruza vs. Q
Chanelle Scheepers vs. Q
Melanie Oudin vs. [9] Jelena Jankovic
[16] Laura Robson vs. Estrella Cabeza Candela
Q vs. Q
Daniela Hantuchova vs. Marina Erakovic
[3] Samantha Stosur vs. Bye
[7] Carla Suarez Navarro vs. Bye
Stefanie Voegele vs. Q
Jamie Hampton vs. Olga Govortsova
Yulia Putintseva vs. [10] Julia Goerges
[14] Yaroslava Shvedova vs. Q
[WC] Andrea Petkovic vs. [WC] Taylor Townsend
Francesca Schiavone vs. Silvia Soler-Espinosa
[2] [WC] Caroline Wozniacki vs. Bye
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Post by lexpretend on Mar 31, 2013 10:42:10 GMT -5
Barty/Burnett again Wonder if Barty can put things right this time. 1-6 1-6 LOL. Young Ash discovering that life outside the AUS 25Ks is slightly tougher. Rampre won a match 1-6 6-0 6-2 over Zhang. LOL @ Oudin/Jankovic. JaJa, you have to get a win over this girl at some point... Robson is so losing to Star Candle Head. I'm anticipating a Stephens/Keys 3R showdown - hopefully Keys takes that. Putintseva! Allezdavaicmon in Gorgeous' sulky face all match please! Weird seeing Stephens, CSN and Mona with 1R byes. |
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Post by janie on Mar 31, 2013 14:05:11 GMT -5
RAMPRE?!?!!?!!! That's a huge surprise, given her horrible form this year. Maybe she just hates challengers now that she's had that taste of the big time.  I see that MLDB beat her bumpkinette, but fell today to the lower-seeded Pegula.  |
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Post by lexpretend on Mar 31, 2013 15:31:19 GMT -5
Even back at WTA level, Rampre does her usual thing of losing a tight three-setter - 36 64 46 to Burnett  Min did indeed thrash Thunder. Both Pliskovas seem to be in full-on tank mode - Karolina already out to King, and right now it's pretty funny to see how quickly the scoreboard is moving for Kristyna against Garcia. |
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 1, 2013 13:23:56 GMT -5
Burdette d. Mladenovic 6-1 1-6 6-0 #SEWTA #scoreLiNa
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 1, 2013 14:30:16 GMT -5
Ben Rothenberg @benrothenberg 1m
Rodionova holds, gets the trainer out, yells at the trainer. Trainer gives spectacular eye-roll in response. No MTO awarded.
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 1, 2013 14:34:59 GMT -5
Background to that: leading 4-3*, adv BMS in the final set, A-Nasty started writhing in pain and went off court for a MTO. When she came back she still acted like she could barely move but BMS couldn't put her away and A-Nasty has just started going for her shots. BMS just saved a MP, it's 5-5...
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 1, 2013 14:38:12 GMT -5
LOLLLLL, the drama. A-Nasty furiously berating a linesman. "Call the freaking balls!" Holds for 6-5.
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 1, 2013 14:51:41 GMT -5
BMS takes the final set TB. The handshake is actually quite nice!
Elsewhere, I genuinely suspect the WTA of fixing draws for Eugenie Bouchard because she's pretty. No wins of note but plenty of WCs and easy draws in big-point events - her win over Burnett here takes her to the edge of the top 100.
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Post by matvey on Apr 1, 2013 16:56:10 GMT -5
Elsewhere, I genuinely suspect the WTA of fixing draws for Eugenie Bouchard because she's pretty. No wins of note but plenty of WCs and easy draws in big-point events - her win over Burnett here takes her to the edge of the top 100. Eh, she's only had two WCs so far this year, which I guess is still quite cushy for a relative unknown, but one was just for Auckland and the other led her straight to a Martha beatdown. She's been in qualifying for all of her other tournaments this year. At the same time, she's hot with potential for $$$ (after all, haven't Nike already started to pimp her out?) and this is the WTA, so they possibly are doing some things behind the scenes. I still think she's destined to be Harkleroad 2.0. |
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 2, 2013 3:23:12 GMT -5
Three last year too...it was more noticing that she's racking up a lot of points from 1R Premier wins without having actually scored any impressive victory. It doesn't feel like she should be top 100 yet.
Watched the end of Soler Espinosa beating Fran in a third set TB. SSE is more aggressive and hard-hitting than your typical ESP, credit to her, but Fran was so lacklustre and even though the TB went 8-6 you never thought her heart was in it. She had a MP, and shanked a return that probably landed two states over.
Also watched Petkorazzi beating Townsend. Townsend's game is weird, she'd make for a good highlights reel - every so often she'd hit a winner or play a touch shot/volley that made you go WOW, but most of the time her groundstrokes just seemed wonky (when they regularly broke down before a rusty Petkovic's, that's not good), the backswing on her FH made me wince and she seemed to be clueless tactically even by a 16-yr-old's standards. She also still doesn't look fit, she's a surprisingly decent mover but she can barely stay in long rallies. Her touch is really, really natural though - chasing down one Petko dropshot, she responded while sliding into it with a perfect one in response, you can't teach that.
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Post by Traveling Man on Apr 2, 2013 13:12:15 GMT -5
JaJa finally beats Oudin.   |
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Post by Traveling Man on Apr 2, 2013 13:19:27 GMT -5
Mrs Lucic-Baroni defeated Oprani 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. Next up is Safarova. |
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 2, 2013 14:27:13 GMT -5
JaJa finally got over her period! That match was a hot mess, though. JJ was so bad, Oudin must feel really confident against her for some reason because she wasn't holding back at all. Honestly, all the great winners came from Oudin - tons of great dropshots - though also a fuckton of dumb errors too, as well as some hilarious choking. Surprised by Lucic! Hanturexia lost to Erakovic Pretty funny to see Giorgi smack everything as hard as she can against Serena, who almost certainly had no idea this would happen to her. |
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Apr 2, 2013 16:26:49 GMT -5
Pegula def. Barthel Dammit, I wanted to watch that one. |
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 2, 2013 16:33:37 GMT -5
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 3, 2013 3:18:23 GMT -5
BMS d. Stephens 6-2 6-0 Sloane has now been bagelled in her last three matches. |
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Post by matvey on Apr 3, 2013 4:43:04 GMT -5
Put some fucking effort in, Sloane.
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Post by Wagasi on Apr 3, 2013 13:21:24 GMT -5
Some crazy results so far. Bouchard actually beat Robson. Wtaworld says Hevs has mono. Those British hopes . |
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Post by janie on Apr 3, 2013 18:03:19 GMT -5
Poor Hevs. Maybe Mona has mono, too. |
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Post by Paean on Apr 3, 2013 19:00:35 GMT -5
Even Errani doesn't care about this tournament. Not a good sign for the future of Charleston.
Hantuchova is just a not very good doubles specialist nowadays. She's a Katalin Marosi.
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Post by DBBN on Apr 3, 2013 19:56:13 GMT -5
I really want that Jaja gif to be destroyed like it destroys my computer every time I open this thread.
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Post by Grarliner on Apr 3, 2013 21:36:48 GMT -5
Bouchard won again today, 3 sets over Robson. So there you go - a notable win.
Lisicki L. Burdette (!).
Jankovic is all of a sudden winning stupid matches we had gotten used to her losing. Saved 2 MPs against Garcia today. She probably logged about 5 hours of court time to beat Oudin and Garcia ...
Puig got a set from Venus ...
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Post by lexpretend on Apr 4, 2013 4:06:45 GMT -5
Robson lost to Putintseva, Arvidsson and Cornet in her last three tournaments. It's not that notable, especially as Bouchard already beat her on green clay last year and there was BFF weirdness.
Burdette's a tough opponent, but if Lisicki can't even get it together in one of the few events she usually peaks at...
JaJa isn't doing much on court but retrieving, but she is playing calmly. Garcia remains a choker of the highest order.
I totally forgot Safarova is the defending finalist here.
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Post by matvey on Apr 4, 2013 4:20:40 GMT -5
I can't think of any player that chokes as much as Garcia does, past or present.
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Wonder if Barty can put things right this time.
