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2010 WTA Tournaments Thread

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Drummond

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OPEN GDF SUEZ Paris:

http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2010/604/MDS.pdf

Strong field for this tournament, all 8 seeds are ranked inside the world’s top 30. Top seed is Elena Dementieva who, along with the 2nd seeded Pennetta, has received a bye first up. I’m eagerly anticipating a couple of first round encounters, most notably Cirstea vs Oudin, a battle of the badly out of form youngsters. Peer vs Cornet is another interesting match, Cornet badly needs a win and given her current level of play and mental strength playing in Paris could either be a big benefit or a hindrance. Safarova vs Paszek is also a potentially interesting match. If Wickmayer can continue on her strong form from then she could be hard to beat here but Dementieva often finds a way to win these types of tournaments. Coverage begins tonight at 12am EST on Eurosport as will be the case most nights this week, so stay tuned to catch the action. God bless Eurosport!

Pattaya Women's Open:

http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2010/303/MDS.pdf

Interesting tournament this one, set in one of the most beautiful locations on the tennis calendar. If I were a player at this event, which isn’t possible for a guy, I’d be hard pressed to stay interested in the tennis. Looking forward to seeing how a few of my favourites perform in this one, hopefully Shvedova can get a couple of wins which she certainly should given her draw, at least a QF showing. Goerges had a decent showing in Melbourne and it’s about time she started capitalising on her talent. Chakvetadze will be looking to turn around her career and she made a winning start yesterday. Lisicki needs to jump start her year and if she plays her best she really should be looking to at least reach the final where Zvonareva will probably be waiting.
 
Absolutely loving Eurosport!! :thumbsu:

Cirstea, you seriously need help, that was one of the worst performances I've seen from anyone on the WTA Tour. 6-3, 6-0, including losing the final 10 games of the match. Brainless ball bashing, no tactics to speak of, sluggish movement. 7/23 winner to unforced error ratio just about sums it up.

Over in Pattaya, Goerges had a solid win first up. :thumbsu: Lisicki won due to retirement, she'll take them anyway she can right now.
 
Cirstea lost to Oudin 6-3, 6-0! Embrassing, Oudin hasn't been in particularly great form, espically when I saw her play at AO.

Safarova won very easily too, also shows how much of a mess Paszek is.
 
matt_897 said:
Cirstea lost to Oudin 6-3, 6-0! Embrassing, Oudin hasn't been in particularly great form, espically when I saw her play at AO.

Safarova won very easily too, also shows how much of a mess Paszek is.
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Cirstea is a mess, Paszek is a mess, Cornet is a mess, so many players out of form and with no confidence. Sad to see so many promising young players really struggling.

Safarova is a good indoors player though, she won this title a few years back IIRC. She faces Schiavone next who won 6-0, 6-0 yesterday, that'll be an awesome match. Her opponent didn't even play that badly, Schiavone was just in the zone all day.

Good line-up tonight, Rezai followed by Wickmayer then Dementieva vs Pavlyuchenkova. :thumbsu:
 

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Maybe a couple upsets coming up for the womens in Paris Wickmayer lost the first set 4-6 to Martic. And Sabine Liscki lost her first set 3-6 to Tamarine Tanasugarn. Liscki really is in poor form hoping she can come back one of my favorite players on the womens tour.
 
didak_4 said:
How come Foxtel is telling me that on Eurosports the tennis in on 9:00pm till 11:00pm and they havent showed any of it? What time does it really start?
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Not sure what that's about, it's a 12:00am start, just came on.

Looks like a very entertaining match this one. :thumbsu:

didak_4 said:
Maybe a couple upsets coming up for the womens in Paris Wickmayer lost the first set 4-6 to Martic. And Sabine Liscki lost her first set 3-6 to Tamarine Tanasugarn. Liscki really is in poor form hoping she can come back one of my favorite players on the womens tour.
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Lisicki up a break in the 2nd, fingers crossed she can recover and get the win.
 
dUkezz said:
lisiki looking good now up in the 3rd and looking strong
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Wow, now that's a really horrid loss. :thumbsdown: Not sure where she's heading.

Petra Martic! :eek: Didn't know much about her prior to today but what a sensational talent, top 10 for sure. That was one of the most enjoyable women's matches I've seen in quite some time, brilliant tennis from both, great rallies, very few errors, points being won simply due to a great level of tennis. :thumbsu: She seems to have everything in order to be a successful player.

Eurosport already paying off nicely.
 
She only recently gained full citizenship, but she's been living here and representing Australia in the slams for a while now. She's a mega bitch though and is already in her late twenties. Hardly a coup really.

F***ing loving Eurosport! Fills the late night tv dead space perfectly. Womens tennis is also about a thousand times more watchable when Sandy Roberts isn't commentating it.

That Martic-Wickmayer match was a ripper. Epic handshake fail from Wickmayer though... no class at all from that woman.

Lisicki lost again which is funny... she's just so f***ing dumb that girl... makes Stosur look like Hingis. Dumb Dumb Dumb.
 

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Tanasugarn must just of kept the ball in play for Lisicki, that seems to much to handle for her at the moment, look at her loss to Brianti as well at the Aus Open.

I guess technically we have one Australian women playing, pity she is a mega bitch as Karbo said but she's playing better tennis than our other pickup Groth.
 
Drummond said:
Wow, now that's a really horrid loss. :thumbsdown: Not sure where she's heading.

Petra Martic! :eek: Didn't know much about her prior to today but what a sensational talent, top 10 for sure. That was one of the most enjoyable women's matches I've seen in quite some time, brilliant tennis from both, great rallies, very few errors, points being won simply due to a great level of tennis. :thumbsu: She seems to have everything in order to be a successful player.

Eurosport already paying off nicely.
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Good it may have been, but it was ****ing painful to watch when you had Wickmayer as a lock in a multi. Where does this Matric get off playing like that. ****ing bullshit. Wickmayer is now condemned to my list of never ever bet on again.
 
Awesome line-up tonight:

2. Shahar Peer vs. Karolina Sprem (currently on Eurosport)
3. Lucie Safarova vs. Francesca Schiavone
4. Petra Martic vs. Agnes Szavay
5. Andrea Petkovic vs. Aravane Rezai
6. Melanie Oudin vs. Patty Schnyder

Like them all, especially the 3rd match. Eager to see how Martic backs it up from last night and also interested in seeing whether Oudin can fend off Schnyder's frustrating game. Good night's viewing as well as tomorrow. :thumbsu:

And good to see Schvedova doing well in Pattaya.
 
Molik qulafied for Dubai hopefully she can get some good results does anyone know if Sam is playing there? And is Eurosport showing all the main WTA tour evens like fox sports shows the ATP events?
 
Yep, Stosur is on the list for Dubai. Good result for Molik, too. What was the quality of players she beat?
 
SBI said:
Yep, Stosur is on the list for Dubai. Good result for Molik, too. What was the quality of players she beat?
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She beat Camerin in the final round, think it was Kutuzova or someone like that in the first. Seems to me that she can play anyone from about 50-60 downards, anything above that she gets smashed. Nice result for Alicia considiering she needed a WC to get into qualies.

A big week would be very helpful Sam here...

EDIT: The draw has come out, Sam plays Garbin in the first round, did alright last week and would be the type of player that could frustate Sam if she's not playing her best, possible 3rd round matchup with Dementieva. Alicia will know her player later, looking at the draw, whoever she gets will be tough.
 

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Molik has the AO Semi Finalist in Jie Zheng. Would take an extraordinary effort to pick up the win.

Molik beat Kutuzova and Camerin in her two qualifying matches. They are hardly world beaters, but still a good sign shes improved from her horrible Fed Cup match.
 
Good to have 2 girls in the same tournament outside of Australia and not a grand slam, doesn't happen too often. If Sam continues the form of Fed Cup I would expect that she could do quite well here. If she were to reach the 3rd round against Dementieva I give her a good chance, but the next round would most likely be Venus. Very tough section of the draw. But it is a pretty strong lineup overall. Should be a good tournament.
 
Molik won 3-6 6-4 6-2. :thumbsu: Great result for her. Cristea's shocking season contuined with a 2-6 5-7 loss to Shiavone. In the Paris final Dementieva beat Safarova 6-7 6-1 6-4. And in Thailand Zvonareva beat Tanasugarn 6-4 6-4.
 
Amazing result for Molik, and by all accounts she just outplayed Zheng as opposed to having her fall apart like a deck of cards. Maybe she'll do OK in this comeback. Winnable second round match against Grönefeld, too.
 
5 of the 6 qualifiers won through to the second round. Molik was lucky to get to the main draw, she had 2 tough matches in qualifying

[WC] A Molik (AUS) d V Kutuzova (UKR) 36 75 64
[WC] A Molik (AUS) d M Camerin (ITA) 63 46 63
 
Time to stop betting on chick tennis I think.


Stosur won the first 6-3 then lost the second 2-6. How the ****?

Bondarenko smashed the first 6-2 then lost 4-6 and trails 1-4 in the last. Again.. how the **** is that possible?

They are either mentally weak or there are a few rigged tennis matches out there.
 

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