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BRUSSELS OPEN Brussels, Belgium May 20-25, 2013 $690,000/Premier Red Clay/Outdoors Results - Monday, May 20, 2013 Singles – First Round (7) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) d. Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 62 67(8) 64 Olga Govortsova (BLR) d. Ara...
BRUSSELS OPEN Brussels, Belgium May 20-25, 2013 $690,000/Premier Red Clay/Outdoors Results - Monday, May 20, 2013 Singles – First Round (7) Varvara Lepchenko (USA) d. Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 62 67(8) 64 Olga Govortsova (BLR) d. Arantxa Rus (NED) 62 75 Jana Cepelova (SVK) d. Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) 57 63 75 (WC) Elena Baltacha (GBR) d. Stefanie Voegele (SUI) 76(9) 75 Suspended due to darkness (4) Sloane Stephens (USA) is tied with Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 63 26 22 Doubles – First Round (1) Mirza/Zheng (IND/CHN) d. Hrdinova/Lee-Waters (CZE/USA) 62 64 Dekmeijere/Kalashnikova (LAT/GEO) d. Aoyama/Tanasugarn (JPN/THA) 64 64 Klemenschits/Klepac (AUT/SLO) d. Elie/Slater (USA/GBR) 63 62 (WC) Flipkens/Rybarikova (BEL/SVK) d. Huber/Pliskova (USA/CZE) 63 26 108 (Match TB) Singles Qualifying – Final Round (1) Mallory Burdette (USA) d. (6) Maria Joao Koehler (POR) 46 63 60 (3) Melanie Oudin (USA) d. Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 62 76(1) (7) Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) d. (4) Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 46 61 61 Zhang Shuai (CHN) d. Shahar Peer (ISR) 76(5) 62 Order Of Play – Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Center Court (from 10.30hrs) 1. Sofia Arvidsson vs. Peng Shuai 2. Sloane Stephens vs. Tsvetana Pironkova (tbc) 3. Coco Vandeweghe vs. Julia Goerges 4. Kaia Kanepi vs. Dominika Cibulkova 5. Yanina Wickmayer vs. Jamie Hampton 6. Kirsten Flipkens vs. Madison Keys (NB 18.00hrs) Court 1 (from 10.30hrs) 1. Yulia Putintseva vs. Alison Van Uytvanck 2. Zheng Jie vs. Mallory Burdette 3. Romina Oprandi vs. Melanie Oudin 4. Melnikova/Sasnovich vs. Kapshay/Kondratieva Court 3 (from 10.30hrs) 1. Zhang Shuai vs. Magdalena Rybarikova 2. Chan/Jurak vs. Dabrowski/Peer 3. Czink/Jovanovski vs. Govortsova/Rosolska 4. Craybas/Vandeweghe vs. Groenefeld/Peschke
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British No 2 James Ward has been given a wild card for the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club next month.
British No 2 James Ward has been given a wild card for the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club next month.
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The Roland Garros 2013 French Open Qualifying Round will begin on May 21 and will conclude on May 24. Several former top players are going to battle it out with up and coming players at the earlier rounds. The qualifying rounds will be h...
The Roland Garros 2013 French Open Qualifying Round will begin on May 21 and will conclude on May 24. Several former top players are going to battle it out with up and coming players at the earlier rounds. The qualifying rounds will be held over four days with the matches starting at 10 am Paris The post Roland Garros 2013 French Open Qualifying Live Online Video Stream appeared first on Tennis Guru.
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Rafa reacquaints himself with one of his old friends. Another awaits in Paris. One man looms above the rest in Paris, as usual.  But a few other champions could step into his shoes if he stumbles.  Meet the men to watch at Roland Garros....
Rafa reacquaints himself with one of his old friends. Another awaits in Paris. One man looms above the rest in Paris, as usual.  But a few other champions could step into his shoes if he stumbles.  Meet the men to watch at Roland Garros. The smart money: 1) Rafael Nadal:  What more can be said about the greatest clay player ever to brand his mark on the terre battue?  Nadal has reached the final at all eight events that he has entered this year, seven of them on clay, in a career-best streak that has accompanied ATP-leading tallies in titles (six) and matches won (36).  Not since he won Roland Garros for the first time in 2004 has he suffered three or more losses in one clay season, and he already has dropped two this year.  The Monte Carlo loss to Djokovic did not seem to derail Nadal’s confidence for long against other opponents as he swept through Barcelona, Madrid, and Rome to claim a top-four seed. Even his most fervent fans could not have expected such an impressive comeback from the Spaniard, yet his detractors will note with some accuracy that he has produced form less overwhelming on this surface than in years past.  Nadal has played more final sets on clay this year, going the distance against players like Dimitrov, Gulbis, and Ferrer, and his movement looks a shade less naturally explosive on some days.  But those niggles are far from enough to consider him anything less than the presumptive favorite at the tournament where has lost only once.  He holds a perfect record there against his current archrival (Djokovic) and his former archrival (Federer), neither of whom even has taken him to a final set in Paris. Knocking on the door: 2) Novak Djokovic:  The only man to defeat Rafa during the European clay-court swing, Djokovic joined Nadal in completing the trio of Masters 1000 titles on this surface.  Perhaps even more important is his trio of victories over the greatest clay player ever at each of the clay Masters 1000 tournaments, the most recent in Monte Carlo this year.  Nobody else has defeated Rafa at any of those three events since 2009, which shows how far Djokovic stands ahead of the Spaniard’s other rivals.  His Monte Carlo victory reminded observers how well his backhand matches up to Nadal’s heavy topspin and how he can cover a clay court as suffocatingly as the man who built his reputation on it. Responding to adversity in that match with poise, the Serb stood less tall at the other 2013 clay events and brings little momentum to Roland Garros.  He has won just one set in their four meetings there, although he took a step forward by reaching his first final last year at the only major that he has not won.  Not seeking a Nole Slam of holding all four majors simultaneously, Djokovic may feel less pressure if he returns to that stage and especially if he faces Nadal before it.  He arrives in Paris with the momentum in their rivalry even if a host of more general concerns about his form surround him. 3) Roger Federer:  Not until Rome had he even reached a final, playing a reduced schedule and navigating around a back injury.  Other than Nadal, Federer is the only active man who ever has won Roland Garros, and his knowledge of what it takes to win there arms him mentally against the challenges that will arise.  Since that title in 2009, he has produced mixed results in Paris from a quarterfinal loss to Soderling and a tepid effort against Djokovic to a transcendent masterpiece that toppled the Serb in 2011.  Federer never has defeated Nadal at Roland Garros, of course, and he has registered just one victory over the Spaniard since his peak period in 2007.  That one win came with a  significant asterisk, a day after his rival’s 243-minute semifinal against Djokovic in Madrid. Outclassed again by Nadal in Rome, Federer will hope to land in the opposite half of the draw and for someone to conveniently remove him in advance.  If that surprise should happen, he could repeat what he did in 2009, for the week in Rome
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World number three Roger Federer still has a positive outlook despite having lost the Internazionali BNL d’Italia or Rome Masters 2013 final against rival Rafael Nadal. Federer is now a three-time finalist at this prestigious clayc...
World number three Roger Federer still has a positive outlook despite having lost the Internazionali BNL d’Italia or Rome Masters 2013 final against rival Rafael Nadal. Federer is now a three-time finalist at this prestigious claycourt event. “I am playing well and I am healthy, so I have everything to play for next week [ahead The post Roger Federer admits that Nadal still remains French Open favorite appeared first on Tennis Guru.
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The Big Four is back in their places leading into the 2013 French Open which begins on May 26. With an impressive win over rival Roger Federer at the Rome Masters final on Sunday, Rafael Nadal moves to world number four, overtaking compa...
The Big Four is back in their places leading into the 2013 French Open which begins on May 26. With an impressive win over rival Roger Federer at the Rome Masters final on Sunday, Rafael Nadal moves to world number four, overtaking compatriot David Ferrer. This means that Nadal will become fourth seed at the The post Rafael Nadal snags the fourth-seeding for Roland Garros 2013 appeared first on Tennis Guru.
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©Colette Lewis 2013-- Urbana IL-- Accepting the pressure of being the last match on is never easy, but two freshmen and a sophomore came up with the biggest victories of their careers Monday in... For the complete story, cli...
©Colette Lewis 2013-- Urbana IL-- Accepting the pressure of being the last match on is never easy, but two freshmen and a sophomore came up with the biggest victories of their careers Monday in... For the complete story, click on the title of the post to go to zootennis.com
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Alisa Kleybanova was struck by Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the spring of 2011, at the time her ranking was No.26, and after a brief comeback at Miami last season, the Russian decided to test her chances at smaller tournaments, which would also...
Alisa Kleybanova was struck by Hodgkin’s lymphoma in the spring of 2011, at the time her ranking was No.26, and after a brief comeback at Miami last season, the Russian decided to test her chances at smaller tournaments, which would also allow her to keep her protected ranking and thus enter the bigger tournaments, and at the first such small event she entered, the $10,000 Landisville, PA, held from May 13 to May 19, the 23-year-old went from the qualifying all the way to the title. After three wins in the qualifying, the former world No.20 Kleybanova recorded five victories in the main draw, dropping just one set in the eight matches. In the final she defeated Natalie Pluskota 6-3 6-0. (photo: chascow)
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Strange But True: As Roland Garros nears, should Novak Djokovic -- the man who beat Rafa in Monte Carlo -- or Maria Sharapova, who has but one loss on clay this season, be concerned? Peter Bodo, Richard Pagliaro, and Ed McGrogan discuss ...
Strange But True: As Roland Garros nears, should Novak Djokovic -- the man who beat Rafa in Monte Carlo -- or Maria Sharapova, who has but one loss on clay this season, be concerned? Peter Bodo, Richard Pagliaro, and Ed McGrogan discuss two notable omissi
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