Wednesday 27 February 2013

KL, Florianpolis, Acapulco: Pure hilarity

Florianpolis:

Second round
JANA CEPELOVA (SVK) D [8] ANNIKA BECK (GER) | 7 - 6 (6) | 6 - 4 | 

First round
[1] VENUS WILLIAMS (USA) D MIRJANA LUCIC-BARONI (CRO) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 3 |
GARBINE MUGURUZA (ESP) D KRISTINA BARROIS (GER) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 2 |
[5] MAGDALENA RYBARIKOVA (SVK) D KIMIKO DATE-KRUMM (JPN) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 0 |
BEATRIZ HADDAD MAIA (BRA) D CHIEH-YU HSU (USA) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 2 |
[7] KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA) D ANNE KEOTHAVONG (GBR) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 4 |
TIMEA BABOS (HUN) D VALERIA SAVINYKH (RUS) | 7 - 6 (5) | 6 - 7 (7) | 6 - 2 |
OLGA PUCHKOVA (RUS) D [3] KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL) | 2 - 6 | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
TATJANA MALEK (GER) D TELIANA PEREIRA (BRA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2 |

KL:

First round 
Shuai Zhang (CHN) d Aslina An Ping Chua (MAS) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 1 | 
Qiang Wang (CHN) d [1] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) | 2 - 6 | 7 - 6 (1) | 6 - 1 |
[3/W] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d Vera Dushevina (RUS) | 2 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 7 - 6 (6) |
Akgul Amanmuradova (UZB) d Kai-Chen Chang (TPE) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 3 |
Ashleigh Barty (AUS) d Chanel Simmonds (RSA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2 |
Zarina Diyas (KAZ) d [8] Kristyna Pliskova (CZE) | 6 (5) - 7 | 6 - 1 | 7 - 5 |
[7] Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) d Yuliya Beygelzimer (UKR) | 2 - 6 | 6 - 4 | 6 - 3 | 
Luksika Kumkhum (THA) d Olivia Rogowska (AUS) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 1 | 6 - 2 | 
Nudnida Luangnam (THA) d Saisai Zheng (CHN) | 6 - 3 | 6 (1) - 7 | 6 - 2 | 
[4] Ayumi Morita (JPN) d Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 1 | 
Ying-Ying Duan (CHN) d Marta Sirotkina (RUS) | 6 - 3 | 4 - 6 | 7 - 6 (12) | 

Acapulco:

First round 
[1] Sara Errani (ITA) d Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2 |
Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) d Eva Birnerova (CZE) | 7 - 6 (5) | 6 - 3 |
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) d Alexandra Panova (RUS) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 1 |
[2] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d Mathilde Johansson (FRA) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 0 |
Stephanie Foretz Gacon (FRA) d Julia Cohen (USA) | 5 - 7 | 7 - 6 (5) | 6 - 0 | 
[6/W] Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d Grace Min (USA) | 6 - 4 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 2 | 
Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) d Mandy Minella (LUX) | 6 - 1 | 7 - 6 (3) | 
Karin Knapp (ITA) d Johanna Larsson (SWE) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 1 | 
[8] Romina Oprandi (SUI) d Alexa Glatch (USA) | 6 - 4 | 2 - 6 | 7 - 5 | 
Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP) d Pauline Parmentier (FRA) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 4 | 
[3] Alize Cornet (FRA) d Catalina Castano (COL) | 6 - 1 | 2 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 

Upset of the day:

Qiang Wang (CHN) d [1] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) | 2 - 6 | 7 - 6 (1) | 6 - 1 |


What a hilarious result for the top seed here in KL. Unmotivated and lacking in energy, she flew all the way to KL to collect her appearance fee and scoot off to her next destination. What a joke this player is. If you're not going to give your best, don't even bother committing. Caroline is fast becoming the joke of WTA and she needs to get it together before becoming totally irrelevant.

OLGA PUCHKOVA (RUS) D [3] KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL) | 2 - 6 | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |


A really bad loss here for the Belgian as she falls to someone who was double bagelled by Sharapova in Melbourne. Maybe Kirsten is feeling the effects of playing so many tournaments in a row, trying to play through the pain. However, she must be careful as she has been injured before. Another long injury break might just cut her career short.


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