Indian Wells Men’s Major Tournament
Posted on March 9, 2010
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The 2nd Major Tournament on the ATP Tour in 2010 is Indian Wells. This year is the 2nd year that Indian Wells is called the BNP Paribas Open because BNP Paribas is the title sponsor.
Indian Wells is one of the most important tournaments on the ATP Tour because it is one of the 9 ATP World Tour Masters 1000 events. The Masters 100o events are the major tournments in men’s tennis that combine with the Grand Slams to showcase all of the world best players competing for these prestigious titles.
Andre Agassi is the all time leader for Masters 1000 titles won with 17. This year Roger Federer has a chance to equal that record. Federer won this event for 3 years in a row from 2004 to 2006. Rafael Nadal will have his chance to equal Federer with 16 Masters 1000 titles. Nadal has won Indian Wells twice in 2007 and 2009.
Nadal who was then the No.1 seed defeated Andy Murray 6-1 6-2 in the final in 2009. The Spaniard won 1,000 ATP ranking points for that victory whilst Murray the No.4 seed won 600 ATP ranking points as the runner-up.
Nadal beat Juan Martin Del Potro in the quarter finals and Andy Roddick in the semi finals in 2009. Murray defeated Ivan Ljubicic in the quarter finals and Federer in the semi finals in 2009. Whilst Novak Djokovic and Fernando Verdasco also made the quarter finals last year.
Juan Carlos Ferrero is pictured above just after making contact with the ball for this backhand volley. Ferrero seems poised for a strong showing at Indian Wells. The former World No.1 and 2003 French Open champion leads the men’s tour in 2010 for most singles matches won.
Indian Wells is in California in the USA. This year there will 35th year anniversary celebrations for the men’s event and it will be held on plexipave hard courts at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The singles main draw will have 96 players. The 1st round matches commence on Thursday 11 March and there will be play every day through to the Men’s Singles Final on Sunday 21 March.
If you need any help in buying tickets to attend or information about where and when you can watch the event please email to info@oncourtadvantage.com. A lot of the information about how this event works is covered in these 2 links -> please click here Indian Wells Schedule of Play and Indian Wells Women’s Major Tournament.
The ATP rankings as of 26 January, 2010 were used to determine who would be accepted into the qualifying and main draws. There were 79 spots allocated in the main draw to Direct Acceptances, 5 Wilds Cards and 12 spots for Qualifiers. Direct Acceptances are the players who are accepted into the main draw in order of ranking from the highest entered player down the entry list until the 79 places are filled.
The cut-off for Indian Wells was World No.90 Michael Russell from the USA so he was the 79th highest ranked player entered in to this event. The cut-off is the ranking of the last player (or lowest ranked player), who is directly accepted into the main draw. Indian Wells has an absolutely top class field of players with only 1 player ranked in the Top 10 withdrawing (Juan Martin Del Potro).
MEN’S & WOMEN’S WILD CARDS UPDATE:
All of the Wild Cards have been finalised in both the women’s and men’s singles main draws. For the men, 3 Wild Cards were allocated to American men - Robby Ginepri currently the World No.108, Jesse Levine No.113 and Ryan Harrison who is youngest player in the top 300 at No.284.
The other 2 Wild Cards were given to star players returning from injuries -Carlos Moya the former world No.1 and 1998 French Open Champion and David Nalbandian the former World No.3, Wimbledon runner-up and winner of the 2005 end of year championships.
For the women 8 were awarded, the 1st one went to 7 time Grand Slam champion Justine Henin, then 3 American women – Christina McHale who is currently the World No.206, Alexa Glatch No.154 and Bethanie Mattek-Sands No.133. The other 4 went to Alicia Molik No.138, Eleni Daniilidou No.191, 20 year old Austrian Tamira Paszek No.179 and rising star 16 year old Croatian Alja Tomljanovic No.224.
Stay tuned to this tennis website for further information and results at Indian Wells for both the men and women’s events including: the seeding, the qualifiers, the draw, results and previews and analyses of certain matches. Click this link for more details -> Indian Wells 2010: Mar 12-21.
Today’s POST is dedicated to Ivan Lendl. Lendl was born on 7 March in 1960 so is now 50 years old! As a Czech he won 8 Grand Slam singles titles including 3 French Open championships in 1984, 1986-87, 3 US Open crowns in a row from 1985-87 and back to back Australian Opens in 1989 & 1990. He first achieved his highest career ranking of World No.1 on 28 February 1983.
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Indian Wells Schedule of Play
Posted on March 5, 2010
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The 3rd Major Tournament in 2010 for the women’s and the 2nd major tournament for the men’s professional tennis tour is called the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, USA. In this post we will cover how both the WTA Tour and ATP Tour ranking points and prize money are allocated, plus the schedule of play for both the men’s and women’s draws.
The WTA ranking points and prize money (in US dollars), for the women’s tournament is awarded to the players in the following way:
- The winner earns 1,000 points + $700,000;
- The runner-up earns 700 points + $350,000;
- The two semi finalists earn 450 + $150,000;
- The four quarter finalists earn 250 + $64,700,
- The 8 players who lose in the round of 16 earn 140 + $32,000;
- The 16 players who lose in the 3rd round earn 80 + $18,740;
- The 32 players who lose in the 2nd round earn 50 + $11,150;
- The 32 players who lose in the 1st round earn 5 points + $7,050.
The ATP ranking points and prize money (in US dollars), for the men’s tournament is awarded to the players in the following way:
- The winner earns 1,000 points + $605,500;
- The runner-up earns 600 points + $295,500;
- The two semi finalists earn 360 + $148,100;
- The four quarter finalists earn 180 + $75,500,
- The 8 players who lose in the round of 16 earn 90 + $39,800;
- The 16 players who lose in the 3rd round earn 45 + $21,300;
- The 32 players who lose in the 2nd round earn 25 + $11,500;
- The 32 players who lose in the 1st round earn 10 points + $7,050.
The differences in how the men’s and women’s tours divide their prize money and allocate their ranking points is interesting, especially considering that the total prize money is equal for both draws.
Both tours award the winner the same amount of points i.e. 1,000 and the same amount of prize money to the 1st round losers. The women offer more ranking points for every other round i.e the runner-up, the semis, the quarters and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds. The women also award more prize money to the winner, runner-up and the semi finalists.
The men offer more points to the 1st round losers i.e 10 ATP ranking points versus the WTA’s 5 points and more prize money to the lesser rounds i.e. quarter finals and the 2nd, 3rd and 4th rounds.
The matches are played in a day session and an evening session. From Thursday 11 March through to and including Sunday 14 March the day session begins at 11am local time. From Monday 15 March through to Friday 19 March the day session begins at 12 noon. The night session always begins at 7pm.
For the Men’s Semi finals day and the Finals day for both the women and men there are no night sessions. Play begins at 12 noon on these days.
Note: Hong Kong time is 16 hours ahead of California so a 7pm start in California on Monday 15 March will be televised at 11am Hong Kong time. Please let us know if you need any further details about at what time YOU can see it AND on what channel.
The schedule of play for the entire event at Indian Wells is:
- Monday 8 March: Women’s (WTA) Qualifying ONLY at 10am;
- Tuesday 9/3: Women’s & Men’s (ATP) Qualifying at 10am;
- Wednesday 10/3: WTA 1st round & ATP Qualifying at 11am;
- Thursday 11/3: WTA & ATP 1st round;
- Friday 12/3: WTA 2nd round & ATP 1st round;
- Saturday 13/3: WTA & ATP 2nd round;
- Sunday 14/3: WTA 3rd round & ATP 2nd round;
- Monday 15 March: WTA & ATP 3rd round;
- Tuesday 16/3: 2nd round; WTA roundof 16 & ATP 3rd round;
- Wednesday 17/3: WTA Quarter Finals & ATP round of 16;
- Thursday 18/3: WTA & ATP Quarter Finals;
- Friday 19/3: WTA Semi Finals & ATP Quarter Finals;
- Saturday 20 March: Men’s Semi Finals at 12 noon; and
- Sunday 21 March: The Women’s & Men’s Singles Finals at 12 noon.
Ana Ivanovic is pictured above preparing to play her double handed backhand drive. Ivanovic was the runner-up at Indian Wells in 2009 therefore she has 700 points to defend.
A lot rides on this event for the Serbian because those 700 points fall off her ranking on Monday and that was by far her best result in the past 12 months. The former world No.1 and 2008 French Open singles champion will drop to World No.58 if she loses her 1st match at Indian Wells.
Stay tuned to this tennis website for further information and results at Indian Wells throughout the tournament. Click this link for more details -> Indian Wells 2010: Mar 12-21.
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Indian Wells 2010: Mar 12-21
Posted on March 1, 2010
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Pictured above is the centre court at Indian Wells. This post is the 4th in a series that aims to make it much easier for you to find what you are looking for on this tennis website.
In order for you to find out more about what you are interested in or are searching for, we will supply all of the links within this single post that are related to one particular topic.
Today’s topic is the 2010 Indian Wells BNP Paribas Open. When future information about Indian Wells is added to this tennis website it will be continually updated on this directory page. Add this page to your favourites to make coming back here EASY!
- Indian Wells Men’s Major Tournament
- Indian Wells Schedule of Play
- Indian Wells Women’s Major Tournament
- What’s Next on the 2010 Women’s Tour?
- What’s Next in Women’s Tennis? Part #2
- Understanding Women’s Tennis Rankings #1
- Understanding the Women’s Pro Tour #1
- Understanding the Women’s Pro Tour #2
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Indian Wells Women’s Major Tournament
Posted on March 1, 2010
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The 3rd Major Tournament on the WTA Tour in 2010 is Indian Wells. This year Indian Wells is called the BNP Paribas Open. Since last year the new title sponsor of Indian Wells is BNP Paribas who took over from Pacific Life who were the title sponsor from 2002 to 2008.
Indian Wells is one of the most important tournaments on the WTA Tour because it is one of only 4 Premier Mandatory events. A Premier Mandatory event is a combined event which means both the top women and men’s tennis players play at the same tournament just like at a Grand Slam event and equal prize money of 4.5 million US dollars for both the women and men’s events is awarded to the players.
Indian Wells is in California in the USA. This year will be the 22nd year for the women’s event and it will be held at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The singles main draw will have 96 players and the 1st round matches commence on Wednesday 10 March and there will be play every day through to the Women’s Singles Final on Sunday 21 March.
The stadium court seats 16,100 people and is the 2nd largest tennis stadium in the world behind Arthur Ashe Stadium. It is the most attended tennis tournament in the world outside of the 4 Grand Slam tournaments. If you need any help in buying tickets to attend or information about where and when you can watch the event please email to info@oncourtadvantage.com.
To put it into perspective in terms of the world famous Grand Slam tournaments, the winner of Indian Wells earns more WTA ranking points than the semi finalist of a Grand Slam singles event pointing to the Indian Wells champion being a better achievement than making the semi finals of the Australian Open.
Every woman that has won Indian Wells for the past 21 years a row has finished that year in the Top 10. Winning this event seems to almost guarantee you a Top 10 ranking and a Top 8 finish to allow you to qualify for the end of year WTA Tour Championship round robin play offs.
Last year the No.4 seed Vera Zvonareva (pictured above), won Indian Wells by defeating the defending champion at the time Ana Ivanovic 7-6 (7-5) 6-2 in the final. The Russian won 1,000 WTA ranking points for that victory whilst Ivanovic the No.5 seed won 700 WTA ranking points as the runner-up.
Zvonareva beat Victoria Azarenka whilst Ivanovic defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the 2009 semi-finals. The 2009 quarter finalists were Caroline Wozniacki, Sybille Bammer, Agnieszka Radwanska and Dinara Safina.
The WTA rankings as of 26 January, 2010 were used to determine who would be accepted into the qualifying and main draws. There were 76 spots allocated in the draw to direct acceptances. These are the players who are accepted into the main draw in order of ranking from the highest entered player down the entry list until the 76 places are filled.
The cut-off for Indian Wells was World No.78 Jill Craybas from the USA. The cut-off is the ranking of the last player (or lowest ranked player), who is directly accepted into the main draw. This means Indian Wells has an absolutely top class field of players with just 2 of the top 78 ranked players in the world in women’s tennis not playing.
There are 32 seeded players who all have a BYE in the 1st round. Therefore 64 players play in the 1st round with the 32 winners joining the 32 seeds in the 2nd round or round of 64. There are 8 main draw wild cards and 12 spots reserved for qualifiers. The qualifying draw will have 48 players which means that you need to win 2 matches in a row in order to qualify.
This year there are 2 days of qualifying rounds, they are Monday 8 March and Tuesday 9 March. On both days the matches begin at 10am local time and are played on the outside courts. On both days admission is FREE.
Stay tuned to this tennis website for further information and results at Indian Wells for both the men and women’s events including: the schedule of play, the seeding, wild cards as they are announced, the qualifiers, the draw, results, the prize money and how the ranking points are allocated.
Click this link for more details -> Indian Wells 2010: Mar 12-21.
Today’s POST is dedicated to Jan Kodes. Kodes was born on this day in 1946. The Czech won 3 Grand Slam singles titles including back to back French Open’s in 1970-71 and the 1973 Wimbledon Championship. He first achieved his highest career ranking of World No.5 on September 1973.
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Dubai 2010 Women: Feb 12-20
Posted on February 27, 2010
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Pictured above is the centre court in Dubai. This post is the 1st in a series that aims to make it much easier for you to find what you are looking for on this tennis website.
In order for you to find out more about what you are interested in or are searching for, we will supply all of the links within this single post that are related to one particular topic.
Today’s topic is the 2010 Dubai Women’s Tennis Championships.
- What’s Next on the 2010 Women’s Tour?
- Dubai Women’s Major Tournament
- Dubai Schedule of Play & Seeding
- Dubai Women’s Results Update
- Dubai Women’s Results & Schedule
- Dubai Women’s Semis & Final Preview
- Dubai Women’s Singles Final
- Understanding Women’s Tennis Rankings #1
- Understanding the Women’s Pro Tour #1
- Understanding the Women’s Pro Tour #2
When future information about the Dubai Women’s Tennis Championships is added to this tennis website it will be continually updated on this directory page. Add this page to your favourites to make coming back here EASY!
If there is anything further you would like to know about please email to info@oncourtadvantage.com.
Today’s POST is dedicated to Andres Gomez. Gomez was born on this day in 1960 and is from Ecuador. He won 1 Grand Slam singles title when he defeated Andre Agassi to win the 1990 French Open. He first achieved his highest career ranking of World No.4 on 11 June 1990.
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Australian Open 2010: Jan 13-31
Posted on February 24, 2010
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The picture above was taken in Melbourne of the centre court (named the Rod Laver Arena), where the Australian Open is held each year. Green, blue, green are the colours of the sign and interestingly, the courts used to be green and now they are blue. The pattern of the sign hints that the courts may become green again.
This post is the 2nd in a series that aims to make it much easier for you to find what you are looking for on this tennis website. In order for you to find out more about what you are interested in, or what you are searching for, all of the relevant links will be supplied in this single post about one particular topic.
Today’s topic is the 2010 Australian Open.
- Understanding the Men’s Pro Tour #1
- Understanding the Men’s Pro Tour #2
- Understanding Men’s Tennis Rankings #1
- What’s Next on the 2010 Men’s Tour?
- Australian Open 2010 Women’s Seeding
- Australian Open 2010 Men’s Seeding
- Australian Open 2010 Women’s Qualifying
- Australian Open 2010 Men’s Qualifying
- Australian Open 2010 Men’s Results
- Australian Open 2010 Women’s Results
- Australian Open 2010 Men’s Survivors
- Australian Open 2010 Results: Women
- Australian Open 2010 Last 16 Women
- Australian Open 2010 Last 16 Men
- Australian Open Women’s Quarter Finals
- Australian Open Men’s Quarter Finals
- Australian Open 2010 Schedule of Play
- Australian Open Women’s Semi Finals
- Australian Open Men’s Semi Finals
- Australian Open Men’s Semi Final #2
- Australian Open 2010 Women’s Singles Final
- Australian Open 2010 Men’s Singles Final
- Australian Open Women’s Champion
- Australian Open 2010 Men’s Singles Final
- Australian Open Men’s Champion
When future information about the Australian Open Tennis Championships is added to this tennis website it will be continually updated on this directory page. Add this page to your favourites to make coming back here EASY!
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Today’s POST is dedicated to Lleyton Hewitt. Hewitt was born on this day in 1981 andhas won 2 Grand Slam singles titles thus far. The Australian won the 2001 US Open and the 2002 Wimbledon Championship. He first achieved his highest career ranking of World No.1 on 19 November 2001.
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WTA Tour Champion 2009: Oct 27-Nov 1
Posted on February 22, 2010
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Pictured above is Elena Dementieva moving forward to attack on the centre court in Doha. This post is the 3rd in a series that aims to make it much easier for you to find what you are looking for on this tennis website.
In order for you to find out more about what you are interested in or are searching for, we will supply all of the links within this single post that are related to one particular topic.
Today’s topic is the 2009 WTA Tour Championships in Doha. When future information about the Women’s World Championships i.e. the end of year championship play-offs is added to this tennis website it will be continually updated on this directory page. Add this page to your favourites to make coming back here EASY!
- Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha
- THE WTA World Championships: Doha
- WTA Tour Year-End Finals: Doha
- WTA Tour Championships Day 1
- WTA Tour Championships Day 2
- WTA Tour Championships Day 3
- WTA Tour Championships Day 4
- WTA Tour Championships: Semi’s
- WTA Tour Championships Final
- What’s Next on the 2010 Women’s Tour?
- What’s Next in Women’s Tennis? Part #2
- Understanding Women’s Tennis Rankings #1
- Understanding the Women’s Pro Tour #1
- Understanding the Women’s Pro Tour #2
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Today’s POST is dedicated to Michael Chang. Chang was born on this day in 1972. The American won 1 Grand Slam singles title. He is the youngest ever male player to win a Grand Slam singles title. Chang won the 1989 French Open when he was 17 years old. He first achieved his highest career ranking of World No.2 on 9 September 1996.
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Dubai Women’s Singles Final
Posted on February 21, 2010
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photo credit: Carlos Andrés Restrepo
The 2010 Dubai Women’s Tennis Championship capped off a great tournament with a top women’s singles final to continue its run of going from strength to strength. Venus Williams played one of the best matches of her career to win Dubai for the 2nd straight year.
Dubai is one of the most important and prestigious tournaments for the year on the WTA Tour because it is a Premier FIVE event. Venus earned 900 WTA ranking points which is the same as a Grand Slam singles semi finalist earns and more prize money (350,000 US dollars), than she would by making the semi finals of the Australian Open.
The 29 year old American came out very determined to claim her 42nd WTA Tour singles title which moves her 1 ahead of Justine Henin. Venus is now No.1 in women’s tennis in terms of holding more singles titles than any other active player. Venus also posted another victory for the established champions against the young stars of the game.
Victoria Azarenka won the toss and not surprisingly chose to receive in the ensuing battle of the Venus Serve versus the Azarenka Return of Serve. In the 1st set both players went toe to toe trying to establish the upper hand in being the 1st player to go on the offensive and dictate the points. Throughout this match the standard of play was very high and the variety of play and attacks were great to see. The 1st 4 games saw the match levelled at 2-2.
Venus broke Azarenka in the 6th game after she successfully challenged a line call which the replay verified that it was a double fault. After taking 3 games in a row to lead 5-2 Azarenka then held serve for 5-3 forcing Venus to serve for the 1st set.
The 1.85m Venus prevailed in the 1st set with her consistently big serving to limit Azarenka to just one break point opportunity for the entire set. This chance came for the 20 year old Belarussian when Venus was serving for the 1st set. Venus won the key points in the set by saving that break point against her and converting 1 of 2 break point opportunities against her opponent’s serve.
After taking the 1st set 6-3 Venus immediately broke Azraenka in the 1st game of the 2nd set and kept that advantage until 3-2. From this point on both players were neck and neck as Azarenka broke back to even the set at 3-3. Azarenka showed that she has taken some steps in the right direction in terms of fighting harder and not free falling when her opponent has a good grip on the match.
At 5 games all Venus broke Azarenka to serve for the Championship at 6-5. Venus held 2 championship points at 40-15. Azarenka saved the 1st with an overhead winner then saved the 2nd with a power cross court forehand winner. On her 3rd championship point Venus triumphed to take the set and match 7-5.
Venus was able to break the serve of Azarenka on 3 occasions from her 4 break point opportunities whereas Azarenka only breaking Venus once and was limited to just 2 opportunities. The Venus Serve prevailed over the Azarenka Return of Serve.
The absolute FOCUS and tremendous early preparation by both Williams sisters was evident once again and really allowed Venus to continually go on the offensive. This resulted in her finishing with more winners (29 clean winners), than unforced errors as opposed to Azarenka, who hit 8 winners to 18 unforced errors.
Pictured above is Azarenka a moment away from making contact with her serve during the 2010 Australian Open semi final against Serena Williams.
For further coverage of the 2010 Women’s Dubai Tennis Championships on this tennis website click this link -> Dubai 2010 Women: Feb 12-20.
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Dubai Women’s Semis & Final Preview
Posted on February 19, 2010
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Dubai Women’s Singles Semi Final Results & Final Preview:
The 2010 Dubai Tennis Championship is coming to an end. The semi finals especially the 2nd semi final, were very entertaining matches as predicted (click here Dubai Women’s Results & Schedule), setting up a final not to be missed.
The 1st semi final was between No.3 seed and defending champion Venus Williams and the unseeded Shahar Peer of Israel. The 1st set was controlled by Venus due to a combination of her big serving, aggressive game and Peer trying to find her feet in one of her biggest matches of her career to date.
After Venus took the 1st set 6-1 Peer stepped up her intensity, played far more aggressively and really hustled to provide a great challenge to Venus. Venus had to show her champion qualities that have earned her 7 Grand Slam singles titles to edge out Peer for a 6-4 victory. Peer outplayed Venus in the 2nd set in all areas except for the serve, the big serves under pressure that Venus landed were the decisive factor.
In a fantastic display of all court tennis including a variety of shots, tactics and facets of play Azarenka went up 3-2 in her clashes with No.7 seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland. The standard of play was high and only rose in the 2nd set with many points ending with clean winners including a number of key volleys. Azarenka won 6-3 6-4 by being able to break the serve of Radwanska on 3 occasions versus Radwanska only breaking Azarenka once.
Pictured above is Venus Williams playing her best shot - her serve. Venus has already begun launching herself up to the ball in this photo. Venus will be trying to win this year’s battle - the established champions versus the young brigade, who are looking to overthrow them in 2010.
The Dubai Women’s Singles Final to be played on 20 February is between (3) Venus Williams and (4) Victoria Azarenka and begins at 7pm Dubai time. Venus defeated Azarenka in their only previous meeting at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. Azarenka defeated Serena Williams to win an even bigger title than Dubai last year, so definitely knows what it takes to win this final.
In what looks like a great match up on paper it promises to be a battle of who can dictate the points before their opponent does and whose greatest weapon is executed best. The Venus Serve versus the Azarenka Return of Serve.
In 2009 Venus finished in the top 10 performers on the WTA Tour in 5 of the 6 serving categories including rated No.1 in servive games won. Venus needs to have her big serves hit the mark on the crucial points to win Dubai.
In 2009 Azarenka finished No.1 in 3 of the 4 Return of Serve categories and finished No.3 in the final category. Azarenka will need to convert her break point opportunities because against the games leading players Azarenka tends to lose her service game at least once per set. Therefore, the 20 year old Belarussian must break Venus in each set to win this match.
Stay tuned to this tennis website for more coverage of the 2010 Women’s Dubai Tennis Championships and click this link for further information-> Dubai 2010 Women: Feb 12-20.
Today’s POST is dedicated to Hana Mandlikova. Mandlikova was born on this day in 1962 and is from the Czech Republic. She won 4 Grand Slam singles titles including the Australian Open in 1980 & 1987, the 1981 French Open and the 1985 US Open. She first achieved her highest career ranking of World No.3 on 16 April 1984.
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Dubai Women’s Results & Schedule
Posted on February 18, 2010
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Dubai Women’s Singles News & Results:
The 2010 Dubai Tennis Championships now has the final two days of play to go. We are looking forward to great semi finals matches with all four semi finalists in top form.
The following is the quarter final draw, who they play next and which part of the draw they are in. Below you will find the seeded players whose names have a line drawn through them because they were defeated in that section of the draw.
In the top half of the draw only 2 of the 4 remaining players are seeded players and the other 2 are direct acceptances.
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(1) Wozniacki Shahar Peer versus (8) Li Na
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(3) Venus Williams versus (5) Dementieva Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
In the bottom half of the draw 3 seeds made it through plus a great performance by Russian qualifier and top 10 potential rising star Regina Kulikova who defeated No.2 seed Kuznetsova.
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(6) Jankovic (12) Vera Zvonareva versus (4) Victoria Azarenka
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(8) Agnieszka Radwanska versus (2) Kuznetsova (Q) Regina Kulikova
The women’s quarter final results were:
- Peer defeated (8) Li Na 7-5 3-0 (Li retired with a lower back injury);
- (3) Venus defeated Pavlyuchenkova 6-3 6-4
- (4) Azarenka defeated (12) Zvonareva 6-1 6-3
- (8) Radwanska defeated (Q) Kulikova 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
The best match in the quarter finals was between (8) Radwanska and World No.98 Kulikova with Kulikova being very close to winning this match in the first 2 sets. Radwanska countered Kulikova’s over powering aggressive game by playing the ball earlier and successfully completing a number of moves in to the net with her great volleys.
Pictured above is Peer of Israel during the forward swing to make contact with the ball with her double handed backhand ground stroke. This year Peer was allowed to play this tournament and she is really fighting for her cause by defeating No.1 seed Wozniacki and now No.8 seed Li Na.
The United Arab Emirates denied Peer entry into the UAE just before the 2009 Dubai event in effect banning her from the event firing the fighting between the Middle East and Israel. Peer’s run to the semi finals will earn her 395 WTA ranking points which is her best result in the past 12 months and means she will break into the top 20 after this event.
The semi final matches to be played on 19 February are:
The first semi final between Peer and Venus will play on court 2 at 2pm (Dubai time) and the 2nd semi final between Azarenka and Radwanska will be played in the evening session on centre court at 7pm.
The 29 year old defending champion Venus leads the 22 year old Peer 2 wins to love in their head to head battles. Whilst the 20 year old’s are tied at 2 wins each in their past encounters, with this match set to be their greatest clash and likely to be an indicator as to how 2010 pans out for Azarenka and Radwanska.
Azarenka has the edge in knowing she can win at this level as she proved by winning the 2009 Premier Mandatory tournament in Miami whereas Radwanska has not won a Premier Five or Premier Mandatory tournament title as yet. 2010 could easily be a great year with many career bests for Radwanska and Azarenka.
Stay tuned to this tennis website for more coverage of the 2010 Women’s Dubai Tennis Championships and click this link for more details -> Dubai 2010 Women: Feb 12-20.
Today’s POST is dedicated to Yevgeny Kafelnikov. Kafelnikov was born on this day in 1974. The Russian won 2 Grand Slam singles titles the 1996 French Open and the 1999 Australian Open. He first achieved his highest career ranking of World No.1 on 3 May 1999.
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