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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Vote for my designs!
I have designed some dresses for Venus Williams, and if you want to see them at a major tennis tournament, you need to vote! Voting starts on the 26th of February!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Venus wins in Acapulco
Although it was tougher than the scoreline might suggest, Venus Williams was relatively untroubled in her opening match of the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL, beating Mathilde Johansson, 62 63.Williams, the No.1 seed and defending champion on the red clay of Acapulco, faced break points as she served in the first game of the match but held and wound up clinching the first set in 34 minutes. The first four games of the second set all went to deuce and it was Johansson who seemed more in form, breaking for 2-1 and holding a point for 3-1; but Williams rolled from there, winning five of the last six games to prevail in an hour and 25 minutes.
"I'm just trying to get my rhythm on the clay so it was good to win," Williams said. "I really had to work for this tournament last year. This time last year I played a really tough three set match before I won, so it's a little better today. But I still just want to take it round by round and hopefully win."
The other seeds in action - No.3 seed Gisela Dulko, No.5 seed Carla Suárez Navarro and No.7 seed Roberta Vinci - all advanced as well. Suárez Navarro had the breeziest win of them all, blanking qualifier Greta Arn, 60 60.
"For me it was a very good match. I needed this victory and played very well. I'll take this confidence into the second round," the Spaniard said. "I feel a bit like I'm at home here. For me it's easy to speak with the people. It's perfect."
Kaia Kanepi, Edina Gallovits, Mariya Koryttseva and qualifiers Catalina Castaño and Laura Pous Tio also won. Koryttseva was a point from 5-1 down in the third but beat last week's Bogota finalist, Angelique Kerber, 57 75 64.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Dementieva captures title in Paris
They had both lost three set finals in Paris before so when this year's went to the decider, someone would avenge and someone would just miss out again. And it was Elena Dementieva who got the good ending, beating Lucie Safarova for the Open GDF SUEZ title, 67(5) 61 64.Both had survived marathons the day before in the semifinals, Dementieva edging Melanie Oudin, 46 63 63, and Safarova upsetting No.2 seed Flavia Pennetta, 46 63 64. So when they took the court on Sunday the top quality tennis they produced was even more impressive, with the underdog winning the last four points of the first set tie-break but Dementieva cruising through the second set in 27 minutes and getting the decisive break of the match in the seventh game of the decider. It was the fourth straight year the Open GDF SUEZ final went to three sets.
"It was very emotional. I always wanted to win in Paris," Dementieva said. "This tournament is very special for me and I was coming here every year trying to win this title. I was pretty close a couple of times. I always feel great support when I play in Paris, that's why I feel very special here. Being the No.1 seed didn't make it any easier to win, because all the girls were playing very well against me. They're young and have nothing to lose. All of my matches were quite difficult to win, so it feels great to do it."
Dementieva captured her 16th Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title, now 16-14 in career finals. She has now won two of the three tournaments she has played so far this year, also winning the Premier-level title in Sydney in January. She lost second round at the Australian Open to an unranked Justine Henin.
Safarova is now 4-4 in career finals, 0-2 at Premier-level tournaments (she was a runner-up here in 2007 to another Russian, Nadia Petrova).
"Of course I'm sad to lose because it's a final and you want to have the trophy, but I'm happy with my tennis here this week," Safarova said. "I want to continue to play this level in future tournaments, trying to beat these top players and trying to win these matches. I hope this week will help me.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Singles - Final
(1) Elena Dementieva (RUS) d. Lucie Safarova (CZE) 67(5) 61 64
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