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Five Matches to Watch on Day 6 of the US Open
1. Jelena Jankovic (SRB)[4] v. Kaia Kanepi (EST)[31] -- The song remains the same for Jankovic. She's been playing terribly all month, so anyone can beat her. Simona Halep and Mirjana Lucic each took a set off the #4 seed, and they're both ranked 60+ below Kanepi. But Kanepi's closing skills are...
Maria Sharapova Beats the Heat, Svetlana Kuznetsova in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI--She makes an awful lot of money for being pretty. But in the last few years, Maria Sharapova has earned a living by winning ugly. In a performance that wasn't without blemishes, #9 seed Sharapova toughed out a 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 victory over unseeded Svetlana Kuznetsova, a rare first round...
Kuznetsova, Azarenka Sent Home With Bagels in Fourth Round
I'm willing to bet that both the top seed and defending champion of a major tournament like Miami have gone home on the same day before, but I'm also willing to bet that never before have both exited with a 6-0 set. That's just what happened today to #1 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova and #4 seed and...
Doha Round Robin Review
White Group #1 Dinara Safina (0-1, withdrew) Instead of the long, ugly defeats she had subjected innocent crowds to over and over again this fall, Dinara Safina decided to keep her run at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha mercifully short. After only two games in her first match against...
Doha Day 1 Preview
Three matches on the card for Day 1 in the desert of Doha, one from the White Group and two from the absurdly stronger Maroon Group. The way that the draw for these round robin tournaments works is pretty simple. The #1 and #2, #3 and #4, #5 and #6, and #7 and #8 players are paired off, and one...
Kuznetsova Keeps Up Big Year in Beijing
Never having fallen short of the finals in her three previous trips to Beijing, Svetlana Kuznetsova again made the finals in this bigger-than-ever edition of the China Open, this time winning her second title in the Chinese capital by the score of 6-2, 6-4 over Agnieszka Radwanska. After losing a...
Looking Back to the 2004 Beijing Final
To set the mood here for the China Open in Beijing this week, let's have a look back at the most memorable match in the event's short history. That distinction, in my mind, goes to the championship of the inaugural China Open in 2004, which pitted Serena Williams against Svetlana Kuznetsova, two...
US Open Day 8: Men Follow Script, Women Still Unpredictable
The men's draw remained true to form and without any major surprises Monday, while the shambles that is the top half of the women's draw remained as stable as a a toothpick sculpture in a wind tunnel. Here are some thoughts from each of Monday's eight fourth round singles matches, starting with the...
From Russia, Without Quarterfinalists
One of the stories that hasn't been getting any coverage in mainstream media is how poor a tournament the 2009 US Open was for Russian tennis. With Svetlana Kuznetsova and Nadia Petrova falling in the fourth round Monday, the 2009 US Open became the first grand slam without a Russian...
Seeds Buried in Toronto
I'm on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls for a few more hours, and I can smell the stink of the Toronto seeds' play from here. Of the sixteen seeds in the fifty-six-player Toronto draw, only five have made the Round of 16. Even worse, the top eight seeds had a bye to the second round. Seeds have...
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