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ESPN commies terrible. Serena was flat. Serena battling an obvious injury. That Halep match took a lot out of Serena. Why cant they give Karolina credit for great play and admit Serena let the pressure get to her on match point?
Because Serena has to be injured to lose that’s the narrative. Give Karolina Pliskova what she’s due! Karolina skipped the Olympics to be ready for this. Karolina won Cincinnati, she’s playing strong and confident. Yep, that double fault on match point – Serena couldn’t handle the pressure. Karolina played fantastic!
Karolina so full of Confidence ??? “I can beat anyone” Atta girl!
Great match.
Pliskova. Just wow. Struck the ball so cleanly.
And agree the commies are pathetic.
I didn’t see Serena’s match tonight. I am kind of surprised after how good she looked against Halep. But I guess that tough match took a lot out of her.
I am not surprised to hear what the commies said. I like and respect Serena, but the obvious bias and cheerleading by the ESPN commies has been over the top for a while now.
Pliskova deserves credit for a great win and getting to the final.
Patrick was the worst saying Serena’s knee was 30% in practice. LZ Granderson , while admitting her coach knows her better, says he watched her practice session and that she did not look injuref. Who comes out right after the match and says that?
injured
Russian cyber group hack World Anti-Doping Agency in revenge for the country’s Olympic ban ‘and accuse Serena and Venus Williams of taking banned substances’
Sports stars ‘took substances’ banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency
Hackers Fancy Bears claimed Williams sisters were allowed to use drugs
However, the International Tennis Federation said the Williams sisters had been given permission to use the drugs for ‘therapeutic use’.
WADA condemned hacks as ‘criminal acts’ and announced investigation
By RORY TINGLE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 17:58, 13 September 2016 | UPDATED: 20:19, 13 September 2016
A group of Russian hackers claim to have found files showing the Williams sisters and gymnast Simone Biles were allowed to take banned substances by anti-doping bosses.
Hacktivists Fancy Bears leaked documents that allegedly demonstrate both Venus and Serena Williams took substances that were on the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) banned list.
However, the International Tennis Federation said the Williams sisters had been given permission to use the drugs for ‘therapeutic use’.
Hacktivists Fancy Bear leaked documents showing both Venus and Serena Williams allegedly took substances that were on the World Anti-Doping Association’s banned list
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3787665/Anti-doping-bosses-ALLOWED-Williams-sisters-gymnast-Simone-Biles-banned-substances
I don’t like clicking on that online paper, daily mail. Too many dicey ads and pop-ups. The fancy bears hack attack doesn’t surprise me and neither does information about banned drugs prescribed and used with a TUE. I’m going to wait and read the details over time. Some cases could be dodgy, some routine, many appropriate and legitimately covered with a TUE — it’s a relevant development. I’m sure some players will feel more violated by information leaked than others. I’m for medical information remaining private. But perhaps there are abuses and more transparency is needed. I’ll wait and see how this unfolds.
Tennis is back in a big way this coming week with the 470 point tournament Toray Pan Pacific, Tokyo. There’s also two 280 point tournaments, one in Seoul, and one in Guangzhou. Race to Singapore is ON.
Congratulations to Christina McHale for beating Katerina Siniakova and winning her first WTA title!! (in what used to be the Osaka 280, but moved to Tokyo – still a 280 tournament).
Also still to finish today is the Quebec City 280 tournament final between Lauren Davis and French teenager Oceane Dodin. It’s been a dream week for Dodin. Here’s what she had to say:
“I’m just very, very happy to be in my first final,” the Frenchwoman said. “It’s a pleasure to be here in Québec. It’s like France so it helped me so much!”
Dodin must have felt at home. She won her first ever WTA match against #5 seed, Naomi Broady and went on to beat Sachia Vickery, Alison Van Uytvanck and Julia Boserup to reach the final.
Both Lauren Davis and Oceane Dodin are going for their fist WTA title. Wee five foot two, Lauren, will have a tall order trying to beat the fired-up and big serving six-foot tall Dodin! I’ve had my eye on Oceane Dodin a little lately. Unfortunately I don’t have any way to watch the match – good luck to both!
http://www.wtatennis.com/news/article/5902113/title/davis-dodin-book-quebec-city-duel
1) Toray Pan Pacific Tokyo for 470 points
Seeds: Garbine Muguruza, Agnieszka Radwanska, Karolina Pliskova, Carla Suarez-Navarro, Madison Keys, Dominika Cibulkova, Petra Kvitova, and Anastasia Pavlychenkova — and I’m loving the draw and potential match-ups 🙂
http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2016/1056/MDS.pdf
Forgot to add: Defending champion in Tokyo is: Agnieszka Radwanska – go Aga! She also won Tokyo in 2011.
Other Champions: Ana Ivanovic, Petra Kvitova, and Nadia Petrova.
2) Guangzhou, China, for 280 points
Last years’ winner: Jelena Jankovic
Seeds: Sara Errani, Jelena Jankovic, Ana Konjuh, Christina McHale, Katerina Siniakova, Alison Riske, Danka Kovinic, and Saisai Zheng.
Draw: http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2016/1023/MDS.pdf
3) Seoul, Korea for 280 points
Defending Champion – Irina Camelia-Begu
Past Notable winners – Karolina Pliskova, Aga Radwanska, and Caroline Wozniacki
Seeds: Irina Camelia-Begu, Johanna Larsson, Shuai Zhang, Kristina Mladenovic, Monica Niculescu, Kirsten Flipkens, Nicole Gibbs, and Louisa Chirico.
Draw: http://www.wtatennis.com/SEWTATour-Archive/posting/2016/1024/MDS.pdf
rc,
Thanks for the breakdown of the upcoming women’s tournaments and who is playing st each of them!
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My pleasure, Nny! The Tokyo draw includes: Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, Monica Puig, Anastasija Sevastova, Belinda Bencic, Lucie Safarova, Misaki Doi, and Naomi Osaka….loaded! Tennis Channel will cover it later in the week for QF, SF, and Final, I think 😀
19 yr. old Oceane Dodin made it! 64 63 with 8 aces. But in the semifinal against American Julia Boserup, Oceane hit 17 aces!
https://twitter.com/JPMartin_RC/status/777626047013457920/video/1
rc,
Thanks again for the heads up about when the tennis channel will be covering the tournaments!
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Here’s a link to a practice bracket, Nny — if you or anyone wants: (Manwerty is in the group)
http://www.tennisdrawchallenge.com/group
It’s not a weekly commitment or anything. Many weeks I forget or miss the deadline. I guess some get serious…it’s a contest and there is actual money to win, if one becomes that good and serious about it! I haven’t bothered to look at the rules yet 😀
Catching up with Tokyo:
Madison Keys continues to underwhelm and lost to Putintseva.
Petkovic retired.
Svitolina too strong for Vandewehge.
Pavlyuchenkova, Sevastova, Strycova, and Wozniacki were winners – still on a roll.
Exciting matches coming up on Wedsnesday in Tokyo:
Kvitova vs Puig (rematch from Olympic Semifinal!)
Cibulkova vs home favorite, Naomi Osaka (first time meeting)
Wozniacki vs Suarez-Navarro
Radwanska vs Strycova
Looking forward Thursday to see Muguruza in her first match since US Open. She’ll face her US Open nemesis, Sevastova!
Also Thursday:
Pliskova vs Sasnovich
Pavlyuchenkova vs Svitolina
Putintseva vs Linette
rc,
Many thanks for a great job of updating the women’s matches!
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I love Asian Swing, Nny! Thanks. It’s not problem for me. I wish I could just follow and write about WTA full time!
This is just the teaser week with the two 280 pt. tournaments and Tokyo = and ATP 500. Next week WTA Asian swing heats up with Wuhan for 900 point and the week after is the Big One Beijing for 1000 point. By that point we’ll know who will be going to Singapore Tour Final and to the lesser final in Zhuhai. Big Stuff to see who comes through where! 😀
women’s tennis blog, Sept. 21, 2016: “And let me add that Serena did not come to Milan because of just one fancy event. The tennis legend is keeping herself busy with Milan Fashion Week and after Tuesday’s flirty elegance, the American rocked the Italian city on Wednesday by showing every bit of her curves and cleavage in tight pants and unzipped bomber jacket with naked body underneath. Draping embellishments alongside the zipper of her jacket only accentuate the cleavage, as well as long hair put to the side.”
http://www.womenstennisblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Serena-Milan-Fashion-Week-cleavage.jpg
As it stands in Tokyo:
Big serving Japanese teenager, Naomi Osaka knocked out the little dyamo, Cibulkova in straight sets. No small task, normally!!
Dear Petra Kvitova lost to Monica Puig, AGAIN – 3 set battle.
Wozzie rolls on by toughing out a 3 set win over Suarez-Navarro.
And my dear Aga Radwanska edged Barbora Stycova in 3 sets. whew!
Thursday Tokyo
Perky Yulia Putintseva vs Magda Linette (could go either way)
Karolina Pliskova over Aliaksandra Sasnovich
Then the two matches I hope to watch on Tennis Channel at 4 am my time:
? Garbine Muguruza vs Anastajia Sevastova
? Svitolina vs Pavlyuchenkova
Very happy to see that Linette edged Putintseva. I also managed to watch Aga vs Strycova in a tough three setter. Been going good for the Poles yet!
Right now, Pliskova having some serious trouble against Sasnovich in the first set.
hi manwerty. I’m up early to watch my girls but Tennis Channel is covering St.Petersberg. Actually kind of entertaining watching Rublev and Sousa – both fired up lol…in the decider. Andrey Rublev has too much of a temper — I don’t know about him.
Yeah, I like Magda. Happy she won. Pliskova lost! Following scores: Muguruza serving for the set vs Sevastova. Maybe Tennis Channel will switch over and show Svitolina v Pavlyuchenkova…I don;t know.
I like your pick for Ana Konjuh to win Guangzhou, manwerty. I overlooked her. I see we both picked Shuai Zhang to win Seoul. And of course we both picked Aga in Tokyo 😀 Go Aga!
Quarterfinals Tokyo (live on Tennis Channel in the US – they promised me!)
1) Aga Radwanska ?? vs Monica Puig ??
2) Caro Wozniacki ?? vs Magda Linette ??
3) Naomi Osaka ?? vs Alia Sasnovich ??
4) Garbine Muguruza ?? vs Elina Svitolina ??
Seoul Korea Quarterfinals
1) Johanna Larsson ?? vs Lara Arruabarrena ??
2) Camila Giorgi ?? vs Shuai Zhang ??
3) Patricia Tig ?? vs Sara Sorribes-Tormo ??
4) Monica Niulescu ?? vs Jana Cepelova ??
Guanghou Semifinals:
Ana Konjuh ?? vs Jelena Jankovic ??
Lesia Tsurenko ?? vs Anett Kontaveit ??
yay! Aga through to Tokyo SF in easy straight sets 63 62 over Monica Puig. Aga’s right shoulder is heavily taped. Next up for Aga is the winner of the next match: Woz or compatriot, Magda Linette.
If I can stay awake.
Tokyo SF’s:
Radwanska vs Wozniacki (yikes. I picked Aga to win Tokyo)
Svitolina vs Osaka
Seoul SF’s:
Zhang v Niculescu (I picked Zhang to win Seoul)
Tig v Arruabarrena
Guangzhou Final:
Jankovic v Tsurenko (I picked Errani to win and she went out second round 😀 what do I know…
Tokyo matches will be broadcast by Tennis Channel 🙂
I got up around five am to watch Aga vs Wozniacki but I guess it was worth the wait 🙂 However, Radwańska lost in three really tight sets.
Next SF is Svitolina vs Naomi Osaka, and even though my mind says the Ukrainian, then I really adore cinderella stories and my heart goes to Naomi.
I missed the match! Sad Aga lost.
Happy for Naomi Osaka tho! Wow.
Can she beat Caroline? 😀
I am surprised that Aga lost to Woz. I have not seen any of the matches. Not up to dealing with the time difference.
Well, Nny. Aga actually is behind in their H2H. Woz beat her twice on clay, Aga’s worst surface and surged ahead in 2014 when Caroline was at her best marathon form. They’ve been playing each other since juniors – supposedly good friends, as well. H2h 9-4 now to Caroline. Uhg. And they could run into each other in the Wuhan draw next week too.
Yeah Asian Swing hours are bad! Tennis Channel will play all the matches over again today tho. I did wake up in time for the Stan v RBA and TC has Pouille v Goffin on now. ?
Yeah, that Aga Wozniacki match was really close. Radwańska led 3-1 in the second, then 5-3, but went on to lose it 5-7. Then she led 3-1 again in the third but then lost four straight games.
However, she’s gonna have some rest before Wuhan, as last year I remember that after winning Tokyo, she had nothing left in her tank in Wuhan, lost in the first round to an eventual titlist Venus Williams.
And Aga could run into Caro again in the Wuhan draw. Radwanska’s revenge! Well, not sure about it…I’m watching the replay right now on Tennis Channel and Aga looks a bit tired. Maybe she goes out early in Wuhan and comes out with strong ninja powers in Beijing? ? collects the 1000 points?
Dropping serve at 5-3. Gosh, I see what you are saying, manwerty. And I haven’t seen the third set yet. Really frustrating. I think I’m picking her to beat Woz in Wuhan. Go Aga!
Wuhan Tuesday: (R2 schedule copied from tennisabstract.com)
2016 WTA WUHAN
Upcoming Matches! While I sleep…Tennis Channel replays them all day, tho.
R2: (1)Angelique Kerber (GER) vs Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) [2-0]
R2: Elina Svitolina (UKR) vs (14)Petra Kvitova (CZE) [1-4]
R2: (11)Johanna Konta (GBR) vs Shuai Zhang (CHN) [2-1]
R2: Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) vs (13)Roberta Vinci (ITA) [2-3]
R2: (Q)Louisa Chirico (USA) vs (Q)Daria Kasatkina (RUS) [0-2]
R2: Caroline Garcia (FRA) vs (8)Madison Keys (USA) [1-0]
R2: (6)Venus Williams (USA) vs Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) [3-1]
R2: Madison Brengle (USA) vs (9)Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) [0-1]
R2: Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) vs (Q)Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
R2: Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) vs (3)Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [2-4]
R2: Laura Siegemund (GER) vs (10)Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
R2: Misaki Doi (JPN) vs Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) [0-1]
R2: Jelena Jankovic (SRB) vs (2)Garbine Muguruza (ESP) [1-3]
Impressive win for Kiki Mladenovic over Coco Vandeweghe. Just when I quit picking Kiki, she wins. And Wozniacki played well vs Sam Stosur. Seems she’s recovered quickly from that upper leg strain during the Tokyo final.
What a battle in Wuhan between Kerber and Kvitova! I woke up in time to watch the 2nd and 3rd set. Wow…right up to the last point I had no idea which one would win. If it was best of five — no doubt I’d have said Kerber but Kvitova hung in there and fought. She not in the kind of shape she was when she lead the Czech Republic to win Fed Cup. But she’s better than I’ve seen her since having mono.
Now to see if she recovers enough to follow-up and win the next match. Petra has such easy power. Her core doesn’t even look as strong as Kerber’s but she was striking the ball like the Wimbledon Champ she is. Nice to see. She’ll have her fitness tested again against Konta!
Now for the match I’m dreading a little: Aga v Woz…uh boy. Well may the best one win because apparently Svetlana Kuznetsova is in some good shape and waiting.
Incredible Woz. What a recovery from the Tokyo final! I thought her left leg would still be a problem. But she was moving as well as ever last match.
Go Aga!