WTA: July 18-24 2005W&S Financial Open Tier IIILindner Tennis Center, Cincinnati, OH $170,000 - 30 players - outdoor: hard draws & schedule, .pdf - draws, .pdfs results - order of play photo gallery - Yahoo! photos - WTA Photos Cincinnati weather - radar Cincinnati Sports: Post - Enquirer # 12 Patty Schnyder, # 15 Vera Zvonareva # 19 Jelena Jankovic, # 25 Daniela Hantuchova Internazionali Femminili Tier IV Country Time Club, Palermo, ITA $140,000 - 32 players - outdoor: red clay order of play - draw, .html draw, .pdf Italian Tennis Federation Palermo weather # 21 Silvia Farina Elia, # 28 Flavia Pennetta # 33 A Medina Garrigues, # 39 N Llagostera Vives |
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Patty said: "When my game is on, it looks like this. It was definitely a lot of hard work this week. There were a lot of good players here." tourney story
Akiko said: "Patty obviously played great against me. She played very aggressive and was controlling a lot of the points. She was mixing it up well. She was putting balls high to my backhand, which I don't like, and was really playing a lot of different shots."
Patty and Akiko had played only once before, last year in the 1st round at Wimbledon, where Patty won by a similar score, 6-4, 6-1.
Meanwhile, in the final in Palermo, (where they have apparently had no cameras all week), the defending champ, 3rd-seeded # 33 Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, defeated 5th-seeded # 40 Klara Koukalova of the Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-0. Anabel had also won in Palermo in 2001; 3 of her 4 WTA singles titles have been won there. Klara and Anabel are now tied 2-2 in career matches.
Anabel said: "Palermo is a good tournament for me; I feel at home... The match was not so easy, especially in the first set, I was down 4-2 but then I fought and I won the set." WTA story
Klara said: "I'm very happy to have been in the final. Anabel played very well and I was just a little tired... Now I will go to the US, playing in San Diego, Los Angeles, and preparing for the US Open."
Cincinnati:
Patty Schnyder was born in Basel, Switzerland, and resides in Wangen when she has time away from the Tour, but has said she would like to move to Australia when she retires. Patty has now won 10 WTA singles titles, including the Gold Coast title earlier this year, in 16 finals. Patty wears adidas and bats left-handed with a Head Liquidmetal Prestige MP racket, a 27" bat with a 98 sq" string area, weighing 11.9 oz strung, stiffness rating 63, balanced 8 points head light. Patty reportedly has her bats strung with 16-gauge Kirschbaum Super Smash Spiky, a polyester monofilament with a textured outer wrap.
Formerly coached by Hubert Choudury, Patty is now coached by her husband Rainer Hoffmann, an information technolgy specialist whom she married on December 5, 2003. When in Switzerland, Patty also sometimes has received training, along with her compatriot Martina Hingis, from Martina's mother, Melanie Molitor.
Schnyder career record - Patty Schnyder Wallpaper
Born in Osaka & residing in Tokyo, Akiko Morigami was playing in her first WTA singles final (she has won 6 ITF singles titles, and 1 WTA doubles). Akiko wears Fila and swings a Yonex bat. Akiko started playing tennis at age eight; she is coached by Takefumi Sato.
Morigami career record
The Cincinnati tourney is a wee bit odd, inasmuch as 32 ladies play for $170,000, and a few weeks later 64 men play at the same place, in a tourney run by the same folks, for $2,450,000. The men are paid, on average, over 7 times as much per person as the ladies. Apparently everyone ignores this because the tourneys are not simultaneous.
Also: there is no live scoring this week.
The main draw for Cincinnati had 8 seeds, with 2 1st-round byes. There were 4 qualifiers and 3 wild cards in the main draw. Qualifying finals were on Monday.
The time in Ohio is UCT (GMT, Zulu, Greenwich...) minus 4 hours. That is Eastern Daylight Time in the US, =PDT +3 hours. Early round play began at 11am local time in 2004; in 2005 they started at 3:00pm.
Palermo:
22-year-old Anabel Medina Garrigues was born and resides in Valencia, where she did not begin playing tennis until the ripe old age of 12. She is now 4-3 in WTA singles finals (she has won 6 ITF singles titles). Anabel wears fashions by the adi dassler company and chops with a Head axe. Anabel once said she prefers hard courts (she may have changed her mind about that by now), and that her favorite shot is her backhand down the line. Anabel is coached by Gonzalo Lopez.
Medina Garrigues career record
23-year-old Klara Koukalova was born and resides in Prague. Klara is now 1-6 in WTA singles finals; she won her first last month in s'Hertogenbosch (she has won 5 ITF singles titles). Klara wears Lacoste togs and has switched from a Wilson to a Fischer Pro Tour FT axe. She is a baseliner, used to prefer clay courts, but now favors grass, and likes her backhand. Klara is coached by David Kunst.
Koukalova career record
The main draw for Palermo had 8 seeds, with NO 1st-round byes. There were 4 qualifiers and 2 wild cards in the main draw. Qualifying finals were on Monday.
The time in Italy is UCT (GMT, Zulu, Greenwich...) plus 2 hours. That is 9 hours ahead of PDT in the US, 6 hours ahead of EDT. Early round play began at 3pm Monday, then at 4pm local time.
WTA SCOREBOARD: Cincinnati & Palermo
On Monday in Cincinnati, Ai Sugiyama & Camille Pin held a summit conference to discuss higher phosphorus levels for WTA players with Miss Chiquita Banana |
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Cincinnati, 1st Round, Mon-Tue loser's prize: $1,260 US; points: 1 #12 s1 Patty Schnyder SUI d NR wc Caroline Wozniacki DEN 6-3, 6-0 Tue
#15 s2 Vera Zvonareva RUS d #66 Meghann Shaughnessy USA 6-3, 6-3 Tue #19 s3 Jelena Jankovic SCG d #146 q Maria Emilia Salerni ARG 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 Tue #25 s4 Daniela Hantuchova SVK d #111 Liliah Osterloh USA 6-1, 6-2 Tue
*#177 q Bethanie Mattek USA d #29 s5 Marion Bartoli FRA 1-6, 6-4, 7-6(0) Tue #32 s6 Ai Sugiyama JPN d #90 Lindsay Lee-Waters USA 7-5, 6-2 Tue *#70 Sania Mirza IND d #36 s7 Anna-Lena Groenefeld GER 6-4, 6-3 Tue *#120 Tatiana Panova RUS d #41 s8 Kveta Peschke CZE 6-4, 7-6(6) Mon
*#123 q Sybille Bammer AUT d #55 Iveta Benesova CZE 7-5, 6-3 Tue *#124 Chanda Rubin USA d #64 Laura Granville USA 6-3, 6-4 Mon
#67 Shahar Peer ISR d #102 Yuliana Fedak UKR 6-2, 6-3 Mon #68 Kristina Brandi PUR d #182 wc Jessica Kirkland USA 6-3, 6-1 Mon
#72 Akiko Morigami JPN d #295 q Cory Ann Avants USA 6-3, 6-4 Tue *#84 Aiko Nakamura JPN d #74 Abigail Spears USA 6(4)-7, 6-0, 6-3 Mon *#80 Yoon Jeong Cho KOR d #76 Alina Jidkova RUS 7-6, 6-3 Mon #95 Camille Pin FRA d #144 Anne Kremer LUX 7-5, 6-2 Tue |
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Cincinnati, 2nd Round, Weds-Thurs CincyPost Wed story loser's prize: $2,155 US; points: 16 #12 s1 Patty Schnyder SUI d #84 Aiko Nakamura JPN 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 Wed
*#72 Akiko Morigami JPN d #15 s2 Vera Zvonareva RUS 6-3, 6-2 Thu
#19 s3 Jelena Jankovic SCG d #123 q Sybille Bammer AUT 6-3, 7-5 Thu
#25 s4 Daniela Hantuchova SVK d #124 Chanda Rubin USA 6-2, 7-5 Wed
*#67 Shahar Peer ISR d #32 s6 Ai Sugiyama JPN 5-7, 7-6(6), 6-4 Wed
*#70 Sania Mirza IND d #68 Kristina Brandi PUR 7-6(5), 7-5 Thu #80 Yoon Jeong Cho KOR d #120 Tatiana Panova RUS 6(6)-7, 6-2, 6-2 Wed *#177 q Bethanie Mattek USA d #95 Camille Pin FRA 6-3, 2-0 retired-- respiratory pain Thu |
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Cincinnati, QFs, Fri loser's prize: $3,900 US; points: 30 #12 s1 Patty Schnyder SUI d #67 Shahar Peer ISR 7-6(1), 6-2
*#177 q Bethanie Mattek USA d #19 s3 Jelena Jankovic SCG 6-1, 0-6, 6-2
#25 s4 Daniela Hantuchova SVK d #80 Yoon Jeong Cho KOR 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-1
*#72 Akiko Morigami JPN d #70 Sania Mirza IND 6-4, 6-3
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Cincinnati, SFs, Sat 3pm loser's prize: $7,400 US; points: 55 #12 s1 Patty Schnyder SUI d #177 q Bethanie Mattek USA 6-4, 6-1
*#72 Akiko Morigami JPN d #25 s4 Daniela Hantuchova SVK 6-4, 6-4
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Cincinnati, Final, Sun loser's prize: $14,280 US; points: 85 winner's prize: $27,000 US; points: 120 #12 s1 Patty Schnyder SUI d #72 Akiko Morigami JPN 6-4, 6-0 |
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Cincinnati, Doubles Final, Sun loser's prize: $4,150 US winner's prize: $8,000 US *cdr137 s3 Laura Granville & Abigail Spears d cdr96 s1 Kveta Peschke & Maria-Emilia Salerni 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 Cincinnati, Qual Finals, Mon Jul 18 loser's prize: $630 #123 Sybille Bammer AUT d #287 Neha Uberoi USA 6-1 7-6(7) #146 Maria Emilia Salerni ARG d #400 Diana Ospina USA 7-5, 1-6, 6-3 #177 Bethanie Mattek USA d #463 Liga Dekmeijere LAT 6-2, 6-2 #295 Cory Ann Avants USA d #470 Tetiana Luzhanska UKR 7-5, 6-3 Cincinnati, Withdrawals #46 Fabiola Zuluaga COL #52 Mashona Washington USA #56 Maria Vento-Kabchi VEN #60 Jill Craybas USA |
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Palermo, 1st Round, Mon-Tue loser's prize: $1,000 US; points: 1 *#128 Tszvetana Pironkova BUL d #21 s1 Silvia Farina Elia ITA 7-6, 2-0 retired Tue #28 s2 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #69 Antonella Serra Zanetti ITA 6-2, 7-5 Tue #33 s3 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP d #79 Denisa Chladkova CZE 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 Tue #39 s4 Nuria Llagostera Vives ESP d #78 Alyona Bondarenko UKR 6-2, 6-0 Tue #40 s5 Klara Koukalova CZE d #114 q Anastasiya Yakimova BLR 6-2, 7-6 Tue #51 s6 Marta Domachowska POL d #91 Michaela Pastikova CZE 6-3, 6-2 Tue #58 s7 Roberta Vinci ITA d #77 Martina Sucha SVK 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 Mon *#71 Mariana Diaz-Oliva ARG d #59 s8 Katarina Srebotnik SLO 6-3, 6-3 Tue #61 Anna Smashnova ISR d #94 Arantxa Parra Santonja ESP 6-3, 6-2 Tue #63 Jelena Kostanic CRO d #122 L Dominguez Lino ESP 2-6, 6-2, 6-2Mon *#156 LL Martina Muller GER d #65 Lucie Safarova CZE 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 Tue #93 Catalina Castano COL d #262 q Romina Oprandi ITA 6-4, 6-4 Tue *#173 Nathalie Vierin ITA d #107 Selima Sfar TUN 6-4, 6-2 Tue *#148 C Martinez-Granados ESP d #109 M Sanchez Lorenzo ESP 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 Tue #113 Emmanuelle Gagliardi SUI d #180 LL Kirsten Flipkens BEL 6-2, 2-6, 6-1 Tue #149 q Maret Ani EST d #208 q Elena Vesnina RUS 7-6, 6-3 Tue |
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Palermo, 2nd Round, Wed-Thu loser's prize: $1,825 US; points: 12 #28 s2 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #113 Emmanuelle Gagliardi SUI 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 Thu #33 s3 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP d #148 Con. Martinez-Granados ESP 7-5, 6-2 Wed *#156 LL Martina Muller GER d #39 s4 Nuria Llagostera Vives ESP 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 Thu #40 s5 Klara Koukalova CZE d #149 q Maret Ani EST 6-2, 1-6, 6-3 Thu *#173 Nathalie Vierin ITA d #51 s6 Marta Domachowska POL 6-3, 6-2 Wed #58 s7 Roberta Vinci ITA d #63 Jelena Kostanic CRO 7-5, 6-3 Wed *#128 Tszvetana Pironkova BUL d #61 Anna Smashnova ISR 7-6(0), 6-4 Wed #71 Mariana Diaz-Oliva ARG d #93 Catalina Castano COL 6-1, 7-6(6) Thu |
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Palermo, QFs, Fri loser's prize: $3,400 US; points: 24 #28 s2 Flavia Pennetta ITA d #58 s7 Roberta Vinci ITA 6-1, 4-6, 7-6(3) #33 s3 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP d #71 Mariana Diaz-Oliva ARG 7-5, 6-1 #40 s5 Klara Koukalova CZE d #156 LL Martina Muller GER 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-2 #128 Tszvetana Pironkova BUL d #173 Nathalie Vierin ITA 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 |
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Palermo, SFs, Sat loser's prize: $6,300 US; points: 43 *#40 s5 Klara Koukalova CZE d #28 s2 Flavia Pennetta ITA 6-4, 6-0 #33 s3 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP d #128 Tszvetana Pironkova BUL 6-4, 6-2 |
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Palermo, Final, Sun loser's prize: $12,000 US; points: 67 winner's prize: $22,000 US; points: 95 #33 s3 Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP d #40 s5 Klara Koukalova CZE 6-4, 6-0 |
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Palermo, Doubles Final, Sat loser's prize: $3,475 US winner's prize: $6,500 US *cdr275 Giulia Casoni & Mariya Koryttseva d cdr201 s4 Klaudia Jans & Alicja Rosolska 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 Palermo, Qual Finals, Mon Jul 18 loser's prize: $550 US #114 Anastasiya Yakimova BLR d #156 Martina Muller GER 6-4, 6-4 #149 Maret Ani EST d #191 Nika Ozegovic CRO 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 *#208 Elena Vesnina RUS d #180 Kirsten Flipkens BEL 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 *#262 Romina Oprandi ITA d #202 Mariya Koryttseva UKR 6-3, 6-2 Palermo, Withdrawals #81 Zuzana Ondraskova CZE #83 Laura Pous Tio ESP #98 Emilie Loit FRA #115 Ludmila Cervanova SVK |
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