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Family Circle Cup
Charleston
Tuesday Summary
Singles - First Round: (12) Yanina Wickmayer def.
Vania King 6-4 6-3
Yanina Wickmayer still needs two more wins to defend her
points, but it is almost certain that she will stay Top
Thirty even if she fails.
Singles - First Round: (13) Nadia Petrova def. (Q)
Mariana Duque-Marino 6-1 6-2
Nadia Petrova still has a few more points to defend, but
this should be enough to let her stay #35; she might
even climb a spot.
Singles - First Round: (17) Marina Erakovic def. (Q)
Karolina Pliskova 6-2 6-4
Marina Erakovic hasn't quite defended all her points
yet, but she's close. This might suffice to keep her at
#45; certainly she won't fall much even if she loses her
next match.
Singles - First Round: Anna Tatishvili def. Arantxa Rus
1-6 6-4 6-4
Anna Tatishvili still has points to defend, but this
should keep her around #85.
Singles - First Round: (Q) Yaroslava Shvedova def.
Alexandra Panova 6-0 6-4
Between qualifying and main draw points, this should
take Yaroslava Shvedova to around #130.
Singles - First Round: (Q) Jill Craybas def. (Q) Akgul
Amanmuradova 7-6(7-2) 7-6(8-6)
Jill Craybas is clearly fading, but green clay is
evidently still her surface. Unfortunately, she was
defending second round points, so she will still be
stuck around #135.
Singles - First Round: (WC) Venus Williams def. (Q)
Iveta Benesova 6-4 6-3
Iveta Benesova is Top Fifty; she shouldn't have been in
qualifying here. The points she earned didn't make any
difference -- but she wasn't defending anything, so she
should not fall. Venus Williams should gain about five
more ranking spots; she will probably be just below #80.
Singles - First Round: Varvara Lepchenko def. Anastasia
Yakimova 6-2 5-7 6-2
Varvara Lepchenko should rise above #75.
Singles - Second Round: (2) Samantha Stosur def. (WC)
Jamie Hampton 6-0 7-5
Samantha Stosur had a ridiculously hard time serving
this out, but she at last managed to break to finish it
off. Not that it will make any difference; she is going
to be #5 next week no matter what.
Singles - Second Round: (4) Vera Zvonareva def. Kateryna
Bondarenko 6-1 6-1
Vera Zvonareva became the first seed to reach the third
round, but because she has a larger sixteenth event
score than Serena Williams, she remains very much in
danger of losing her #9 ranking.
Singles - Second Round: (5) Serena Williams def. Elena
Vesnina 6-3 6-4
Just one more win might take Serena past Vera Zvonareva
in the contest for #9. But this is a terrible blow for
Elena Vesnina, who was last year's finalist; it looks as
if she will fall below #70.
Singles - Second Round: (8) Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
(WC) def. Eleni Daniilidou 3-6 6-4 6-4
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova has been struggling lately, so
this is a win she could really use. But she needs at
least a semifinal to improve her ranking.
Singles - Second Round: Anastasia Rodionova def. (10)
Anabel Medina Garrigues 7-5 6-3
Obviously something went wrong with Anabel Medina
Garrigues here -- she lost seven games in a row before
getting faintly back into things (whereupon Anastasia
Rodionova turned into Ms. Match Point Waster) -- but we
don't know what. She loses what could have been a chance
to reach the Top 25 here.
Doubles - First Round: (4) Hlavackova/Hradecka def.
Kops-Jones/Spears 6-3 6-1
Doubles - First Round: (WC) Pavlyuchenkova/Safarova def.
Dushevina/Erakovic 6-3 6-7(10) 11-9 (Match TB)
Doubles - First Round: Jans-Ignatik/Kudravtseva def.
(WC) Harman/Kalhorn 6-0 6-1
The singles draw here isn't much by Premier event
standards, but the doubles draw is something else -- the
top seven players in the world, and nine of the Top Ten;
only Maria Kirilenko is missing. A tough place for a
pair of unknown wildcards to try to make a dent!
Doubles - First Round: Grandin/Uhlirova def.
Klepac/Rosolska 7-5 6-2
