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Family Circle Cup
Charleston
Tuesday Summary
Singles - Second Round: (3) Marion Bartoli def. Vera
Dushevina 6-2 6-7(3-7) 6-4
A very tough start for Marion Bartoli, considering that
she needs a final here to add any points!
Singles - Second Round: (6) Sabine Lisicki def. (LL)
Andrea Hlavackova 2-6 6-3 6-4
This makes you wonder a bit what what would have
happened had Sabine Lisicki faced someone who had
actually managed to qualify.... She needs one more win
for the points to start counting, and more than that to
move in the rankings.
Singles - Second Round: (WC) Venus Williams def. (7)
Jelena Jankovic 7-5 6-0
Jelena Jankovic has to find a way to stop this. She was
up an early break in the first set of this, but couldn't
hold serve, and by the end of the first set, she had
ceased to be a factor. And she was defending
semifinalist points. That means she at once falls from
#17 to #20, and there is a chance she could fall still
lower.
Singles - Second Round: (9) Lucie Safarova def. (Q)
Mirjana Lucic 6-2 6-0
That's a real blow to Mirjana Lucic's Roland Garros
hopes. It's not yet enough points to count for Lucie
Safarova, but she looks almost certain to make the TOp
25 no matter what.
Singles - Second Round: (Q) Yaroslava Shvedova def. (12)
Yanina Wickmayer 6-2 7-6(7-2)
Keep this up and Yaroslava Shvedova just might be able
to get direct entry into Roland Garros. This will take
her from #150 to probably a little above #130. Yanina
Wickmayer, a quarterfinalist last year, loses some
points but will probably stay #30.
Singles - Second Round: (13) Nadia Petrova def. Jill
Craybas (Q) 2-6 7-6(8-6) 6-2
If green clay were still a significant surface, Jill
Craybas might still be Top Hundred. Even if she couldn't
win this, she certainly made it thrilling. But she
merely defends her points, meaning she will remain below
#130.
Singles - Second Round: (14) Polona Hercog def. Varvara
Lepchenko 6-3 6-2
Maybe Polona Hercog really and truly is over her slump.
She hasn't done much for her ranking yet, though.
Singles - Second Round: (17) Marina Erakovic def. Anna
Tatishvili 7-5 6-3
This will almost certainly take Marina Erakovic to at
least #44. And any results she earns on clay are
obviously good news.
Singles - Second Round: Galina Voskoboeva def. (Q) Paula
Ormaechea 6-2 6-3
Galina Voskoboeva is up to #45 or higher. It really does
make you wonder where she hid all this game for so long.
Singles - Second Round: Aleksandra Wozniak def. Barbora
Zahlavova Strycova 7-6(7-5) 6-2
Aleksandra Wozniak should gain three or four spots. One
more win would probably take her above #55.
Singles - Second Round: (Q) Stefanie Voegele def. Lucie
Hradecka 6-4 6-4
Stefanie Voegele is up to about #120.
Doubles - First Round: (1) Huber/Raymond def. Lisicki/Zvonareva
6-2 6-2
Doubles - First Round: (2) Peschke/Srebotnik def.
Benesova/Zahlavova Strycova 6-3 7-5
The good news here is that Katarina Srebotnik seems
finally to be coming around. But the truly interesting
news is that this match reminds us that Kveta Peschke,
Iveta Benesova, and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova are all
Czechs. So are Andrea Hlavackova, Lucie Hradecka, and
even Vladimira Uhlirova. That's six Top Thirty doubles
players. So who will be on the Czech Olympic team?
Especially given that Peschke is retired from singles,
and Uhlirova effectively so, and all of the others are
ranked higher in doubles than singles; right now, only
Benesova can really be considered an effective singles
player....
Doubles - First Round: (3) Mirza/Vesnina def. Petrova/Voskoboeva
6-4 6-3
Elena Vesnina just took a big hit in the singles
rankings, but she is still a Top Ten doubles player....
