WTA week of 4/4; Charleston 500 & Bogota 250

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And now we're on the dirt.

56-player field in Charleston, top 8 byes. Sabalenka & Padosa headline, Iga & Collins withdrew. Play begins Monday at 10 am Eastern.

Draw pdf


Bogota is understandably pretty weak. Osorio & Haddad Maia are top two.

Draw pdf

 

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Day 1 Charleston OoP, Konjuh v. Linda Fruhvirtova gets us started.

 

[coolcamden]

^^^^thats a good 1st round match.

 

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Qualifiers are in.

Spoiler

 

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Charleston’s official site is actually better than most these days.

Credit One Charleston Open

www.creditonecharlestonopen.com

 

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Linda over Konjuh in 3, Kalinina beat Sasnovich.

Cornet with the fun scoreline of 6-0, 0-3 now.

 

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Alize reels off 6 games to end it in straights.

 

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Amanda v. Vickery warming up.

 

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27-minute bagel from AA.

 

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7-5 in the second to end it.

 

[coolcamden]

Petra retired from her match. She’s been struggling mightily lately.

 

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78-minute first set for Rogers over Kanepi. Not exactly a how-to clinic of good tennis.

 

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Kaia finally won.

 

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Begu beats Xin. Wang to end a long, slow day 1.

 

[tennis4me]

These green clay courts are not pleasant to watch on small screens.

 

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Belinda serving to stay against Xiy. Wang @ 3-5 in the second.

 

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She holds & breaks to 5-all.

 

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Linette beats Volynets in a second set breaker, gets Leylah next.

 

[tennis4me]

Bencic is trailing in 2nd set tiebreak. Need to take 2nd set to stay in the match.

 

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Belinda survives a breaker from down 2-5 to force a decider.

 

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Belinda is through to face the 16-year old.

 

[tennis4me]

Linda v. Belinda in RE. Never met before. Hopefully it's a competitive match

 

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Here' some red clay to cleanse the palette.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1511407325755555842

 

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Sloane drops the first to Zheng.

 

[coolcamden]

Ted Robinson commentating is making me throw up

 

[tennis4me]

Zheng has decent first serves when she's gets them in, but made a few DF. Sloane not looking sharp, lots of wild FH/BH missing by a mile. Zheng groundies is much more solid than Sloane.

Sloane down 3 breaks at 0-5!

 

[tennis4me]

Bagel served to Sloan. 6-3,4-6,6-0.

 

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Some 22-year old Ukranian named Zavatska takes the first over Karolina.


Looks like her last main draw match was February '21 in Portoroz.

 

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They're trying to finish quickly now.

Due to severe inclement weather, including the threat of a possible tornado, the Credit One Charleston Open will cancel its night session on Tuesday, April 5.

 

[tennis4me]

Yeah, since morning the Charleston forecast has been showing "Tornado Watch".

 

[zvelf]

Some 22-year old Ukranian named Zavatska takes the first over Karolina.

Looks like her last main draw match was February '21 in Portoroz.

An informational screen on the tv said 22-year old Zavatska has career earnings of a little over $500,000. She only has 28 matches total on the WTA Tour, so I guess it's possible to make close to $100,000 a year on the ITF? Is that typical?

 

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And we're done for today with two matches suspended, two postponed.

 

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Never a dull moment with CoCo.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1511469082880712714

 

[Harry_Wild]

Vandeweghe still playing huh? What is her ranking now?

 

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More rain forecast next two days, this could get ugly.

 

[tennis4me]

Never a dull moment with CoCo.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1511469082880712714

It looks like initially Gasanova was waiting for chair umpire to check mark that's why she wasn't shaking hand. Then after the mark was confirmed, she walked to the net, ready to shake hand, but Coco refused and just waived her racquet instead.

Never a dull moment. Even the way Coco walks seems so in-your-face.

 

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Zavatska served for the match against KP @ 5-4 in the second, was broken, then all over after that.

Aryna serving @ 5-3 in the first against Riske now.

 

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Aryna is finally through, not real pumped with her effort.

 

[tennis4me]

Linda Fruhvirtova, the up-and-coming teenage lost in straight set to Bencic 6-1,7-6.

Good effort, but lots of room for improvement from serves, returns, etc. That's a decent result for #188 vs #21.

 

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Opening breadstick for Paula over Bondar.

 

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This day is about to be over also, thanks to Ms. Nature.

 

[tennis4me]

How many times do we see matches "delayed due to lightning"?

 

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Shockingly, we're back with Kanepi about to finish Frech & Jabeur/Navarro underway.

 

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Jabeur takes the first over the other Emma @ 3.

 

[JackieTreeh0rn]

Aryna is finally through, not real pumped with her effort.

What do you think about anisimova vs sabalenka next round?

 

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I'm the rare fan of both, but I'll pick Aryna to win simply because she needs to get on a little run at some point.

 

[JackieTreeh0rn]

I'm the rare fan of both, but I'll pick Aryna to win simply because she needs to get on a little run at some point.

I too like both players - I’m hoping anisimova can make a good run and sort stuff out. May be tough given coaching situation.

 

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Begu beat Tomljanovic, Jabeur suspended 1 game from finish, Fernandez/Linette postponed.

 

[Harry_Wild]

Vandeweghe is ranked in the #166 and is 30 years old! In 2017, she’s was the Keys and Stephens for the USTA, big up and comer, toted top 10! Looks like she was hurt, had mental problems and lost her tennis game. She finally got back to tennis in the ITF where she made it to Semis of a $60K tournament, lost 1st rd. in AO. This is a big move for Vandeweghe, a rd. 16 in a level WTA 500.

Vandeweghe plays Pegula #13 rank!

 

[coolcamden]

Coco is interesting weird. She’s gone through some tough times, including losing a pinky finger to some weird disease. She’s always been arrogant, spunky type who thought she was better than she really was because of her success in doubles.
I do feel for these mid to late 20’s, even early 30’s who really hanging on and try to make another run up the ladder… or chasing past glory when they should just pack it in and retire. Top level Players like Pliskova, Kerberos, Kvitova, Venus, to middling like Linette, Coco, Kanepi… they are all financially secured. I will root for them, because Old Peeps…. but just stop one day already!