Baku Cup

[Kirijax]

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Name: Baku Cup
Place: Baku, Azerbaijan
Date: Jul 27 - Aug 02
Tier: International
Prize Money: $250,000
Surface: Hard

Official Site

Draws: Singles / Doubles

Seeds:
No. 1 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (lost in semifinals)
No. 2 Karin Knapp (lost in semifinals)
No. 3 Dominika Cibulkova (lost in 1st round)
No. 4 Kurumi Nara (lost in 1st round)
No. 5 Bojana Jovanovski (lost in 1st round)
No. 6 Dropped Out
No. 7 Vitalia Diatchenko (lost in quarterfinals)
No. 8 Francesca Schiavone (lost in 1st round)

 

[Kirijax]

Monday's Results!

Round 1
(1)Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. Elizaveta Kulichkova (RUS) 36 62 76(4)
Margarita Gasparyan (RUS) d. (3)Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 63 75
Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) d. (5)Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 76(6) 75
Donna Vekic (CRO) d. (8)Francesca Schiavone (ITA) 64 62
(WC)Oleksandra Korashvili (UKR) d. (WC)Zuleykha Safarova (AZE) 60 60
Alexandra Panova (RUS) d. (WC)Magda Linette (POL) 64 61

Three seeds (Ciblukova, Javanovski and Schiavone) crash out in the first round. Top seed Pavlyuchenkova almost gets upset as well but hangs on in a final set tie break.

 

[GameSetAndMath]

I like the name of #6 seed.

 

[Kirijax]

I like the name of #6 seed.

Could not for the life of me find out who dropped out. So it's Miss Dropped Out from the land of Didnotshowup.

 

[kskate2]

Franny got to the QF of Istanbul so she's probably tired. Cibby isn't quite back yet. No excuse for Jovanovski as that was a winnable match.

 

[Kirijax]

Tuesday's Results!

Round 1
O Savchuk (UKR) bt K Nara (JPN) (4)6-3, 6-2
V Diatchenko (RUS) (7) bt N Abduraimova (UZB)6-3, 6-4
K Bondarenko (UKR) bt V Ivakhneko (RUS)6-1, 6-2
Z Yang (CHN) bt Y Beygelzimer (UKR)6-3, 0-0 retired
P Tig (ROM) bt O Ianchuk (UKR)6-4, 6-2
L Zhu (CHN) bt K Pliskova (CZE)3-6, 7-5, 6-3
A Kontaveit (EST) bt M Eguchi (JAPAN)7-5, 6-2
K Flipkens (BEL) bt C Buyukakcay (TUR)6-1, 6-73, 6-4

Draw

 

[kskate2]

What is Pliskova doing? She's been losing to nobodies lately! :cover

 

[Kirijax]

Wednesday's Results!

Round 1
K Knapp (ITA) (2) bt S Voegele (SWI)6-1, 6-4
E Rodina (RUS) bt D Kovinic (MNE) (9)6-0, 2-0 retired

Round 2
M Gasparyan (RUS) bt Z Yang (CHN)6-4, 6-4
D Vekic (CRO) bt L Zhu (CHN)6-4, 0-6, 6-3
A Panova (RUS) bt A Hlavackova (CZE)7-6(4), 6-2

 

[kskate2]

I think Karen Knapp will get this title. She was very close to winning last week. Was up a set on Stosur in Bad Gastein in the final.

 

[Kirijax]

Friday's Results!

Quarterfinals
(1) A Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) bt K Flipkens (BEL) 6-1, 6-3
(2) K Knapp (ITA) bt A Panova (RUS) 6-2, 7-6(4)
M Gasparyan (RUS) bt E Rodina (RUS) 6-3, 6-2
P Tig (ROM) bt D Vekic (CRO) 6-3, 6-2

Pavlyuchenkova (I can now spell that without checking once!) and Knapp appear to be heading for a showdown. Like kskate2 said, Knapp should be itching for a title after that near miss against Stosur last week.

 

[Kirijax]

Whoa! Knapp was down 6-4 3-0 and facing a break point when I went to do something, then I come back to see her leading 3-6, 7-5, 2-0. :eyepop

 

[Kirijax]

I should have stayed away. Knapp loses the third set 6-3. No title again. Who is this Gasparyan? And Plavlychekova losing as well? To.....Tig?

 

[Kirijax]

Saturday's Results!

Semifinals

P Tig (ROM) bt A Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) (1) 6-3, 6-2
M Gasparyan (RUS) bt K Knapp (ITA) (2) 6-3, 5-7, 6-3

Two unseeded players upset the top two seeds to advance to the final! No 112 Margarita Gasparyan of Russia will take on No. 154 Patricia Maria Tig of Romania. It will be the first title for either player.

 

[Hoergren]

The weird or strange WTA tournament in Baku has come to an end. It's THE international tournament with the fewest spectators - this is a picture from the center court at the final today - not many to make an atmosphere is it - max 500 in the whole hall ( there can be 10000)

Congrats to Margarita Gasparyan (RUS) for her first win we'll see a lot more to her in the future:

Margarita Gasparyan (RUS) d [Q] Patricia Maria Tig (ROU) 63 57 60

 

[Hoergren]

Here is the picture of the finalists as brought 6 hours after the event took place - shame on you WTA - you can do better:

 

[GameSetAndMath]

They were lazy because both of them were outside 100 players.

 

[Kirijax]

Here is the picture of the finalists as brought 6 hours after the event took place - shame on you WTA - you can do better:

Thanks for posting it hoergren! I looked all over for it last night before finally giving up and going to bed.