BRD Bucharest Open 2014

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Bucharest, ROU 5-7 July, 2014 $250,000 - WTA International Red Clay

MAIN DRAW SINGLES

1 HALEP, Simona ROU
2 MLADENOVIC, Kristina FRA
3 KRUNIC, Aleksandra SRB
4 PANOVA, Alexandra RUS
5 CEPEDE ROYG, Veronica PAR
6 BUYUKAKCAY, Cagla TUR
7 ARRUABARRENA, Lara ESP
8 BECK, Annika GER

9 KOUKALOVA, Klara CZE
10 NICULESCU, Monica ROU
11 LIM, Aliz? FRA
12 QUALIFIER
13 PITER, Katarzyna POL
14 MITU, Andreea ROU
15 TATISHVILI, Anna USA
16 HERCOG, Polona SLO

17 SCHMIEDLOVA, Anna SVK
18 KUCOVA, Kristina SVK
19 KICHENOK, Nadiia UKR
20 DINU, Cristina ROU
21 QUALIFIER
22 KOVINIC, Danka MNE
23 OLARU, Raluca ROU
24 KNAPP, Karin ITA

25 CETKOVSKA, Petra CZE
26 CADANTU, Alexandra ROU
27 QUALIFIER
28 BEGU, Irina-Camelia ROU
29 SOLER-ESPINOSA, Silvia ESP
30 QUALIFIER
31 DULGHERU, Alexandra ROU
32 VINCI, Roberta ITA

Homeground for Halep and 7 other Rumanian players. 32 players in the draw with Halep as topseed.

It's first time it's held and of course it's because of the immense succes of Simona Halep

 

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Qualifying round 2 Sunday 6th of July - winners BLACK

Anastasia GRYMALSKA vs Aleksandrina NAYDENOVA
Ulrikke EIKERI vs Indy DE VROOME
Tamira PASZEK vs Vanda LUKACS
Sesil KARATANTCHEVA vs Reka-Luca JANI
Olga SAVCHUK vs Yulia PUTINTSEVA
Tereza MRDEZA (CRO) vs Annet KONTAVEIT
Elitsa KOSTOVA vs Denisa ALLERTOVA
Kiki BERTENS vs Daniela SEGUEL

Last round of qualifying is Monday and main draw starting Tuesday 8th July.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

I am surprised Halep is playing in this event,considering she picked up a ankle injury in the s/final at Wimbledon.To me she should have had time off to rest and get her body healthy for the up coming HC season.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

But this is home for Halep, this one is in Romania.

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
JUL 07 - JUL 13

 

[sk310]

Really bad idea for her to be playing here. Just ask Vika what coming back too soon can do to an injury.

She should go to the tournament make a lot of appearances do a lot of press and pull out. Health is more important.

 

[Si Si Simona]

Nice of you people to show interest in this low key event 1 day after Wimby.
The players level this year is much higher than its 2013 parallel in Budapest.
Simo said she plans to play again on Wednesday and she values very much her home fans. She said that coming back from grass to clay is harder than going from clay to grass.
Someone will be missing though.. She just cant bare the feeling of being a second fiddle to Simo and she plans on snatching the Montreal title from Genie
Oh Sorana, what went wrong?

My current rankings of Romanian players ability:
Simo, Begu, Monica, Sorana, Dulgheru, Kadantu.
The most dramatically improved player is Irina Begu who jumped from around 120 to 68 in the last 3 months. She will be top 50 soon if she keeps this level. She is solid when she is in form and healthy.

Yesss. I just made my first reasonable and logical post since Wimby started. I am proud of myself
Back to pizza and beer, enough with that strawberry cream thing

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Sorana is just having a terrible year, I hope she gets it together and bounces back strong into the hard court season.

 

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Qualifying finals (marked with a Q) all beginning at 14.00 + 1st round matches Monday 7.6.2014

Centre Court
14:00 - [1] Kiki Bertens (NED) v Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) Q 75 64
16:30 - [3] Klara Koukalova (CZE) V Monica Niculescu (ROU) 36 06
18:30 - Nadiia Kichenok (UKR) V Cristina Dinu (ROU) 06 36

Court 1
14:00 - Vanda Lukacs (HUN) V Elitsa Kostova (BUL) Q 36 57
15:00 - Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) V [5] Annika Beck (GER) 46 62 76
17:00 - [6] Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) V Kristina Kucova (SVK) 36 36

Court 2
14:00 - [3] Sesil Karatantcheva (KAZ) V [8] Indy De Vroome (NED) Q 75 62
15:00 - Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR) V Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR) 26 36
17:00 - Anna Tatishvili (USA) V [8] Polona Hercog (SLO) 46 36
19:00 - Ioana Ducu / Ioana Loredana Rosca (ROU / ROU) V Cagla Buyukakcay / Karin Knapp (TUR / ITA) 26 67

Court 3
14:00 - Anastasia Grymalska (ITA) V [5] Anett Kontaveit (EST) Q 46 46
16:00 - Oksana Kalashnikova / Aleksandra Krunic (GEO / SRB) V [2] Janette Husarova / Renata Voracova (SVK / CZE) 64 06 10-4

 

[Si Si Simona]

Simona declares herself healthy for Wednesday match and says she has no health problems.
The organizers arranged a little revenge match in R1 against Mladenovic who dared to beat her on the Paris carpet on February. We dont forget

Simo already played her hardest match yesterday, Check this out. Everyone holds a racket

[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZYFNfTvIk[/video]

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

^ Just adorable Si....I am happy Simona got through that match.

I am pleased to hear she is healthy,even though this is her home tournament etc,I felt that she needed some TLC and time off.

 

[Si Si Simona]

^ Just adorable Si....I am happy Simona got through that match.

I am pleased to hear she is healthy,even though this is her home tournament etc,I felt that she needed some TLC and time off.

Its her words. She said she is healthy and has no problems.
Who gave those kids all these rackets? what football? The little kids are insane about her.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

^ Just adorable Si....I am happy Simona got through that match.

I am pleased to hear she is healthy,even though this is her home tournament etc,I felt that she needed some TLC and time off.

Its her words. She said she is healthy and has no problems.
Who gave those kids all these rackets? what football? The little kids are insane about her.

.......:heart:

 

[Si Si Simona]

Event website in English http://www.brdbucharestopen.ro/en/

Hot weather 88F today, 90F tommorow. At least its not humid, only 35%. Humidity is the worse thing.

 

[Hoergren]

Roumanian TV is sending from Center court and you can see a stream on this link:

http://www.drakulastream.eu/tennis-live-streaming-video.html

 

[Si Si Simona]

Mladenovic chickens out and will not play v Simona - Just joking, I have no clue why she doesnt play.
Replaced by Indy De Vroome the Q lucky loser from Holland.

 

[Si Si Simona]

Monica Niculesko revenges her doubles partner Kookie by bageling her 6-3 6-0 in R1
Kookie hit her in the head with a mighty serve in the Wimby doubles, see my other thread.

Looks like they arent that friendly anymore, a cold hand shake. I expected a hug between two doubles partners who won a title and had success together. They dont play doubles here. Maybe that hit had its effect. who knows

I guess its a physical thing. Monica doesnt trust her anymore not to hit her in the head with her serve and she cant relax and focus on the match itself. She is with her back to the serve and gets nervous. Just using my imagination Shame, they were a good double.

 

[Si Si Simona]

14 (fourteen) Romanian girls started this tournament !
All 6 from the qualifiers are out, :blush: only 8 left in main draw.

 

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Order of play Tuesday, July 08, 2014

Centre Court
15:00 - [7] Petra Cetkovska (CZE) V Alexandra Cadantu (ROU) 63 62
17:00 - Raluca Olaru (ROU) V [4] Karin Knapp (ITA) 16 36
19:00 - Lyudmyla Kichenok / Nadiia Kichenok (UKR / UKR) V [4] Irina-Camelia Begu / Maria Irigoyen (ROU / ARG) 46 26
20:00 - Katarzyna Piter (POL) V Andreea Mitu (ROU) 60 16 76

Court 1
15:00 - Anett Kontaveit (EST) V Danka Kovinic (MNE) 16 46
17:00 - Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) V Alexandra Panova (RUS) 46 63 61
19:00 - Reka-Luca Jani / Veronika Kapshay (HUN / UKR) V Elena Bogdan / Alexandra Cadantu (ROU / ROU) 26 67

Court 2
15:00 - Paula Kania / Anna Tatishvili (POL / USA) V Tatiana Bua / Daniela Seguel (ARG / CHI) 61 62
16:30 - Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) V Sesil Karatantcheva (KAZ) 62 61
18:30 - Kiki Bertens / Tamira Paszek (NED / AUT) V T Curovic / E Kostova (SRB / BUL) 61 64
Court 3
15:00 - Alizé Lim (FRA) V Elitsa Kostova (BUL) 63 46 57

 

[tented]

Really bad idea for her to be playing here. Just ask Vika what coming back too soon can do to an injury.

She should go to the tournament make a lot of appearances do a lot of press and pull out. Health is more important.

Completely agree. They should understand what's more important.

 

[tented]

Roumanian TV is sending from Center court and you can see a stream on this link:

http://www.drakulastream.eu/tennis-live-streaming-video.html

A Romanian TV station which can be found on a streaming site called Dracula (well, close enough). That's funny.