Dubai Duty Free 500 2016

[golds girl]

Dubai started 2/15 and looks like we have quite a few top-tier ladies in this one
Highlighted names won their first round matches!

Player Name
SIMONA HALEP (WC)
GARBIÑE MUGURUZA
CARLA SUÁREZ NAVARRO
PETRA KVITOVA (WC)
BELINDA BENCIC
KAROLINA PLISKOVA (WC)
ROBERTA VINCI
SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA
JELENA JANKOVIC
ANA IVANOVIC
ELINA SVITOLINA
SARA ERRANI
ANDREA PETKOVIC
ANNA KAROLINA SCHMIEDLOVA
KRISTINA MLADENOVIC
EKATERINA MAKAROVA
DARIA GAVRILOVA
LESIA TSURENKO
CAROLINE GARCIA
CAMILA GIORGI
BARBORA STRYCOVA
COCO VANDEWEGHE
JULIA GOERGES (WC)
MADISON BRENGLE

 

[golds girl]

RE: Dubai Duty Free 500

Day 3 Order of Play

Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) VS Caroline Garcia (FRA) 6-4, 4-6, 3-6
Madison Brengle (USA) VS Petra Kvitova (CZE) 0-6, 7-6, 6-3
Simona Halep (ROU) VS Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 7-6, 6-2
Elina Svitolina (UKR) VS Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) 7-6, 6-3
Barbora Strycova (CZE) VS Julia Goerges (GER) 2-6, 6-3, 6-1
Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) VS Sara Errani (ITA) 6-3, 6-0
CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) VS Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 7-5, 3-6, 6-4
Andrea Petkovic (GER) VS Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 6-3, 6-2

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8tDgVqocp0[/video]

 

[10isfan]

Just watched Mugu. Has she ever heard of the concept of hitting with margin? All she had to do was keep the ball on the court. Sam didn't help with his comments during the coaching session. She might be better off with someone else.

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTPeH36ukxY&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[golds girl]

Just watched Mugu. Has she ever heard of the concept of hitting with margin? All she had to do was keep the ball on the court. Sam didn't help with his comments during the coaching session. She might be better off with someone else.

No. It's all or nothing with her:nono
Day 3 results above

 

[golds girl]

Day 4 Order Of Play

With Kvitova out, it's anyone's game since no one listed below is super consistent...:huh:

Caroline Garcia (FRA) VS Andrea Petkovic (GER) 6-3,6-4

Sara Errani (ITA) VS Madison Brengle (USA) 4-6,6-1,6-4

Ana Ivanovic (SRB) VS Barbora Strycova (CZE) 6-7,3-6

Coco Vandeweghe (USA) VS Elina Svitolina (UKR) 4-6,6-1,2-6

 

[Hoergren]

Must be first time we have NO seeds in the quarters at a premier event:nono

 

[golds girl]

Must be first time we have NO seeds in the quarters at a premier event:nono

Don't know about the history, but I do know this quarterfinal lineup looks rather '250'-esque rather than the 500 Premier it is.

 

[Hoergren]

Caroline in Dubai to help DDF promoting - playing Doha next week

 

[golds girl]

Not too much interaction on this tourney but that Brengle vs. Errani match was terrible.
Caught the last set with Brengle during the breaks moaning about how tired she was. Not hurt...just tired. She really needs to improve her fitness if she wants to go past quarterfinals in any tourney.
Needless to say Errani (who is very fit) takes it in three. :nono

 

[golds girl]

SEMIFINALS

Interesting that the commentators made the same points Hoergren and I made regarding the lack of seeds and consistency among the ladies left...therefore hard to predict outcomes.

Sara Errani (ITA) VS Elina Svitolina (UKR)

Barbora Strycova (CZE) VS Caroline Garcia (FRA)

 

[Hoergren]

Errani in the final 64 64

 

[Hoergren]

Fantastic semi with feisty Strycova as winner - well done - even if it was shaky business:clap

 

[golds girl]

Thanks Hoergren!

Final

It's the West vs. East or in terms of rankings # 22 vs. #47 in a 500 level event!!:eyepop

Sara Errani (ITA) vs. Barbara Strykova (CZE)

 

[tossip]

boring event...

 

[Hoergren]

And the winner is Sara Errani 60 62 winning her biggest title until now

Just a really bad day at the office for Strycova - nothing functioned today

 

[golds girl]

Definitely not the most impressive tournament in turns of overall quality.
However you play who's in front of you so congrats to Errani on a 500Premier Championship and loads of ranking points

 

[tossip]

disaster final..those fans were short changed.

 

[Hoergren]

Definitely not the most impressive tournament in turns of overall quality.
However you play who's in front of you so congrats to Errani on a 500Premier Championship and loads of ranking points

Dubai was actually NOT a premier 500 tournament but Doha is