New Haven 2013: Open at Yale

[RJD11]

Speaking of Sunshine....How the heck did she move up to No8

in the rankings?...something wrong wit da computer?

So is the WTA rankings system. It's based on the actual last 52 weeks and "best" 16 tournaments - well that would be ideal but 8 tournaments has to count (slams + 4 mandatory). That's why Caroline can stay in the top 10 as she's got a lousy 2012 with 5 point in US Open and Wimbledon. But after US Open she can loose it again if she doesn't manage as well as last year - where she won in Moscau and Seoul. You can follow the development in Notes & netcords on WTA's homepage - here is a link to the newest:

Notes & netcords

I can tell you that the US open is interesting because that tournament is 1 of 8 mandatory tournaments (slams + 4 mandatory events) which counts with the points you get. Here is a list of what each player in the top 10 will loose:

Serena 2000
Vika 1400
Masha 900
Aga 280
Errani 900
Li 160
Marion 500
Caro 5
Petra 280
Kerber 280

That's called to defend the points. That's the only thing I think could be made better, as there's no bonus for winning the same tournament back to back. Hope you get a little idea of how the points system is built up, and believe me it's complicated

By the way New Haven Register is making articles about the games in New Haven and here's Caro's match:

Caro's match

Thanks hoergren!

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Day 2 Report

First, here are the scores:

MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 2013

FIRST ROUND
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) d Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN) | 6 - 2 | 2 - 6 | 7 - 6 (5) |
Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d [5] Roberta Vinci (ITA) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 3 |
Simona Halep (ROU) d Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1 |
Elena Vesnina (RUS) d Ayumi Morita (JPN) | 2 - 0 | RET
Klara Zakopalova (CZE) d [8] Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 3 |
Alison Riske (USA) d Stefanie Voegele (SUI) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 1 |
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d Sorana Cirstea (ROU) | 3 - 0 | RET
[6/W] Sloane Stephens (USA) d Anna Schmiedlova (SVK) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
Julia Goerges (GER) d Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) | 6 - 2 | 4 - 6 | 7 - 5 |
Karin Knapp (ITA) d Elina Svitolina (UKR) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 4 |
[4] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d Shuai Peng (CHN) | 2 - 6 | 3 - 1 | RET
Monica Puig (PUR) d Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) | 7 - 6 (4) | 6 - 1 |

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The news of the day was not only the 3 retirements or Klara's come from behind but something else that didn't make the highlights or even the news.
That's the advantage of having a correspondent on the spot.

So I will give you the story of the day but you have to read what wasn't the story of the day first!

The story of the day wasn't the fact that when "Sunshine" was suppose to come onto the court, it started raining, thus "Tennis Frontier Correspondent" had to leave on his 5.5 hour journey back home.

The story of the day wasn't the two hour grinder between Makarova and Wozniak, that match ended in a breaker, boy was it heartbreaking for The Canadian, she was playing so great...


The Story of the day was not Sloane's easy win, or her rather large entourage of guests, coach(that shouted "lets go" twice every game), supporters or the long line of young fans lining up both sides of the court waiting for her autograph.

It definitely wasn't Sabine's autograph session that had a loooong line.

Or the fact that a shy Petra cancelled her "announced" practice session on Sunday only to sneak in on Tuseday without fanfare(this story may not entirely be true!).

The STORY of the day was the fact that Aggie Radwanska showed up at the Connecticut Tennis Center for practices, she showed up late morning and practiced for about 2 hours, the story continued with her sister's sudden withdrawl from the tourny due to viral illness.

So there you have it.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Kui, you and I should hangout on Sunday. I'm in Jersey and thinking of going to the tourney, if there are tickets left.

Calvy,
The New Haven event ends on Saturday. I think there are still tickets available for the final, follow this link:
http://www.newhavenopen.com/TicketsAndTravel/daily_tickets/?intloc=headernavsub

I only attended the first 2 days, that was sesssion 1 which was Sunday(all matches), then there were 2 sessions on Monday, session 2 was day session and session 3 was the night session as Hoergren showed us the ad for it(which was a bust!).

If you are referring to the US Open opening(is it?) on Sunday, then you have me thinking...
I was thinking about doing a 1 day coverage of US Open!

 

[Hoergren]

Well Kiu did you miss this mascot - wonder if it wins this year
[video=youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvVa8rfXYU&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

I sure did miss the mascot!
The way things are going, the mascot may win it too!
Scores:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2013

SECOND ROUND
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d [7] Sabine Lisicki (GER) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 3 |
Klara Zakopalova (CZE) d Monica Puig (PUR) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 1 |
Elena Vesnina (RUS) d [2] Angelique Kerber (GER) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 4 |
FIRST ROUND
[3] Petra Kvitova (CZE) d Annika Beck (GER) | 4 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 3 |

2 of the seeds were knocked out! Daniela and Martina didn't get past the first match either.

Order of play today:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2013

STADIUM

13:00 - [1] SARA ERRANI (ITA) V EKATERINA MAKAROVA (RUS)
15:00 - [4] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN) V KARIN KNAPP (ITA)
15:00 - ALISON RISKE (USA) V [3] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE)
19:00 - JULIA GOERGES (GER) V [6] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA)
21:00 - [3] SANIA MIRZA / JIE ZHENG (IND / CHN) V KATALIN MAROSI / MEGAN MOULTON-LEVY (HUN / USA)

GRANDSTAND

12:00 - SIMONA HALEP (ROU) V CARLA SUAREZ NAVARRO (ESP)
14:00 - LUCIE HRADECKA / KLARA ZAKOPALOVA (CZE / CZE) V [2] ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES / KATARINA SREBOTNIK (ESP / SLO)
14:30 - SILVIA SOLER-ESPINOSA / CARLA SUAREZ NAVARRO (ESP / ESP) V SHUKO AOYAMA / ANDREJA KLEPAC (JPN / SLO)

 

[RJD11]

Sloane vs Goerges tonite on TennisTV


Sunshine vs Knapp about to begin

Knapp kinda looks like Kimmie-Poo

 

[special700]

Question about New Haven

Was New Haven once Pen Piolet? I told my sister that they were two different tournaments, but she's arguing with me that they just changed the name.

 

[djmm]

Caro is taking care of business, 6-1.

Thanks for the special reporting, Kiu

 

[djmm]

RE: Question about New Haven

Yes, it was once called the Pilot Penn.

 

[special700]

RE: Question about New Haven

Thanks DJ - so my sister was right.

 

[Hoergren]

A match where Caroline looked to be in control. Second set she felt bad and had the doctor on court. Surviving an unstable period end ending the mach ok. 30 centigrades and no shadows and humid, not the best conditions. Seems there is some sort of viral illness cirkulating in New Haven according to Eurosports commentators. Well hope she'll be all right tomorrow. Congrats with the win. Carlsberg in the cooler.

 

[Hoergren]

No special tennisplayers have birthday today - but I have so

 

[kskate2]

Happy Birthday Hoergren. Enjoy your day!

 

[tossip]

just another boring Sloane match...no personality

 

[kskate2]

Tossip, The men are playing in Winston-Salem. I believe Monfils is on tonight.

 

[kskate2]

RE: Question about New Haven

Special. New Haven is where the tournament is located so it's technically always been that. But for many years, Pilot Pen was the primary sponsor of the tournament so it was called Pilot Pen.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

New Haven 2013: 1/4 Finals

We have our scores and quarter finals are set.
Singles - Second round
[4] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d Karin Knapp (ITA) | 6 - 1 | 7 - 5 |
[6/W] Sloane Stephens (USA) d Julia Goerges (GER) | 7 - 5 | 2 - 6 | 6 - 1 |
[3] Petra Kvitova (CZE) d Alison Riske (USA) | 7 - 6 (5) | 4 - 6 | 6 - 3 |
Simona Halep (ROU) d Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 4 | 6 - 1 |
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) d [1] Sara Errani (ITA) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 1 |
- See more at: http://www.wtatennis.com/scores-and-stats#sthash.N9IM2j2S.dpuf

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The last 8 look like this.
Makarova vs. Halep
Caro vs. Sloane
Pavly vs. Petra
Klara vs. Elena

 

[Moxie]

No special tennisplayers have birthday today - but I have so

Happy birthday, Hoergren! :heart::hug I hope I'm not too late.

 

[10isfan]

Hoergren, happy birthday. I hope Woz wins her match to make your day extra special.

 

[Hoergren]

Happy birthday, Hoergren! :heart::hug I hope I'm not too late.

Thanks - no still 17 hours left of the day - so room for a lot of cheerful things - just pressed the button when it struck midnight in Denmark - so Americans in e.g. New Haven still have almost 23 hours

Maybe and idea to have a thread called members happy days. Then you could post if you have a jubilee, getting married, won a million etc.