Oeiras 2013 -->Portugal Open

[Correspondent Kiu]

Does anyone know how to pronounce the name of this city in Portugal?

This is the only event this coming week before Madrid.
It's a good one!
For one thing, it's mixed, so both Ladies and Gents are playing.

Here is the website:
http://www.estorilopen.net/

This is an international level tourny, only 280 points, but look at the list of players, I only included the top 20

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Player Name Rank Nationality
Bartoli, Marion 11 FRA
Cibulkova, Dominika+ 15 SVK
Suarez Navarro, Carla 21 ESP
Pavlyuchenkova, Anastasia 25 RUS
Cirstea, Sorana 27 ROU
Lepchenko, Varvara 29 USA
Wickmayer, Yanina 30 BEL
Paszek, Tamira 31 AUT
Vesnina, Elena 32 RUS
Radwanska, Urszula 33 POL
Peng, Shuai 34 CHN
Shvedova, Yaroslava 35 KAZ
Cornet, Alize 36 FRA
Kanepi, Kaia 40 EST
Bertens, Kiki 42 NED
Robson, Laura 43 GBR
Kuznetsova, Svetlana+ 45 RUS
Schiavone, Francesca 47 ITA
Mladenovic, Kristina 48 FRA
Morita, Ayumi 50 JAP
(+ indicates wild card entry)

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Defending Champion is Kaia Kanepi

Qualifying rounds started today.

 

[rubydo]

Or e ras is as close as I can get to pronounce this city, in a region near Lisbon. County of Oriense(or e en see) hope that helps Kiu. Some talented ladies in the event. Men's side has some quality players too.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Since this is the only game in town, you all get the full treatment.

Day 1 scores:
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

SINGLES - FIRST ROUND
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d [6] Varvara Lepchenko (USA) | 6 (2) - 7 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2 |
Ayumi Morita (JPN) d Laura Robson (GBR) | 6 - 2 | 7 - 5 |
[5] Sorana Cirstea (ROU) d Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) | 6 - 2 | 2 - 6 | 6 - 1 |
[4] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d Marina Erakovic (NZL) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 0 |
Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d Anna Tatishvili (GEO) | 6 - 1 | 7 - 5 |
[7] Elena Vesnina (RUS) d Maria Joao Koehler (POR) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 1 |
SINGLES - QUALIFYING - FINAL ROUND
Aravane Rezai (FRA) d Vania King (USA) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2 |
Estrella Cabeza Candela (ESP) d Stephanie Foretz Gacon (FRA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 0 |
Shahar Peer (ISR) d Catalina Castano (COL) | 7 - 6 (1) | 6 - 4 |
Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) d Monica Puig (PUR) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 3 |
DOUBLES - FIRST ROUND
S Klemenschits / K Piter (AUT/POL) d [3] N Grandin / V Uhlirova (RSA/CZE) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 0 |

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Qualifying is done, no real surprises today other than the fact that I thought Laura would put up a better fight.

I am happy, Elena won.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Top seed went down in the first round, Peng took her down in 3 sets.

Marion Bartoli is having a terrible year, soon she will drop out of top 20

#2 Seed is gone too, Urszula Radwanszka(from here on refered to as U-Rad) beat Dominika in a tight 3 set match.

Here are the scores:

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

singles - First round
Shuai Peng (CHN) d [1] Marion Bartoli (FRA) | 6 - 0 | 1 - 6 | 6 - 4 |
Romina Oprandi (SUI) d Kiki Bertens (NED) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 3 |
Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) d Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 4 |
Urszula Radwanska (POL) d [2] Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) | 2 - 6 | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) | 6 - 2 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 3 |
Monica Puig (PUR) d [8] Julia Goerges (GER) | 7 - 6 (3) | 6 - 2 |
Monica Niculescu (ROU) d Tamira Paszek (AUT) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 3 |
Estrella Cabeza Candela (ESP) d Aravane Rezai (FRA) | 5 - 7 | 6 - 1 | 6 - 3 |
[3] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d Shahar Peer (ISR) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
Kaia Kanepi (EST) d Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 3 |

doubles - First round
S Foretz Gacon / E Hrdinova (FRA/CZE) d M Erakovic / L Robson (NZL/GBR) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 3 |
[1] R Kops-Jones / A Spears (USA/USA) d C Black / C Castano (ZIM/COL) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 3 |
T Paszek / A Tatishvili (AUT/GEO) d M Moulton-Levy / A Rosolska (USA/POL) | 5 - 7 | 6 - 4 | 10 - 6 |
N Bratchikova / V Lepchenko (RUS/USA) d S Araujo / J Vale Costa (POR/POR) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 2 |
[4] D Jurak / K Marosi (CRO/HUN) d V King / M Niculescu (USA/ROU) | 2 - 6 | 7 - 5 | 13 - 11 |

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This leaves Nastia Pavly and Carla Suarez as the top seeds.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Quarter-Finals are set, here are the scores:

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

singles - Second round
[3] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d Estrella Cabeza Candela (ESP) | 6 - 3 | 7 - 6 (4) |
[7] Elena Vesnina (RUS) d Monica Niculescu (ROU) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
Monica Puig (PUR) d Francesca Schiavone (ITA) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2 |
[4] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 3 |
Kaia Kanepi (EST) d [5] Sorana Cirstea (ROU) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 2 |
Ayumi Morita (JPN) d Urszula Radwanska (POL) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 3 |
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
Romina Oprandi (SUI) d Shuai Peng (CHN) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 3 |

doubles - First round
A Kudryavtseva / A Rodionova (RUS/AUS) d T Pereira / V Savinykh (BRA/RUS) | 6 - 4 | 4 - 6 | 10 - 4 |
[2] H Chan / K Mladenovic (TPE/FRA) d D Gavrilova / B Luz (RUS/POR) | 6 - 3 | 4 - 6 | 10 - 2 |

doubles - Quarterfinals
[1] R Kops-Jones / A Spears (USA/USA) d S Foretz Gacon / E Hrdinova (FRA/CZE) | 2 - 6 | 6 - 4 | 10 - 3 |
[4] D Jurak / K Marosi (CRO/HUN) d T Paszek / A Tatishvili (AUT/GEO) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 3 |

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

The Quarter Finals are completed, the Russian pair of Nastia and Elena fought an 2 hour 45 minute match that included two tie breakers, Nastia came out on top.


Scores:

Thursday, May 02, 2013

singles - Quarterfinals
[3] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d [7] Elena Vesnina (RUS) | 6 - 3 | 6 (3) - 7 | 7 - 6 (3) |
[4] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d Monica Puig (PUR) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 4 |
Romina Oprandi (SUI) d Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 2 |
Kaia Kanepi (EST) d Ayumi Morita (JPN) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 3 |

doubles - Semifinals
[4] D Jurak / K Marosi (CRO/HUN) d [1] R Kops-Jones / A Spears (USA/USA) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 1 | 10 - 8 |

doubles - Quarterfinals
A Kudryavtseva / A Rodionova (RUS/AUS) d S Klemenschits / K Piter (AUT/POL) | 6 - 0 | 7 - 5 |
[2] H Chan / K Mladenovic (TPE/FRA) d N Bratchikova / V Lepchenko (RUS/USA) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1 |

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defending Champion is still in it, Kuzy lost handily to Romina.

Romina Oprandi

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

The defending champion is out, Carla took care of that.

one of few people on the entire tour that uses a one handed backhand.

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Finals are set.

Scores:
Friday, May 03, 2013

singles - Semifinals
[3] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d Romina Oprandi (SUI) | 0 - 6 | 6 - 3 | 6 - 1 |
[4] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d Kaia Kanepi (EST) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 1 |

doubles - Semifinals
[2] H Chan / K Mladenovic (TPE/FRA) d A Kudryavtseva / A Rodionova (RUS/AUS) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 4 |

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[Correspondent Kiu]

we have a winner!

Saturday, May 04, 2013
singles - Final
[3] Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d [4] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 2 |

 

[jhar26]

Happy for Hingis.