Rio Olympics - Women's Tennis

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TV Viewing:

TV: Olympic Tennis

Match Schedule:

http://www.rio.itftennis.com/olympics/schedule

Saturday Matches

 

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Saturday Results

Ana Ivanovic (SRB) vs. Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 6-2, 1-6, 2-6
Madison Keys (USA) vs. Danka Kovinic (MNE) 6-3, 6-3
Saisai Zheng (CHN) vs. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 6-4, 7-5
Barbora Strycova (CZE) vs. Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 7-6(6), 6-1
Andrea Petkovic (GER) vs. Elina Svitolina (UKR) 6-2, 1-6, 3-6
Sara Errani (ITA) vs. Kiki Bertens (NED) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
Heather Watson (GBR) vs. Shuai Peng (CHN) 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3
Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) vs. Sloane Stephens (USA) 6-3, 6-3
Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) vs. Shuai Zhang (CHN) 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-7(7)
Lucie Safarova (CZE) vs. Karin Knapp (ITA) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
Ana Konjuh (CRO) vs. Annika Beck (GER) 7-6(5), 6-1
Magda Linette (POL) vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 0-6, 6-3
Ons Jabeur (TUN) vs. Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 6-3, 6-7(4), 1-6
Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) vs. Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 1-6, 4-6
Monica Niculescu (ROU) vs. Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR) 6-2, 6-3

 

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Agnieszka Radwanska and Venus Williams make sharp exits in Rio.



Agnieszka Radwanska and Venus Williams and were the highest profile casualties of the ladies singles on the opening Saturday of the Rio Olympic Games. Radwanska, representing Poland had spent 55 hours travelling to the Games and suffered illness prior to the opening weekend. She took out some of her frustrations with an uncharacteristic racquet smashing […]

 

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Saturday Results

Ana Ivanovic (SRB) vs. Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) 6-2, 1-6, 2-6
Madison Keys (USA) vs. Danka Kovinic (MNE) 6-3, 6-3
Saisai Zheng (CHN) vs. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) 6-4, 7-5
Barbora Strycova (CZE) vs. Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 7-6(6), 6-1
Andrea Petkovic (GER) vs. Elina Svitolina (UKR) 6-2, 1-6, 3-6
Sara Errani (ITA) vs. Kiki Bertens (NED) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3
Heather Watson (GBR) vs. Shuai Peng (CHN) 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3
Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) vs. Sloane Stephens (USA) 6-3, 6-3
Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) vs. Shuai Zhang (CHN) 7-6(4), 4-6, 6-7(7)
Lucie Safarova (CZE) vs. Karin Knapp (ITA) 4-6, 6-1, 6-1
Ana Konjuh (CRO) vs. Annika Beck (GER) 7-6(5), 6-1
Magda Linette (POL) vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 0-6, 6-3
Ons Jabeur (TUN) vs. Daria Kasatkina (RUS) 6-3, 6-7(4), 1-6
Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) vs. Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 1-6, 4-6
Monica Niculescu (ROU) vs. Veronica Cepede Royg (PAR) 6-2, 6-3

Oh Ana, enjoy your honeymoon. Bad timing.
Good for Madison.
Get off the slide Aggie!!!
Nice win for Heather.
Sloane, Sloane, Sloane.
Yay, Lucie won. I didn't know that.

 

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Ladies Doubles Sunday Roundup in Rio: Williams Sisters Crash Out In Opener



A huge upset unfolded in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday as Czech pairing Barbora Strycova and Lucie Safarova knocked out the reigning Olympic Doubles champions Serena and Venus Williams. The Czech duo shocked the sisters in straight sets 6-3, 6-4. The Williams sisters won the women’s doubles title at the 2000 Sydney Games and in […]

 

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Ladies Singles Sunday Roundup in Rio: Williams, Kerber, Muguruza, Wozniacki Advance



There were no real surprises in Sunday’s edition of the women’s Olympic tennis programme. Serena Williams swept into the second round with a comfortable win over Australia’s Daria Gavrilova 6-4 6-2. She took a while to come to terms with the blustery conditions and let the officials know her thoughts. Courts 1 and 2 had already […]

 

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Top Olympic tennis feats: Steffi Graf stands alone

From www.espn.com.au - Today, 11:55 PM

From Steffi Graf's historic 1988 gold medal to Andy Murray's thrilling triumph, here are our top Olympic tennis moments of all time.

for the record I WAS GRAF-SAMPRAS...as RICARDO reminds me.

and NO ONE, NO ONE can EVER be a greater fan of STEFFI GRAF THAN I. NO ............ONE...and i know quite a few ''private" stuff about steffi (from old online friends when she was still playing that shared with me personal stories of her who were also close to HER -and her mom...and i had a very, brief and very few occasions online to actually ''chat'' real-time with HEIDI herself -- but that's another story..and so know a few things about her family troubles and how it agonized her to try to keep family together under all the scandals and global criticisms, etc.) ...

I Mean -- i have old video tapes -- PRIVATE for her family and close friends only -- that were shared with me --of steffi trying to ge t'smuggled' to safety from the pyrihng eyes of papparazzi hounding her no end -- lying down on the floor of a van ...running in the back alleys -- or being so girlish and teasing and sticking her tonque out to tease HER employees in her design business office , or learning the ropes of business -- and trying to fix the tax problems of her dad with the government, driving with her brother to the PRISON where their dad was for a 15 minute allowed visit per MONTH -- Her CRYING as she drove

in her ANGER at her dad :"if he had such problems and coulnd't manage them -- WHY did he keep hiding it from us? if he needed help we could have gone to the government to ask them how to help fix it...why couldn't he trust ME to at least be old enough to understand that he had problems? "

that kind of thing...or how she LOVED to baby-sit her brother's little baby , or how she flew overnight between WIMBLEDON matches -- after surviving a match - while having had no sleep and severe sinus and her mom would rape her in hot towels telling her to try and sleep and then go to berlin to ask for medical permission to play the next day's match despite her knee and HIS warning not to do it...

or how steffi , at least in practice, actually had a SUPERB, VERY POWERFUL AND HEAVY TOPSPIN backhand which she rarely used in matches - (she used it more against hingis in FO 1999 which is the ONE that turned the tide in that match, few people realize that) --

i mean i know stuff like THAT...so no one can call me ''anti-steffi" AT ALL.



BUT AFTER STEFFI -- and even in her twilight in 1999 -- i ALREADY also was a fan of SERENA WILLIAMS...FOR it was ONLY serena that i saw even THEN would DESERVEDLY hold the crowns as Steffi once did -- as athlete, as tennis player, as competitor , and as champion -- who ALSO would have her share of troubles and criticisms

and stand tall.

so -- TODAY -- i ALSO SAY -- THAT SERENA WILLIAMS HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED THE HONOR OF ARGUABLY BEING CONSIDERED THE GREATEST PLAYER IN WOMEN'S TENNIS AS STEFFI ONCE WAS TO HER FANS.

AND QUITE ARGUABLY IS ON THE WAY TO BEING - WITHOUT ARGUMENT , EVEN GREATER THAN STEFFI.

ONLY A TRUE FAN OF GREAT, GREAT PLAYERS at the VERY , VERY top probably can say what I say -- and NOT feel WRONG...

But as a tennis fan and of greatness -- even say "i am vindicated in MY CHOICES".

I CHOSE STEFFI LONG AG0 -- as early as 1986 when she began to challenge BOTH navratilova and evert at the top of THEIR rivalry.

I CHOSE SERENA WHEN SHE challenged and defeated STEFFI IN 1998 INDIAN WELLS (and i and other fellow tennis online fans were literally LIVE'Chatting" with HEIDI - steffi's mom as we all watched 'together' -- and HEIDI HERSELF - confrmed what i and many others then -- all of US steffi fans -- felt:

"serena is going to go so far ..she is THAT good "

and so -- i simply am saying -- serena has now matched steffi in 22 majors, in 7 wimbledons, has HER own ''consecutive slams" even if not ''golden slam" - but TO ME that is good enough...

and is on the way to MORE -- AND THIS MEANS SERENA , if only in ''singles counts" etc..and all that -- has more or less equalled steffi in stature -- but even with MORE doubles titles and golds --

IT IS UNREASONABLE TO *NOT* consider serena williams as the greatest of ALL women's champions EVER...PERHAPS even of ALL TENNIS CHAMPIONS in the history of the game.

including over steffi graf -- if not by ''much" -- but what does THAT really matter?

SERENA WILLIAMS HAS EARNED IT.

SO -- from THIS STEFFI GRAF AND SERENA WILLIAMS FAN...

I SAY -- ACCORD SERENA HER PLACE -- AT THE VERY PINNACLE OF ALL TENNIS. MAN OR WOMAN.

 

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COME ON -- SERENA!!! FINISH OFF THIS VERY, very , very annoying CORNET!! LOL..

 

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THE GREAT SERENA WILLIAMS!!! YAY!!!

 

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NO ONE, NO ONE can EVER be a greater fan of STEFFI GRAF THAN I. NO ............ONE...

I'd have run you close

 

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Monday Report: Women’s Doubles in Rio – Hingis & Bacsinszky move into Round 3.



Switzerland’s Martina Hingis and Timea Bacsinszky successfully navigated through their second round match against Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and CoCo Vandeweghe in straight sets. The Swiss pair won 6-4 6-4 to keep their medal hopes alive. Embed from Getty Images The Russain pairing of Svetlana Kuznetsova and Darya Kasatkina defeated Misaki Doi and Eri Hozumi of Japan […]

 

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ANGELIQUE -- as she grows older -- and her features become more chiseled -- is more beautiful than when she had more ''baby-fat' on her face - has anyone noticed?

 

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I'd have run you close

hehe....NO ONE BUT NO ONE has been more OBSESSED as a steffi fan- believe me. lol. THAT is also ONE reason i got banned or ''moderated" elsewhere. lol.

but i am telling the truth - including about in some way ''indirectly'' in correspondence as among fans in those years - with her mom herself...

she used to chat online with us when the internet was new...and to just tell us '"steffi said thank you for your cards -- (online cards) - and please on her birthday don't send gifts to her --if you really want. just support her causes like animal rights, the clinics for war-traumatized or drug -trauma children -- she'll be happier that way: ..."

that kind of thing...

that's how i was involved -- online , mind you -- with heidi and our ''little steffi fan group" in an AOL tennis forum site -- ''quarreling" with SELES fans -- (her mom never did) -

as some of them hurled insults and even threats to steffi - especially from those who were so anry still about the stabbing ..of monica...

but heidi kept posting WITH the seles fans - bringing greetings and happy birhtday , holidays, etc...

and SHE - we were all involved -- arranged for a REALLY bitter, angry, very lonely boy -- a seles fan - who was bullied in school (he told ME in private after first hurling big letter insults at me and steffi and heiddi, lol)

and i told heidi this boy was so sad - but he ''confessed" to me in private in tiny, tiny, tiny font...

"shhhhhh- please don't tell my other seles fans -- but secretly i love steffi...please dont' tell them!! please -- "

and in in BIG BOLD COLORED LETTERS:

'BUT why WHY WHY DID THAT crazy guy have to stab monica./.WHY WHY WHY? "

so i privated heidi and she responded immediately adn said \


"thank you for letting me know -- i know -- i've also observed him -- he is angry and so bitter -- but you know maybe all he needs is our understanding and a little love? "

and THEN she started to send him christmas card

after AFTER he complained to ME in private "why, WHY, WHY DID HEIDI SEND CARDS ONLY TO YOU AND NOT ME? WHY?!! I WANT A CARD FROM STEFFI TOO!!"

and heidi said to me:

"oh -- i already sent to him -- he just has to check his e mail - he was the first steffi and i sent to - "

and then the boy did find them -- LOTS OF THEM -- more than for us steffi fans -- and also to seles fans...

and he goes on the MESSAGE BOARDS -- WITH BEAUTIFULLY COLORED posts...

;''STEFFI AND HEIDI SENT ME CARDS -- YAY!!!! I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!"

but it dodn't stop there -- since HE TOLD me in private that he wished he could meet monica...

heidi ARRANGED a personal meeting for him with monica in indian wells -- because HE - having good grades in eleemntary school got his vacation gift from his dad as reward...to go and see a tournament...

and heidi then arranged for monica to meet him....

and HE would ''report" to US in the message boards where he was that afternoon or this morning in indian wells....as HE tagged along WITH STEFFI AND HEIDI -- and practiced with steffi, !!!

and then they'd bring him to MONICA with whom he spent a whole afternoon -- 'COACHING HER"

because he was critical of some of her shots!!! what an IMPUDENT LITTLE BA STARD!

HAHA....

AND WE all had so much fun with that -- and heidi again arragned for him to see monica and steffi in MIAMI months later...and he said STeffi loved to TEASE him...

lke he'd forget to send her the ball back:

"hey -- that's MY ball - !!!" From her..and they'd hit a few times..and believe it or not --

he ended up having steffis and heidis 'DIRECT phone numbers!! but not us !! lol. he was so proud of that....but we were all so happy - because we became concerned that he was spneding so much time ''bothering everyone" about 'monjica, i hope steffi dies!!! i hope they die!!"

until we found out he was just a very lonely boy with no friends in school who was bullied and our little message board had become his ''safe zone" -- and i told him in private -- "you have to promise you have good grades in school - no matter what...and you can yell at me and other steffi fans all you want -- we'll take it - but you hae to promise to keep studying" because he was a gradA student...

and in the end -- the steffi and seles fans there became pretty good friends actually.

THEY'D root for MONICA in their folder or in ours -- and we'd do the opposite for STeffi --

but we all had a 'common project' -- to try and make sure this lonely , very bitter boy - knew we all cared about him -- adn in the end HE became part of steffi's ''extended famoly" for REAL.!!~

LOL.

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that's how i know some of these things. lol.