Toronto 2013: Rogers cup

[Fiero425]

Venus was quoted after her match "I have nothing else to do, might as well play tennis". What happened to all those outside interest the family was constantly saying the "sisters" had? Time after time they stated they would not always need tennis.

Unbelievable! Drag out the harps and violins! Please have her cry me a river! Nothing like someone in her position to feel sorry for herself while others are starving in the streets!

 

[RJD11]

Serena has Flipkins.

Wow, Surprising to see Flipper has won over

$1 mil dollars in prize money this year and

only $1.9 Mil in her career since 2003.

With only 1 career title.

She is ranked No 13.

 

[my sherona]

serena beat up an old and out of shape francesca.... nice.

 

[djmm]

Venus was quoted after her match "I have nothing else to do, might as well play tennis". What happened to all those outside interest the family was constantly saying the "sisters" had? Time after time they stated they would not always need tennis.

Maybe she didn't want to reveal them at that time. And btw, she still has Eleven and V*Starr. Venus likes to keep the reporters guessing!!

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

serena beat up an old and out of shape francesca.... nice.

Don't forget Serena is old too! But not so out of shape.

I have complete scores:

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 07, 2013

SECOND ROUND
Sorana Cirstea (ROU) d [9] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) | 5 - 7 | 7 - 6 | 6 - 4 |
[15] Jelena Jankovic (SRB) d Sharon Fichman (CAN) | 6 - 4 | 7 - 6 (6) |
[6] Petra Kvitova (CZE) d Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2 |
[4] Na Li (CHN) d Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 4 |
[16] Ana Ivanovic (SRB) d Flavia Pennetta (ITA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
[10] Roberta Vinci (ITA) d Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 4 |
[5] Sara Errani (ITA) d Klara Zakopalova (CZE) | 6 - 2 | 7 - 6 (2) |
Alize Cornet (FRA) d [11] Maria Kirilenko (RUS) | 7 - 5 | 7 - 5 |
[14] Sloane Stephens (USA) d Mona Barthel (GER) | 6 - 3 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 3 |
[12] Samantha Stosur (AUS) d Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) | 1 - 6 | 6 - 2 | 6 - 3 |
[1] Serena Williams (USA) d Francesca Schiavone (ITA) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2 |
[13] Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) d Kiki Bertens (NED) | 7 - 5 | 3 - 6 | 6 - 2 |
[7/W] Marion Bartoli (FRA) d Lauren Davis (USA) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 3 |
Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) d Varvara Lepchenko (USA) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2 |

Doubles - Second round
[3] A GROENEFELD / K PESCHKE (GER/CZE) D I BEGU / O GOVORTSOVA (ROU/BLR) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1 |
O KALASHNIKOVA / A ROSOLSKA (GEO/POL) D [5] S MIRZA / J ZHENG (IND/CHN) | 3 - 6 | 6 - 1 | 10 - 6 |
[2] E MAKAROVA / E VESNINA (RUS/RUS) D A KUDRYAVTSEVA / A RODIONOVA (RUS/AUS) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
[4] R KOPS-JONES / A SPEARS (USA/USA) D H CHAN / E HRDINOVA (TPE/CZE) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2 |

Doubles - First round
G DABROWSKI / S FICHMAN (CAN/CAN) D [8] A PAVLYUCHENKOVA / L SAFAROVA (RUS/CZE) | 6 - 4 | 6 (5) - 7 | 10 - 8 |
J JANKOVIC / K SREBOTNIK (SRB/SLO) D D CIBULKOVA / S HSIEH (SVK/TPE) | 6 (5) - 7 | 6 - 1 | 10 - 2 |

I watched most of Caro vs. Sorana, it was very entertaining to watch.

Sorana

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And of course the order of play:

THURSDAY, AUGUST 08, 2013

CENTRE COURT

11:00 - [3] AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL) V [14] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA)
13:00 - [16] ANA IVANOVIC (SRB) V [4] NA LI (CHN)
14:30 - [1] SERENA WILLIAMS (USA) V [13] KIRSTEN FLIPKENS (BEL)
19:00 - [6] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE) V [12] SAMANTHA STOSUR (AUS)

GRANDSTAND

11:00 - ALIZE CORNET (FRA) V [5] SARA ERRANI (ITA)
13:00 - MAGDALENA RYBARIKOVA (SVK) V [7] MARION BARTOLI (FRA)
14:00 - [15] JELENA JANKOVIC (SRB) V SORANA CIRSTEA (ROU)
16:00 - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK) V [10] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA)
18:00 - JULIA GOERGES / BARBORA ZAHLAVOVA STRYCOVA (GER / CZE) V [WC] DANIELA HANTUCHOVA (SVK) / MARTINA HINGIS (SUI) (SVK / SUI)

COURT 1

14:00 - OKSANA KALASHNIKOVA / ALICJA ROSOLSKA (GEO / POL) V [2] EKATERINA MAKAROVA / ELENA VESNINA (RUS / RUS)
16:00 - SANDRA KLEMENSCHITS / OLGA SAVCHUK (AUT / UKR) V GABRIELA DABROWSKI / SHARON FICHMAN (CAN / CAN)
18:00 - JELENA JANKOVIC / KATARINA SREBOTNIK (SRB / SLO) V [6] LIEZEL HUBER / NURIA LLAGOSTERA VIVES (USA / ESP)

It is crunch time Ladies, lets go!

 

[Calvy]

Interesting, no one really mentioned or dicussed Caroline losing to Cristea of all people. Or, is it just commentary on how Caroline game has diminished that it's not as big a topic anymore or surprise when she loses?

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

serena beat up an old and out of shape francesca.... nice.

You can only play who is across from you, and it isn't Serena's fault that Franny is out of shape, and Serena is only a year younger than Franny essentially and is still winning. What is Sharapova's excuse all these years getting beaten by Serena who is 5 years older than her and at times was out of shape when she did beat Sharapova?

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Interesting, no one really mentioned or dicussed Caroline losing to Cristea of all people. Or, is it just commentary on how Caroline game has diminished that it's not as big a topic anymore or surprise when she loses?

Did you watch it?
It wasn't surprising, these two know each other very well and are good friends, they even train together at times...
H2H was 3-2 in favor of Caro before the match, why would you say Sorana of all people? She was very qualified in beating Caro.
I did watch most of the match and as I mentioned above it was very entertaining to watch. Caro had 2 match point in the second set but could not convert, Sorana roared back and won the second set tie-breaker at love!
Caro's play was pretty good but Sorana was even better, Kudos to Sorana for a match well played, she was in the zone!
BTW, who says I don't love brunettes? I couldn't get enough Sorana last night!
:heart:

 

[djmm]

Interesting, no one really mentioned or dicussed Caroline losing to Cristea of all people. Or, is it just commentary on how Caroline game has diminished that it's not as big a topic anymore or surprise when she loses?

:nono

 

[Calvy]

Interesting, no one really mentioned or dicussed Caroline losing to Cristea of all people. Or, is it just commentary on how Caroline game has diminished that it's not as big a topic anymore or surprise when she loses?

Did you watch it?
It wasn't surprising, these two know each other very well and are good friends, they even train together at times...
H2H was 3-2 in favor of Caro before the match, why would you say Sorana of all people? She was very qualified in beating Caro.
I did watch most of the match and as I mentioned above it was very entertaining to watch. Caro had 2 match point in the second set but could not convert, Sorana roared back and won the second set tie-breaker at love!
Caro's play was pretty good but Sorana was even better, Kudos to Sorana for a match well played, she was in the zone!
BTW, who says I don't love brunettes? I couldn't get enough Sorana last night!
:heart:

I'm sorry you seem to take offense to what I wrote, but, sorry, entertaining match or not, Cristea is one of those players that beats a top player only once, maybe twice a year. I expect this match up to be one where Caroline comes through, and come through plenty comfortably. Cristea swings for the fences and usually hits the fences, literally, Caroline shold be taking advantage of that, especially considering she still somewhat of an "elite" player. I consider it another bad loss.

And so what they are good friends and train together, the Radwanska are even closer and train together, yet Aggie rolls over her sister.

As far as the blonde and brunette thing, it's interesting I only read certain blondes and brunettes are sweet, innocent and charming. So, what, Sloane Stephens, Heather Watson and Madison Keys are not worthy of those same descriptions.

 

[shawnbm]

Cirstea won--yeah!

 

[the AntiPusher]

Man.. Sloane is just so overrated.. She will always beat herself.. She has a go for broke Fh and that is IT.. Where is tossip!:snigger

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Interesting, no one really mentioned or dicussed Caroline losing to Cristea of all people. Or, is it just commentary on how Caroline game has diminished that it's not as big a topic anymore or surprise when she loses?

Did you watch it?
It wasn't surprising, these two know each other very well and are good friends, they even train together at times...
H2H was 3-2 in favor of Caro before the match, why would you say Sorana of all people? She was very qualified in beating Caro.
I did watch most of the match and as I mentioned above it was very entertaining to watch. Caro had 2 match point in the second set but could not convert, Sorana roared back and won the second set tie-breaker at love!
Caro's play was pretty good but Sorana was even better, Kudos to Sorana for a match well played, she was in the zone!
BTW, who says I don't love brunettes? I couldn't get enough Sorana last night!
:heart:

I'm sorry you seem to take offense to what I wrote, but, sorry, entertaining match or not, Cristea is one of those players that beats a top player only once, maybe twice a year. I expect this match up to be one where Caroline comes through, and come through plenty comfortably. Cristea swings for the fences and usually hits the fences, literally, Caroline shold be taking advantage of that, especially considering she still somewhat of an "elite" player. I consider it another bad loss.

And so what they are good friends and train together, the Radwanska are even closer and train together, yet Aggie rolls over her sister.

As far as the blonde and brunette thing, it's interesting I only read certain blondes and brunettes are sweet, innocent and charming. So, what, Sloane Stephens, Heather Watson and Madison Keys are not worthy of those same descriptions.

No offense taken Calvy but I do disagree with your presumption that Caro should have easily had this in the bag. How can one presume that when the H2H record is so close? It's all even now at 3-3

I wasn't sure about Caro coming out of her quarter, she lucked out when draw reshuffled because of Vika but I guess not lucky enough.

It's also interesting that you think it's interesting that certain posters like certain players more than others, isn't that the case for you?

 

[colleen66]

serena beat up an old and out of shape francesca.... nice.

"Old and out of shape Francesca" played some excellent tennis for about 20 minutes; she moved Serena around the courts and at one point had her pinned in the corner when she could only defend weakly. Franny just could not keep Serena from punishing her second serves and therefore had many double faults. Nice showing for brief periods of time considering that her best tennis is probably behind her. She is a fighter :clap Not a bad match for two 30+ year olds

 

[Calvy]

Interesting, no one really mentioned or dicussed Caroline losing to Cristea of all people. Or, is it just commentary on how Caroline game has diminished that it's not as big a topic anymore or surprise when she loses?

Did you watch it?
It wasn't surprising, these two know each other very well and are good friends, they even train together at times...
H2H was 3-2 in favor of Caro before the match, why would you say Sorana of all people? She was very qualified in beating Caro.
I did watch most of the match and as I mentioned above it was very entertaining to watch. Caro had 2 match point in the second set but could not convert, Sorana roared back and won the second set tie-breaker at love!
Caro's play was pretty good but Sorana was even better, Kudos to Sorana for a match well played, she was in the zone!
BTW, who says I don't love brunettes? I couldn't get enough Sorana last night!
:heart:

I'm sorry you seem to take offense to what I wrote, but, sorry, entertaining match or not, Cristea is one of those players that beats a top player only once, maybe twice a year. I expect this match up to be one where Caroline comes through, and come through plenty comfortably. Cristea swings for the fences and usually hits the fences, literally, Caroline shold be taking advantage of that, especially considering she still somewhat of an "elite" player. I consider it another bad loss.

And so what they are good friends and train together, the Radwanska are even closer and train together, yet Aggie rolls over her sister.

As far as the blonde and brunette thing, it's interesting I only read certain blondes and brunettes are sweet, innocent and charming. So, what, Sloane Stephens, Heather Watson and Madison Keys are not worthy of those same descriptions.

No offense taken Calvy but I do disagree with your presumption that Caro should have easily had this in the bag. How can one presume that when the H2H record is so close? It's all even now at 3-3

I wasn't sure about Caro coming out of her quarter, she lucked out when draw reshuffled because of Vika but I guess not lucky enough.

It's also interesting that you think it's interesting that certain posters like certain players more than others, isn't that the case for you?

I'm not talking about a players skill and the game they bring to the table. I'm speaking of looks, and that I only see caucasian girls mentioned as "beauties" "innocent" "sunshine" and "bubbly."

Sloane is quite attractive, as is Heather Watson, Sania Mirza and Madison isn't "bubbly" or "innocent" looking?

 

[colleen66]

Man.. Sloane is just so overrated.. She will always beat herself.. She has a go for broke Fh and that is IT.. Where is tossip!:snigger

Antipusher, she had the tools and athletic skills needed to be a top 5-10 player. She is still young and I believe with a proper coach she could really elevate her game. She does seem to do well on the big slam stages, but loses focus during the smaller tournaments. Is that a product of her training? Can a good coach change that aspect of her nature? I'm not sure. With one victory over Serena during the AO she was crowned the "messiah" women's tennis for America. That is a lot of pressure to place on a 20 yr old.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Man.. Sloane is just so overrated.. She will always beat herself.. She has a go for broke Fh and that is IT.. Where is tossip!:snigger

The over-rated one just pushed #4 in the world to a second set tie breaker!

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

I'm not talking about a players skill and the game they bring to the table. I'm speaking of looks, and that I only see caucasian girls mentioned as "beauties" "innocent" "sunshine" and "bubbly."

Sloane is quite attractive, as is Heather Watson, Sania Mirza and Madison isn't "bubbly" or "innocent" looking?

Why don't you go ahead and praise some of the ones you like then.
:huh:

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

Man.. Sloane is just so overrated.. She will always beat herself.. She has a go for broke Fh and that is IT.. Where is tossip!:snigger

The over-rated one just pushed #4 in the world to a second set tie breaker!

The over-rated one was up 4-1 in the second set though

 

[the AntiPusher]

Man.. Sloane is just so overrated.. She will always beat herself.. She has a go for broke Fh and that is IT.. Where is tossip!:snigger

The over-rated one just pushed #4 in the world to a second set tie breaker!

The over-rated one was up 4-1 in the second set though

The over-rated one was one point from 5-1:laydownlaughing