WTA Portugal Open 2014

[MargaretMcAleer]

Lucie your 8th d/f for the match?....it looks like the 6th seed will also be defeated

Lucie, fan, Fashionista? I love that girl!

Sadly, it was Polona in 3. She has match point on Li at the AO, serves for it against Maria at Stuttgart, and loses to Polona Hercog. Being a Lucie fan is sorta like forgetting to take your meds. Every week is a new adventure.

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Scores:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

SECOND ROUND(Completed)
[Q] Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) d [WC] Ons Jabeur (TUN) | 7 - 5 | 6 - 0 |
[Q] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) d [5] Kaia Kanepi (EST) | 6 - 4 | 7 - 5 |
[8] Elena Vesnina (RUS) d Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) | 5 - 7 | 7 - 5 | 7 - 6 (7) |
[4] Roberta Vinci (ITA) d Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 2 |
[7] Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d Maria-Teresa Torro-Flor (ESP) | 5 - 7 | 6 - 4 | 6 - 1 |
[2] [WC] Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) d Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 2 |
Polona Hercog (SLO) d [6] Lucie Safarova (CZE) | 6 - 3 | 4 - 6 | 6 - 2 |
[1] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (CZE) | 6 - 0 | 6 - 0 |

2 Qualifiers make it into the quarter finals, they will play each other next, there will be a qualifier in the semis!

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

It will be too early for me to see if my Sveta can win against Bouchard

Good luck Sveta.....I think you will need it.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Order of play for quarterfinals:

THURSDAY, MAY 01, 2014

CENTRE COURT
11:00 - [7] SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (RUS) V [2] EUGENIE BOUCHARD (CAN)
CENTRALITO
13:00 - [1] CARLA SUAREZ NAVARRO (ESP) V POLONA HERCOG (SLO)
COURT 1
12:30 - [8] ELENA VESNINA (RUS) V [4] ROBERTA VINCI (ITA)
COURT 2
13:00 - TIMEA BACSINSZKY (SUI) V IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU (ROU)

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The match I am most interested in is Elena versus Roberta, Genie versus Sveta is next in my book...

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

For Roberta it is her first q/final match so far this year....I think she can get the win against Elena.

 

[rubydo]

For Roberta it is her first q/final match so far this year....I think she can get the win against Elena.

Probably right fashionista, but Elena has been a long time fav of mine I have her as my avatar pic, which I took of her last year and we have had a small amount of communication between each other. So hence, I am pulling for a bit of an upset here, though it is slim at best. Looking to interview her this year as the defending champ at Eastbourne, in June.

 

[golds girl]

Lucie your 8th d/f for the match?....it looks like the 6th seed will also be defeated

Lucie, fan, Fashionista? I love that girl!

Sadly, it was Polona in 3. She has match point on Li at the AO, serves for it against Maria at Stuttgart, and loses to Polona Hercog. Being a Lucie fan is sorta like forgetting to take your meds. Every week is a new adventure.

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Lucie your 8th d/f for the match?....it looks like the 6th seed will also be defeated

Lucie, fan, Fashionista? I love that girl!

Sadly, it was Polona in 3. She has match point on Li at the AO, serves for it against Maria at Stuttgart, and loses to Polona Hercog. Being a Lucie fan is sorta like forgetting to take your meds. Every week is a new adventure.

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

Sorry to disappoint you I am not Czech Hint.......Forza

 

[golds girl]

Lucie your 8th d/f for the match?....it looks like the 6th seed will also be defeated

Lucie, fan, Fashionista? I love that girl!

Sadly, it was Polona in 3. She has match point on Li at the AO, serves for it against Maria at Stuttgart, and loses to Polona Hercog. Being a Lucie fan is sorta like forgetting to take your meds. Every week is a new adventure.

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

Sorry to disappoint you I am not Czech Hint.......Forza

I'm not disappointed . It's nice that we have an international group here

 

[pavlik89]

[video=youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jxalvvahCY[/video]

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Sveta Davai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rubydo will be happy Elena did defeat Roberta....congrats.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Quarterfinal scores:

THURSDAY, MAY 01, 2014

QUARTERFINALS
[Q] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) d [Q] Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) | 6 - 3 | 7 - 6 (6) |
[8] Elena Vesnina (RUS) d [4] Roberta Vinci (ITA) | 7 - 6 (5) | 4 - 6 | 7 - 5 |
[1] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d Polona Hercog (SLO) | 6 - 1 | 6 - 3 |
[7] Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d [2] [WC] Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 1 |

Semis are as follows:

Carla vs. Irina
Elena vs. Sveta

Bottom Line:
There will be a new champion.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Carla has been playing impressive tennis all week.CSN has been a finialist here for the last 2 years
Will this be her year to get to another final and also get her first WTA title.

My picks in the s/finals are

CSN and my Sveta....who found her clay game in the 2nd set against Bouchard.In saying that My Sveta can be unpredictable,so I will not be surprised if she lost.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Lucie your 8th d/f for the match?....it looks like the 6th seed will also be defeated

Lucie, fan, Fashionista? I love that girl!

Sadly, it was Polona in 3. She has match point on Li at the AO, serves for it against Maria at Stuttgart, and loses to Polona Hercog. Being a Lucie fan is sorta like forgetting to take your meds. Every week is a new adventure.

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

Sorry to disappoint you I am not Czech Hint.......Forza

And I thought you were Brit!

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Lucie, fan, Fashionista? I love that girl!

Sadly, it was Polona in 3. She has match point on Li at the AO, serves for it against Maria at Stuttgart, and loses to Polona Hercog. Being a Lucie fan is sorta like forgetting to take your meds. Every week is a new adventure.

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

Sorry to disappoint you I am not Czech Hint.......Forza

And I thought you were Brit!

I married one

 

[rubydo]

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

Sorry to disappoint you I am not Czech Hint.......Forza

And I thought you were Brit!

I married one

I also agree it is excellent to have a variety of people on the site from different countries or nationalities, gives a greater perspective on this worldwide game! Most of you know I am Canadian but I was born in London, England, just a "few" years ago!:laydownlaughing

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

I have met Lucie at a tournament a few years ago.She is delightful.
Please dont remind me of that AO loss and more recently when she was serving for the match against
Sharapova in Stuggart..........Meh!!!!!!!!!

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

Sorry to disappoint you I am not Czech Hint.......Forza

And I thought you were Brit!

I married one

So, I wasn't too wrong after all, he rubbed against you!!
gold's girl was a little off!
She got the Europe part right....
You gotta try to understand America... It's pretty confusing!

Now, I am going to oppose you....

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Hey Fashionista,
Off topic but are you Czech by chance. Pardon me if I'm wrong, but I cobbled it together through posts??? My husband is Czech.

Sorry to disappoint you I am not Czech Hint.......Forza

And I thought you were Brit!

I married one

So, I wasn't too wrong after all, he rubbed against you!!
gold's girl was a little off!
She got the Europe part right....
You gotta try to understand America... It's pretty confusing!

Now, I am going to oppose you....

Hey some of my best friends are from America...I get you ok

 

[pavlik89]

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

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

I have semifinal scores:

FRIDAY, MAY 02, 2014

SEMIFINALS
[1] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d [Q] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) | 7 - 6 (3) | 6 - 1 |
[7] Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d [8] Elena Vesnina (RUS) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 1 |


Final will be between Carla and Sveta