Photos: womentennisnow.com
GO MARIA !!!
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Pushed to the limit
A real drama in the 1st Round at U.S. Open for Maria against Heather Watson. Eventually the russian player managed to defeat Watson in 3 sets: 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 after a match that lasted 2 hours and 34 minutes !
So, tough match for Maria who is now in 2nd Round at Flushing Meadows where she will play either Anastasiya Yakimova of Belarus or Noppawan Lertcheewakarn of Thailand.
The match is scheduled on Wednesday.
GO MARIA !!!
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
Maria - Queen in Cincinnati !!!
WOW !!! That was a match to remember ! After 2 hours and 49 minutes Maria won the final at W&S against Jelena Jankovic.
Maria won in 2 sets: 4-6, 7-6, 6-3 after a strong opposition from the serbian player. Maria alternated the awsome shots with the double-faults and the unforced errors. Maria made 11 double-faults and 64 unforced errors, but with 37 winners she managed to make the difference in the last set, when she won the game on her serve after 6 break games.
So, it was not her best match, but it`s very important that Maria won and she is the new Cincinnati Champion ! This is the second trophy for Maria this year after she won in Rome on clay.
After this strong performance on a difficult surface, Maria will be No.4 in the WTA rankings with 6346 points. The next tournament where we can see Maria is the last Grand Slam of the year, U.S. Open !
P.S. : Sorry for the bad quality of the picture but it was made by me from on TV.
CONGRATULATIONS MARIA !!! GO MARIA !!!
Sunday, August 21, 2011
GO MARIA !!!
Maria will play in the final at W&S - Cincinnati after she won the seminfinal against Vera Zvonareva in 3 sets: 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 after 2 hours and 2 minutes !
So, it was a long and difficult match for Maria, but she managed to win even if she had a slowly start, when she lost the fist set.
But after that she became more agressive, managing to win break points with a little help from Zvonareva who made some double-faults in important moments of the game.
Maria is in the final at Cincinnati where she will play against Jelena Jankovic of Serbia. The overall score between Maria and Jankovic is 5-1 !
GO MARIA !!!
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Good shape, good performance
Victory number 9 for Maria against Samantha Stosur after the quarterfinal match at W&S - Cincinnati, where she won against the australian player in straight sets: 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 12 minutes.
It was a very good match made by Maria, in the first set she made the break when the score was 3-2 and another one in the last game when Stosur served. The second set was much easier, Maria leaded 5-0 but in the final Stosur managed to win 2 games.
So, Maria advances to semifinals at Cincinnati where she will play against Vera Zvonareva of Russia, another russian player for Maria after Svetlana Kuznetsova. The overall score between Maria and Zvonareva is 6-3 for Maria.
GO MARIA !!!
Last 8
Maria is in quarterfinals at W&S - Cincinnati after she defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets: 6-2, 6-3 after one hour and 15 minutes.
To be honest I thought it will be a more difficult match that it was, because Kuznetsova plays very good, she always been a tough opponent for everybody in WTA tour.
In quarterfinals, Maria will play against Samantha Stosur. The overall score between Maria and Stosur is 8-0 for Maria. The last match between them was in the final at Internazionali BNL d`Italia - Rome, where Maria won her first clay tournament.
GO MARIA !!!
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