WTA Charleston - Final
5 Serena Williams d 9 Lucie Safarova - 60 61
What a terrible weekend to have tickets to a tennis tournament.
The last 3 matches of the tourny the opponents won a total of 3 games.
More impressive was Serena playing zoned ball.
Serena lost a total of 15 games on her way to her trophy hoist - her 40th.
And she says she's really looking forward to the clay season and Paris.
When Serena is playing like this who will deny her?
Photo: Reuters
The ATP saw Pablo Andujar & Ryan Sweeting win their 1st tour titles today.
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Marbella WTA: 1 Victoria Azarenka d Q Irina-Camelia Gebu - 63 62
Vika makes it 2-in-a-row after winning at Miami last week.
Welcome to the top 5 girl!
Casablanca: Pablo Andujar d 5 Potito Starace - 61 62
Pablo is currently ranked #69. He is the 12th ranked Spaniard.
After today's win he should be up to #9 in Spain.
Charleston: 1 Caroline Wozniacki d Elena Vesnina - 62 63
This is Caro's 3rd title of 2011. And, yes, solidifies her #1 ranking.
Jet lag: She is playing an exo in Monte-Carlo tomorrow at 3. Phew.
Houston: WC Ryan Sweeting d 6 Kei Nishikori - 64 76(3)
Title #1 was accompanied with a jump in the River Oaks pool.
Ryan will see his ranking jump to just outside the top 50.
Quallies are gonna be a thing of the past.
Photos: AP/Reuters
Charleston WTA - Semifinal
1 Caroline Wozniacki d 3 Jelena Jankovic - 64 64
Love her or not Caro sure does win a LOT of matches.
In her last 10 tournaments she has made the finals of 7 - winning 4.
She is a clear #1 in the rankings but many still refuse to give her props.
Including Chris Evert saying, "She needs to win the French."
Chris also said that Caro would "for sure" win a Slam in her career.
She'll next play Elena Vesnina - H2H: 4-1/CW - including the last 3.
Don't know about you but I'm ready for all the players to be in Europe.
4 Samantha Stosur d 7 Vera Zvonareva - 60 64
At 52 minutes - it was the fasted final in tournament history.
Sam wins her 2nd career WTA title following Osaka last season.
Afterward Sam addressed the crowd: "The first title I won is always going to be very special. It took me a while to get that. This is bigger than Osaka though. To do it on clay and playing well all week is just a great feeling. You can't really compare the two, but this is definitely a bigger event and I'm pleased I was able to play so well."
Warning: Pam and Cliffy think she is gonna have a big year. She just may.
THIRD ROUND
1 Caroline Wozniacki d 16 Patty Schnyder - 62 75
2 Jelena Jankovic d Evgeniya Rodina - 63 61
4 Samantha Stosur d 14 Vera Dushevina - 61 36 61
6 Nadia Petrova d Aleksandra Wozniak - 62 64
7 Vera Zvonareva d 9 Alona Bondarenko - 62 61
8 Daniela Hantuchova d Angelique Kerber - 67(6) 75 63
Peng Shuai d 10 Elena Vesnina - 75 26 62
13 Melaine Oudin d Q Christina McHale - 64 60
Photo: Caroline Wozniacki - Reuters
Serena Williams Wins 3rd Title at Charleston
WTA Charleston - Women's Final
1 Serena Williams d 9 Jelena Jankovic - 36 60 62
Charleston title #3. Clay title #6. WTA title #49.
This is the 10th time in a final she's rebounded from a 1st set loss.
She will enjoy a 131th week at #1.
Also this week she cruched Venus in the Sf's: 61 62 - their 24th meeting.
When asked about improving on her 1st R loss at the French last year...
She replied coyly: I didn't play the French last year.
She kills me.
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