Daniela withdraw from Rosmalen.

SAN DIEGO, CA, USA - Octagon officials for the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour stop in San Diego announced Thursday that Mercury Insurance Group has signed on to become the title sponsor of the Mercury Insurance Open. Played at La Costa Resort and Spa from July 31 to August 8 in Carlsbad, California, the Mercury Insurance Open marks the return of women's tennis to San Diego after a two year hiatus. The event will be televised on the Tennis Channel and ESPN2 and is one of the 10 events of the Olympus US Open Series.

San Diego has traditionally been one of the Tour's most popular stops and is expected to draw a strong field of top female players. Ana Ivanovic, Daniela Hantuchova, Dinara Safina and Svetlana Kuznetsova have already entered the Mercury Insurance Open.

Taiwanese tennis tournament eyes big-name stars
2010/05/19 19:24:29

Taipei, May 19 (CNA) A company that has sponsored a second-tier women's tennis tournament in Taiwan for the past two years is now hoping to attract the likes of Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova to Taiwan to play in a high profile invitational event.

Two European players among Henin, Clijsters and Daniela Hantuchova, an American player, who could be Sharapova or one of the Williams sisters, are among those being targeted for a planned eight-player Taipei Ladies Open in 2011, said Robert Han, president of the Orient Express Container (OEC) Group.

Other participants would include a Japanese player and two players each from Taiwan and China, Han said. The invitational is scheduled to be played at Taipei Arena from Sept. 19-24, 2011.

According to Han, the tournament will have a total purse of US$600,000 and additional appearance fees of US$1 million and would be sandwiched between WTA (Women's Tennis Association) Tour tournaments in China and Japan.

"Our goal is to organize a WTA Tour tournament in Taiwan in the future," Han said.

The group is also trying to lure either former world No. 1 Anna Ivanovic of Serbia or Hantuchova to participate in this year's OEC Taipei Ladies Open, part of the second-tier ITF (International Tennis Federation), which will be played from Nov. 1-7 in Taipei, Han said.

Whether Han will be able to draw the biggest names in women's tennis, especially in a sport notorious for late withdrawals due to injury, is open to question.

Local sports promoters often try to draw big name players or events, but have trouble finding the necessary sponsorship.

A reported visit of the Spanish professional football club Real Madrid this summer as a part of its Asian tour, which received heavy media coverage last year, appears to have been called off. (By Chris Wang)

So her next tourney is Stanford???

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Pilot Pen releases player fields

World No. 4 and two time defending champion Caroline Wozniacki, and a trio of Americans, Melanie Oudin, Sam Querrey and Mardy Fish headline the fields for Pilot Pen Tennis at Yale to be held August 20-28 at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale,

A host of international players who have won on Tour this year, veterans and rising stars round out both player fields.

On the women’s side, French Open champion Francesca Schiavone (World No. 8), Flavia Pennetta (World No. 12), Yanina Wickmayer (World No. 17), Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (World No. 22), Alisa Kleybanova (World No. 26), Alexandra Dulgheru (World No. 28), Alona Bondarenko (World No. 30), and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (World No. 31) have all won titles this year.

On the men’s side Thomaz Bellucci (World No. 22), Marcos Baghdatis (World No. 24), Richard Gasquet (World No. 47), Sergiy Stakhovsky (World No. 48), and Juan Ignacio Chela (World No. 54) have also added titles. Veterans like Marion Bartoli (World No. 14) and Daniela Hantuchova (World No. 25), will be making their sixth and ninth appearances in New Haven and rising stars Petra Kvitova (World No. 29) and Tsvetana Pironkova (World No. 35), who both reached the semifinals at Wimbledon just a few weeks ago, add to the depth of the tournament.

Eight wild cards remain to be named for the tournament.