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| Author: | chungwit [ 4. October 2013 23:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Dates: October 7-13, 2012  Venue: Linz, Austria Tier: International Prize Money: $235,000 Surface: Hard/Indoors Tournament Director: Michael Reichel Official website: www.generali-ladies.at Last appearance: 2012 1st round. Lost to Julia Goerges 6-4 7-6 Champion in 2007. Singles: 1R: Karin Knapp (ITA) bt [8] Daniela Hantuchova 6-2 7-6(6) |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 4. October 2013 23:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Players 1 Petra KVITOVA 07 2 Sloane A STEPHENS 13 3 Ana IVANOVIC 14 4 Carla SUAREZ NAVARRO 15 5 Kirsten FLIPKENS 19 6 Sorana CIRSTEA 21 7 Dominika CIBULKOVA 23 8 Alize CORNET 27 9 Daniela HANTUCHOVA 31 10 Klara ZAKOPALOVA 32 11 Mona BARTHEL 33 12 Lucie SAFAROVA 34 13 Magdalena RYBARIKOVA 35 14 Elina SVITOLINA 42 15 Andrea PETKOVIC 43 16 Monica NICULESCU 44 17 Karin KNAPP 49 18 Francesca SCHIAVONE 50 19 Yvonne MEUSBURGER 51 20 Julia GOERGES 53 21 Stefanie VOEGELE 57 22 Annika BECK 59 23 Yanina WICKMAYER 68 24 Donna VEKIC 77 25 Qualifier (Q) - 26 Qualifier(Q) - 27 Qualifier(Q) - 28 Qualifier (Q) - 29 Patricia MAYR-ACHLEITNER (WC) 140 30 Melanie KLAFFNER (WC) 185 31 Wild Card (TOP 20) - 32 Wild Card (TOP 20 WTA) - * WTA-Ranking of 30.9.2013 Flags © icondrawer.com |
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| Author: | eddy [ 5. October 2013 08:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Knapp vs Hantuchova(7) Knapp has had a break-through year so I think could be a banana skin, I think Daniela should get through in 3 sets.. |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 5. October 2013 15:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
It's good that Daniela's seeded but as eddy said Knapp could be a tough opener. She's gone up the rankings this year mainly because she had good runs at Wimbledon, beating Safarova, and the US Open where she beat Vesnina. Most of her best runs have come on clay and she took Jankovic to a 3rd set tiebreak in Bogota and she also beat Vinci in Rome last year so she can be competitive against good players. Knapp's got to be respected but as long as Daniela plays well and is fit she should win it. The second round would be against Voegele or Moser and the quarter-final opponents would be Stephens, Petkovic or Rybarikova. Hopefully Daniela can play well here and get some wins, points and confidence. |
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| Author: | Alex Isabel [ 6. October 2013 02:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Non committal on this pairing. Daniela has lost 1st rounders to the Knapps of the circuit enough times in the past; it could truly go either way. But I'm not chewing my fingernails off worrying about Sofia. I looked at their site a couple of nights ago and saw it showing Daniela's picture every 20 seconds leading to an article where she says Sofia reminds her of Brataslava. They clearly want her there; they know she sells a lot more than Safarova or Cornet. $$$ talks; they'll find a way (and I know both wild cards are already handed out). |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 6. October 2013 19:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Draw's been revised. Moser's withdrawn and Kerber is a late entry as no 1 seed. Daniela still plays Knapp in the first round but she'd get the winner of Zakopalova or Voegele in round 2. |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 7. October 2013 20:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Voegele beat Zakopalova so she's the second round opponent for Daniela if she beats Knapp. Daniela's not scheduled for tomorrow so she's not playing until Wednesday. The revision of the draw hasn't had that much of an impact as Voegele was the likely second round opponent in the original draw and she'll be the second round opponent in the revised draw, assuming Daniela beats Knapp. I feel Zakopalova would be a trickier opponent than Voegele or Moser and she's just behind Daniela in the rankings so it's good she's out, at the same time Voegele's had a fairly decent year. A good run here will enable Daniela to put some distance between her and the players below her, but she has to focus on getting past Knapp. |
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| Author: | Alex Isabel [ 7. October 2013 22:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
I noticed that players #24-#30 are not playing this week. Daniela can make a nice leap forward if all goes well, but I still see Knapp as a 50/50 proposition. Hope for the best! |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 8. October 2013 00:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
If anyone wants an explanation of the draw revision: The tournament conducted the draw on Saturday, with No. 12 Stephens as the No. 1 seed and Ivanovic the No. 2 seed. On Sunday, the tournament announced it had given a wildcard to tenth-ranked Kerber. Though Kerber had seemingly used up her allotment of international-level tournaments when she played the Citi Open over the summer (top-10 players are permitted one International in each half of the season), that tournament wasn’t held against her because of an exception that permits top players to play down to an international-level event if a premier tournament being held at the same time is oversubscribed. Kerber had initially wanted to play the Southern California Open in Carlsbad, Calif., but that tournament already had too many top-10 players so she was allowed to play the Citi Open instead. Confused? It gets worse. So how did the tournament have room in the draw for its new top seed? Someone had to pull out to make room for Kerber. Rather conveniently, Lisa-Maria Moser, a 22-year old Austrian ranked No. 337, pulled out of the tournament on Sunday citing “personal reasons”. Based on the tournament’s own statement on its website, it seems that the tournament asked her to give up her wild card in order to make room for Kerber. Everything that happened is all well within the WTA rules, and the whole series of events was a perfect storm that had everyone digging through the WTA rulebook. But a tournament asking a low-ranked wildcard entrant to give back her wildcard in favor of a top player still leaves a bad taste. |
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| Author: | eddy [ 8. October 2013 10:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
It's very bad for Linz to do this. Kerber is pretty much a definite for the YEC as Sharapova pulled out so doesn't really need to play. I remember when Daniela was next in for Toronto this year and Petrova withdrew AFTER the draw was made, which meant Daniela couldn't play as they put a LL in instead. Unfortunately Canadian tennis didn't ask Wozniak to withdraw to allow Daniela to play :p |
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| Author: | Alex Isabel [ 8. October 2013 16:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Rule$$$$$$$$$ are meant to be broken, guys. This does nothing to change my view of Daniela getting into Sofia. Any thoughts on Dani not playing doubles in Linz? I'm certainly OK with it. Her pairing with Raymond has some intriguing possibilities. But, with Raymond having won at least one doubles title every year since 1993, and this looks like the year she'll have that streak broken, shouldn't we consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Raymond is washed up? |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 8. October 2013 19:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Daniela's the first match on Court 1, play starts at 2pm. |
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| Author: | eddy [ 8. October 2013 20:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
Vesnina has chosen Sofia over Fed Cup, don't blame her, as she would only have played in the doubles. That is not good news for Daniela's chances of Sofia, as there are also talks of Pavlyuchenkova chosing Sofia too, as Kirilenko and Kuznetsova are the likely singles players. Luxembourg and Moscow are even more important now. I'm getting worried...I SO want Daniela at Sofia. As for Linz, I'm not impressed they have shoved Daniela (a former champion and seeded player) on Court 2...at least they have a stream for both courts...  Looking back at 2007 when Daniela won Linz to qualify by right into the YEC was such an awesome achievement. Let's hope those feelings come back and help her when she starts her 2013 Linz campaign.. |
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| Author: | Patti1989 [ 9. October 2013 14:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
1st set 2-2. 2-6 1st set lost 2nd set 4-5. 5-5. comes back from 0-40 down at her serve, saving 3 MP's to 5-5 6-5. saving 3 GPs , BP, BP, BP and break!!!! 6-6. Daniela broken to 0  tb: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 4-4, 4-5, 5-5, 5-6, 6-6, 6-7, 6-8
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| Author: | eddy [ 9. October 2013 15:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Generali Ladies Linz, Linz |
So disappointing..couldn't see the match but Moscow is now crucial.. |
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