Midwest Sports Tennis Blog

China Open gave Wozniacki no time to recover

While Serena is pleased by the outcome of the China Open, Caroline Wozniacki is anything but. Wozniacki’s disappointment with the China Open began after she reported suffering from a virus before the Open in Beijing. Despite asking for a Monday start to give her some recovery time, the scheduling committee assigned Wozniacki for a match Sunday.

The world No. 5 maintained the Sony Ericsson WTA tour failed to represent her best interests by making her play while she was unwell. She lost her first round match against Maria Jose Martinez-Sanchez 6-7, 7-6,  6-0 – writing on her website that she was still not feeling 100% well.

“I needed every hour of rest to get over this virus and ready for my first match…. The WTA Tour is supposed to be a players union, but I certainly don’t think they represented my best interest this week in Beijing…’ Wozniacki wrote on her blog http://www.carolinewozniacki.dk/blog/. “I am never one to make excuses because Martinez-Sanchez did play a good match, but I really feel the WTA and tournament director could’ve helped me and they chose not to.”

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China Open Finals

Women’s Singles – Final:
Svetlana Kuznetsova (6)(RUS) d Agnieszka Radwanska (12)(POL) 6-2  6-4

Men’s Singles – Final:
Novak Djokovic (2)(SRB) d Marin Cilic (8)(CRO) 6-2  7-6(4)

Men’s Doubles – Final:
Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (2)(USA) d Mark Knowles/Andy Roddick (BAH/USA) 6-4  6-2

Women’s Doubles – Final:
Su-Wei Hsieh/ Shuai Peng (5)(TPE/CHN) d Alla Kudryavtseva/ Natalia Makarova (RUS) 6-3  6-1

http://www.chinaopen.com.cn/en/2009/

The China Open continues

Have you been paying attention to the 2009 China Open? We’ll, we’ve got some scores for you. The Open that began at the beginning of this month is now in its third round for women’s singles and its second round for men’s singles. Here are some scores for Thursday Oct. 8 (yesterday in China!):

Women’s Singles – 3^rd Round
Agnieszka Radwanska (12)(POL) d Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) 4-6  6-4  6-2
Marion Bartoli (FRA) d Zhang Shuai (CHN) 6-1  6-4

Women’s Doubles – Quarterfinals
Kleybanova/Schiavone (RUS/ITA) d Black/Huber (ZIM/USA)(1) 3-6  7-6(5)  11-9
Hsieh/Peng (TPE/CHN)(5) d Pavlyuchenkova/Wickmayer (RUS/BEL) 6-3  6-1

Men’s Singles – 2^nd Round
Rafael Nadal (ESP)(1) d James Blake (USA) 7-5  6-7(4)  6-3
Marat Safin (RUS) d Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)(7) 6-3  6-4
Ivan Ljubicic (CRO) d Lukasz Kubot (POL) 7-6(6)  4-6  6-4

Men’s Doubles – Quarterfinals
Bob Bryan/ Mike Bryan (USA)(2) d Nikolay Davydenko/ Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) 7-6(3)  7-5
Lukas Dlouhy/Philipp Kohlschreiber (CZE/GER) d Lukasz Kubot/Oliver Marach (POL/AUT) 6-3  6-4

 

If we here at Midwest Sports could give awards for each Open, we would give an award to Marat Safin for the China Open. This ‘wild card’ as he is called hasn’t lost a set at the 2009 China Open! Safin made 6 aces in each set in his last match against Fernando Gonzalez.

Next, Safin – a two time Grand Slam champion – will play against the No. 1 seed Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals. What does the Russian have to say about that? “I’ve got nothing to lose…. So I’m pretty excited,” he told the China Open.

http://www.chinaopen.com.cn/en/2009/results.html
http://www.chinaopen.com.cn/news/en/2009-10-08/2017166.shtml