Saturday, April 17, 2010

Schiavone wins Barcelona...Italians keep rolling

Two weeks ago, an Italian won the singles title in Marbella, and a pair of Italians won the doubles title. Today, Francesca Schiavone won the championship in Barcelona, defeating defending defending champion (and Italian) Roberta Vinci 6-1, 6-1. Sara Errani and Vinci, who won the doubles title in Marbella, also won the championship in Barcelona. They defeated Timea Bacsinszky and Tathiana Garbin 6-1, 3-6, 10-2.

The Barcelona title is Schiavone's third on the tour.

2 comments:

Sunny said...

It is interesting that Schiavone will be 30 in June and has won all three of her titles late in her career-well at a later age. Her first one came in 2007 and then last year in 2009 before the one this weekend. Any ideas why? Do you know more about her game than I do that would make sense of these late wins?

Diane said...

As far as I could tell, it was mental with Schiavone. She had trouble closing big matches until later in her career.