Friday, October 7, 2011

Pennetta defeats defending champion in Beijing

Flavia Pennetta defeated defending champion Caroline Wozniacki 3-6, 6-0, 7-6 in the quarterfinals of the China Open today. Other players who won their quarterfinal matches were Agnieszka Radwanska (def. Ana Ivanovic), Monica Niculescu (def. Maria Kirilenko) and Andrea Petkovic (def. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova). Ivanovic retired with a lower back injury.

In doubles semifinals, Liezel Huber and Lisa Raymond were defeated by Pennetta and partner Gisela Dulko. Top seeds Kveta Peschke and Katarina Srebotnik defeated Vania King and Yaroslava Shvedova.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, Flavia! I'd love to see a match between Flavia and Aggie -- off to check the draw and the tv schedule...

Interesting tournament!
Rebecca

Diane said...

I think an Aga-Flavia match would be great, too. It's always interesting to see (sometimes literallY who's still standing at the end of the season.

Anonymous said...

I was able to see Flavia's win against Wozniacki - wow, what a match. I think Flavia is playing better than she did when she broke through into the top 10. I loved seeing her come to net so many times in this match (what was it, 30 times or something? and she won 94% of the points?) and simply going for her groundies etc.

I am such a fan of Flavia - glad to see her back in form, and then some.

I agree in re: who is still standing :) at the end of the season! And who is in whose head, too, by this point. (Sam vs. Vera; Aggie vs. Vera; Maria K. vs. Sam - hope that one doesn't stick!)

Rebecca

Diane said...

Pennetta seems a bit up and down lately. I, too, really like to watch her play!