2014 Rio Open

[Correspondent Kiu]

WTA goes to Brazil!

Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL
Feb 17 - Feb 23


Clay it is in this International level event, 280 points to the Winner, Top seeds are Klara and Franny, list of players here:

http://rioopen.com/Pages/Contents/Draws?circuit=WTA&type=single

Both Ladies and Gents are playing.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Franny is gone in the first round.

Klara advances.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Quarters are completed and I have scores:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2014

QUARTERFINALS
Teliana Pereira (BRA) d [Q] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 4 |
[Q] Nastassja Burnett (ITA) d [3] Paula Ormaechea (ARG) | 5 - 7 | 6 - 2 | 7 - 5 |
[1] Klara Zakopalova (CZE) d Katarzyna Piter (POL) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 0 |
[5] Kurumi Nara (JPN) d Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) | 7 - 6 (5) | 2 - 0 | RET

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Scores:

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Singles - SEMIFINALS
[1] Klara Zakopalova (CZE) d Teliana Pereira (BRA) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1 |
[5] Kurumi Nara (JPN) d [Q] Nastassja Burnett (ITA) | 6 - 4 | 3 - 6 | 6 - 2 |

Doubles - FINAL
I Begu / M Irigoyen (ROU/ARG) d J Larsson / C Scheepers (SWE/RSA) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 0 |

 

[Si Si Simona]

1) Nara, the smallest girl on the WTA tour is 1.58 m, 5' 2"(!!) of explosion on the court. She is just as fast as Halep and Cibulkova if not more! Again, her height is 1.58 m, 3 cm smaller than Cibulkova!
Halep is a monster compared to her with her 1.68 m height A win today puts her inside the top 50.

2) Begu who won the doubles today was Romania's safety net in the fed cup. She was better than Monica Niculesku her partner and brought two big doubles wins to Romania in Budapest.

3) I cant believe how WTA became my main sports as a fan now! I am active in other sport. I was following football(soccer) and basketball for decades. What happened to me?!... :blush:
And the crazy thing is that I got this bug in spite of some tennis fans that I met on the net(not here), and not because of them...
Thats the only downside of the WTA. Some of its fans are "out there" in so many ways... good and bad.
There are too many hurt souls out there(not this forum) using WTA as an imaginary escape.

 

[Si Si Simona]

The last time a Japanese girl won a WTA event on clay anyone?... Was it this century or at all?
6-1 Nara 1st set

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Apparently Klara had a asthma attack last night.....know I understand why she was crying on court...she didnt want to retire.

 

[kskate2]

Congrats to Kurumi Nara on winning the inaugural tourney in Rio and her maiden WTA title. :clap