Mutua Madrid Open 2014

[Hoergren]

Well let's begin with the 4 quarters and let's see what's worst. I come to think of the 3rd and 4th quarter as difficult but today it's not easy to decide as the level of the players are going up all the time. What are your comments?

S. Williams vs Qualifier
S. Peng vs K. Nara
K. Kanepi vs A. Riske
Y. Meusburger vs Suarez Navarro
F. Pennetta vs L. Safarova
M. Rybarikova vs A. Beck
A. Medina Garrigues vs V. Lepchenko
S. Cirstea vs P. Kvitova

S. Halep vs Qualifier
L. Arruabarrena vs T. Pironkova
S. Zhang vs I. Begu
Qualifier vs S. Lisicki
A. Ivanovic vs M. Keys
K. Knapp vs B. Jovanovski
M. Torro-Flor vs A. Pavlyuchenkova
E. Svitolina vs J. Jankovic

A. Kerber vs Qualifier
Qualifier vs M. Kirilenko
F. Schiavone vs E. Vesnina
A. Petkovic vs S. Errani
C. Wozniacki vs E. Makarova
D. Hantuchova vs R. Vinci
S. Kuznetsova vs A. Cornet
E. Bouchard vs A. Radwanska

M. Sharapova vs K. Koukalova
C. McHale vs L. Davis
G. Muguruza vs S. Soler-Espinosa
S. Stosur vs D. Cibulkova
S. Stephens vs Qualifier
Qualifier vs S. Voegele
J. Zheng vs Qualifier
K. Flipkens vs N. Li

 

[Hoergren]

Schedule for Saturday, May 03, 2014

MANOLO SANTANA
13:00 Christina McHale (USA) V Lauren Davis (USA) 76 63
15:00 Garbine Muguruza (ESP) V Silvia Soler-Espinosa (ESP) 67 63 76
19:00 Andrea Petkovic (GER) V [10] Sara Errani (ITA) 57 16
21:00 Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) V Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 63 64

ARANTXA SANCHEZ VICARIO
11:00 [8] Donna Vekic (CRO) V Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) 57 06
13:00 Kaia Kanepi (EST) V Alison Riske (USA) 76 16 26
15:00 Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) V Annika Beck (GER) 62 75

STADIUM 3
11:00 Karin Knapp (ITA) V Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 16 16
13:00 Darija Jurak / Megan Moulton-Levy (CRO / USA) V [6] Raquel Kops-Jones / Abigail Spears (USA / USA) 26 57

PISTA 4
11:00 [1] Caroline Garcia (FRA) V Laura Pous-Tio (ESP) 63 63
13:00 Mariana Duque-Marino (COL) V [14] Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (AUT) 43 ret

PISTA 5
11:00 [2] Jana Cepelova (SVK) V [15] Monica Niculescu (ROU) 06 16
13:00 Julia Goerges (GER) V Katarzyna Piter (POL) 62 63

PISTA 7
11:00 [6] Karolina Pliskova (CZE) V Teliana Pereira (BRA) 76 76
12:30 [3] Camila Giorgi (ITA) V Belinda Bencic (SUI) 46 57
14:30 Petra Cetkovska (CZE) V Mona Barthel (GER) 64 64
16:30 Kristina Mladenovic / Flavia Pennetta (FRA / ITA) V Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova / Lucie Safarova (RUS / CZE) 36 57

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

This post courtesy of ozza:

Streaming from the top 3 courts from Sunday. Will be a few R1 matches tomorrow.

 

[ozza]

It's a pretty even draw.

In the WTA Draw Challenge I have Serena vs Ivanovic and Kuznetsova vs Sharapova SF's atm, but maybe I will change it before the draw begins.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

I am thinking

S/finals S.Williams v Halep

Sharapova v Kuznetsova

Final S.Williams v Sharapova

Winner S.Williams.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

MUTUA MADRID OPEN
Madrid, SPAIN
May 03 - May 11

TOURNAMENT INFO

Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $4,236,425
Surface: Clay
Director: Manolo Santana

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notes:
1000 points to winner
Top prize: € 698,720
Field: 64 player singles, 32 doubles

Serena Williams is the defending Champion, Maria Sharapova was runner-up

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[Hoergren]

Just for the record - complete draw (except qualifiers) and schedule for tomorrow are in the first two posts :nono

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Lots of great first round matches.
Caro vs. Makarova
Sara vs. Petko(this one is tomorrow)
Aggie vs. Genie
Klara vs Masha
Ana vs. Maddie
Sorana vs. Petra

someone is going to be upset, my crystal ball says.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Looking at the first rd matches in the 3rd quarter

Aga v Genie......I will go with Aga for the win.
Errani v Petkovic....Petkovic for the win

Looking at the first rd matches in the fourth quarter

Cibukova v Stosur....Stosur hasn't lost a set to Domi in their 3 career meetings.Though Stosur lost to a qualifer in Portugal.Timea Bacsinsky 64 60? just recently.I will go for Stosur to win with reservations

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

I did the draw thingy and I came up with the following quarters.
Serena vs. Petra
Sabine vs. Ana
Petko vs. Aggie
Masha vs. Li

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

My potential q/final is.....subject to change

S.Williams v Kvitova
Halep v Ivanovic
Kerber v Radwanska
Sharapova v Li.

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Camila did not make it, she lost today after her marathon day yesterday. Donna Vekic lost too...
Caroline Garcia did win today, she was the top qualifier.

The list of qualifiers:
Caroline Garcia (FRA), Monica Niculescu (ROU), Mariana Duque-Marino (COL) ,Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) , Julia Goerges (GER) , Karolina Pliskova (CZE) ,Belinda Bencic (SUI) , Petra Cetkovska (CZE).

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Sara wins the 1st set 75

Come on Petko

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Petko was broken to love by Sara in her first service game in the 2nd set

Sara has just consolidated the break and leads 2-0

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Errani d Petkovic 75 61

 

[Hoergren]

Schedule 4. May 2014 Starting At: 11:00

MANOLO SANTANA
Ana IVANOVIC (SRB) [11] vs Madison KEYS (USA) 61 76
followed by
Maria SHARAPOVA (RUS) [8] vs Klara KOUKALOVA (CZE) 61 62

Not Before 17.00
Serena WILLIAMS (USA) [1] vs [Q] Belinda BENCIC (SUI) 62 61

ARANTXA SANCHEZ VICARIO Starting At: 11:00

Sorana CIRSTEA (ROU) vs Petra KVITOVA (CZE) [5] 16 75 67
followed by
Flavia PENNETTA (ITA) [12] vs Lucie SAFAROVA (CZE) 61 06 36
followed by
Daniela HANTUCHOVA (SVK) vs Roberta VINCI (ITA) 46 46

Stadium 3 ca. 15.00

[Q] Kristina MLADENOVIC (FRA) vs Maria KIRILENKO (RUS) 46 57
Not Before 19:00
Angelique KERBER (GER) [7] vs [Q] Caroline GARCIA (FRA) 36 02 ret

Stadium 4 starting at 11.00

[WC] Anabel MEDINA GARRIGUES (ESP) vs Varvara LEPCHENKO (USA) 46 64 46
followed by
Francesca SCHIAVONE (ITA) vs Elena VESNINA (RUS) 64 67 64
ca. 17.00
[Q] Petra CETKOVSKA (CZE) vs Stefanie VOEGELE (SUI) 61 63

Stadium 5 starting at 11.00

Sloane STEPHENS (USA) [16] vs [Q] Monica NICULESCU (ROU) 26 63 62
ca. 14.30
Alla KUDRYAVTSEVA (RUS)/Anastasia RODIONOVA (AUS) [7] vs Martina HINGIS (SUI)/Sabine LISICKI (GER) 63 26 6-10
Not Before 16:00
Shuai PENG (CHN) vs Kurumi NARA (JPN) 62 63

Stadium 7 starting at 11.00

Jie ZHENG (CHN) vs [Q] Mariana DUQUE-MARINO (COL) 76 62
followed by
Julia GOERGES (GER)/Anna-Lena GROENEFELD (GER) [8] vs Janette HUSAROVA (SVK)/Shuai ZHANG (CHN) 63 64

 

[Correspondent Kiu]

Oh My!
So many good matches in so little time....
Martina/Sabine too.

 

[Moxie]

Has anyone noticed that women get no byes in Madrid and the men get 8? I'm not clear why that makes sense in a combined event.

 

[my sherona]

Maria/clara the match of the day. 6-1 6-0 Maria dominates.

 

[pavlik89]

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