US Open Women’s Results – Day 5
September 3, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
New York, NY-USA August 30-September 12, 2010 $22,668,000/Grand Slam Hard/Outdoors Friday, September 3, 2010 Singles – Third Round (2) Kim Clijsters (BEL) d. (27) Petra Kvitova (CZE) 63 60 (3) Venus Williams (USA) d. (Q) Mandy Minella (LUX) 62 61 (5) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. Sara Errani (ITA) 62 63 (6) Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d. (29) Alona [...]
Fourth Round Brings A Very Interesting Matchup
September 3, 2010 by Richard Pagliaro · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – Ana Ivanovic spent some of her US Open Series summer between the covers. An avid reader, Ivanovic was absorbed by Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and today a fist-pumping Ivanovic looked liked the woman empowered by an inferno of intensity in a 7-5, 6-0 thrashing of 157th-ranked French [...]
Eternal Sunshine of Caroline’s Mind
September 2, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – You can’t blame Caroline Wozniacki for being happy. After winning in Montreal and then New Haven, she is on a roll. And now she cruised into the third round of the US Open, losing only two games in the first round to Chelsey Gullickson, 6-1 6-1, and now the shutting out [...]
US Open Women’s Results
September 2, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
New York, NY-USA August 30-September 12, 2010 $22,668,000/Grand Slam Hard/Outdoors Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Singles – Second Round (2) Kim Clijsters (BEL) d. (Q) Sally Peers (AUS) 62 61 (3) Venus Williams (USA) d. (Q) Rebecca Marino (CAN) 76(3) 63 (5) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 61 64 (6) Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d. (Q) [...]
US Open Womens Preview
August 29, 2010 by Richard Pagliaro · Leave a Comment
(August 28, 2010) Caroline Wozniacki huddled up with a group of formidable supporters in New Haven last week as the Yale football team, who forged a bond with the bubbly blond Dane after she visited one of their practices last season, surrounded her on court following her victory at the Pilot Pen. Wozniacki enters the [...]
US Open Womens Draw
August 29, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
Listed are the draw brackets for the US Open Womens’ Championship starting Monday in Flushing Meadows. This year, Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki is the No. 1 seed with defending champion Kim Clijsters right behind her at No. 2. The always contending Venus Williams is the No. 3 seed.
Clijsters Confident As The Open Approaches
August 29, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
FLUSHING MEADOWS, NY – New York Mets pitcher Mike Pelfrey had a gem of a game Friday night, throwing eight scoreless innings, but none of the pitches he threw were a good looking as the first one of the game. You see, US Open defending champion Kim Clijsters toed the rubber to throw out the [...]
The Roger Federer Video: Real of Fake?
August 28, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
Is it real or fake? That was the buzz at the US Open today. Roger Federer’s trick shot video has taken the world by storm and even the Maestro took notice. “I couldn’t believe the amount of hits I got,” Federer said during the Open’s media day. “I’m happy, then, that so many people have [...]
Kim Clijsters Throws Out First Ball at Citi Field
August 28, 2010 by Joe McDonald · Leave a Comment
US Open Women’s Champion Kim Clijsters threw out the first ball at Citi Field tonight. She said she first became interested in baseball after meeting her husband Brian Lynch back in 2006. And today was something she said she thoroughly enjoyed. The following photos are courtesy of Mets team photographer Marc Levine.
Sportimes Outlast Buzz
July 20, 2010 by Tennis Ledger Wire Services · Leave a Comment
US Open Champion Kim Clijsters won her singles match, defeating fellow former No. 1 Martina Hingis, and teamed with Abigail Spears to win women’s doubles, pacing the New York Sportimes to a 22-17 World TeamTennis victory over the New York Buzz Monday at Sportime on Randall’s Island. The host Sportimes (8-4) moved 1 1/2 gamea [...]
