Carlsbad: Top-seeded Marion Bartoli rebounded from a poor first set for a 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over qualifier Chan Yung-Jan on Saturday that sent her into the final of the Mercury Insurance Open.
The Frenchwoman will face second-seeded Dominika Cibulkova, a 7-6 (8), 6-1 winner over Russia's Nadia Petrova in the other semifinal.
Bartoli had 20 unforced errors and seven double-faults in the first set before she straightened out her game to win her third straight three-set match this week.
"My ankle was really bothering me at the beginning, and the doctor gave me some anti-inflammatories before the match started," Bartoli said. "It took 45 minutes before the anti-inflammatories started to kick in, and I was feeling a lot better in the second and the third set."...
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02:06 PM, Jul 22, 2012
Carlsbad, California: Top seed Marion Bartoli survived a scare to beat Christina McHale 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 at the Carlsbad Open on Friday, taking a little under three hours to reach the semi-finals. The Frenchwoman's 2-hour-50-minute victory was the last of three marathon contests under the hot Californian sun. Taiwanese qualifier Chan Yung-jan saved two match points to upset third seed Jelena Jankovic 6-7, 7-6, 7-5 in three hours and 13...
02:58 PM, Jul 21, 2012
Carlsbad, California: Qualifier Chan Yung-Jan of Taiwan saved two match points en route to beating third-seeded Jelena Jankovic 6-7 (4), 7-6 (8), 7-5 on Friday and advancing to the semi-finals of the Mercury Insurance Open. After holding off two match points to win the second-set tiebreaker, Chan ran off three straight games to take a 5-2 lead in the third. However, Jankovic responded and tied the match at 5-5. Chan...
11:41 AM, Jul 21, 2012
Carlsbad, California: No. 3 seed Jelena Jankovic overcame problems with her serve to claim a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over Melinda Czink in the second round of the Mercury Insurance Open on Thursday night. Jankovic had a first-round bye and struggled throughout the match with her serve before closing out the match in the third set. After the players traded service breaks, Jankovic broke the Hungarian's serve right back for...
10:21 AM, Jul 20, 2012
Carlsbad: Varvara Lepchenko posted a 6-4, 6-2 win over No. 8 seed Chanelle Scheepers of South Africa in the second round of the Mercury Insurance Open on Wednesday. Ukraine-born Lepchenko, now a naturalised US citizen and a member of the US Olympic team, never faced a break point and won despite making only 55 per cent of her first serves. "It was pretty difficult out there and I'm still trying...
08:49 AM, Jul 19, 2012
Carlsbad, California: US Olympian Christina McHale saved a set point and then used a late service break to pull off a 7-6 (5), 7-5 win over Jarmila Gajdosova in the first-round of the Mercury Insurance Open on Tuesday. McHale, the No. 5 seed, struggled against the Australian, and both players held serve late into each set. But McHale took advantage of Gajdosova's mistakes to claim the tiebreak and hit some...
09:33 AM, Jul 18, 2012
Carlsbad, California: World No. 6 seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia lost 6-4, 7-5 to Ursula Radwanska of Poland in a first-round match Monday night at the Mercury Insurance Open. Hantuchova made an unforced error when she sent a forehand long to give the match to Radwanska. Earlier, US Olympian Varvara Lepchenko cruised to a 6-3, 6-1 win over NCAA champion Nicole Gibbs in another first-round match. Hantuchova, who has had...
10:26 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Carlsbad, USA: Fourth seeds Sania Mirza and Elena Vesnina's campaign ended in the doubles event of the Mercury Insurance Open following a right-hand injury to the Russian. Up against Elena Bovina of Russia and Jie Zheng of China, the Indo-Russian pair were trailing 2-5 in the opening set when they decided to opt out of the contest. Sania is already out of the singles event after losing the first round...
03:02 PM, Aug 04, 2011
The 21st-ranked Russian won her first title since she defeated Radwanska in straight sets at Beijing in October. ...
10:06 AM, Aug 09, 2010
Vandeweghe, ranked No. 205, rebounded from a terrible start to surprise Zvonareva, the world's No. 9 ranked player. ...
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