Monday, February 22, 2010

Results from Dubai, Marseille, Buenos Aires, Memphis, and Bogota

Venus Williams was able to benefit from a few upsets in the tournament and win the Barclays Dubay tennis championships for a second straight year.  The draw went great for Venus who had to only face one of the top seeds in the tournament, and that was in the final where she beat Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 7-5.  Shahar Peer, the Israeli player who was denied a visa into the United Arab Emirates, and basically banned from the tournament last year played well in her return to the tournament this year.  She lost to Venus in the semifinals.



At the Open 13 in Marseille, France two unlikely players met in the finals.  Michael Llodra had to upset Marcos Baghdatis and Robin Soderling in order to make his way into the final.  Julien Benneteau earned his way into the final by taking out fellow Frenchmen, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils.  But it was Llodra who beat Benneteau in the final 6-3, 6-4.   Llodra and Benneteau later teamed up and won the doubles title together.
 
(Benneteau on left, Llodra on right)


David Ferrer once again came up short in a tournament, and Juan Carlos Ferrero won a title for the second straight week by beating Ferrer in 3 sets, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3.  This is also the second straight clay court win for Ferrero.  Looks like a French Open "darkhorse" is starting to emerge.  Ferrer once again teased his fans by making his way to the final fairly easily.  Beating all his previous opponents in straight sets, and winning the first set of the final, giving us all false hope, then falling apart and coming up short in a loss.  I guess the one positive is he didn't lose to a "no-name jobber" in the early rounds this time.  He showed improvement, and made it to a final where he lost to his BFF who is on a tremendous streak.  Hopefully he will build on this week and make more runs in the weeks ahead.
(Ferrero on left, David Ferrer on right.)


In Memphis, Maria Sharapova dismantled Sofia Arvidsson 6-2, 6-1 to claim her first match wins and first title of the 2010 season.  The win didn't come as much of a surprise.  Sharapova's talent level is heads-and-shoulders above the rest of the womens field this week in Memphis.  Maybe this is what Sharapova needed to get the bitter taste of a first round exit in the Australian Open out of her mouth, and get on track for ther rest of the year.


Two American Davis Cup teammates met in the mens final in Memphis.  Neither of them is named Andy or James either.  Instead it was the two youngsters, Sam Querrey and John Isner battling for the crown.  Querrey ended up beating Isner in 3 tough sets 6-7, 7-6, 6-3 and denied Isner his 2nd title of the year.



In Bogota, Colombia the final pitted two girls I don't know shit about, Angelique Kerber of Germany and Mariana Duque Marino of Colombia.  It was Duque Marino who came out on top and won the title in her home country 6-4, 6-3.

Sorry about the blog quality.  Its late at night, I'm tired as hell and just tryed to plow through this shit.  I promise much better stuff in the future.

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