bodonk dkk: May 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Anne Keothavong Tennis Star

Anne Keothavong on her way to victory over American qualifier Alexa Glatch Photo: Fotosports International

For the first time in 11 long years, Great Britain, a grand slam nation, has a player through into the second round of the women’s tournament at the US Open, after Anne Keothavong achieved a comfortable win over Alexa Glatch, a Californian teenager.

In the blur of activity that is the opening day of a slam, Keothavong’s win went largely unnoticed by the wider tennis world, but, from a British perspective, this was a significant result.

Anne Keothavong

Andy Murray Best Pictures 2009

Andy Murray defeated Chile’s Nicolas Massu by beginning a tricky and wonderful attack, now he will be face and fight in the fourth round of Sony Ericsson Open on Monday at Miami. Murray will now in the front of world number 41 Viktor Troicki in the last 16 after the Serb punch Bjorn Phau 6-4 6-3.
Murray gave for a first-serve percentage of 45% in the start set in opposition to Massu and it was the Chilean’s faults that made the Scot back into the set. When he cracked to go 4-3 up it appeared as although the fourth seed was on path but he played one more bad performance game to let Massu back to 4-4.
Murray fought 5-1 clear in the second set and in spite of allowing one of the breaks go, there seemed to be tiny risk until Massu got back to 5-4. The Chilean then achieved two opportunities to make level the scores in a theatrical game but made voluntary faults on together and finally, Murray got the conquest on his second match point.
Luckily for the Briton, Massu could not manage the anxiety and pressure at key present moments three consecutive double-errors handed the plan to Murray once again and he served out confidently.
Murray prescribed, “His beginning was very fine and sound, striking the ball solid with his forehand and I was hitting it short. But after 3-0 in the first set I performed well until 5-1 (in the second) and then completely misplaced attentiveness, and finished up being in a battle at the end, which I didn’t essentially need.

Andy Murray

Anastasija Sevastova Best Pictures

The China GDD-Guangzhou International Women’s Open experienced its biggest upset of the week as second round play concluded on Thursday.
No.1 seed Anabel Medina Garrigues was bounced by 19-year-old Latvian Anastasija Sevastova, 36 63 61. With her victory over the 23rd-ranked Medina Garrigues, the 95th-ranked Sevastova set up a quarterfinal encounter with eighth-seeded Alberta Brianti. Also on the top half of the draw, Olga Savchuk defeated Hsieh Su-Wei, 64 64, and will next play seventh-seeded Ayumi Morita.
On the bottom half of the draw, No. 3 seed Peng Shuai, runner-up here last year to Vera Zvonareva, handled Chanelle Scheepers, 63 62. She will be seeking her first Tour singles semifinal showing of the year when she faces Alexandra Panova next. Also, Chan Yung-Jan outlasted No.9 seed Maria Elena Camerin, 63 36 76(2), and will play No.5 seed Shahar Peer in the quarters.

Anastasija Sevastova

Anastasia Rodionova Pictures

While Sony Ericsson recently appointed Maria Sharapova as its global brand ambassador, it got tennis sensations Anastasia RodionovaAnastasia Rodionova (4th seed), Yaroslava Shevdova and Patty SchnyderPatty Schnyder to launch the Sony Ericsson C702Sony Ericsson C702 and C902C902 at the Sony Ericsson sponsored WTA Tour at Bangalore.
Sudhin Mathur, General Manager, Sony Ericsson India said, “This is our third consecutive year of participation in the Sony Ericsson WTA Tourthe Sony Ericsson WTA Tour event in Bangalore, and we are excited to have Anastasia Rodionova, Yaroslava Shevdova and Patty Schnyder with us to unveil these new Cyber-shotCyber-shot phones here in India today. The C702 and C902 both place ease-of-use and best-in-classbest-in-class picture quality at the heart of their design. Yet both appeal to different audiences. One is engineered to let you take more pictures in more places and the other is designed to look as stunning as the pictures it takes.”
The two handsets are part of its Cyber-shot range.
The C702 Cyber-shot
A splash and dust resistant handset that has been designed to snap photos quickly in any position. The camera is capable of detecting your friend’s faces before taking a 3.2 Megapixel photo. Because you might use it on a trip, there’s a GPSa GPS that will not only tell you where you are, but it will also geo-tag your photos.

Anastasia Rodionova

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Amelie Mauresmo Pictures

Amelie Mauresmo, who was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and who is a former world number one, has won two Grand Slam singles titles in the past but she was beaten 6-1 7-6 (7-4) by her Russian opponent.
Amelie MauresmoSvetlana Kuznetsova will now play against fourth seed Jelena Jankovic next.
Amelie Mauresmo has not managed to get past the quarter-finals of any tennis contest since she played at Eastbourne last June and she has even considered retiring from the sport despite her excellent past record.
Amelie Mauresmo is reported to have said: "I started to play better in the second set and there were times when I played some good tennis. There were still probably a few things here and there which cost me that second set, and I didn't play the tie-break as I expected, but she came up with some good shots when she needed them."

Amelie Mauresmo

Alla Kudryavtseva Tennis Star

Alla Alexandrovna Kudryavtseva (Russian А́лла Алекса́ндровна Кудря́вцева, born November 3, 1987 in Moscow) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She currently lives in Moscow, where she is coached by Nick Rybakov. Her father Alexander was a world champion Greco-Roman wrestler in the 1980s and her grandfather a Russian weightlifter of some note .

Her highest singles ranking as of June 26, 2007 World Number 59. Also on and as of June 26, 2007, her career-high doubles ranking is: World Number 73. As of June 18, 2007, Kudryavtseva was ranked World number 59 for singles. Kudryavtseva has won $US129,352 in prize money, and has not won a title on the WTA tour, but has won 1 singles title and 6 doubles titles playing for the ITF. She was a finalist at the Orange Bowl Championships, as a junior.

Her main sponsor is Wilson and she also has an endorsement deal with Diadora.

Kudryavtseva's first Grand Slam tournament, competing in the main draw, was the 2007 Australian Open. She defeated Finland's Emma Laine in the first round 4–6, 6–2, 9–7, and then was defeated by her lifetime heroine, Martina Hingis, in straight sets, 6–2, 6–2 in the second round.

Alla Kudryavtseva

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Alicja Rosolska Photos

Zupełnie nie wiemy czego się spodziewać po rywalkach Jans i Rosolskiej - mówił przed meczem trener polskich deblistek, Tomasz Wiktorowski. - Australijka i Amerykanka długo nie grały w tenisa. Tutaj mówi się, że Molik jest dobrze przygotowana do turnieju. Natomiast Shaughnessy widziałem w ubiegłym roku na Florydzie i to nie była ta zawodniczka, co kiedyś. Na pewno Klaudia i Ala mogły trafić gorzej, bo jest w drabince naprawdę wiele mocnych par. Jak dziewczyny chcą wygrywać, to muszą sobie z takimi rywalkami radzić - dodał.
Polskie deblistki słowa swojego trenera wzięły sobie najwyraźniej do serca. Alicia Molik i Meghann Shaughnessy nie są postaciami anonimowymi w kobiecym tenisie, a mimo to zeszły z kortu pokonane. Tym większe brawa należą się naszym deblistkom, że po nieudanym pierwszym secie potrafiły stoczyć zwycięski bój w dwóch kolejnych odsłonach.
W kolejnej rundzie Polki zmierzą się z rozstawionymi z numerem czwartym w turnieju - Su-Wei Hsieh z Tajwanu oraz Chinką Shuai Pen.

Alicja Rosolska

Albert Montanes Pictures

Por el ATP de Lyon una de las esperanzas españolas Albert Montañés, octavo cabeza de serie de la competencia, derrotó al veterano francés Fabrice Santoro por un doble 6-4, en partido correspondiente a la primera ronda del torneo de Francia, que reparte 650.000 euros en premios.

Montañes hizo lo justo y necesario para sacar mínimas ventajas que le dieron una gran victoria en este ATP de Lyon para ahora esperar la segunda jornada del torneo. Mantuvo firme su servicio y cometió menos errores que Santero.

Por otra parte, el argentino Martín Vassallo Argüello cayó en esta misma jornada también en dos sets, 6-3 y 6-4, ante el croata Ivan Ljubicic, tercer favorito del torneo.

Otros resultados de la jornada fueron:

Marc Gicquel (FRA) a Jérôme Haehnel (FRA) 6-1, 6-4
Michael Llodra (FRA) a Lamine Ouahab (ALG) 6-1, 6-2
Kevin Anderson (RSA) a Simon Greul (GER) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7/3)
David Guez (FRA) a Rajeev Ram (USA) 6-2, 6-4
Benjamin Becker (GER/N.7) a Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) 6-2, 6-2

Albert Montanes