PYW Australian Open - 1st Quarterfinal [Safarova vs Zvonareva] | Vote NOW!

PYW Australian Open

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Welcome to Melbourne, Australia! This is what the past two weeks have all been revolving around: the Australian Open is here! Players will need their good preparation to get them far into the draw of the first Grand Slam of the year. Last year we saw Elena Dementieva marching up to claim the Australian Open title for the 3rd time in her career. She lost her #1 spot to Jelena Janković last week, but she still is the player to beat. Can she win her 4th Australian Open? We still have a long way to go before we get that answer. VOTE as the competition reach the quarterfinal stage!

PYW Rankings: (http://www.tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=313650)

Ranking Points:
Grand Slam:

W - 2000
F - 1400
SF - 900
QF - 500
R16 - 280
R32 - 160
R64 - 100
R128 - 5
Qualifier - 60 *
Q3 - 50
Q2 - 40
Q1 - 2
* If a qualifier loses in the first round, no first round points are awarded on top of the qualifying points.



Previous Finals:

2005: Shinobu Asagoe JPN [28] beat Anastasia Myskina RUS [3] | 6-1 1-6 7-6
2006: Elena Dementieva RUS [9] beat Anastasia Myskina RUS [12] | 6-4 3-6 6-3
2007: Elena Dementieva RUS [9] beat Kim Clijsters BEL [4] | 5-7 7-6 8-6
2008: Elena Dementieva RUS [11] beat Daniela Hantuchova SVK [11] | 7-5 6-3



Quarterfinals' line-up:

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Lucie Safarova CZE vs Vera Zvonareva RUS [7]

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Daniela Hantuchova SVK [19] vs Jelena Dokić AUS [WC]

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Venus Williams USA [6] vs Elena Dementieva RUS [4]

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Jie Zheng CHN [22] vs Shuai Peng CHN


1st Quarterfinal:

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Lucie Safarova CZE vs Vera Zvonareva RUS [7]

Lucie Safarova CZE

Lucie :)

Safarova

Zvonareva

Vera Zvonareva RUS [7]

Safarova.

Would it be possible to give votes for other matches now, since I won't be at my computer until late tomorrow and will probably miss them :sad:

Zvonareva

Would it be possible to give votes for other matches now, since I won't be at my computer until late tomorrow and will probably miss them :sad:Sorry, but no.

Anyway just 2 QFs will be played today, 2 more tomorrow.

Sorry, but no.

Anyway just 2 QFs will be played today, 2 more tomorrow.
OK

Vera Zvonareva

Safarova

vera

Zvonareva

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Lucie Safarova CZE vs Vera Zvonareva RUS [7] | 5-6 SP!

Zvonareva

Safarova

Safarova

Safarova

Safarova

Safarova

Safarova

Lucie Safarova

Safarova

Zvonareva

Zvonareva!

Safarova

Safarova

Zvonareva

Zvonareva

Safarova

Safarova

1st Quarterfinal Complete:

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Lucie Safarova CZE beat Vera Zvonareva RUS [7] | 5-7 6-0 6-4