[*hingis_forever*]

Originally Posted by jj74

All the results

Quarterfinal:

Michaela Gordon def Valeriya Yushchenko 62 61
Lucie Wargnier def Destanee Aiava 64 46 63
Catherine Bellis def Vanessa Wong 64 62
Eva Guerrero Alvarez def Katie Swan 63 61

It seems americans have a stronger team that i thought

We already knew CiCi Bellis was really good. I don't know much about Yushchenko, so I don't know how good a win that is for Michaela Gordon.

[iPatty]

CiCi American final please!

[améliemomo]

Allez Lucie

[iPatty]

SF

Lucie Wargnier (FRA) d. (8)Michaela Gordon (USA) 64 62
(5)Catherine Cartan Bellis (USA) d. (2)Eva Guerrero Alvarez (ESP) 62 62

Should be a good final. Wargnier has already taken out two Americans while CiCi has just been breezing through the field.

[iPatty]

BTW is anyone is curious the doubles final is Gordon/Liu vs. Bellis/Daniel. Guaranteed title for USA.

[améliemomo]

ouii Lucie now take the title

[jj74]

Good tournament Eva

[juki]

Final

(5)CiCi Bellis (USA) d. Lucie Wargnier (FRA) 62 64

[juki]

CiCi

Probably the clear favorite for Tarbes, but Rosca, Levashova, Zhuk, and Vondrouskova should provide tougher competition.

[améliemomo]

Lucie

but great tournament though

[iPatty]

Congrats CiCi! Singles and doubles champion. Let's have a repeat next week.

[jj74]

Originally Posted by juki

CiCi

Probably the clear favorite for Tarbes, but Rosca, Levashova, Zhuk, and Vondrouskova should provide tougher competition.

I think she is the favourite, and i add Ibbou to the group of favourites too, but i can see a really sure shot player, like they were De Vroome, Putintseva or Khromacheva in their years.
If last year had a very open field that led incredibly tough matches in the first rounds (Frenkel-Payola in second round being both players unseeded), this year it's even more open in my opinion, and it will be very tough matches in the first rounds because some players like Wargnier or Vondrousova have a low ranking.
On the other hand there's a big group of russians with high ranking, but some of them doesn't have such good results, some of them are in the same possition than Sarkisova last year, very good ranking, good level but not to be a contender.
The last two years had a surprise winner. I know Ostapenko was one of the favourites, but most people were expecting an Abanda-Bencic final. And last year Tornado was the main contender and it was surprised (well, she doesn't seem to be very good at finals) by Christian, who was one of the favourites but that was a very big group, and she did a great tournament only dropping a set.

I will be a very interesting tournament (like always is), and i hope spanish girls do a good job, because Payola last year break a lot of first round loses streak for a good bunch of years. At least Eva seems to be in good form