PYW Doubles Paris
Welcome to Paris, France! It is time to briefly stop in the City of Love for one of the remaining European indoor tournaments of the year. This stop certainly occupies a unique event on the calendar but manages to provide exciting matches year after year, and therefore marks a memorable place on the WTA schedule. The top seeds this year are the Italian stalwarts Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci but they will face stiff competition right from the first round against home favorites Alizé Cornet and Kristina Mladenovic. Meanwhile, the second seeds are a new team so will bring an interesting card to the table as Czech Andrea Hlaváčková partners American veteran Liezel Huber. The third seeds will also be strong this week as popular German Julia Görges teams with Romanian star Monica Niculescu, while the fourth seeds see Pole Alicja Rosolska partner Czeck Květa Peschke, who has just returned this year from a long injury layoff. With such teams in action, we will surely be seeing some fascinating indoor tennis from the French capital! Vote now at the 21e Open GDF Suez in Paris!
The Favorites:
Top Half: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS/Lucie Šafářová CZE
Bottom Half: Julia Görges GER/Monica Niculescu ROU [3]
First Round:
Sara Errani ITA/Roberta Vinci ITA [1] vs Alizé Cornet FRA/Kristina Mladenovic FRA
Ekaterina Dzehalevich BLR/Mervana Jugić-Salkić BIH vs Julie Coin FRA/Pauline Parmentier FRA [WC]
Květa Peschke CZE/Alicja Rosolska POL [4] vs Tamira Paszek AUT/Klara Zakopalová CZE
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS/Lucie Šafářová CZE vs Darija Jurak CRO/Katalin Marosi HUN
Vera Dushevina RUS/Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP vs Mandy Minella LUX/Megan Moulton-Levy USA
Vesna Dolonc SRB/Janette Husárová SVK vs Julia Görges GER/Monica Niculescu ROU [3]
Natalie Grandin RSA/Vladimíra Uhlířová CZE vs Līga Dekmeijere LAT/Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA
Petra Kvitová CZE/Yanina Wickmayer BEL [WC] vs Andrea Hlaváčková CZE/Liezel Huber USA [2]
Welcome to Paris, France! It is time to briefly stop in the City of Love for one of the remaining European indoor tournaments of the year. This stop certainly occupies a unique event on the calendar but manages to provide exciting matches year after year, and therefore marks a memorable place on the WTA schedule. The top seeds this year are the Italian stalwarts Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci but they will face stiff competition right from the first round against home favorites Alizé Cornet and Kristina Mladenovic. Meanwhile, the second seeds are a new team so will bring an interesting card to the table as Czech Andrea Hlaváčková partners American veteran Liezel Huber. The third seeds will also be strong this week as popular German Julia Görges teams with Romanian star Monica Niculescu, while the fourth seeds see Pole Alicja Rosolska partner Czeck Květa Peschke, who has just returned this year from a long injury layoff. With such teams in action, we will surely be seeing some fascinating indoor tennis from the French capital! Vote now at the 21e Open GDF Suez in Paris!
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[B][U]Previous Finals:[/U][/B]
[B]2012:[/B] Lucie Šafářová CZE/Klára Zakopalová CZE lost to [B]Jarmila Gajdošová AUS/Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA [4][/b] | [B]3-6 1-6[/B]
[B]2011:[/B] [B]Natalie Grandin RSA/Vladimíra Uhlířová CZE [4][/B] lost to [B]Bethanie Mattek-Sands USA/Meghann Shaughnessy USA [3][/B] | [B]2-6 6-3 5-7[/B]
[B]2010:[/B] Květa Peschke CZE/Katarina Srebotnik SLO beat Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS/İpek Şenoǧlu TUR | [B]6-1 5-7 6-2[/B]
[font=book antiqua][size=2][B]2009:[/B] [B]Sorana Cîrstea ROU/Monica Niculescu ROU [3][/B] beat Julia Görges GER/Patty Schnyder SUI | [B]7-5 3-6 6-2[/B][/font][/size]
Top Half: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS/Lucie Šafářová CZE
Bottom Half: Julia Görges GER/Monica Niculescu ROU [3]
First Round:
Sara Errani ITA/Roberta Vinci ITA [1] vs Alizé Cornet FRA/Kristina Mladenovic FRA
Ekaterina Dzehalevich BLR/Mervana Jugić-Salkić BIH vs Julie Coin FRA/Pauline Parmentier FRA [WC]
Květa Peschke CZE/Alicja Rosolska POL [4] vs Tamira Paszek AUT/Klara Zakopalová CZE
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS/Lucie Šafářová CZE vs Darija Jurak CRO/Katalin Marosi HUN
Vera Dushevina RUS/Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP vs Mandy Minella LUX/Megan Moulton-Levy USA
Vesna Dolonc SRB/Janette Husárová SVK vs Julia Görges GER/Monica Niculescu ROU [3]
Natalie Grandin RSA/Vladimíra Uhlířová CZE vs Līga Dekmeijere LAT/Stephanie Foretz Gacon FRA
Petra Kvitová CZE/Yanina Wickmayer BEL [WC] vs Andrea Hlaváčková CZE/Liezel Huber USA [2]