PYW - Sunfeast Open
Welcome to Kolkata! Here we will have an event in a country that has become tennis crazy after Sania Mirza's successes. This week promises to be a week packed with PYW action, as Beijing and Portoroz also hold WTA events, and the cities of Albuquerque and Jounieh play host to an ITF event. Don't forget to vote for these events as soon as you can!
At first sight, you'd think the main draw of Kolkata is more a qualifying draw. When looking closer, you realise it isn't. Why? Perhaps of the overwhelming appearance of world number 5 Anastasia Myskina. The Russian starlet is here to collect her third title of the season and first on carpet.
But it won't be Myskina who'll get all the crowd support. Third seed Sania Mirza leads an army of 6(!) Indians, of which three qualified (Chakravarthi, Hsieh and Lakhani), one wildcard (Neha Uberoi), one direct entered player (Shikha Uberoi) and ofcourse third seed Mirza.
Looking further at the ones who enjoyed their fifteen minutes of PYW glory, we can see 7th seed Karolina Sprem. The Croation hardhitter enjoyed a perfect tournament at San Diego this summer, untill she got to the final, where she was sent back by two-time Grand Slam Champion Kim Clijsters.
For the rest, we mostly have players who have been spending their PYW time in the lower regions of the PYW rankings. Will this be a breakthrough tournament for one of them?
So VOTE! for the ones you want to see in the second round!
First Round
Anastasia Myskina RUS [1] vs Edina Gallovits ROM
Galina Voskoboeva RUS vs Victoria Azarenka BLR
Shikha Uberoi IND vs Ryoko Fuda JPN
Aranxta Parra Santonja ESP vs Rika Fujiwara JPN [8]
Maria Elena Camerin ITA [4] vs Rushmi Chakravarthi IND [Q]
Sybille Bammer AUT vs Nicole Pratt AUS
Kaia Kanepi vs Isha Lakhani IND [Q]
Virginia Ruano Pascual ESP [WC] vs Laura Pous Tio ESP [6]
Karolina Sprem CRO [7] vs Evie Dominikovic AUS
Vilmarie Castellvi PUR vs Emanuelle Gagliardi SUI
Maria Emilia Salerni ARG vs Melinda Czink HUN
Su-Weih Hsieh IND [Q] vs Sania Mirza IND [3]
Antonella Serra Zanetti ITA [5] vs Chia-Jung Chuang TPE [Q]
Sofie Arvidsson SWE vs Tamarine Tanasugarn THA
Neha Uberoi IND [WC] vs Sunitha Rao USA
Yuliana Fedak UKR vs Elena Likhovtseva RUS [2]
Welcome to Kolkata! Here we will have an event in a country that has become tennis crazy after Sania Mirza's successes. This week promises to be a week packed with PYW action, as Beijing and Portoroz also hold WTA events, and the cities of Albuquerque and Jounieh play host to an ITF event. Don't forget to vote for these events as soon as you can!
At first sight, you'd think the main draw of Kolkata is more a qualifying draw. When looking closer, you realise it isn't. Why? Perhaps of the overwhelming appearance of world number 5 Anastasia Myskina. The Russian starlet is here to collect her third title of the season and first on carpet.
But it won't be Myskina who'll get all the crowd support. Third seed Sania Mirza leads an army of 6(!) Indians, of which three qualified (Chakravarthi, Hsieh and Lakhani), one wildcard (Neha Uberoi), one direct entered player (Shikha Uberoi) and ofcourse third seed Mirza.
Looking further at the ones who enjoyed their fifteen minutes of PYW glory, we can see 7th seed Karolina Sprem. The Croation hardhitter enjoyed a perfect tournament at San Diego this summer, untill she got to the final, where she was sent back by two-time Grand Slam Champion Kim Clijsters.
For the rest, we mostly have players who have been spending their PYW time in the lower regions of the PYW rankings. Will this be a breakthrough tournament for one of them?
So VOTE! for the ones you want to see in the second round!
First Round
Anastasia Myskina RUS [1] vs Edina Gallovits ROM
Galina Voskoboeva RUS vs Victoria Azarenka BLR
Shikha Uberoi IND vs Ryoko Fuda JPN
Aranxta Parra Santonja ESP vs Rika Fujiwara JPN [8]
Maria Elena Camerin ITA [4] vs Rushmi Chakravarthi IND [Q]
Sybille Bammer AUT vs Nicole Pratt AUS
Kaia Kanepi vs Isha Lakhani IND [Q]
Virginia Ruano Pascual ESP [WC] vs Laura Pous Tio ESP [6]
Karolina Sprem CRO [7] vs Evie Dominikovic AUS
Vilmarie Castellvi PUR vs Emanuelle Gagliardi SUI
Maria Emilia Salerni ARG vs Melinda Czink HUN
Su-Weih Hsieh IND [Q] vs Sania Mirza IND [3]
Antonella Serra Zanetti ITA [5] vs Chia-Jung Chuang TPE [Q]
Sofie Arvidsson SWE vs Tamarine Tanasugarn THA
Neha Uberoi IND [WC] vs Sunitha Rao USA
Yuliana Fedak UKR vs Elena Likhovtseva RUS [2]