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. Indians Sania Mirza and Shikha Uberoi will have the crowd cheering for them, as both of them reached the quarter finals.
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 semi finals!
Quarter Finals:
Anastasia Myskina RUS [1] v. Shikha Uberoi IND
Maria Elena Camerin ITA [4] v. Kaia Kanepi EST
Karolina Sprem CRO [7] v. Sania Mirza IND [3]
Sofia Arvidsson SWE v. 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. Indians Sania Mirza and Shikha Uberoi will have the crowd cheering for them, as both of them reached the quarter finals.
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 semi finals!
Quarter Finals:
Anastasia Myskina RUS [1] v. Shikha Uberoi IND
Maria Elena Camerin ITA [4] v. Kaia Kanepi EST
Karolina Sprem CRO [7] v. Sania Mirza IND [3]
Sofia Arvidsson SWE v. Elena Likhovtseva RUS [2]