At the Bank of West Classic in Stanford it was a final
showdown between top seed Agnieszka
Radwańska the third seed Dominika
Cibulková. Cibulková didn't drop a set
on the way to the final beating Agniesza's sister urszula
and romanias Cristea
whilst Radwanska had a slightly more challenging route into the final
beating americans Varvara Lepchenko in
three sets before a easy two sets win over Jamie
Hampton in the semi finals. This match was
a chance for Cibulková to revenge her devastating 06 06 early year
loss to radwanska and she took the chance on Sunday. In a close three
set match the talented slovakian edged to a 36 64 64 victory giving
her title number 3 on the WTA tour,all of them being on a hard court.
At the
Baku cup it was former world number 11
Shahar Peer
against in form Ukrainian youngster Elina
Svitolina. Peer who's ranking has been
sliding downwards over the past year meaning that she has had to
enter a lot of qualification draws to event participated in a main
draw of a wta event demonstrated some of her old form with wins over
third Chanelle scheepers
and polish qualifier Linette
in the semis. Meanwhile youngster Svitolina who is at a career high
of 71 thanks to a good performance in last weeks Bad Gastein
tournament, produced a shock 6263 quarter final win over pre
tournament favourite Donna Vekic
and Romanias 4th seed Cadantu.
In the final it Svitolina who proved supreme edging peer out in a
close two setter 64 64.
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