Ana Ivanovic china

Caroline Wozniacki (here a view indiscreet about it) and Ana Ivanovic are two of my favorite players, and they are both contesting the Open in Beijing China.

Caroline Wozniacki (here a view indiscreet about it) and Ana Ivanovic are two of my favorite players, and they are both contesting the Open in Beijing China.

Bad luck, at least for me is that both have crossed the tournament ... and that one had to leave.

Caroline won (with its famous miniskirt "to win men's amateur) by a tight 7-6, 6-4, breaking my heart to all the fans of Anne .. among whom I include myself.

Another favorite of the China Open, the Russian Nikolay Davydenko, seeded fourth, defeated Croat Marin Cilic with a double 7-5.

The top seed of the China Open, Serbian Novak Djokovic, qualified for the quarterfinals by the absence of his rival, the American Mardy Fish, while Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki is ranked the victory of world number one ranking after beat Italy's Sara Errani.

Djokovic moved into the next round without playing because Mardy Fish, injured his left ankle, could not play the game.

The Serb played on Tuesday a first-round match that also earned him a lot of effort, as his opponent, Chinese Mao-Xin Gong, ranked 356 in the ATP world rankings and won in one hour and ten minutes by 6-1 6-3.

Djokovic's next opponent will be Frenchman Gilles Simon, who beat German Michael Berrer, by 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (4), in three hours and six minutes into the game, time that the Frenchman signed 16 aces.

Another favorite of the China Open, the Russian Nikolay Davydenko, seeded fourth, defeated Croat Marin Cilic with a double 7-5.

Davydenko will play the quarter-final against American John Isner, who, with 2.05 meters in height and serves more than 200 kilometers per hour, beat German Philipp Kohlschreiber 7-6 (3), 3-6 and 6 -3. The American had 20 aces before the Teutonic, which in the previous round defeated Spanish Fernando Verdasco, seeded sixth.

In the women, the first favorite, Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, qualified for the quarterfinals of the tournament with a win over Italy's Sara Errani 6-4, 6-2.

Wozniacki, 20, will face the next round over Czech Petra Kvitova, who comes to beat the Estonian Kaia Kanepi 7-5, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2.

If he wins, Wozniacki will become the new world number one in the WTA rankings and move from that position to the American Serena Williams, who played just six tournaments so far this year.

Zvoraneva not fail

The second-seeded Russian Vera Zvoraneva, also spent the quarter-finals after winning 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 to compatriot Maria Kirilenko.

In the next phase, Zvoraneva will face Italian Francesca Schiavone, fifth seed, who eliminated Vera Dushevina of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Shahar Peer of Israel agreed to the quarterfinals by winning without difficulty to the Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru 6-1, 6-2.

In that round will face Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky, who beat Russian Elena Vesnina 6-2, 6-3.

Gisela Dulko of Argentina was eliminated in the second round of the China Open, which takes place in Beijing, losing to Russian Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Gisela Dulko of Argentina was eliminated in the second round of the China Open, which takes place in Beijing, losing to Russian Maria Kirilenko 6-2, 3-6, 6-2. Were also eliminated Jelena Jankovic and Dinara Safina, two former world No. 1.

Dulko's match, which lasted two Doha Masters went into the second round.

Zvonareva, a finalist this year at Wimbledon and U.S. Open, will play Germany's Andrea Petkovic and the winner of that match will face on Wednesday with Kirilenko.

Falling Jankovic, seeded third in China, was a surprise because his executioner was his compatriot Bojana Jovanovski, with little international experience, with a score of 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.

In the second round, waiting for Jovanovski winner of Tuesday's meeting between the Swiss Patty Schnyder and Israel's Shahar Peer, the favorite No. 15, who beat the local guest Shengnan Sun 6-1, 6-2.

The other player already installed in the second round is Russian Nadia Petrova, 13th seed and former top-ten, to be imposed on Ukrainian Alona Bondarenko 6-3, 7-5.

The next opponent of the crossing will Petrova Tuesday between Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova and Latvian Anastasija Sevastova, arising hours and 13 minutes, had several opportunities for the Argentina player broke serve his opponent in the final two sets. However, Kirilenko was able to maintain his serve in the most difficult moments.

Dulko, No. 49 in the world, was the only Latin American representative in the tournament, so any player with the elimination of the Spanish language remains in the race in Beijing, as the two Spanish representatives, Anabel Medina Garrigues and Maria José Martínez Sánchez, were eliminated in the first round.

In this event, including the WTA Tour, played on concrete at the National Tennis Center in Beijing and distributed $ 4,500,000 in prizes, Kirilenko (26 ° in the ranking) expects to meet his next rival, the second round.

Russia's Vera Zvonareva, No. 4 in the world and second seed, defeated compatriot Dinara Safina 6-4, 7-6 (8-6). Thus, the player already qualified for the the qualifier and executioner on Sunday of the Australian Samantha Stosur, fourth favorite.

In addition, Italy's Sara Errani beat Shuai Peng of local guest 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 and will be the first rival of Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki, great candidate for the title and current No. 2 world ranking the WTA.

Meanwhile, two seeded players were eliminated in their debuts: Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska, sixth, lost to Germany's Angelique Kerber 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 7-5 while France's Marion Bartoli, eleventh, lost to Serb Ana Ivanovic 6-2, 6-3.

Kerber waits for the Romanian Alexandra Dulgheru, executioner of Czech Barbora Strycova Zahlavova 6-4, 6-4. Ivanovic's next opponent, former queen of the world circuit, will be the Belarusian Olga Govortsova.

Meanwhile, Vera Dushevina of Russia beat compatriot Ekaterina Makarova 6-4, a double will face Italy's Roberta Vinci, from the screening stage.

The twin female formed by the Serbian Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic will not compete in the Olympic Games in Beijing

The twin female formed by Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic will not compete in the Olympic Games in Beijing, as suggested the two Serbian players in Zagreb.

Ivanovic and Jankovic participate in the Games, but not playing the doubles, indicated at the press conference in Zagreb on statements gathered by the Croatian press.

"When it comes to doubles, Ana and I are players individually and this is our priority. I do not know, we will consult and perhaps inspired twice in China," said Jankovic, the worlds number five.

Ivanovic admitted however that did not arise intervene in the doubles in Beijing.

"I have no plans to do so, but I hope to get a great result in the individual competition, qualified the second player in the WTA circuit.

The hobby is therefore be deprived of the sporting event that could give the Serbian duo, which this weekend played in Zagreb a duel of the Fed Cup to Croatia.