All Posts Tagged With: "Craybas"
Statistics From Deciding Day 2 for American Fed Cup Team Offer Clues For Choosing Players For The Final In Italy
Bethanie Mattek-Sands had a low 30% win ratio on her 2nd serves with 74% on her first serve points with only 1 double fault. This type of conservative play contributed to her two singles losses over the weekend. During a critical first service game, Mattek-Sands spun her 2nd serve to the deuce court and it [...]
28Apr2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
Lepchenko, Oudin, Williams Singles Winners; Raymond, Mattek-Sands, Glatch, Perry Advance in Doubles at Charleston
Women’s Singles:
American Varvara Lepchenko defeated surprise US qualifier Shenay Perry 6-2, 6-3 as Perry lost 64% of her service points while Lepchenko won 69% of her own service points.
Mattek-Sands lost to Rodionova 2-6, 4-6 making 71% of her first serves, but unfortunately losing 53% of her first serve points allowing Rodionova 8 break chances creating [...]
Madison Keys Eliminated by #1 Seed, Nadia Patrova
Madison Keys put the WTA tour players on notice this week with her ground breaking win as a 14 year old and her fine showing today vs. Nadia Petrova.
Madison Keys lost 3 & 2, but with an impressive 10 winners and only 2 unforced errors.
Yesterday Bethanie Mattek-Sands defeated Marion Bartoli 5-7, 7-6(4), 6-3 and Varvara [...]
Williams Sisters & Bryan Brothers Put Silver Lining Around Dark Day for American Players and Fans
Saturday, March 28th, started in a frustrating way for American Tennis as multiple regions of Fox Sports decided to broadcast delayed sports and info-mercials rather than live Miami tennis from the Sony Ericsson Open. While it appears to not be a requirement of the ATP/WTA contract for Fox to broadcast live tennis over other sport [...]
29Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
Reynolds Rallies, Delic, Isner, Querry Roll, but Sweeting, Craybas and Levine Out
Jill Craybas and Ryan Sweeting each went down an early break in their matches to trail 1-2 and each lost their first set 4-6. They continued their parallel woes into the second set with both down 2 breaks trailing 1-4, but the similarities end there when Craybas was closed out at 1-6 by Anna-Lena Groenfeld.
Sweeting [...]
Huber/Black #1 seed in Miami. McHale/Stephens & Mattek-Sands (w/Petrova) to Meet in 1st Round
Huber (w/ Black) is seeded #1 and Raymond (w/ Peschke) is seeded #3 on the bottom half of the draw.
Coco Vandeweghe (w/ Martic) was offered a wild card and will play the #5 seeds Daniela Hantuchova and Ai Sugiyama.
Jill Craybas (w/ Makarova) will take on the Bondarenko sisters and Vania King (w/ Amanmuradova) will meet [...]
Craybas into the main singles draw in Miami
Jill Craybas advanced over Severine Bremond 3-6, 7-5, 6-3 for a berth in Miami’s main singles draw. Craybas is the only US woman to qualify out of the 7 women that entered the qualifying draw. Craybas will meet German Anna-Lena Groenefeld in the first round, with the winner to play Sara Errani from Italy.
Vania King [...]
Craybas & King Advance in 1st Round of Qualifying in Miami
Vania King eliminated fellow American Gail Brodsky 6-2, 6-3. This match came down to critical break point opportunities as King converted 5 of her 6 chances while Brodsky converted only 2 of her 8 opportunities. In addition, King was very effective returning as she won 57% of Brodsky’s service points. King will [...]
23Mar2009 | US Tennis Network | Comments Off | Continued
