[Intockatt]

OK, I think Zoe Gwen Scandalis is my new favorite tennis name.

[Romobencience]

OK, I think Zoe Gwen Scandalis is my new favorite tennis name.

Yes.

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Also, Melanie loses 0 and 1 to Elena Baltacha? Elena Baltacha couldn't 0 and 1 her own grandmother.

[beneitpedro]

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Also, Melanie loses 0 and 1 to Elena Baltacha? Elena Baltacha couldn't 0 and 1 her own grandmother.

She won a total of 4 points on return all match. 0 in the second set..

[cabonuserollyo]

ORDER OF PLAY - TUESDAY, AUGUST 02, 2011

STADIUM COURT start 10:00 am

K Date-Krumm (JPN) vs [WC] G Dulko (ARG)
R Marino (CAN) vs [11] M Kirilenko (RUS)
[12] S Lisicki (GER) vs [Q] G Arn (HUN)
E Baltacha (GBR) vs [3] A Radwanska (POL)

Not Before 7:00 PM
[1] V Zvonareva (RUS) vs [Q] J Craybas (USA)
[WC] A Glatch (USA) vs [2] A Petkovic (GER)

GRANDSTAND start 10:00 am

[10] F Pennetta (ITA) vs A Brianti (ITA)
Not Before 11:30 AM
[14] E Vesnina (RUS) vs [Q] M Erakovic (NZL)
S Zhang (CHN) vs [WC] S Stephens (USA)
C Chuang (TPE) / O Govortsova (BLR) vs D Hantuchova (SVK) / M Kirilenko (RUS)

COURT 3 start 10:00 am

T Paszek (AUT) vs S Halep (ROU)
S Mirza (IND) vs [15] S Errani (ITA)
K Jans-Ignacik (POL) / A Rosolska (POL) vs [2] G Dulko (ARG) / F Pennetta (ITA)
[3] L Huber (USA) / L Raymond (USA) vs S Errani (ITA) / R Vinci (ITA)

COURT 4 start 10:00 am

A Morita (JPN) vs J Dokic (AUS)
Not Before 11:30 AM
O Govortsova (BLR) vs A Rodionova (AUS)
C Scheepers (RSA) vs B Zahlavova Strycova (CZE)
[13] J Gajdosova (AUS) vs A Kudryavtseva (RUS)

[WepKeyday]

RESULTS
Singles - First Round
(9) Roberta Vinci (ITA) d. Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) 36 64 61
(16) Polona Hercog (SLO) d. (Q) Natalie Grandin (RSA) 76(1) 26 64
Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) d. (Q) Ashley Weinhold (USA) 63 61
Elena Baltacha (GBR) d. Melanie Oudin (USA) 60 61
Christina McHale (USA) d. (Q) Zoe Gwen Scandalis (USA) 60 60
Vera Dushevina (RUS) d. (WC) Aravane Rezai (FRA) 46 63 64
Virginie Razzano (FRA) d. Lucie Hradecka (CZE) 67(7) 76(5) 61
Zheng Jie (CHN) d. Mirjana Lucic (CRO) 57 62 76(3)
Vania King (USA) d. (Q) Rika Fujiwara (JPN) 61 46 75
Coco Vandeweghe (USA) d. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 75 67(3) 63
(Q) Jill Craybas (USA) d. (Q) Marie-Ève Pelletier (CAN) 61 61
(WC) Alexa Glatch (USA) d. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 61 62

Doubles - First Round
(1) Peschke/Srebotnik (CZE/SLO) d. Goerges/Zahlavova Strycova (GER/CZE) 61 76(5)
Rodionova/Savchuk (AUS/UKR) d. Erakovic/Gajdosova (NZL/AUS) 62 61

[WepKeyday]

So... Jovanovski's agent had bought her a ticket to... Carlsbad, New Mexico. And she went. And then had to take a correct flight and only had 30 minutes before her match. Pretty good result considering, but I'm really hoping they just didn't mention the state name during the entire flight process, or it's pretty sad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/14369086.stm

[FelixQY]

So... Jovanovski's agent had bought her a ticket to... Carlsbad, New Mexico. And she went. And then had to take a correct flight and only had 30 minutes before her match. Pretty good result considering, but I'm really hoping they just didn't mention the state name during the entire flight process, or it's pretty sad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/14369086.stm

Not the same situation but It reminds me of a young couple who bought a ticket from London(UK) to Sydney(Canada) instead of Sydney( Australia)...It was a cheap flight, they thought they were getting a great deal.

[occafeVes]

So... Jovanovski's agent had bought her a ticket to... Carlsbad, New Mexico. And she went. And then had to take a correct flight and only had 30 minutes before her match. Pretty good result considering, but I'm really hoping they just didn't mention the state name during the entire flight process, or it's pretty sad.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/14369086.stm

He should have been more careful of course, but to be honest I've never heard of place in US called Carlsbad either. By name alone it should be in some German speaking area...

By the way it still happens from time to time that some clueless person ends up in the wrong Frankfurt (there are two, the other one being a much smaller town on a Polish border).

[Vomephems]

Not the same situation but It reminds me of a young couple who bought a ticket from London(UK) to Sydney(Canada) instead of Sydney( Australia)...It was a cheap flight, they thought they were getting a great deal.

Nova Scotia shout out! We definitely heard about that one in the news Once or twice a year I'll hear of something happening in "Sydney" and assume they mean around here and get quite surprised about it...til I remember it's Australai they mean

[Nutpoode]

Not the same situation but It reminds me of a young couple who bought a ticket from London(UK) to Sydney(Canada) instead of Sydney( Australia)...It was a cheap flight, they thought they were getting a great deal.

Haha. I remember that story. And amazingly, a simple Google search turned up TWO such stories:

Monday, 5 August, 2002, 14:03 GMT 15:03 UK
Britons fly to 'wrong' Sydney

The couple are making the best of their trip


An internet booking mix-up has left a young English couple holidaying in chilly Sydney, Nova Scotia, instead of on the sun-kissed beaches of the Australian city of the same name. Emma Nunn, of Sidcup, Kent, and Raoul Christian, of Charlton, south east London, both 19, bought their tickets from an online travel agent for £740 each.

But after a six-hour flight from London's Heathrow Airport, their flight landed in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Realising they were in eastern Canada, the couple assumed they were "going the long way" because they had booked at the last minute and would soon be arriving in Sydney, Australia.
Mr Christian described the experience as "really, really confusing".
"We thought 'OK, we are going to wait here and a big plane is going to turn up and take us to Australia'.
"But it did not quite happen that way."
The passengers were asked to board a 25-seater plane. And after just more than an hour they landed in sleepy Sydney, Cape Breton Island, off the north eastern coast of Canada.
The former-mining town has a population of just 26,083 and one of the highest unemployment rates in Canada.

Airline officials are arranging for the couple to return to London. But, in true British fashion, the pair are not ready to write off their summer holiday just yet.
"Obviously it is a big disappointment," Ms Nunn conceded.

"But after it sank in we both said 'let's make the most of what we've got around us'."
They said they were enjoying looking at the pick-up trucks, and eating the local lobster.
Airport officials said they had sometimes received luggage destined for Sydney, Australia before - but never people.
Andrea Batten, an employee of Air Canada in Sydney, Nova Scotia, told the Reuters news agency she was dropping off a friend at the airport when a colleague asked: "Can somebody go to the counter and help these people? They think they're in Sydney, Australia."
"They were obviously very surprised," said Ms Batten, who said she had never heard of such an incident in her 13 years of working there.
"They decided they might as well stay for a few days, having come all this way. "It's going to be a trip to remember."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2172858.stm



Italian tourists end up in wrong Sydney
Travel agency's booking error landed couple in Nova Scotia instead of Australia

A couple from Italy got a taste of Cape Breton hospitality Wednesday when they unexpectedly arrived in Sydney, N.S., instead of Sydney, Australia.
Valerio Torresi, 26, and Serena Tavoloni, 25, had never travelled outside Europe until Tuesday night when they found themselves in Nova Scotia instead of Australia where they had planned to fly.
At first, they assumed they were only changing planes, and when they found out it was actually the end of their flight, they didn't believe what had happened.
"The first reaction was fear," Torresi said. "And the second reaction is, 'No, it's a joke.' But it's true."
The couple's travel agency in Italy is correcting the booking error, and the couple hopes to be on their way to Australia soon.
In the meantime, they are being treated to a warm welcome in the city of about 23,000 on Cape Breton island. A local restaurant is providing a lobster dinner, and the couple will stay at the Day's Inn for free.
Torresi and Tavoloni said everyone they have met in Sydney has been kind, friendly and helpful.
This isn't the first time the two Sydneys have been mistaken.
Two years ago, a woman from Argentina spent an unintentional week in Cape Breton, and in 2002, a British couple made the same mistake and spent several days on the island.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-s...ng-sydney.html


Disappointing, I guess! Cape Breton Island may be rather picturesque in its geography, but Sydney is a rather dire city.

[Vomephems]

The people who live there seem to think otherwise I've only been there for a night a few years back so can't say for sure myself (can agree the CB is very picturesque though!)

[KernJetenue]

Yes.

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Also, Melanie loses 0 and 1 to Elena Baltacha? Elena Baltacha couldn't 0 and 1 her own grandmother.

Didn't Oudin give some interview a couple weeks ago claiming all the losses have been due to her being "unlucky?" Thats bull...here she is given a beatable 1st round opponent and she wins 1 game! So much for her being Henin, Serena and Graf all rolled into one.

[RilmAlime67]

Didn't Oudin give some interview a couple weeks ago claiming all the losses have been due to her being "unlucky?"

Pretty sure this came out of an interview promoting WTT - she played a number of matches for our Philadelphia Freedoms.

“I’ve hadn’t luck on my side lately”. “I’ve tried to stay positive, keep working hard I have a lot to learn, and hopefully, I still have a long career ahead of me. My goals right now is just to start playing better again. Start to get some more matches under my belt.”

[WepKeyday]

Not the same situation but It reminds me of a young couple who bought a ticket from London(UK) to Sydney(Canada) instead of Sydney( Australia)...It was a cheap flight, they thought they were getting a great deal.

I also thought of the Sydney one.

He should have been more careful of course, but to be honest I've never heard of place in US called Carlsbad either. By name alone it should be in some German speaking area...

By the way it still happens from time to time that some clueless person ends up in the wrong Frankfurt (there are two, the other one being a much smaller town on a Polish border).

Isn't Frankfurt's official name still Frankfurt am Main for that reason? I remember about the two Frankfurts from when I was little - we had relatives in Frankfurt (the big one) and I wanted to see where they were on a map

[sEe]

Bojana's agent booking the wrong Carlsbad is like on the same level as Aravane saying years ago she took a van to Australia.

It's fitting that I like them both and I have no sense of direction.

[clapsoewmred]

Bojana's agent booking the wrong Carlsbad is like on the same level as Aravane saying years ago she took a van to Australia.

Ok, I need to know more about this story!

[sEe]

Ok, I need to know more about this story!

There's like a 15 page thread somewhere on wtaworld in general messages about it. I wish I could find it but the search isn't working. Every time the AO rolls around though, the thread pops back up.

[Romobencience]

The play in this tournament is never going to live up to the entertainment of the first two pages of this thread!

[cabonuserollyo]

Tournament:Mercury Insurance Open
Dates: August 1 - 7, 2011
Location: Carlsbad, California USA
Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $721,000
Surface: Hard/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Raquel Giscafre
Web Site: http://www.mercuryinsuranceopen.com/Home.aspx

Kim Clijsters
Vera Zvonareva
Agnieszka Radwanska
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Andrea Petkovic
Julia Goerges
Shuai Peng
Yanina Wickmayer
Ana Ivanovic
Flavia Pennetta
Alexandra Dulgheru
Ekaterina Makarova
Elena Vesnina
Sara Errani
Roberta Vinci
Jarmila Gajdosova
Maria Kirilenko
Dominika Cibulkova
Daniela Hantuchova

(Via Official Web Site)

[addisonnicogel]

Website is slow to update as Clijsters have already withdrawn