[glasscollector]

Tournament Name: Western & Southern Financial Grp Womens Open
Dates: August 9 - 15, 2010
Location: CINCINNATI, USA
Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $2,000,000
Surface: Hard/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Bruce Flory


Jelena Jankovic SRB 2
Venus Williams USA 3
Caroline Wozniacki DEN 4
Samantha Stosur AUS 5
Elena Dementieva RUS 6
Kim Clijsters BEL 7
Francesca Schiavone ITA 8
Vera Zvonareva RUS 9
Na Li CHN 10
Agnieszka R Radwanska POL 11
Flavia Pennetta ITA 13
Marion Bartoli FRA 14
Maria Sharapova RUS 15
Shahar Peer ISR 16
Yanina Wickmayer BEL 17
Victoria Azarenka BLR 18
Nadia Petrova RUS 19
Aravane Rezai FRA 20
Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS 21
Jie Zheng CHN 23
Lucie Safarova CZE 24
Daniela Hantuchova SVK 25
Alisa Kleybanova RUS 26
Maria Kirilenko RUS 27
Alexandra Dulgheru ROU 28
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS 29
Alona Bondarenko UKR 30
Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ 32
Dinara Safina RUS 35
Sara Errani ITA 36
Andrea Petkovic GER 38
Kateryna Bondarenko UKR 40
Olga Govortsova BLR 43
Melanie J Oudin USA 44
Gisela Dulko ARG 46
Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP 47
Elena Vesnina RUS 60
Sabine K Lisicki GER 79
Ana Ivanovic SRB 63

(Updated 8/4/10)

[glasscollector]

Venus has withdrawn with knee pain.
http://bit.ly/bxJa96

[kilibry]

Venus has withdrawn with a knee injury.

Oh, good christ. How do you injure your knee promoting a book? After a good start, I'm hating this summer season.

[glasscollector]

Oh, good christ. I'm hating this summer season.

It's now being called knee pain.

[Pheboasmabs]

Another premier WTA event where we'll have a random winner.

You heard it here first - this is Alexandra Dulgheru's to lose.

[clomoll]

Ugh. Oh Venus

[clomoll]

LOL@ this in the last paragraph/part "The final will be help on August 15."

Subliminal message?

[glasscollector]

Qualifying Draw

(1)Kaia Kanepi vs WC Su-Wei Hsieh
Nuria Llagostera Vives vs (24)Shenay Perry

(2)Roberta Vinci vs Anna Tatishvili
Madison Brengle vs (22)Varvara Lepchenko

(3)Elena Baltacha vs Julie Ditty
Sania Mirza vs (16)Bojana Jovanovski

(4)Kimiko Date-Krumm vs WC Cara Black
Tetiana Luzhanska vs (18)Jill Craybas

(5)Sorana Cirstea vs WC Danielle Mills
Mirjana Lucic vs (15)Simona Halep

(6)Ekaterina Makarova vs Alexandra Stevenson
Carly Gullickson vs (14)Alla Kudryavtseva

(7)Anastasia Rodionova vs Tamira Paszek
Olga Savchuk vs (23)Julie Coin

(8)Vera Dushevina vs Akgul Amanmuradova
Michaella Krajicek vs (17)Edina Gallovits

(9)Yung-Jan Chan vs WC Ashley Harkleroad
Mariana Duque Marino vs (20)Monica Niculescu

(10)Vania King vs Alison Riske
Urszula Radwanska vs (19)Kurumi Nara

(11)Ayumi Morita vs Sesil Karatantcheva
Lucie Hradecka v (13)Karolina Sprem

(12)Chanelle Scheepers vs WC Julia Boserup
WC Chelsey Gullickson vs (21)Greta Arn

[glasscollector]

Saturday Order of Play - Qualifying

CENTER COURT start 10:00 am

K Date Krumm (JPN) vs [WC] C Black (ZIM)
V King (USA) vs A Riske (USA)
[WC] CG Gullickson (USA) vs G Arn (HUN)
Y Chan (TPE) vs [WC] A Harkleroad (USA)
C Gullickson (USA) vs A Kudryavtseva (RUS)

GRANDSTAND start 10:00 am

T Luzhanska (UKR) vs J Craybas (USA)
N Llagostera Vives (ESP) vs S Perry (USA)
C Scheepers (RSA) vs [WC] J Boserup (USA)
E Baltacha (GBR) vs J Ditty (USA)
Not Before 3:00 PM
E Makarova (RUS) vs A Stevenson (USA)

COURT 3 start 10:00 am

K Kanepi (EST) vs [WC] S Hsieh (TPE)
V Dushevina (RUS) vs A Amanmuradova (UZB)
A Rodionova (AUS) vs T Paszek (AUT)
R Vinci (ITA) vs A Tatishvili (GEO)
Not Before 3:00 PM
M Lucic (CRO) vs S Halep (ROU)

COURT 4 start 10:00 am

A Morita (JPN) vs S Karatantcheva (KAZ)
M Krajicek (NED) vs E Gallovits (ROU)
M Brengle (USA) vs V Lepchenko (USA)
S Mirza (IND) vs B Jovanovski (SRB)
Not Before 3:00 PM
S Cirstea (ROU) vs [WC] D Mills (USA) - TBA

COURT 5 start 10:00 am

L Hradecka (CZE) vs K Sprem (CRO)
U Radwanska (POL) vs K Nara (JPN)
O Savchuk (UKR) vs J Coin (FRA)
M Duque Marino (COL) vs M Niculescu (ROU)

[Penisvergroesserung]

Man I wish I could be there for qualies. Scrubtastic stuff.

Sesil, Akgul, Lufthansa, TWO Gullicksons, TWO Haleps, and, for good measure, a player who blew several match points in a recent slam quarterfinal.

[kilibry]

Man I wish I could be there for qualies. Scrubtastic stuff.

Sesil, Akgul, Lufthansa, TWO Gullicksons, TWO Haleps, and, for good measure, a player who blew several match points in a recent slam quarterfinal.

Not to mention Lucic and Alexandra Stevenson

[Penisvergroesserung]

Not to mention getting to serenade Rodionova.

[Mjypksun]

Cincy draw is being held

KUZNETSOVA vs SHARAPOVA FIRST ROUND!!!

Azarenka - Ivanovic first round

Clijsters-Safina potential second round.

Jankovic's section is Rezai and 5 qualifiers

(all via @olerafa on Twitter)

[eI7iqNot]

Cincy draw is being held

KUZNETSOVA vs SHARAPOVA FIRST ROUND!!!

Azarenka - Ivanovic first round

Clijsters-Safina potential second round.

Jankovic's section is Rezai and 5 qualifiers

(all via @olerafa on Twitter)

[glasscollector]

Stosur has reportedly withdrawn. She said during her presser yesterday her arm was heavy and that she was going to have tests done today.

[qwerty1]

Cincy draw is being held

KUZNETSOVA vs SHARAPOVA FIRST ROUND!!!

Azarenka - Ivanovic first round

Clijsters-Safina potential second round.

Jankovic's section is Rezai and 5 qualifiers

(all via @olerafa on Twitter)

Cincy is gonna be the Hot Mess Tournament of Hot Messness. The WTA at it's finest.

[glasscollector]

MAIN DRAW

[1] JANKOVIC, Jelena SRB/BYE
QUALIFIER vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs QUALIFIER
QUALIFIER vs [14] REZAI, Aravane FRA

[9] AZARENKA, Victoria BLR vs IVANOVIC, Ana SRB
SHVEDOVA, Yaroslava KAZ vs QUALIFIER
VESNINA, Elena RUS vs OUDIN, Melanie USA
[5] SCHIAVONE, Francesca ITA/ BYE

[4] CLIJSTERS, Kim BEL/ BYE
SAFINA, Dinara RUS vs VINCI, Roberta ITA
QUALIFIER vs PARRA SANTONJA, Arantxa ESP
WC MCHALE, Christina USA vs [15] PETROVA, Nadia RUS

[11] PENNETTA, Flavia ITA vs ZHENG, Jie CHN
QUALIFIER vs LISICKI, Sabine GER
KIRILENKO, Maria RUS vs BONDARENKO, Kateryna UKR
[6] ZVONAREVA, Vera RUS/BYE


[8] LI, Na CHN/BYE
WC HAMPTON, Jamie USA vs ERRANI, Sara ITA
DULKO, Gisela ARG vs SAFAROVA, Lucie CZE
QUALIFIER vs [12] WICKMAYER, Yanina BEL

[13] PEER, Shahar ISR vs GOVORTSOVA, Olga BLR
QUALIFIER vs QUALIFIER
HANTUCHOVA, Daniela SVK vs PAVLYUCHENKOVA, Anastasia RUS
[3] DEMENTIEVA, Elena RUS/BYE

[7] RADWANSKA, Agnieszka/BYE
KLEYBANOVA, Alisa RUS vs DULGHERU, Alexandra ROU
PETKOVIC, Andrea GER vs WC VANDEWEGHE, Coco USA
KUZNETSOVA, Svetlana RUS vs [10] SHARAPOVA, Maria RUS

[16] BARTOLI, Marion FRA vs MEDINA GARRIGUES, Anabel ESP
CIBULKOVA, Dominika SVK vs BONDARENKO, Alona UKR
BAMMER, Sybille AUT vs QUALIFIER
[2] WOZNIACKI, Caroline DEN /BYE

[KatoabamyHant]

Does anyone know if Venus is, well, like, alive???

[glasscollector]

Does anyone know if Venus is, well, like, alive???

She was having trouble getting out of bed this morning. She thought listening to Rage Against The Machine would get her going.

True.

[KatoabamyHant]

She was having trouble getting out of bed this morning. She thought listening to Rage Against The Machine would get her going.

True.

That's lovely.

But why isn't her flesh-toned bum in this draw???