[BluewayAllere]

Tournament Name: GRAND PRIX SAR LA PRINCESSE LALLA MERYEM
Dates: APRIL 26- MAY 1, 2010
Location: Fes, Morocco
Tier: International
Prize Money: $220,000
Surface: Clay/Outdoors
Tournament Director:
Meijati Alami Fouad
OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.arryadia.com/mtt/2010/wta2010/accueil.php3


List of Players (from tournament website):
Main Draw:
MEDINA GARRIGUES, ANABEL 34 ESP
CIRSTEA, SORANA ROU 40
SUAREZ NAVARRO, CARLA ESP 42
CZINK, MELINDA HUN 46
SCHNYDER, PATTY SUI 48
BENESOVA, IVETA CZE 58
VOEGELE, STEFANIE SUI 64
KERBER, ANGELIQUE GER 66
HRADECKA, LUCIE CZE 67
ZAHLAVOVA STRYCOVA, BARBORA CZE 72
MARTIC, PETRA CRO 75
CORNET, ALIZE FRA 80
OLARU, IOANA RALUCA ROU 81
COIN, JULIE FRA 85
ZAKOPALOVA, KLARA CZE 86
PARRA SANTONJA, ARANTXA ESP 88
MORITA, AYUMI JPN 90
O'BRIEN, KATIE GBR 100
DOKIC, JELENA AUS 101
PARMENTIER, PAULINE B FRA 108
KUCOVA, KRISTINA SVK 110
VORACOVA, RENATA CZE 111
GROTH, JARMILA AUS 119
MANASIEVA, VESNA RUS 120

Alternates:
KEOTHAVONG, ANNE V GBR 123
MAYR, PATRICIA AUT 124
DOMACHOWSKA, MARTA POL 128
JOVANOVSKI, BOJANA SRB 129
KUCOVA, ZUZANA SVK 136
DOMINGUEZ LINO, LOURDES ESP 142
ROGOWSKA, OLIVIA AUS 148
EL TABAKH, HEIDI CAN 151
FLORIS, ANNA ITA 155
SAVCHUK, OLGA UKR 156
ANTONIYCHUK, KRISTINA UKR 163
BOVINA, ELENA RUS 166
FORETZ, STEPHANIE FRA 170
HALEP, SIMONA ROU 172
PIVOVAROVA, ANASTASIA RUS 175
BRATCHIKOVA, NINA RUS 178
PASZEK, TAMIRA S AUT 179
DENTONI, CORINNA ITA 180
CASTANO, CATALINA COL 186
SOLER ESPINOSA, SILVIA ESP 192
FUDA, RYOKO JPN 203
HRDINOVA, EVA CZE 207
GERASIMOU, ANNA GRE 212
ANI, MARET EST 216
COMPOSTIZO DE ANDRES, ELOISA M ESP 217
ARN, GRETA HUN 230
CABEZA CANDELA, ESTRELLA ESP 233
KLAFFNER, MELANIE AUT 234
VIERIN, NATHALIE ITA 253
GARCIA VIDAGANY, BEATRIZ ESP 263
POUS TIO, LAURA ESP 267
KOSINSKA, KAROLINA POL 271
WASHINGTON, MASHONA L USA 282
KREMER, ANNE LUX 295
THORPE, LAURA FRA 305
KRUNIC, ALEKSANDRA SRB 324
JIDKOVA, ALINA RUS 352
KLEPAC, ANDREJA SLO 353
COSTAS-MOREIRA, LETICIA ESP 363
PELLETIER, MARIE-EVE CAN 380
JAKUPOVIC, DALILA SLO 413
ZORIC, NATASA SRB 437
QUERCIA, FEDERICA ITA 457
FERRER SUAREZ, INES C ESP 480
BESSER, ASTRID J ITA 566
SOLSONA CARCASONA, SHEILA ESP 707

[BluewayAllere]

Main Draw
(1) Carla Suarez Navarro v Anna Floris
Anne Keothavong v Julie Coin
Vesna Manasieva v Arantxa Parra Santonja
Alize Cornet v (6) Petra Martic

(3 )Anabel Medina Garrigues v (wc) Lina Bennani
Q v Jarmila Groth
Q v (wc) Nadia Lalami
Olivia Rogowska v (7) Iveta Benesova

(5)Angelique Kerber v (wc) Fatima Zahrae El Allami
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v Bojana Jovanovski
Katie O´Brien v Pauline Parmentier
Renata Voracova v (4)Melinda Czink

(8) Lucie Hradecka v Q
Olga Savchuk v Patricia Mayr
Ioana Raluca Olaru v Klara Zakopalova
Q v (2) Patty Schnyder

[MpNelQTU]

Main Draw
(1) Carla Suarez Navarro v Anna Floris
Anne Keothavong v Julie Coin
Vesna Manasieva v Arantxa Parra Santonja
Alize Cornet v (6) Petra Martic

(3 )Anabel Medina Garrigues v (wc) Lina Bennani
Q v Jarmila Groth
Q v (wc) Nadia Lalami
Olivia Rogowska v (7) Iveta Benesova

(5)Angelique Kerber v (wc) Fatima Zahrae El Allami
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova v Bojana Jovanovski
Katie O´Brien v Pauline Parmentier
Renata Voracova v (4)Melinda Czink

(8) Lucie Hradecka v Q
Olga Savchuk v Patricia Mayr
Ioana Raluca Olaru v Klara Zakopalova
Q v (2) Patty Schnyder

And we get to predict this

[MexicoCity]

And we get to predict this

ok talk about a train wreck!!

[quedry36]

Someone pick AMG...I DARE you to!

[MpNelQTU]

Someone pick AMG...I DARE you to!

She's tied with CSN for my champion pick, so....


Now I doubledare you to pick number 2 seed () Schnyder

[quedry36]

She reminds me of Santoro last year...every time I see her I think "Isn't she retired"...anyways...maybe I will pick her! Surprised she's still ranked high enough to be #2 here.

[BluewayAllere]

Order of Play
Center Court (from 10.30hrs)
1. Olivia Rogowska vs. Iveta Benesova
2. Ioana Raluca Olaru vs. Klara Zakopalova
3. Olga Savchuk vs. Patricia Mayr
4. Groth/Keothavong vs. Bennani/Rassif
5. El Allami/Lalami vs. O'Brien/Olaru

Court 1 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Simona Halep vs. Estrella Cabeza Candela (Singles Q Final)
2. Corinna Dentoni vs. Greta Arn (Singles Q Final)
3. Benesova/Medina Garrigues vs. Martic/Schnyder (after suitable rest)

Court 5 (NB 10.30hrs)
1. Silvia Soler Espinosa vs. Laura Pous Tio (Singles Q Final)
2. Claire de Gubernatis vs. Beatriz García Vidagany (Singles Q Final)

[Unjucky]

Ioana Raluca Olaru v Klara Zakopalova

I've been watching this match on a livestream for about 10 minutes now. Zakopalova has the worst attitude I have ever seen. Her body language is that of a 12 year old girl who just had her cell phone taken away or something. She's hanging her head and dangling her arms between every point. She's complaining about calls, the conditions. She's throwing her racket.

The conditions actually are extremely difficult, but this is the most annoying attitude I have ever seen.

[Unjucky]

Olaru closed it out 6-4 in the third.

She looks like she's about 16 or 17 years old. I checked the WTA site and she's 21.

[BluewayAllere]

RESULTS
Singles - First Round
(7) Iveta Benesova (CZE) d. Olivia Rogowska (AUS) 60 64
Ioana Raluca Olaru (ROU) d. Klara Zakopalova (CZE) 64 26 64
Olga Savchuk (UKR) d. Patricia Mayr (AUT) 64 76(0)

Doubles - First Round
(1) Benesova/Medina Garrigues (CZE/ESP) d. Martic/Schnyder (CRO/SUI) 62 62
Groth/Keothavong (AUS/GBR) d. (WC) Bennani/Rassif (MAR/MAR) 61 60
O'Brien/Olaru (GBR/ROU) d. (WC) El Allami/Lalami (MAR/MAR) 60 63

Singles Qualifying - Final Round
(1) Simona Halep (ROU) d. (7) Estrella Cabeza Candela (ESP) 61 61
(8) Greta Arn (HUN) d. (3) Corinna Dentoni (ITA) 64 62
(5) Laura Pous Tio (ESP) d. (4) Silvia Soler Espinosa (ESP) 76(5) 76(3)
Claire de Gubernatis (FRA) d. (6) Beatriz García Vidagany (ESP) 75 63


ORDER OF PLAY - Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Center Court (from 10.00hrs)
1. Angelique Kerber vs. Fatima Zahrae El Allami
2. Anabel Medina Garrigues vs. Lina Bennani
3. Greta Arn vs. Patty Schnyder
4. Carla Suárez Navarro vs. Anna Floris
5. Claire de Gubernatis vs. Nadia Lalami

Court 1 (from 10.00hrs)
1. Renata Voracova vs. Melinda Czink
2. Alizé Cornet vs. Petra Martic (NB 11.30hrs)
3. Vesna Manasieva vs. Arantxa Parra Santonja

Court 4 (from 11.00hrs)
1. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova vs. Bojana Jovanovski
2. Laura Pous Tio vs. Jarmila Groth
3. Lucie Hradecka vs. Simona Halep

Court 5 (from 11.30hrs)
1. Anne Keothavong vs. Julie Coin
2. Katie O'Brien vs. Pauline Parmentier

Court/Time TBA
1. Kondratieva/Lefèvre vs. Manasieva/Zakopalova
2. Savchuk/Zalameda vs. Coin/Cornet
3. Cabeza Candela/Pous Tio vs. Bovina/Klepac

[Aozenee]

aww. Star Head Candle didn't qualify.

[Trotoleterm]

aww. Star Head Candle didn't qualify.

But, ARN'S BACK, BABY! SO, FIRE UP THAT GO-KART, WTA OFFICIALS, 'CAUSE GRETA'S GOT SOME WTA ASSES SHE'S GOTTA STOMP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gymnAnemoe]

aww. Star Head Candle didn't qualify.

That's my favorite name in all the WTA.

[Unjucky]

But, ARN'S BACK, BABY! SO, FIRE UP THAT GO-KART, WTA OFFICIALS, 'CAUSE GRETA'S GOT SOME WTA ASSES SHE'S GOTTA STOMP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Has anyone actually seen her play? I don't even know what she looks like.

[Unjucky]

I found a livestream of Arn-Schnyder!

http://www.fromsport.com/video-238892.html

Arn hits the ball pretty hard and flat. She reminds me a little bit of Srebotnik. She's wearing an unflattering polo shirt with a skirt and hat, all white. She's wearing no-show socks! She has her hair in a bun. You can't see much of her face, but she looks kind of pretty. Who knew!?

Arn won the first set, but Schnyder looks firmly in control in the third. Arn is spraying UEs all over the place. A few times she's stopped her service motion to wave her racket all in front of her face frantically. There was probably a bug, but I like to think it's just her senile mind playing tricks on her.

[Edisesyethisp]

Has anyone actually seen her play? I don't even know what she looks like.

She has one of the more interesting stories on the WTA tour. She was playing for Germany earlier in her career. I've never known why, but it always seemed like she was playing only a few tournaments each year. Then she stopped altogether, apparently because of lack of success. When she unretired, she won one tournamen and was ranked around 100. Then she started playing for Hungary. Then she became kind of unsuccessful again, lingering around No. 200. Puzzling, but she is still playing, albeit without much success.

She is one of those persons I would like to see an interview of. I would love to know why she continues playing, what her motivation is etc.

[gymnAnemoe]

Wow, the two Moroccan wildcards only won one game between them.
I just found it interesting because all four Italian wildcards in Rome won their matches, which is not usual either.

[vintsqyuid]

Alize won her singles and doubles(w/Julia Coin) today. There is hope that Alize may regain her clay form.

[carreraboyracer]

Alize won her singles and doubles(w/Julia Coin) today. There is hope that Alize may regain her clay form.

She's letting some Fed Cup success carry over. I like it!