The MPS Group Championships at the Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida started a few days ago. This tournament is held for women. Now the only story on Day 1 was 14-year old American, Madison Keys. She went down in the record books as the seventh youngest woman to win a WTA Tour main draw match. She took out an out of sorts Russian, Alla Kudryavtseva, who defeated Maria Sharapova in Wimbledon '08. Keys defeated Kudryavtseva, 75 64. This would definitely be the biggest win of her career. Let's see if she could pull off a top ten win over another Russian, Nadia Petrova, who knocked out Olga Govortsova yesterday, 62 64.
On Day 2, the only seeds that fell were sixth seed, Peng Shuai, and fourth seed Patty Schnyder. Peng Shuai lost to an up and coming star who made it to the quarter-finals in Dubai, Elena Vesnina. Vesnina defeated Peng, 26 61 63. The other upset was delivered by a Lucky Loser originally born in Uzbekistan, Varvara Lepchenko but she represents the USA. Anyway, she stunned the fourth seeded lefty from Switzerland, Patty Schnyder. Schnyder is a well rounded player and can deliver on all surfaces, but she drowned yesterday to Lepchenko. Varvara pulled off the upset by destroying the fourth seed, 62 60.
A few other eventful matches throughout the day consisted of Caroline Wozniacki, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and Daniela Hantuchova. Wozniacki, The talented Dane dismissed Aussie Samantha Stosur in a tough three setter, 63 67(4) 61. Bethanie Mattek-Sands is coming back on tour after her leave from getting married. She pulled off a tough come from behind win against qualifier, ranked 14 in the world, Marion Bartoli from France. Bartoli is my third favorite tennis player in the world behind James Blake and Daniela Hantuchova. But it seemed that she was tired from her qualifying matches and seemed to weaken towards the end of the match. Mattek-Sands won the match 57 76(4) 63.
And Daniela Hantuchova has been a real enigma for the past several months. But for the most part, she has not been playing good enough tennis. She slumped from nine in the world last year to a depressing 43. But she kept her cool against Latvian qualifier, Anastasija Sevastova. Sevastova took the first set easily, 62. But Daniela powered back to a 64 second set win. and the third set was a topsy turvy set, but Hantuchova finally capitalized and captured the final set in a tiebreak.
Other Scores of Day 2:
Tamira Paszek(AUT) def. Melinda Czink(HUN) 67(5) 64 64
Sabine Lisicki(GER) def. (Q) Mariya Koryttseva(UKR) 63 76(3)
(5) Aleksandra Wozniak(CAN) def. Jill Craybas(USA) 64 64
(Q) Anastasia Rodionova(RUS) def. Galina Voskoboeva(KAZ) 64 62
Virginie Razzano(FRA) def. Akgul Amanmuradova(UZB) 62 64
Who I Want to Win: Daniela Hantuchova
Who I Think Will Win: Caroline Wozniacki
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