April 20th, 2009
By Jilawatan
Number two seed Venus Williams needed three sets to beat Indian Sania Mirza 6-1 3-6 6-2 in the second round of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston.
After powering through the opening set, Williams was pegged back in the second by a spirited Mirza, who came back from 3-1 down to win five games on the spin.
Tags: Alla Kudryavtseva, Alona Bondarenko, Anastasia Rodionova, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Caroline Wozniacki, Elena Vesnina, Family Circle Cup, Patty Schnyder, Sania Mirza, Venus Williams, Viktoriya Kutuzova
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April 10th, 2009
By Jilawatan
Top-seeded Nadia Petrova beat 14-year-old American Madison Keys 6-3, 6-2 in the second round of The MPS Group Championships on Wednesday night.
Petrova, ranked No. 10 in the world, won nine of the last 11 games to beat Keys, who was playing in her first WTA Tour event in the season-opening clay-court tournament.
Tags: Alona, Alona Bondarenko, Anastasia Rodionova, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Caroline Wozniacki, Chia-Jung Chuang, Dominka Cibulkova, Edina Gallovits, Elena Vesnina, ill Craybas, Kateryna, Lilia Osterloh, Madison Keys, Maria Sharapova, Mashona, Melina Czink, MPS Group Championships, Nadia Petrova, Olga Govortsova, Patricia Mayr, Sania Mirza, Shuai Peng, WTA Tour, Zi Yan
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