Week 1 - WTA International - Auckland, New Zealand

gjr · Club Coach

RE: Week 1 - WTA International - Auckland, New Zealand

gjr · Club Coach

Vesnina has a break and leads 5-3 in the final set and will serve for the match.

gjr · Club Coach

Vesnina wins 6-3, 0-6, 6-3

Strange match. didn't have pictures so i have no idea how it panned out.

Peter too · Tennis legend

SF: KEOTHAVONG, Anne (GBR) 60 v VESNINA, Elena (RUS) 76

The cards do seem to be falling the right way for Anne at present, lets hope it continues for another round.

steven · Tennis legend

Vesnina may be better than her ranking implies, because as well as beating Wozniacki last night, she has been as high as 40 in the world. That was in May last year after she reached R3 at the AO (lost to Sharapova) and R4 in Miami (lost to Henin), while a run to R3 at Wimby in 2007 (lost to Henin) was still on the system as well. However, she's very streaky and, like Anne, will be trying to reach her first tour Final.

gjr · Club Coach

Vesnina seems to have some history but even thought she beat Wosi, Vesnina is not the 12th best player on the planet Wozniacki probably isn't either but ranking are rankings.

Great chance for Anne to get to the final. No matter what happrnd the confidence must be good going into the AO.

You never know. Avoid a seed first round, draw open up, a good win or 2 and a great AO could happen.

-- Edited by gjr at 13:09, 2009-01-08

Drew · Jan 8, 2009

Thats a good result to get up to...well done Anne. (I have been up for hours honest !)

S&V · Club Coach

Wonderful news for Anne, keep it up!

Tutu · Club Coach

GO ANNE!!! :D

Smidster · Challenger level

For those lucky enough to have Eurosport they are going to show the match off tape at 10.30 tomorrow morning.

Yet another reason I hate being at University

jamatthews · Strong Club Player

Smidster wrote:

For those lucky enough to have Eurosport they are going to show the match off tape at 10.30 tomorrow morning.

Yet another reason I hate being at University

That's on Eurosport 2. It's also on again at 9PM on British Eurosport

Simmy26 · Lower Club Player

Brilliant news, thanks.

Silver · County player

Exceptional stuff from Anne so far :D A mild blip in the second round (that second set was not fun to follow... break, break, break, break... GAH!) but a great, great result to start the year already!

I would wager this next match will be tough. Vesnina is not a world beater but she is capable of some good tennis. Apparently the Wozniacki win was the seventh top 20 win of her career so she's definitely a different prospect. It would probably be the better matchup IMO than playing Wozniacki, mind but either way... maybe a Dementieva rematch is on the cards ;)

wolf · Tennis legend

Dementieva won 6-2, 6-2 and Anne is warming up now.

James · Satellite level

For anyone who doesn't know, you can watch the match on 'www.bet365.com'