Sarah Borwell renews her partnership with Sharon Fichman (they reached the semis in Bad Gastein last time out) as second seeds here and look to have an easy opener, but a tough QF in prospect
R1
Schruff/Zec-Peskiric (GER/SLO) v Karatantcheva/Pironkova (KAZ/BUL) (2)Borwell/Fichman (GBR/CAN) v (wc)Kushnereva/Mueller (RUS/GER)
Karatantcheva/Pironkova (KAZ/BUL) v (2)Borwell/Fichman (GBR/CAN)
Sesil defeated Amanda Janes at Wimbledon from match point down as a Bulgarian, before serving a drugs ban, and this year opted to join the list of Kazakh recruits (I'd have thought they would have had enough of foreigners with dodgy history donning their mantle after Borat ) .
Karatantcheva/Pironkova (KAZ/BUL) v (2)Borwell/Fichman (GBR/CAN)
Sesil defeated Amanda Janes at Wimbledon from match point down as a Bulgarian, before serving a drugs ban, and this year opted to join the list of Kazakh recruits (I'd have thought they would have had enough of foreigners with dodgy history donning their mantle after Borat ) .
What is it with these "Kazakhs"? What's the story there? I know Shvedova defected as well...
What is it with these "Kazakhs"? What's the story there? I know Shvedova defected as well...
...and Voskoboeva, Golubev, Schukin, Kukushkin. A case I suppose of a country tempting players who are unlikely to play for their home country, either because of the strength of competition or because of disputes with the federation (sesil), with some financial inducement and/or chance to represent a country - it happens quite a bit in athletics
QF
Karatantcheva/Pironkova (KAZ/BUL) d. (2)Borwell/Fichman (GBR/CAN) 6-2 0-6 [10-8]
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