sports stars: April 2011

April 27, 2011

simona halep

Halep started playing tennis at age four, in emulation of her older brother. She has self-described her playing style as being "an aggressive baseliner, while New York Times columnist Michael Kimmelman described her as "a scrappy player from Romania, short but with potent ground strokes and a scrambler’s talent.
She started the year with a final in Nottinghill, losing to Arantxa Rus, then defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals at the Australian Open Junior Championships, before losing in the semifinal to Jessica Moore.

At the ITF $50,000 tournament in Bucharest, Halep eliminated former Roland Garros semi-finalist Sesil Karatantcheva in the first round, before losing in the quarterfinals to Sorana Cîrstea in three sets, 6–3, 3–6, 1–6.

She won a pair of junior events in May. First, she won the ITF $10,000 tournament in Bucharest against Stéphanie Vongsouthi by a score of 7–6(4), 6–3.[5] That was followed by a victory in the finals at Trofeo Bonfiglio, winning over Bojana Jovanovski by a score of 6–4, 6–1.

At the Roland Garros Junior Championships, she entered the main draw as the 9th seed. In the first round, she defeated Charlotte Rodier, 6–4, 6–1, and then Karen Barbat from Denmark, 6–3, 6–1. In the 3rd round, Halep won against 5th seed Jessica Moore, 6–0, 6–1. In the quarterfinals, Simona beat 13th seed Ksenia Lykina, 6–1, 6–2. In the semifinals, Halep defeated second seed Arantxa Rus 6–3, 7–5, and then won the all–RIn January, she reached the quarterfinals in the 2011 ASB Classic defeating Ayumi Morita and Elena Vesnina, but losing to the second seed, Yanina Wickmayer. She would go then to the 2011 Moorilla Hobart International but she would lose in the third qualifying round, in a decisive set against Magdaléna Rybáriková.

At the 2011 Australian Open, Halep qualified for the first time in her career in the third round of a tennis Grand Slam on seniors, beating the 24th seed Alisa Kleybanova, 6–4 7–6, before losing in straight sets to the 12th seed Agnieszka Radwańska and not progressing to the fourth round.
omanian final, 6–4, 6–7(3), 6–2 against 10th seed Elena Bogdan.

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April 24, 2011

alize cornet tennis pictures

Alizé Cornet (born 22 January 1990) is a French professional tennis player and the current French number three (Behind Marion Bartoli and Aravane Rezaï). She was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, and has a career-high ranking of No. 11, achieved on 16 February 2009; as of 11 April 2011 she is ranked World No. 67.[1] Cornet also has an extensive juniors record, winning the 2007 Girls' Singles at Roland Garros.[2] She has won 1 WTA title.
Cornet, began her year at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, losing to Francesca Schiavone in the quarterfinals. She then suffered an early loss to Alona Bondarenko in Hobart 6–4, 3–6, 6–2. At the Australian Open, she again lost to Schiavone in the opening round 0–6, 7–5, 6–0. Over the next two months, poor results continued for the Frenchwoman. During this period, her most notable tournament was in Monterrey, Mexico, where she reached the quarterfinals.

During the European clay court season, Cornet, as a qualifier in the Barcelona Ladies Open in Spain, lost to Timea Bacsinszky, 7–5, 6–3 in the first round. Cornet reached her first semifinal of the season in Fes, Morocco, losing to Iveta Benešová 6–3, 4–6, 7–5. She had previously not dropped a set in her previous three matches at the tournament. At the Estoril Open in Portugal, home favourite Michelle Larcher de Brito beat Cornet in the first round 6–3, 4–6, 6–3. As a qualifier in the Madrid Open she lost again to Schiavone for the fourth time that year. Cornet won her first tournament of the year at the Internationaux de Strasbourg, playing doubles with Vania King. Cornet would lose to King in singles 6–3, 6–2. At Roland Garros, 29th seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova defeated her in the first round 6–4, 6–2. Soon after, Alizé Cornet posted her worst result of the year at an ITF event in Marseille, France, losing to 412th-ranked Caroline Garcia, 7–5, 5–7, 6–3.
At Wimbledon, she lost in the first round to Ioana Raluca Olaru 7–5, 4–6, 4–6.
She then played in clay in the 2010 GDF SUEZ Grand Prix upsetting Timea Bacsinszky before losing to eventual champion Ágnes Szávay in the quarters 6–3, 6–1. At the 2010 ECM Prague Open she fell to Patty Schnyder in the second round. Cornet reach her second semifinal of the year in Bad Gastein with a win over top seed and defending champion Andrea Petkovic 6–2, 7–5, where she lost to Julia Görges.