Tennis Atlantic

Day 1 of main draw play is a wrap. Sloane Stephens and Nicole Gibbs impressed the most. Stephens beat Tamira Paszek, 6-3, 6-1 in just over an hour, while qualifying wild card entrant Nicole Gibbs gave tournament organizers something to be proud of as she rolled over Muguruza into retirement, 6-1, 1-0. Gibbsy didn’t drop a set all weekend en route to the main draw entrance. The late sentence reads that Bartoli also looked powerful and precise en route to dispatching Olympic Silver medalist Laura Robson 6-3, 6-3.

Melanie Oudin’s play looked suspect yesterday in her comeback win, but today the slow start came back to haunt her. American Alexa Glatch moved on to the main draw. This is not the tennis she’d like to be playing this close to the US Open. Luckily(?), she’ll get a do-over tomorrow as a Lucky Loser. Who knows? She could go ballistic on the main draw. Tune in tomorrow and find out which Oudin takes the court aginst Sofia Arvidsson.

Tomorrow is also a trophy day at Yale. US Open National Playoff winners will be crowned and they win the right to enter the qualifiers at Flushing Meadows on Tuesday. Later in the week, mixed doubles teams will square off here for the right to enter the main draw in New York. I played in the Mid-Atlantic Mixed Doubles and lost to the eventual sectional champions, Sophia Abelson and Pjotrs Necajevs. They’ll be playing later in the week. Go Team Detroit!

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AUGUST 17 – AUGUST 25, 2012

RESULTS – AUGUST 19, 2012

Women’s Singles – First Round

[5] M Bartoli (FRA) d [WC] L Robson (GBR) 63 63

[8] L Safarova (CZE) d V Lepchenko (USA) 63 41 Retired

S Stephens (USA) d T Paszek (AUT) 63 61

C Suarez Navarro (ESP) d A Szavay (HUN) 76(3) 64

Women’s Qualifying Singles –

Qualifying -T Babos (HUN) d [WC] S Vickery (USA) 26 64 64

Qualifying – O Govortsova (BLR) d V Dushevina (RUS) 57 62 75

Qualifying – [WC] N Gibbs (USA) d G Muguruza (ESP) 62 10 Retired

Qualifying – A Glatch (USA) d M Oudin (USA) 60 62

ORDER OF PLAY – MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012

STADIUM start 12:00 noon

[WC] B Mattek-Sands (USA) vs [4] S Errani (ITA) – WTA

S Peer (ISR) vs [7] M Kirilenko (RUS) – WTA

[Q] T Babos (HUN) vs A Petkovic (GER) – WTA

Not Before 7:00 PM

[3] C Wozniacki (DEN) vs E Makarova (RUS) – WTA

[1] L Huber (USA) / L Raymond (USA) vs V Dushevina (RUS) / O Govortsova (BLR) – WTA

GRANDSTAND start 12:00 noon

[LL] M Oudin (USA) vs S Arvidsson (SWE) – WTA

D Hantuchova (SVK) vs M Barthel (GER) – WTA

A Medina Garrigues (ESP) vs [6] D Cibulkova (SVK) – WTA

COURT 1 start 12:00 noon

[Q] N Gibbs (USA) vs [Q] A Glatch (USA) – WTA

K Date-Krumm (JPN) / A Szavay (HUN) vs L Lee-Waters (USA) / M Moulton-Levy (USA) – WTA

[LL] V Dushevina (RUS) vs [Q] O Govortsova (BLR) – WTA

N Grandin (RSA) / V Uhlirova (CZE) vs C Chuang (TPE) / S Peer (ISR) – WTA – After Suitable Rest

COURT 2 start 12:00 noon

[1] M Hibi (JPN) or M Weatherholt (USA) vs [4] S Roma (SWE) or [2] A Mueller (USA) – USONP Women

C Reix (FRA) vs N Meister (USA) – USONP Men

COURT 4 start 12:00 noon

A Groenefeld (GER) / K Peschke (CZE) vs A Amanmuradova (UZB) / K Bondarenko (UKR) – WTA