Minggu, 21 September 2008

Russian women rule the world tennis

In the prestigious Tier I event known as "Toray Pan Pacific Open" in Tokyo, Japan, today fourth seeded Dinara Safina captured her third Tier I title of the year by defeating her compatriot, fifth seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova with 6-1, 6-3 victory. Safina's record in the final this season became 4 wins out of 7. While Kuznetsova is still titleless this year and zero win in 4 final appearances.

Safina will have highest ranking of her career tomorrow at WTA 3. If she can continue her stellar form then she can follow her brother's achievement as number one in the world.

Another tourney of Tier III in Guangzhou witnessed Russian domination as well. In today's final top seeded Vera Zvonareva denied China's Peng Shuai first title of her career when she fought back to win 6-7(4), 6-0, 6-2 over the fourth seeded. Zvonareva is now collecting two titles this year after Prague and total with seven titles of her career. While Peng is now 0-2 in finals this season. She was runner-up at Forest Hills in August when she lost to Lucie Safarova.

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