Jana Novotna
Anna Kournikova...............6-7 , 6-3, 6-3
Anna Kournikova
Asa Carlsson..............6-0 , 6-0
Anna Kournikova,
playing better with each match, terrorized Sweden's Asa
Carlsson 6-0, 6-0 Friday to move into the fourth round of Roland Garros.
The 16-year-old Russian showed-off deadly all-court attack, whipping 14
baseline winners and smoking eight service winners in her 50-minute
devastation of the Swede.
The No. 13 seed said she was as focused as she has ever been. "I really
didn't want to lose any games," she said. "I had to be really concentrated."
Kournikova, who is also playing doubles here, said she is fit enough to
win
the title, even though in her run to the Lipton final in April, she appeared
to
be exhausted in the third set.
"I'm very physically fit," Kournikova said. "At Lipton, I had to play four
top-10 players in a row, so I had quite a difficult draw. Like Venus (who
she lost to in the final), she had four matches where she didn't have one
seed. Of course it's mental and physical pressure when you play, Seles,
Davenport, Martinez and Sanchez."
Kournikova will face No. 3 seed Jana Novotna in the next round. Although
Kournikova has never won a set from Novotna in three tries, she says she
is ready to rock.
"It's going to be a tough one, but clay is obviously not her favorite surface,
so I have a good chance."
Anna Kournikova
Katerina Studenikova..........6-2 , 7-6
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
(13) vs. KATERINA STUDENIKOVA (93)
French Open,
Second Round Match , 4th match on Centre-Court
Last Meeting:
1998 Australian Open:
Anna Kournikova
Katerina Studenikova.............6-1 , 6-2
Anna Kournikova
Amelie Mauresmo...............6-2 , 6-4
( I'm sorry the news is too late but I had to make my school-exams till 17:30 )
Anna Kournikova
vs. Amelie Mauresmo is the 3th game at court A. Same time Pete Sampras
will play against Martin (VS) on the Centrecourt.
Anna Kournikova faces a tough match against Amelie Mauresmo in the first round of the French Open. Not only is Mauresmo ranked 34 in the world, she was also born in France, something that might just give her the support of the home crowd.
Unfortunately, Anna had no luck at the draw. She is in the same draw group with Martina Hingis, Venus Williams, Jana Novotna and Monika Seles! She will have to play at her best! Let's hope she'll have more luck at the French Open than she did at the draw.
Official Roland Garros Website :
Anna Kournikova.......................13
Conchita Martinez
Anna Kournikova............6-0 , 6-1
Anna can now prepare for Roland Garros , her favorite tournament in Paris , which will start may 25th.
Anna FINALLY wins from Martina Hingis , seeded 1 , ranked 1. Anna will now play in the semi-finals of the German Open. 15 may 1998
Anna Kournikova
Martina Hingis..............6-4 , 7-6
Winn/Loss record
is now : 4 - 1.
Anna Kournikova
Arantxa Sanchez-Vigario.........6-4 , 6-2
Anna has reached the quarter-finals of the German Open.
Anna Kournikova
Elena Likhovtseva.........6-1 , 6-2
Anna will now play in the 1/8 finals of the German Open in Berlin.
Anna has reached second round at Berlin's WTA tournament , 12 may 1998.
Majoli, Kournikova advance at German Open , Berlin.
Reigning French Open champion Iva Majoli of Croatia and teenage sensation Anna Kournikova of Russia both advanced today at the $926,250 German Open claycourt tennis event in Berlin, one of three tune-up events for the French Open later this month.
The ninth-seeded Majoli rolled past Anne Gaelle Sidot of France, 6-3, 6-2. Majoli, who was the lone obstacle to Martina Hingis' quest for a Grand Slam in 1997, improved to only 11-9 this season and has not won since her triumph at Roland Garros last year.
The 16-year-old Kournikova, seeded 14th, romped past Radka Bobkova of the Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-1. Kournikova, still looking for her first WTA Tour title, improved to 22-9 this year, including 6-2 on clay.
Two seeded players fell today in first-round action. No. 10 Nathalie Tauziat of France fell to American Sandra Cacic, 7-5, 6-4. Cacic will play Fang Li of China in the second round. Li ousted Miriam Oremans of the Netherlands, 6-0, 6-2.
Maria Sanchez Lorenzo of Spain surprised 13th seed Patty Schnyder of Switzerland, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3. Lorenzo will square off against Tamarine Tanasugarn of Thailand, who ousted American qualifer Jennifer Capriati, 6-3, 6-1.
In matches involving unseeded players, Magui Serna of Spain reached the second round with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over 1994 finalist Brenda Schultz-McCarthy of the Netherlands; Julie Halard-Decugis of France needed three sets to eliminate Ruxandra Dragomir of Russia, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4); and Italian Silvia Farina earned a second-round date with top seed Martina Hingis of Switzerland after defeating Naoko Sawamatsu, 6-3, 6-2.
Hingis is going after her third straight tournament win this week. One week after winning the International Damen Grand Prix in her claycourt season debut in Hamburg, she picked up her first win in three tries over teenage rival Venus Williams to capture the Italian Open in Rome on Sunday.
Overall, the 17-year-old Hingis has compiled a WTA Tour-best 28-3 record, leads the tour with four titles and is the only female with over $1 million in earnings this season.
Magdalena Grzybowska of Poland advanced opposite Majoli with a three-set victory over Syna Schmidle of Germany; Maria Vento of Venezuela defeated Indonsian Yayuk Basuki; and Elena Likhovtseva of Russia defeated Janet Lee of Taipei for a second-round showdown with Kournikova.
Quarter Final , WTA Tournament , Rome , Italy
Martina Hingis
Anna Kournikova...........6-2 , 6-4
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The 17-year-old
Hingis, who picked up her third title of the year at last
week's International
Damen Grand Prix in Hamburg, Germany, improved to 4-0
lifetime against
the 16-year-old Kournikova and has now won 26 of 29
matches this
season.
Kournikova, who
lost to Venus Williams in the final of the Lipton
Championships
in March, saw her season record fall to 21-9.
Last season, Hingis
defeated her teenage rival in the third round of the
French Open and
the semifinals at Wimbledon, and this year, Hingis needed
three sets to
defeat Kournikova in the third round at the Australian Open.
In the semifinals,
Hingis will face off-court friend 16-year-old Mirjana
Lucic of Croatia
for the first time. Lucic, who won her homeland
tournament in
Bol last week, led No. 12 Sandrine Testud of France, 7-5,
before Testud
retired with a left hamstring muscle strain.
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