Only eight ladies are going to remain standing going into Tuesday’s quarterfinals of the US Open, and two of them will square off in tennis betting action in one of the best matches of the tournament to date, as Kim Clijsters clashes with Samantha Stosur.
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Clijsters has been a dominant force in this tournament and is deservedly the favorite to move on to the semis. She has yet to drop a set in the US Open and seems to get stronger and stronger with each passing match. Save a 7-5 set against Greta Arn, Clijsters has only lost eight total games the rest of the tournament. She just dumped Ana Ivanovic with ease at 6-2, 6-1 to move on to the quarters, where she will once again face a very, very difficult test in the form of an up and comer who is due to really shine in one of these major tournaments.
The Aussie certainly has not had the easiest road to reach the quarterfinals of this event, as she has already had two three set matches. The most recent came against Russian Elena Dementieva. Stosur took the first set 6-3, but ultimately dropped the second set with a thud at 2-6. The third set needed a tiebreaker, and that’s where Stosur shined. She made it through by winning the decisive set 7-6 (7-2). Stosur had a real problem trying to deal with Dementieva’s first service point, only picking up the score on 25 percent of her 96 points. She committed a whopping 58 unforced errors as well, something that clearly will not fly against the Belgian.
Entering this event seems to be good enough for Clijsters to figure out how to win it. She has only played here twice since ’05, but won both in 2005 and 2009. The Belgian was also a force in 2003, her previous entry, where she finished as the runner up in the event. Stosur might be ready to break out of her shell, but Clijsters is just playing too well to be beaten here. It has been another great run in a major for the Aussie, but she’ll be heading back home in straight sets on Tuesday.
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Samantha Stosur all set to face defending champion in Top – 8 round!
Yesterday on Sunday 5th September, 2010, finally Samantha Stosur’s name was included in the top-eight list of the US Open 2010 following a three-set victory in a nail-biting clash against Russian star-player, Elena Dementieva in New York.
Being the tournament’s fifth seed, Australian Samantha Stosur won the crucial match with 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 & finally 7-2 in the fourth-round reportedly booking her next match with defending champion, Kim Clijsters in the US Open quarter-finals.
After winning her clash, Samantha Stosur said “it’s just unbelievable right now. We both played a great match. We both went for it. To have a match like that here is fantastic”.
She further added “I just dug deep and never gave up and made her work for it and I was able to pull it out. That’s definitely one of the most exciting matches I’ve ever played”.
Meanwhile, the mom from New Jersey – that’s where Clijsters’s husband hails from – ran her winning streak in America’s premier tennis tournament to 17 straight matches. Clijsters lost the first three games before ripping through the next 12 to snare a spot in the fourth round of the year’s final Grand Slam tournament.
“That’s tennis,” Clijsters said. “And, until the set is over, you can still always come back and win.
“That’s what I tried to do, tried to be a little more aggressive and just go for the angles a little bit more.”
It worked to perfection for the tournament’s second seed.
“If you start to focus on how you’re hitting or feeling the ball, you might start worrying,” she said. “I was just trying to give it my best each point.”
In other early women’s matches, fifth-seeded Samantha Stosur of Australia beat Sara Errani of Italy 6-2 6-3; sixth-seeded Francesca Schiavone of Italy, the French Open champion, downed Alona Bondarenko of the Ukraine 6-1 7-5; 12th-seeded Elena Dementieva of Russia beat Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 7-5 6-2; 20th-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia defeated Argentina’s Gisela Dulko 6-1 6-2; and Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic ousted Virginie Razzano of France 7-5 6-0..
Beating the rain and winning their men’s second-round matches were 10th-seeded David Ferrer of Spain, 12th-seeded Mikhail Youzhny of Russia, 18th-seeded American John Isner, 23rd-seeded Feliciano Lopez of Spain, Tommy Robredo of Spain, Michael Llodra of France and Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain.
Robredo advanced to the third round when Julien Benneteau of France retired while trailing 6-4 6-6 (2-1). Ferrer beat Germany’s Benjamin Becker 6-3 6-4 6-4; Lopez outlasted Benoit Paire of France 6-4 6-7 (4) 5-7 7-6 (3) 6-2; Gimeno-Traver defeated Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 4-6 6-2 6-0 7-6 (2); Youzhny beat Dudi Sela of Israel 6-1 6-3 4-6 6-3; Isner stopped Marco Chiudinelli of Switzerland 6-3 3-6 7-6 (7) 6-4; and Llodra downed Victor Hanescu of Romania 7-6 (2) 6-4 6-2.
Last year Clijsters ended her two-year retirement during which she married American professional basketball player Brian Lynch and gave birth to their daughter, Jada. In her third tournament back on the tour, she won her second US Open.
While Clijsters’ victory was big news, some were still talking about how her semifinal foe, Serena Williams, lost the match on a point penalty assessed when she went off on a profanity-laced tirade at an official who had called a foot fault on her.
Even after Clijsters won her third-round match Friday, she was asked about Serena pulling out of this year’s Open because of foot surgery.
“Look, my tournaments are not based on what Serena does,” Clijsters said testily, answering a question in her post-match interview. “Obviously I try to focus on what I have to do best, and that’s trying to play good tennis and trying to see how far I can go. Whether she’s here or not, my attitude is always the same.”
Clijsters also won the US Open in 2005. The following year she was injured and could not defend her title. Then came her retirement, marriage and family. She and her husband have homes in both her native Belgium and New Jersey, where he grew up.
“They’re both home,” Clijsters said. “I think you create that home atmosphere. You know, I even try to create it in our hotel room.
“It’s obviously nice to go to a place that you’re familiar with and you can cook yourself and do everything kind of yourself. But, obviously, my childhood memories are in Belgium. I still live on the same street as my parents used to live, where I grew up. My grandparents live next door. That’s obviously what I go back to when I go back after the US Open.”
Right now her sight is set on yet another US Open victory. She has won three hard court titles his year, including a US Open warm-up event in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. There, she beat Ivanovic when the Serb retired from the match while trailing 2-1. The two will battle in the fourth round.
“She had some injuries when I played her in Cincinnati in the semifinals,” Clijsters said. “The first three games we played I think were pretty good tennis. We can kind of have a rematch here.”
Even if, like me, you're predicting a Caroline Wozniacki win, it's patently impossible not to love Kim Clijsters. In a 2010 U.S. Open quarterfinals match that started late and ran later, she maintained her bubbly charm amid ghastly on-court conditions, defeating 5th-seeded Sam Stosur 6-4. 5-7, 6-3. (The evening's intangibles award went to Stosur's crisp purple Lacoste dress.) The ladies battled the weather at least as often as they battled each other; by the second set both players were displaying visible frustration with the windy stadium.
Kim Clijsters has now won 19 straight matches at Flushing Meadows, and will face Venus Williams in the semis.
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