Ericsson Open, Bastad, Sweden, WTA International

[Moxie]

DATE: July 24-30, 2017
SURFACE: Clay
PRIZE MONEY:
FIELD SIZE: 32
DEFENDING CHAMPION: Laura Siegemund

The Tournament:

The event is played at the Bastad Tennis Stadium a few hundred yards from Bastad Beach along the Kattegatt Sea. The ATP's SkiStar Swedish Open is staged at the same facility, which has more courts than any venue in the country, the week after the Collector Swedish Open in July.



About Bastad

The town of Bastad is located in a sheltered bay with the Hallandian ridge stretching behind it. The town borders the shore, whereafter the terrain raises until the dense vegetation of the ridge takes over.

The first city privileges were granted in the 14th or 15th century, when the area belonged to Denmark. The first certain date is 1513 when it was re-granted. The name translates to "Boat (landing) place". It is one of Denmark's typical summer resorts.

 

[Hoergren]

Bastad draw

 

[Hoergren]

Well for a change I've got a little bad to say about Caroline. Don't know if you saw her first match in Baastad, but the word "tanking" came into my mind. Won first set up 21 and 40-0 in the second and suddenly she seemed to lose interest in the match and only got one point in the rest of second set. Behind 02 in third set before she "decided" to win the match. 40!!!!! unforced errors and 6 df. Worst match this year.
Tanking is a nasty word to use but if people don't want to play a tournament they should not take part. Small "injuries" are also a well known problem in female tennis - miraculously they play the next week. WTA should make a rule that if you are injured you can't play the following week. Both to protect players under pressure and against fake injuries. MTO is another thing - if you can't play - you are out. Only if it's about players falling or situations on the court - the UMPIRE can decide if there shall be a timeout. MTOs are normally IMHO used to ruin the opponents rythm. Well folks so much because of a lousy tennismatch.

 

[Hoergren]

Order of play Thursday 27 Jul 2017
Centre Court
Starting at 11:00 AM
Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) [5] Elise Mertens (BEL)
Followed by
Caroline Wozniaki (DEN) [1] Viktorija Golubic (SUI)
Followed by
Kiki Bertens (NED) [6] Barbora Krejcikova (CZE)
Followed by
Kateryna Kozlova (UKR) Mona Barthel (GER)
Court 1
Starting at 11:00 AM
Xenia Knoll (SUI) /Aleksandra Krunic (SRB) vs Ellen Allgurin (SWE) /Karen Barritza (DEN)
After Rest, Not Before 3:00 PM
Cornelia Lister (SWE) /Alexandrina Naydenova (BUL) vs Quirine Lemoine (NED) /Arantxa Rus (NED)

 

[Ron Wise]

Well for a change I've got a little bad to say about Caroline. Don't know if you saw her first match in Baastad, but the word "tanking" came into my mind. Won first set up 21 and 40-0 in the second and suddenly she seemed to lose interest in the match and only got one point in the rest of second set. Behind 02 in third set before she "decided" to win the match. 40!!!!! unforced errors and 6 df. Worst match this year.
Tanking is a nasty word to use but if people don't want to play a tournament they should not take part. Small "injuries" are also a well known problem in female tennis - miraculously they play the next week. WTA should make a rule that if you are injured you can't play the following week. Both to protect players under pressure and against fake injuries. MTO is another thing - if you can't play - you are out. Only if it's about players falling or situations on the court - the UMPIRE can decide if there shall be a timeout. MTOs are normally IMHO used to ruin the opponents rythm. Well folks so much because of a lousy tennismatch.

The same almost happened today.

 

[Hoergren]

The same almost happened today.

Yeah Ron but the difference today was that she was fighting - also in the lost second set. She played better against a better oponent. She's developed to a bit of a dramaqueen hasn't she Well she and all her fans survived and we're ready for the next battle. She's also a dramaqueen when she met Gobulic first time in Dubai, but that was another reason - have a look:

 

[Hoergren]

Order of play Friday 28 Jul 2017
Centre Court
Starting at 10:00 AM
Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) Caroline Garcia (FRA) [3]
Followed by
Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [1] Kateryna Kozlova (UKR)
Followed by
Katerina Siniakova (CZE) [7] Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) [2]
Followed by
Elise Mertens (BEL) Aleksandra Krunic (SRB)

Court 1
Starting at 10:00 AM
Quirine Lemoine (NED) /Arantxa Rus (NED) vs Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO) [2] /Alicja Rosolska (POL)
After Rest, Not Before 11:00 AM
María Irigoyen (ARG) /Barbora Krejcikova (CZE) [4] vs Nicola Geuer (GER) /Rebecca Peterson (SWE)

 

[Hoergren]

Wonder why you have made it so you can't edit your post the day after - like writing result etc. Why not?

 

[isabelle]

Garcia in semi

 

[britbox]

Wonder why you have made it so you can't edit your post the day after - like writing result etc. Why not?

I think this was more of a historical thing from ages ago when some people edited or deleted posts that rendered some replies further in the thread kind of meaningless

 

[britbox]

Results from the Swedish Open Women's Singles Quarterfinal matches on Friday

Elise Mertens (Belgium) beat Aleksandra Krunic (Serbia) 6-4 2-6 6-4
7-Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic) beat 2-Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) 6-3 5-7 7-5
1-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Kateryna Kozlova (Ukraine) 6-3 6-1
3-Caroline Garcia (France) beat Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) 6-2 4-6 7-5

 

[isabelle]

bad start for Garcia

 

[britbox]

Results from the Swedish Open Women's Singles Semifinal matches on Saturday

1-Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) beat Elise Mertens (Belgium) 7-5 4-6 6-2
7-Katerina Siniakova (Czech Republic) beat 3-Caroline Garcia (France) 6-2 7-5

bad start for Garcia

Bad finish for her too.

Caro v Siniaoka for the finals. Caro leads the H2H 2-0

2017 Indian Wells Masters R32 Hard Caroline Wozniacki Katerina Siniakova 6-3 6-1
2016 Wuhan R32 Hard Caroline Wozniacki Katerina Siniakova 6-4 6-4

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Caro badly wants to lose this tourney. Hopefully, her wish would come true!

 

[Moxie]

Siniakova d. Wozniaki, 6-3, 6-4.

 

[Ron Wise]

It was a disappointing loss. Any word on the injury to Caroline's wrist?

 

[Hoergren]

Nothing serious with her wrist - you saw both players were a bit sore because of the very humid conditions specially on the final day where it was pouring dowqn quite heavily. Don't know how much extra weight to the balls and other influence from the court but you must use extra force. She has a week off before next tournament in Toronto - I think she'll be ready for that. Now she's training with Sascha on The McCenroe academy in NY.