The second semi final of the WTA Sydney being played Thursday morning is going to be between world no.5 Angelique Kerber from Germany and 15th ranked Slovak Dominika Cibulkova, who eliminated 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the opening round.
2nd semi finalists: Kerber[top] and Cibulkova [bottom]
Both ladies have met only twice before at the French Open (2008) and Australian Open (2011) and interestingly it is the Dominika Cibulkova winning over the German both times, despite being quite lower herself in the world ranking as compared to Kerber.
Kerber has had a tough season recently winning only five of her last ten matches. Prior to WTA Sydney, she lost to A. Pavlyuchenkova 7-6(3) 7-6(3) in Brisbane recently.
As for the Slovak, she has won six of her last ten matches, and beat French Open finalist and tournament third seed Sara Errani of Italy, 6-2, 6-1.
Well this history makes the Slovak favourtite over the German, unless Kerber is sweating to lift Sydney this year.
It may be added that the first semi final is being played Thursday morning 03:30 GMT between Polish Radwanska and Chinese Li Na.
The WTA Sydney second semi between Kerber and Cibulkova is scheduled for Thursday morning 10 January 2013 at 05:00 GMT / 12:00 PM (ET).
If you are one of the fans located at different destination and miss the chance to visit the stadium to watch your favorite team, You can now watch the match live on your laptop or desktop computer, FREE, provided you have an internet connection, from the links given below:
-->
0 comments:
Post a Comment