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US National Indoor Tennis Championships Saturday Women's Tennis Results |
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US NATIONAL INDOOR TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS
Memphis, USA
February 17-23, 2013
$235,000/International
Hard/Outdoors
Results - Saturday, February 23, 2013
Singles - Final
Marina Erakovic (NZL)
d. (3) Sabine Lisicki (GER) 61 ret. (GI illness)
Doubles - Final
(2)
Mladenovic/Voskoboeva (FRA/KAZ) d. Arvidsson/Larsson
(SWE/SWE) 76(5) 63
Final Facts
- Erakovic wins her first
WTA title (she is now 1-2 in WTA finals).
- Erakovic
is the first player from New Zealand to win a WTA title
since Belinda Cordwell won in Kallang, Singapore in 1989
(Erakovic was born in 1988).
- Erakovic is the first
player this year to save match point en route to a WTA
title (she saved one match point in her first round
match against Annika Beck).
- Lisicki is now 3-4 in
WTA finals.
- Mladenovic and Voskoboeva win their
first WTA doubles title together; Mladenovic now has
three WTA doubles titles to her name, Voskoboeva four.
Final Quotes
Erakovic: "I think it means quite a bit
for New Zealand. We're a small place, we've got about
four million people, and tennis isn't the most popular
sport - but whenever I'm somewhere else in the world and
someone asks me where I'm from, and I say New Zealand,
they always say they love New Zealand. And there are
always a lot of Kiwis supporting me around the world. So
this is great."
Lisicki: "It's very unfortunate I wasn't
able to finish the match. I put all the energy I had
left in my body into the match, but I just couldn't keep
going. I had been sick the last three days already. But
Marina had a great tournament and I want to congratulate
her for her first WTA title."
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