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New Year’s Eve Aussie Summer of Tennis Update

December 30, 2012 By grandslamgal

A quick review of the key details of the Hopman Cup, Brisbane International and other tennis news.

Tsonga v Verdasco at the Hopman Cup on Sunday night

Photo above provided by @OneTennis Follow them for live Hopman Cup updates.

Hopman Cup 

Website

www.hopmancup.com

Round Robin Results

View the Leaderboard

Only Spain and South Africa have played two rounds so far. Spain has won two and South Africa has won zero. Australia, the USA and Serbia have one win each, France, Germany and Italy zero wins.

Schedule for Tuesday 1 January 2013

5.45pm: USA v France

Due to being New Year’s day there will not be a day session.

Results for Monday 31 December: Serbia d Italy

Women: Ivanovic (S) d Schiavone (I)

Men: Djokovic (S) d Seppi (I)

Mixed Doubles: TBC

Due to New Year’s Eve there will only be a day session.

Yesterday’s Results, Day Session Sunday 30 January: USA d South Africa

Women: Venus Williams (USA) d Scheepers (SA)

Men: Anderson (SA) d Isner (USA)

Mixed Doubles: USA d South Africa

Yesterday’s Results, Night Session Sunday 30 January: Spain d France

Men: Tsonga (F) d Verdasco (S)

Women: Medina Garrigues (S) d Johansson (F)

Women’s and Mixed Doubles: Spain d France

Brisbane International

Website

www.brisbaneinternational.com.au

Read the Brisbane Day 2 Preview

Draws

View the Brisbane International Women’s Singles Draw

View the Brisbane International Men’s Singles Draw

Schedule of Play

View the Schedule for Monday 31 December. (The Tuesday schedule wasn’t yet available when I had to go out for NYE)

Today’s Upset: Pervak d Wozniaki

Qualifier Ksenia Pervak, ranked 103 in the world defeated world No. 10 Caroline Wozniaki in 3 sets, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(1). The match took 2 hrs 48 mins hours. This was Pervak’s first win over a top 10 player.

Results from Monday 31 December

F Mayer (6) d S Giraldo 6-4, 6-4

A Kerber (4) d A Tatishvili 6-2, 4-6, 6-2

S Errani (5) d Qualifier O Puchkova 6-1, 6-3

S Lisicki d L Safarova 6-2, 6-4

A Cornet d Qualifier B Bobusic 2-6, 6-3, 6-1

Key matches

No.7 seed Aussie Sam Stosur opens the centre court night session v Sofia Arvidsson of Sweden. Sam is really looking to improve on last year’s results.

ASB Classic – Auckland

Website

http://www.asbclassic.co.nz/

Draw

View the ASB Classic Singles Draw.

Players

View the ASB Classic Player List.

Schedule of Play

View the ASB Classic Schedule of Play for Monday 31 December.

Results from Monday 31 December

Pauline Parmentier (FRA) def Christina McHale (USA) 6-4 6-1
Elena Vesnina (RUS) def Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) 7-5 6-3
Eleni Daniilidou (GRE) def Coco Vandeweghe (USA) 1-6 7-6 6-4
Kiki Bertens (NED) def Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 6-7 6-2 7-6
Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) def Galina Voskoboeva (KAZ) 6-1 6-7 7-5

2012 Champion Jie Zheng headlines the New Year’s Eve night session playing Jamie Hampton of the USA (not before 7pm).

Other Tennis News

Get ready for the Australian Open by watching this top vid by the Aus Open team

Best Points from Australian Open 2012

Hopman Cup

Tatjana Malek will replaced injured Petkovic in the Germany Hopman Cup team

Novak Djokovic

Some good pics of the Mubadala World Tennis Championships at the end of this article Djokovic retains Abu Dhabi crown

Until next time

Grand Slam Gal

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