Ivanovic makes St. Petersburg semifinals despite weak performance
Despite making much more unforced errors than winners and displaying an unimpressive game, Ana Ivanovic stopped Ukrainian qualifier Kateryna Kozlova, who had ousted Barbora Strycova and Elena Vesnina in the first two rounds of...
Vinci beats Ivanovic, moves into St. Petersburg final
US Open runner-up Roberta Vinci made the final of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy with a 7-5 6-4 victory over Ana Ivanovic.
The match started with Ivanovic leading 3-0, but Vinci soon recovered to 3-3. The...
Top seed Bencic gets past Beck in a slow and error-filled second-round match in St. Petersburg
After a first-round bye, Belinda Bencic opened her St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy campaign in the second round against Annika Beck and the Swiss prevailed in a tight two-setter that lacked both excitement and good-quality...
Roberta Vinci victorious in St. Petersburg
World No.16 Roberta Vinci claimed her 10th WTA title with a straightforward 6-4 6-3 victory over top-seeded Belinda Bencic in the final of the Premier-level St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy.
The second-seeded Vinci had to save a break...
Mladenovic survives two big chokes, wins maiden WTA title in St. Petersburg
Playing her fourth WTA singles final, world No.51 Kristina Mladenovic of France survived two nervous patches that made her fail to serve out the match before squeezing past Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-2 6-7(3) 6-4 in the...
Gasparyan retires in her biggest WTA final, Kasatkina wins St. Petersburg
Heartbreaking. A lower back injury forced world No.126 Margarita Gasparyan to retire from the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy final and hand the title to eighth seed Daria Kasatkina, who has become the first Russian...
Gasparyan, Kasatkina win all-Russian St. Petersburg semifinals
Margarita Gasparyan and Daria Kasatkina prevailed in the first ever all-Russian semifinal line-up at a WTA tournament to reach the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy final.
Wildcard Margarita Gasparyan saved four set points in the second...
Russians Gasparyan, Zvonareva, Kuznetsova, Kasatkina reach St. Petersburg semis
Friday's St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy quarterfinals featured record seven Russian players and the sole Romanian in the final eight didn't manage to progress further, so we're having four players from the host country in...
Record SEVEN Russians advance to St. Petersburg quarterfinals
After Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva and Ekaterina Alexandrova reached the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy quarterfinals on Wednesday, the next day was even more successful for home players, as they won all the four...
A perfect day for Russian players in St. Petersburg
Wednesday at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy had records broken one after the other. The first match of the day was the longest one in the history of this tournament, and then the following...
