St. Petersburg PHOTOS: Kasatkina progresses, Mladenovic upset in the first round
Tuesday at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy was all about first-round matches and our photographer Jimmie48 worked long hours to give us a closer look at what happened on the court, as well as...
St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy players’ party photos
Main-draw play kicked off on Monday at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, with first-round victories of Maria Sakkari, Elena Rybakina and Anastasia Potapova, but our photographer Jimmie48 was mostly focused on off-court activities, first...
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...
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...
Bertens returns to St. Petersburg final, to face in-form Rybakina
We're still only in February and world No.25 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan has already advanced to her third final of the season at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, where she'll face defending champion Kiki...
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...
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...
St. Petersburg PHOTOS: Qualifying completes on Sunday
After a brief lull that followed the Australian Open, tennis players are back in action, this time in Russia, in the beautiful city of St. Petersburg. The main draw of the Premier-level tournament kicks...
St. Petersburg PHOTOS: Belinda Bencic overcomes Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach quaterfinals
Top seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland eliminated hometown favorite Svetlana Kuznetsova 7-6(4) 6-4 in the second round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy, even though the Russian served for the first set and had...
St. Petersburg PHOTOS: Sakkari, Rybakina, Alexandrova, Bertens through to semifinals
Maria Sakkari, Elena Rybakina, Ekaterina Alexandrova and Kiki Bertens are through to the last eight after Friday's quarterfinals at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy.
Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova received a walkover when third seed Petra Kvitova...