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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
