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On the WTA Tour this week, the series has two tournaments. One is the XXIV SNAI Open, which is held on July 11^th in Palmero, Italy. However, our featured tournamemt this week is a $220,000 event played outdoors on red clay in Bad Gastein, Austria and called the Nurnberger Gastein Ladies, an International level tournament that has a singles draw of 32 and a doubles draw of 16, starting as well on July 11^th. This tournament starts the 11^th but goes all the way to the 17^th and Julia Georges of Germany, won her very first WTA Tour title last year on that court.

 

 

Number sixteenth ranked Julia Georges is the top seed in this tournament, also the defending champion. Jarmila Grajdosova is the second seed and Lucie Hradecka is third. Iveta Benesova is in fourth and Lourdes Dominguez Lino is the fifth seed for the Bad Gastein event. Sixth is Anastasjia Sevastova and Simona Halep and barora Zahlavova Strycova is the seventh and eighth. You can watch this WTA Tour event and other tennis all year long from any computer or mobile device that has internet. All you have to do is sign up.

 

Posted: 19th July 2010

 

The WTA is playing two tournaments this week. One is the Banka Koper Slovenia Open, and the other is the Nurnberger Gastein Ladies, held in Bad Gastein, Austria starting on July 19^th. This international level tournament features a prize purse of $220,000 and is played outdoors on red clay. The singles draw is 32 and the doubles draw is 16. You can watch it live from your computer in high quality streaming video by getting your membership at the links on this page. Click on the banners that you see to get started.

 

 

Sunday, July 26^th in 2009 was the day that the Bad Gastein tournament ended. Back then, it offered tournament players a first prize of $37,000 and 280 ranking points. The runner up got $19,000 and 200 ranking points. Doubles the first prize was $11,000 and 280 ranking points. Last year, the final match came down to Andrea Petkovic and Ioana Raluca Groenefeld. Andrea Petkovic was able to take the match and won her very first ever WTA tour title. In the doubles it was Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka with the win.

 

 

Let's take a look at the WTA rankings right now. Serena Williams is in first place with 8,475 ranking points. Jelena Jankovic was in second place. Venus Williams takes the third spot in the rankings, followed up by Caroline Wozniacki. Samantha Stosur is in fifth right now with a score of 4890 ranking points. You can watch this WTA tournament by getting your membership at any of the links on this page. Just click on the banners to get started watching in high quality video right from your computer, from anywhere in the world.

 

Posted: 20th July 2009

 

This week the WTA is in Bad Gastein, Austria from July 20^th to the 26^th. They are playing for a purse of $220,000 at this International Level tourney and the clay court will be heating up with superb serves and incredible saves from the women of the WTA. Alize Cornet is the number one seed for this event, but she has had a couple of weeks that were a bit disappointing to those who know her true potential. The 19 year old was the defending champ in Budapest but she lost almost immediately to Shahar Peer in round two, despite being second seed. Then, last week she was 3^rd seed, but was out the first round after facing Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez.

 

 

The number two seed is Frencesca Shivaone who won this tournament in 2007, after a long string of eight number two finishes. She was able to make it all the way to the final last week in Prague, beaten finally by Sybille Bammer, who enters this event the number three seed. Also look for Mariana Duque Marino, who is hard to beat on the clay. She will be taking the court on day one. The fourth seed is Iveta Benesova, native of the Czech Republic. Sybille Bammer beat her in the semis at Prague. Alexandra Dulgheru or Romania will be matched up with Benesova.

 

 

The fifth seed is Carla Suarez Navarro and Slovakia's Magdalena Rybarikova is the 6^th seed. The seventh and eighth are Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Lucie Hradecka respectively. Three ladies from Austria got the wildcards for this tournament, Melanie Klaffner, Yvonne Meusburger and Tina Schiechtl. Those are the singles, while Barbora Zahlavova Strycova and Iveta Benesova are the two top seeds in the doubles, along with Lucie Hradecka and Andrea Hlavackova who are seeded third. Get your membership today to watch this tournament, July 20^th through the 26^th.

 

Tags: WTA Tour, Bad Gastein, Julia Georges, Jarmila Grajdosova, Lucie Hradecka, Andrea Petkovic, Serena Williams, Alize Cornet, Maria Jose, Frencesca Shivaone, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova