Strasbourg Live
The WTA Tour will be going to Strasbourg for an event this week, and then on May 22nd the Grand Slam event in Paris, France will begin, featuring both the ladies of the WTA Tour and the men of the ATP World Tour. Roland Garros is a ten million dollar tournament that is held on Red Clay and has a singles draw of 128 and a doubles draw of 64. You can watch this WTA Tournament live from your computer by clicking on the banners on this page and getting signed up for your membership. You'll get instant access to live tennis.
The WTA Tournament is Strasbourg, France is called the Internationaux de Strasbourg and it is an international level tournament held on clay courts for $220,00 with a singles draw of 32 and a doubles draw of 16. It starts on May 16th and will be held the same time as the Brussels Open by GDF Suez in Brussels, Belgium, a premier level tournament. This year the tournament will be played in the Strasbourg Tennis Club and last year we saw Maria Sharapova take the title, her very first year in Strasbourg.
Marion Bartoli from France is the top seed for this tournament and the second is Andrea Petkovic from Germany. Third seed is Ana Ivanovic while Nadia Petrova takes the fourth seed spot. Then we have fifth and sixth seeds Maria Kirilenko from Russia and Daniela Hantuchova from Czech Republic. Seventh seed is Anabel Medina Garrigues and eighth is Lucie Hradecka. Click the links on this page and get your membership for access to high quality video no matter where you live in the world.
Posted: 20th May 2010
Strasbourg, France is the site of the Strasbourg International, a international level tournament on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, and it will be played outdoors on red clay for a prize purse of $220,000. The singles draw for this event is 32 while the doubles draw is 16 and the tournament begins on May 15th. This is going to be another great event on the WTA Tour as we come up on the French Open at Roland Garros for the benefit of the tennis world, and you can watch this tournament live by getting your membership at the banners on this page.
This tournament will run from May 15th to the 22nd and Sorana Cirstea is the number one seed in this event, going up against no one in the first round, receiving a bye. Second seed is Mariana Duque Marino, also receiving a bye in round one and hailing from Columbia. Maria Elena Camerin is the third seed and the Italian will be facing off against Sarah Gronert from Germany in the first round. Then we move onto the fourth seed in the event, which is Sophie Ferguson, and she is playing Ksenia Palkina in the first round.
Let's take a look at last year's tournament. The big winner was Aravane Rezai who made it to the final and won the very first title of her career. She beat Lucie Hradecka in straight sets and plowed her way through the other rounds. She had had some bad luck with injuries in previous finals and said that she was prepared for Roland Garros last year. You can watch this year's tournament by getting your membership at the links on this page where you can watch the tournament live in high quality video right from your computer.
Posted: 21th May 2009
The Internationalalaux de Strasbourg, or The Strasbourg International, is a WTA Tournament that is held on outdoor clay courts in Strasbourg, France. It has been held since 1987 and is an International-Level Tournament. Many of the greatest players in WTA history have won and played on this tournament, and the tradition continues on May 18th through the 23rd.
Previous winners have included Steffi Graf, who won in 1997, Lindsay Davenport who defeated Kimiko Date in 1995, and went on to champion the 1996 season tournament as well, and Silvia Farina Elia, and Anabel Medina Garrigues who both won the tournament three separate times thus far, Elia in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and Garrigues who won more recently in 2005, 2007 and was the champion of last year's tourney as well beating Katarina Srebotnik 4-6,7-6 and 6-0.
This is a great women's tournament to watch as some of the top players in the Women's Tennis Association compete in France. The prize money is $220,000 and the Strasbourg International will be followed by the Roland Garros tourney in Paris on May 24th. The Strasbourg happens Monday, May 18th through Saturday, May 23rd. The Strasbourg International is happening this Monday, and the women of tennis hope to score a share of the $220,000 purse that is being offered. This is one of France's most exciting tourneys and has been won by names like Anabel Medina Garrigues and Silvia Farina Elia, both of whom seem to have terrific luck on this outdoor clay court, as they have taken home the title no less than three times each. If you want to watch this tournament from May 18th to May 23rd go to watchlivetennis.org and be on the front row as all of the raquet swinging action happens from Strasbourg, France this Monday.
If you want to watch live streams of tennis action from the Strasbourg International this Monday, your place to go is watchlivetennis.org. This is one of the most exciting tourneys in all of France and with a purse of $220,000 up for grabs, you'll be sure to see some action packed tennis. Anabel Medina Garrigues and Silvia Farina Elia have three titles apiece and either may walk away with another one this year. The Strasbourg International is May 18th through the 23rd. The Strasbourg International takes place from Monday, May 18th to Saturday, May 23rd in Strasbourg, France. All of the exciting tennis play from this tournament can be found at watchlivetennis.org as the women from the WTA take to the outdoor clay court and compete for a prize of $220,000. Will Anabel Medina Garrigues or Silvia Farina Elia take home their fourth title, or will another player step forward and shine? The Strasbourg International starts Monday, May 18th.
Tags: WTA Tour, Strasbourg, live tennis, Andrea Petkovic, Nadia Petrova, Strasbourg International, Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, Sorana Cirstea, Mariana Duque, Aravane Rezai, WTA Tournament, Lindsay Davenport Posted: 16th May 2011 WTA Tour » Strasbourg Live |
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