Wickmayer upsets Bartoli at Stanford Wickmayer upsets Bartoli at Stanford ADVERTISING STANFORD, Calif. — No. 5 seed Yanina Wickmayer beat No. 2 Marion Bartoli 6-3, 6-2 for the first time in four meetings, earning a trip to the Bank of
Wickmayer upsets Bartoli at Stanford
STANFORD, Calif. — No. 5 seed Yanina Wickmayer beat No. 2 Marion Bartoli 6-3, 6-2 for the first time in four meetings, earning a trip to the Bank of West Classic semifinals on Friday.
Wickmayer next faces American Coco Vandeweghe, who knocked off Urszula Radwanska of Poland 6-4, 6-4 to make the semifinals of a WTA Tour event for the first time.
Robson reaches Palermo semifinals
PALERMO, Italy — British teenager Laura Robson continued her winning run at the Italiacom Open on Friday, beating fifth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 to reach her first ever semifinals.
Robson won the Junior Wimbledon title four years ago when she was 14, but this is the furthest she has advanced in a WTA event.
She will meet eighth-seeded Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, who beat third-seed Julia Georges 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 6-1.
Isner, Harrison
advance at Newport
NEWPORT, R.I. — John Isner, the top seed and defending champion, advanced to the semifinals at the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships by beating South Africa’s Izak Van Der Merwe 6-4, 7-6 (2).
The 6-foot-9 Isner will face No. 6 seed and fellow American Ryan Harrison, who also advanced to the semis Friday on Newport’s grass courts. Harrison was ahead 6-4, 3-0 when Germany’s Benjamin Becker retired with a left hamstring injury.
Verdasco to face Granollers in Umag
UMAG, Croatia — Fernando Verdasco will take on fellow Spaniard Marcel Granollers, while home favorite Marin Cilic will face defending champion Aleksandr Dolgopolov in the semifinals of the Croatia Open.
By wire sources
