1-Amy Frazier (:eek: ) (USA) v Jana Nejedly (CAN)
Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) v WC-Nicole Pitts (USA)
Bea Bielik (USA) v Valentina Sassi (ITA)
q- v 6-Milagros Sequera (VEN)

3-Alina Jidkova (RUS) v Evelyn Fauth (AUT)
Lindsay Lee-Waters(USA) v Christina Wheeler (AUS)
WC-Amber Liu (USA) v q
Teryn Ashley (USA) v 5-Mashona Washington (USA)

8-Maria Emilia Salerni (ARG) vs Katalin Marosi (HUN)
Brie Rippner (USA) v Catalina Castano (COL)
Bahia Mouhtassine (MAR) v Francesca Lubiani (ITA)
Gisela Dulko (ARG) v 4-Samantha Reeves (USA)

7-Tatiana Perebiynis (UKR) v Renata Voracova (CZE)
q v q
q v Kristina Brandi (USA)
Svetlana Krivencheva (BUL) vs WC-2-Marissa Irvin (USA)

Omg Amy! lmao @ her playing here



Go Francesca!!!!!!!!!

Good luck ;)

Svetlana Krivencheva
Amy Frazier
Mashona Washington
Samantha Reeves
Bea Bielik

Good Luck Gise!

Ithouhgt for sure Amy would play in Tokyo. By the way she hadbeen playing she had a good chance to win there.

Why is Amy playing here?

Is this where she lives and she wants to compete here to say bye to her fans before she retires?

Or does she just want to win a tournament? ;)

Good luck to Alina and the other women :)

Does anyone have the R3 qualifying results?!!!!!

Thanks ;)

Too bad for Jana, she will get crushed first round by Amy. :( GOod luck to Marie-Eve, I'm looking for an upset! ;)

Good luck Kristina:)

I don't think Amy lives in California. But the way her ranking was slipping I have a feeling she had committed to the tournament a while ago prior to her sudden resurgence.

Either way it will be good points for her if she does well.

Amy is retiring at the end of the year, so I see no point in playing a challenger

Courtesy of AcemanTennis:

Final Round Qualifying
1-Barna d. 5-Alves, 6-2 6-3
8-Spears d. 2-Skavronskaia, 6-2 6-4 :(
Grandin d. Dziamidzenka, 6-2 6-0 :(
Ospina d. Ko, 3-6 6-2 6-0 :) :(

Qualifier Placements
q-Barna vs. 6-Sequera
q-Spears vs. wc-Liu
q-Ospina vs. q-Grandin
LL-Skavronskaia vs. Brandi

First Round
Bielik d. Sassi, 6-4 7-6(5) :) :(
3-Jidkova d. Fauth, 6-1 6-1 :D :D
Ashley d. 5-Washington, 6-0 6-1 :)
8-Salerni d. Marosi, 4-6 6-0 6-4 :D
Rippner d. Castano, 6-4 6-2
4-Reeves d. Dulko, 6-2 6-0 :rolleyes:

Abby and Diana :) :D

Teryn :)

Amy's too good to be undermining herserlf by playing here. She should be at the Japan Open this week. :(

Good luck also to Amber and Kristina. :D

Alinka :bounce: :D

omg Gisela :sad: :mad: :confused: ????
now i hope Sammy makes final :)

Teryn :)

qualies
Loiuda and Natallia :(

Pitu :D
Bea :)

Gisela :sad:

Well done Adriana. :) Now it's time for a maindraw-win.

Why is Alina Jidkova always playing challengers ? I think she's the highest-ranked player who is still mainly playing theses events in the USA. :confused: She's not even playing in Moscow.

thats her comfort zone
plus she lives in Florida now

still she should have come to Moscow

Mashona and Gisella! :sad:
Congrats to Bea Bielik.

Good luck to Jana (she'll need it) and to Marie-Eve. :)

listen alina jidkova when she speaks and you will realize that she probably don't comeback in Russia often. She have no accent and speak english like any other american. This is sad but this is the reality. But she is very nice.

Alina is very nice - I met her in Montreal and she is darling ... and gorgeous as well. ;)

Nice win :)

Teryn :eek: - what happened to Mashona

Catalina, Katalin :sad:

Gisela :eek:

Pitu :D

Come on girl, win this tournament, you need it :D

IS THAT TRUE? AMY WILL RETIRE IN THE END OF THE YEAR?

Good Luck Marie-Eve!!!!!!1 Break the top 100 soon!!!!!!1 You know you can beat frazier!!!!!!!! Play as last week!!!!!!

Does anyone know if there is a website for this tourney????

And by the way good luck to Lareau who is making a comeback there!!!!!!!!!!

CD!!!!!

Diana :bounce:

Last 3 weeks:

Quebec:3r qualies
Albuquerque:qualified, then lost r1
Fresno: Qualified, :D


She jumped from 688 to 517 in those 2 weeks. Now she will break into the 400's after this week:D

Keep winning. Beat Natalie :D

OMG,Brie finally won a match :rolleyes:

Go Brie and Diana! :)

Go Marie-Ève!!!!!!!

I talked to Amy at the Open and she said it was her last US Open, not that she'd retire at the end of the year. For all we know she might retire at the 2003 Pilot Pen. She also had crap results before the Open, so she could change her mind like many players have. I doubt it, but it is possible.

Alina Jidkova has the talent to be a top twenty player but perhaps not the motivation anymore. Consistently getting to the latter rounds of Challenger events is more financially rewarding than losing in the qualies of bigger tournaments.

She is fun to watch though. All the shots and a lively disposition as well.

What has happened to her website?

Bea Bielik :)
Salerni :)

What has happened to Mashona? She was so close to the Top 100, now she's in a bad slump :confused:

1-Amy Frazier (USA) - Jana Nejedly (CAN) 2:6 6:3 6:2
Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) - Nicole Pitts (USA) (WC) 6:4 6:3
Bea Bielik (USA) - Valentina Sassi (ITA) 6:4 7:6
6-Milagros Sequera (VEN) - Adriana Barna(GER) 6:3 7:5

3-Alina Jidkova (RUS) - Evelyn Fauth (AUT) 6:1 6:1
Christina Wheeler (AUS)- Lindsay Lee-Waters(USA) 6:7 6:2 6:0
Abigail Spears (q)- WC-Amber Liu (USA) 6:0 6:2
Teryn Ashley (USA) - 5-Mashona Washington (USA) 6:0 6:1

8-Maria Emilia Salerni (ARG) -Katalin Marosi (HUN) 4:6 6:0 6;4
Brie Rippner (USA) - Catalina Castano (COL) 6:4 6:2
Francesca Lubiani (ITA) - Bahia Mouhtassine (MAR) 4:6 6:2 7:5
4-Samantha Reeves (USA)- Gisela Dulko (ARG) 6:2 6:0

Renata Voracova (CZE) - 7-Tatiana Perebiynis (UKR) 6:4 4:2 ret.
Natalie Grandin (RSA) q - q Diana Ospina (USA) 6:2 7:6
Kristina Brandi (USA) - Lioudmila Skovronskaya 6:4 6:1
WC-2-Marissa Irvin (USA)- Svetlana Krivencheva (BUL) 6:1 6:3

Diana :(
Bahia :(
Amber :sad:
Lindsay :(

Abby :)

Amy :D
Adriana :fiery: :sad:
Nathalie :D
Teryn :D
Mashona :(
Christina :D
Lindsey :(

Adriana :( just winning in quallies won't take you anywhere.

Amy ;)
Mashona :o

what a horrible set of results :mad:

Jana pffffffff could have done herself and the tournament a big favor :(

Liouda :sad:
Tatiana P :sad:
Lindsay :sad:
Adriana :sad:

only Abigail & Francesca :) ;)

Jana took a set, not bad.

Marie-Eve :D Take out Amy!

:bounce: Marie-Eve :bounce:

Amber :( :sad:

Damn Lindsay....get it together girl!

Wow, Jana you surprised me, good effort.

Marie-Eve, I hear an upset! ;)

Marissa :D
MªEmilia :)

Thats a great win Christina! :D Congrats!

Pitu :)
Gisela :sad:
Bahia :( :sad:

Jana :eek: - great effort, wish she won though :(

Well done Marie-Eve, Milagros, Christina (great win), Nathalie, and Kristina

Bahia and Tatiana (hope the injury isn't too serious) :sad:

Never knew that people from Fresno were called "Fresnans" .. I learn something new from tennis news every day :-)

Jay
===============

Desire to stay in U.S. appeals to top player

By Ken Robison
The Fresno Bee
(Published Thursday, October 3, 2002, 4:00 AM)

Amy Frazier insists there's nothing complicated about her appearance in Fresno.
The 30-year-old touring tennis pro from Michigan is ranked No. 46 in the world, and most players at that level are in Japan or Moscow this week on the WTA Tour.

Not Frazier, who decided not to travel overseas after the U.S. Open. She looked at a schedule, saw the Herwaldt Motors Fresno Challenger and hopped on a plane to California.

"I love playing matches, that's why I play this game," Frazier said, munching on an apple before her match against Jana Nejedly at Copper River Country Club. "I wanted to stay closer to home. This tournament was in the [United States] and on hard courts. It was a good opportunity to play some matches."

Simple as that, Frazier became the No. 1 seed in a tournament mostly filled with players ranked in the 90s and 100s. Despite a shaky opening set, she justified that seed Wednesday night with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Nejedly.

Frazier's résumé is one most of this week's challenger players aspire to: Ranked as high as No. 13 in the world, six career singles titles, $2.4 million in career earnings, quarterfinalist at Australian Open (1992) and the U.S. Open ('95). She reached the fourth round of the U.S. Open last month.

Still, Frazier doesn't feel underwhelmed by playing in her first Challenger event since 1998.

"Women's tennis is so deep these days, everyone is so good at every level," she said. "Rankings are irrelevant; you have to be ready to play every point. If I felt [overconfident], I'd lose in the first round."

Frazier faces 20-year-old Canadian Marie-Eve Pelletier this afternoon, and experience could be crucial. Frazier has been a touring pro for 16 years -- she played a Virginia Slims event on her 14th birthday -- while Pelletier is just two years removed from the junior ranks.

And two years removed from her breakthrough weekend in Fresno.

Pelletier was an 18-year-old amateur when she qualified for the Fresno Challenger at Sierra Sport & Racquet Club two years ago. She made the final, losing to Rachel McQuillan, and turned pro the next week -- breaking the hearts of several college coaches.

Today's headline match, at 5 p.m. on center court, features Fresnan Robert Kendrick against American Kevin Kim.

Kendrick and partner Peter Luczak, a former Fresno State All-American, play the night doubles match against Czechs Jan Hernych and Petr Kralert. The locals defeated Americans Levar Harper-Griffith and Alex Bogomolov 6-4, 6-0 Wednesday.

Second-round action concludes today, with quarterfinals scheduled for Friday, semifinals Saturday and finals Sunday.

The reporter can be reached at krobison@fresnobee.com or 441-6279.

He got a little fact wrong...Amy has left the US since the US Open.

Her reason is bullshit, because she was already in Asia and could have simply stayed. I think she has another reason for being there.

Gisela and Bielik won in doubles 6-0 6-1!

Go Brie!

More results?:confused:

Woohoo Nathalie! :D Keep it going girl! :D

Congratulations Kristina :) :) :)

Now beat Marissa.

Results? :o

go MARIE-ÈVE!!!

She is very tired so i hope she will be okay for her second round match against Frazier!!!

MARIE-ÈVE PELLETIER!!! meilleure joueuse au pays de toute l'histoire depuis ce lundi 128e joueuse au monde!!!

1-Amy Frazier (USA) - Marie-Eve Pelletier (CAN) 6:1 6:0
6-Milagros Sequera (VEN) - Bea Bielik (USA) 7:5 7:5

3-Alina Jidkova (RUS) - Christina Wheeler (AUS) 7:5 7:5
Teryn Ashley (USA) - Abigail Spears (q)- 7:5 7:5

Brie Rippner (USA) - 8-Maria Emilia Salerni (ARG) 6:4 4:6 7:6
Francesca Lubiani (ITA) -4-Samantha Reeves (USA) 3:6 7:6 6:2

Renata Voracova (CZE) -Natalie Grandin (RSA) (Q) 3:6 6:3 6:4
WC-2-Marissa Irvin (USA)- Kristina Brandi (USA) 6:3 7:6

Tough going Christina :(

Pitu :(

Poor Marie-Eve....so who'll get Amy's 10 points?

like i said m-e is very tired:(

Alinka :bounce: :D


Abigail :sad:
Marie-Eve :sad: :(
Samantha :sad: :(
Pitu :(

go Renata and Francesca in bottom half :)

Shit! :mad: This is turning out to be one helluva day :mad:

Poor Marie-Eve :sad:

Oh well, good luck to Brie and Marissa.

Pitu :sad: :(

Abby :(

Amy :o

Brie!!!! :D Wow, it seems you are getting your form back.... :)

Barabanschikova-fan, why was marie-eve so tired? For playing too many tournaments???

Oh well congrats to Pelletier for a round 1 win. :)

Sammy :sad: Its either all or nothing with that girl

Abigail :(

Bea has to learn to win the close ones. All of her loses since the US Open have been very close :(

Brie :bounce:

Marissa :bounce:

Pitu :(

M-E She is tired because of last week where she went to the finals and all her matches were in three sets!!!!! She should be proud of her week and take a little rest....She has almost no points to defend on clay and she performs weel on this surface...Lets go Marie continue to go up!!!!!!

Marie-Eve :(

Milagros :), Alina :D, Reneta ;)

Maria Emilia :sad: ... Kristina :sad:

Any results today ?

marissa :) marie eve :sad:

Milagros!:bounce: Way to beat Bea "Brenda Schultz-McCarthy" Bielik;) (Sorry BK, couldn't resist lol)

Amy, Marissa, Brie:D

Nathalie:sad:

Brie has been amazing this week!:eek:
Keep going Alina, Brie, and Renata!!!

Kristina :sad: :sad:

See BK LOL :D

You know Bea is from my hometown so u betta watch it :)

thanks cdpoulin for your explanation your exactly right

At least this tournament's going more to form than Girona.

Go Alina Jidkova! And Marissa Irvin! Would love to see these two in the final.

but at Girona the winner gets 10 more pts ;)

OMG, I need results :o

Any "new" results ???

ANY RESULTS !!!!!!!!!!

Gisela adn Bielik won their semifinal match 6-2 7-6 and today they play the final!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good luck Gise!

I'm glad Bea is playing doubles...she needs to work on her volleys...dont u say a word Bradshaw :D

I'm too lazy to start a thread...but I'm sure many of you would be intersted to know that MARIA SHARAPOVA has entered a 25K in Frisco, TX for the week of 10/21.

i knew that she did already ;)

another 25K, she should be playing more higher level of comp than that

Your welcome Baranschikova fan!!!!!!! Good to know another quebecois here!!!!!!!!!

Marie-Eve will continue to go up and I think will reach the top 100 next year!!!!! With her best surface being clay, she hasn't played last year on it because of an injury!!!!!

Go Marie-Eve and go Melanie Marois!!!!!!

Eggy, I think its a strategic move on their part in trying to make sure she gets into Aus Qualies. She has a better chance of winning some matches here and gaining valuable points than at a higher quality tournament.

RESULTS PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!

;)

The site for the results was updated but it seemed like no matches were played fot yesterday....A rain delay?????

Okay here are the winners from yesterday...I have no scores.

Frazier d. Milagros
Jidkova d. Ashley :(
Rippner d. Lubiani :bounce:
Irvin d. Voracova :) :sad:

All my favorites have won :)

Well done especially to Alina and Amy :)

Alinka :bounce: :D , get those 10 bonus pts ALinka ;)


Renata :sad:

C'mon Alina - you are the only person I like left :)

Good luck to Marissa in the other semi

Hoping it's an Alina/Brie final!:angel:

Renata!:(

Go Marissa :D

Yeah, I hope Brie beats Marissa (who should have taken her ass to Filderstadt Qualies instead of playing a $50K).

I also hope Alinka beats Amy. Players ranked as high as Amy should not be allowed to play $50K's. Its total bullshit.

Well...BK4ever...Alina's ranking is almost as good as Amy's...So if it's bullshit for Amy, it's bullshit for Alina....I even think Alina's ranking was BETTER than Amy's a couple of months ago...Amy's ranking was then in the low 70s...

Tennisfan...u got me there, but we all know Alina is afraid of the main tour :D

OK BK, I'll be good about Bea;) Dulko is a nasty doubles player, so her volleys definitely match w/Bea's serve. It's a good team IMO.

Amy:rolleyes:

Alinka did bt Amy in Big Island last yr ;)
she has won a few matches on the main tour

I dont understand why she doesnt play the tour more. Below are her best results on the tour this year. They are not too shabby. Do u know why she would play a challenger when she has the rank to get into qualies draws?

Auckland Dec 31 2001
1 A Jidkova - A Montolio(1) 6-3 6-1
2 A Smashnova - A Jidkova 7-5 6-1

Hobart Jan 7 2002
1 A Jidkova - T Poutchek 7-5 6-2
2 A Jidkova - P Suarez(2) 1-6 6-1 6-2
QF M Sucha - A Jidkova 1-6 7-5 6-4

Australian Open Jan 14 2002
1 E Dementieva(12) - A Jidkova 6-3 6-2

Memphis Feb 18 2002
1 A Jidkova - S Reeves 6-2 3-6 6-2
2 A Jidkova - A Coetzer(1) 6-3 7-65
QF A Jidkova - J Nejedly 7-65 6-2
SF A Stevenson(4) - A Jidkova 6-1 6-2

Scottsdale Feb 25 2002
Qual 1 A Jidkova - J Nejedly(8) 3-6 6-1 6-4
Qual 2 A Jidkova - M Martinez 5-7 6-3 7-63
Qual 3 A Jidkova - V Razzano 6-74 6-2 3-1
1 A Jidkova-Q - L Osterloh 6-2 6-2
2 S Williams(3) - A Jidkova-Q 6-3 6-3

Sarasota Apr 1 2002
Qual 1 A Jidkova - A Nefedova-WC 6-1 6-3
Qual 2 A Jidkova - M Lucic-WC 2-6 6-4 6-2
Qual 3 A Jidkova - M Salerni 6-3 6-3
1 A Myskina - A Jidkova-Q 7-65 6-2

Amelia Island Apr 8 2002
Qual 1 A Jidkova(2) - E Tatarkova 6-2 6-2
Qual 2 C Fernandez - A Jidkova(2) 6-3 6-0
1 E Gagliardi - A Jidkova-LL 6-2 7-5

Roland Garros May 27 2002
1 A Jidkova - S Obata 0-6 6-2 6-0
2 R Grande(31) - A Jidkova 6-0 7-5

Montreal Aug 12 2002
Qual 1 A Jidkova(15) - J Kandarr 6-4 6-2
Qual 2 S Obata - A Jidkova(15) 2-6 6-4 6-0
Black - A Jidkova(8) 3-6 6-3 6-2

Yay! Brie! :D You can beat Marissa! ;)

I can't believe you all are pulling for Briebitch.....lol.

She's as bad as Tara Snyder.

VSFan...really...I met Brie and she was the sweet as pie :D

Please tell me of her bitch incident

:( :( :sad: Francesca :sad:

Quarterfinals:

Frazier(1) d. Sequera(6) 1:6 6:4 6:2 :sad:
Jidkova(3) d. Ashley 6:2 6:3 :D
Rippner d. Lubiani 6:3 5:7 6:3 :(
Irvin(2) d. Voracova 6:2 2:6 6:2

LOL@VSFAN!:o AS BAD AS TARA?!?!?:eek:

Still going :eek: at Amy playing here :o

Well done Marissa! :D

Alina :)
Marissa :)

KC: Let's start at the beginning. How come Tara is so "bad?"

Jidkova also played in Quebec City where she was so close to beat Meghann Shaughnessy!!!!! It was 7-6 in the third!!!!!!

I met Brie once and she was nice. Then I introduced her to a friend and she totally blew him off...it was his first time meeting a tennis pro.

She said, "If you think I'm gonna sit here and care about what you want to talk about, you are wrong."

I then proceeded to tell her that we fans make her career, what little of it she has, and that she needs to learn to respect people a bit more. I haven't spoken with her since.

thats messed up...she will have to be put on my shit list for a while :D

Brie :o lol, I would never let any spoilt brat talk to me like that! Glad to see you told her where to go!!!

Go Alina :)

Amy won today 6-1,6-3 and Marissa 7-6(5),6-4

Hopkins/Rippner are doubles champion 6-7(2),6-4,7-6(4)

thanks alain

damn ... alina :(

thanks aceman

Yay! Brie/Jennifer! :D Make it two titles Brie! :D

Alinka :sad: :(

now go Marissa :)
defend your title :)

Well done Amy and Marissa :)

Amy :) you should win

Go Marissa! :D

I have a feeling Marissa will win it in three sets....

At what time does the final start ???

God Amy:o

Well done Amy ;)

I have a feeling she won't retire this year

Ritchie - Tara is the queen bitch of challengers. She think she owns the tournametns she played in just because she was ranked #35 YEARS ago. All the players really have a big disgust for her....so it's a wonder how she finds doubles partners.

OMG Brie is so nice (to me at least.) She's not going on my shit list until I hear another bad incident. Everyone has bad days. Tara on the other hand..:rolleyes:

She screamed at me during her qualy match at the US Open this year. I was taking pictures of the match and she screamed at me for doing so. I didn't even have the damn flash on!:rolleyes: She wins the next point and turns to me and says "If you weren't fucking taking pictures during that last point, I would be up 4-2. But now it's deuce. Thanks a lot!":eek:

OMG....What a ***** !!!!

Any other "horror" stories about Snyder ???

I don't who to cheer for.............
Amy or Marissa ??

Anyone has the final result ???

:)

Amy won 6-4,6-1

Thanks :)

Well done, Amy :)

Congrats Amy :D, although I don't know what the hell you were doing here in the first place :rolleyes:

Marissa :(

bad luck Marissa :sad: :(

Congratulations, Amy...you've had your fun, now go back to the WTA Tour where you belong :)

:o at the Tara stories. She could've used all that energy yelling to, um, I don't know...play tennis?

Well done Amy :)

Well done Amy. She's up to #40 in the rankings this week. OK, maybe she is a bit too good for this kind of field but I don't know why she was singled out for criticism. Irvin at #79 last week is too tough for a $50K as well.

MirjanaLfan : I totally agree with you. Also, Alina Jidkova (even though I don't know her specific ranking) is ranked somewhere in the top 100 also. Her ranking was also higher than Amy's a couple of months ago....:)

LOL, that one is enough for me! :)

they are two of my favourite players but i was hoping irvin would win as she needed the points more.

frazier should have played the japan open and would have probably won it. she's got an incredible record in japan - marissa would have won fresno.

isn't frazier supposed to retire at the end of the season?

Marissa :(