Training session for their double match together with their coaches on saturday 1st may

Funny stuff, wished I understand spanish and got the whole conversation on tape. Don’t miss the football tennis session with them!

Part 3 of the Training session of Sunday 25th April

Funny stuff, the music of the piano in the background also fits perfect to the whole atmosphere I think. Flavia and her coach won this “match”. Forza Flavia!!!

Gisela Dulko wins Bogota opener

Gisela Dulko beat Mathilde Johansson 6-4, 6-4 at the Copa Colsanitas tennis event in Bogota. Dulko was last year’s Bogota runner-up to Spain’s Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez. She next faces Edina Gallovits.

Ukrainian qualifier Khrystyna Antoniychuk ousted second-seeded Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday, while wild card and veteran Colombian crowd favorite Catalina Castano cut down fourth-seeded Slovenian Polona Hercog 7-5, 6-2.

Seventh-seeded Czech Klara Zakopalova avoided an upset by coming from behind to down American Lauren Albanese 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-1.

Additional Day-2 wins came for Ukrainian Mariya Koryttseva, Colombia’s Mariana Duque Marino, France’s Pauline Parmentier, Paraguay’s Rossana de los Rios, Austria’s Patricia Mayr and Spaniard Silvia Soler Espinosa.

WTA Copa Colsanitas Bogota Preview

The Latin American swing kicks off this week with the XVIII Copa BBVA Colsanitas, and headlining the draw is the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s No.1 South American player, Gisela Dulko.

Dulko, currently ranked No.35 in the world, has enjoyed a solid start to 2010, most notably upsetting Ana Ivanovic en route to the third round of the Australian Open. She has also done nicely at this tournament in the past, her 7-3 record including a run to the finals here last year (where she was a runner-up to María José Martínez Sánchez). The No.1 seed this year, she will take on France’s Mathilde Johansson in her first round match.

The only other South American currently in the Top 100 is No.99 Rossana de los Ríos of Paraguay (who is also here but unseeded).

Spanish rising star Carla Suárez Navarro is the No.2 seed. Suárez Navarro, who in her green career has already been to two major quarterfinals – the 2008 French Open and the 2009 Australian Open – opens against a qualifier.

Check out the draws from Dubai, Memphis and Bogotá right now!

Rounding out the seeds are Sara Errani, Polona Hercog, Angelique Kerber, Sandra Zahlavova, Klara Zakopalova and Arantxa Parra Santonja.

Article from WTA

Hobart International: Gisela Dulko loses in quarterfinals

Anabel Medina Garrigues advanced to the Hobart International semifinals with a 6-1, 5-7, 6-1 win over Gisela Dulko.

Medina Garrigues was up a set and 3-0 in the second when Dulko staged a comeback to take the second set.

“I started playing a few too many short balls which played to Gisela’s strength and allowed her back into the game,” Medina Garrigues said. “The break at the end of the second set allowed me to calm my nerves and in the end I felt I won fairly comfortably.”

Medina Garrigues will play Alona Bondarenko on Friday. Earlier, the fourth-seeded Ukrainian defeated China’s Zheng Jie 7-5, 7-5.

Sara Errani won her quarterfinal over Belgian qualifier Kirsten Flipkens 6-3, 6-4. Errani will play second-seeded Shahar Peer of Israel, who beat fifth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain 4-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5 in a night quarterfinal.

Moorilla Hobart International Order of Play Thursday, January 14, 2010

MOORILLA HOBART INTERNATIONAL
Hobart-AUS
January 10-16, 2010
$220,000/International
Hard/Outdoors

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Centre (from 11.00hrs)
1. Alona Bondarenko vs. Zheng Jie
2. Kirsten Flipkens vs. Sara Errani (NB 12.00hrs)
3. Anabel Medina Garrigues vs. Gisela Dulko
4. Carla Suárez Navarro vs. Shahar Peer (NB 19.00hrs)
5. Dulko/Zheng vs. Chan/Niculescu

MOORILLA HOBART INTERNATIONAL Results Monday, January 11, 2010

Singles – First Round
(2) Shahar Peer (ISR) d. (WC) Olivia Rogowska (AUS) 63 62
(5) Carla Suárez Navarro (ESP) d. Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ) 61 62
(7) Zheng Jie (CHN) d. Kaia Kanepi (EST) 46 63 76(4)
(8) Gisela Dulko (ARG) d. Melinda Czink (HUN) 64 62
Sara Errani (ITA) d. Melanie Oudin (USA) 36 63 75
Jelena Dokic (AUS) d. (Q) Elena Baltacha (GBR) 64 62
Tamira Paszek (AUT) d. Roberta Vinci (ITA) 64 63
(Q) Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) d. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 60 60
(Q) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) d. (WC) Sophie Ferguson (AUS) 62 62

Doubles – First Round
Medina Garrigues/Rybarikova (ESP/SVK) d. Grandin/Woehr (RSA/GER) 64 26 105
(3) Dulko/Zheng (ARG/CHN) d. Dekmeijere/Senoglu (LAT/TUR) 62 63

Gisela Dulko and Carla Suarez Navarro practice in Eastbourne 2009