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!!!

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.

Gisela Dulko and Carla Suarez Navarro practice in Eastbourne 2009

US Open Series: Gisela Dulko at the Pilot Pen Main Draw ceremony

Gisela Dulko was in good spirits as she worked the crowd at the Pilot Pen Main Draw ceremony on Friday.

Dulko smiled as she chose children to take a chip out of a bowl with a number on it further revealing the 2009 Pilot Pen women’s field. She is coming off a win over Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon and will play Russian Elena Vesnina in the first round.

“The people can expect great tennis this week,” Dulko said.

The first round begins on Sunday and continues into Monday with matches starting no later than 10 a.m. There will also be a night session on Monday that begins at 7.

The women’s reigning champ, Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki, makes a return as the No. 2 seed. Wozniacki will meet Carla Suarez Navarro of Spain. American Meghann Shaughnessy, is in the women’s field. Shaughnessy will play Ai Sugiyama of Japan.

Meanwhile, Dulko is looking to build on her win over Sharapova and leave New Haven with some good memories as opposed to the hazy memories that she has of the Pilot Pen.

“I’m not sure but I don’t think I ever did good here. If I did good I would remember,” Dulko said.

Dulko was eliminated in straight sets last year in the first round by No. 6 seeded Flavia Pennetta.

Swedish Open Women Doubles Draw

Doubles Draw
(1) Llagostera Vives/Martinez Sanchez (ESP/ESP) vs. Laine/U. Radwanska (FIN/POL)
Arvidsson/Cibulkova (SWE/SVK) vs. Schiavone/Suarez Navarro (ITA/ESP)
(4) Cirstea/Wozniacki (ROU/DEN) vs. Osterloh/Paskina (USA/KGZ)
Krauth/Nooni (ARG/SWE) vs. Kondratieva/Lefevre (RUS/FRA)

(WC) Johansson/Roma (SWE/SWE) vs. Domachowska/Grandin (POL/RSA)
Skak Jensen/Larsson (DEN/SWE) vs. (3) Craybas/Kudryavtseva (USA/RUS)
Brozda/Kiszczynska (POL/POL) vs. Fedossova/Mircic (FRA/SRB)
El Tabakh/Klaffner (CAN/AUT) vs. (2) Dulko/Pennetta (ARG/ITA)