After a third level lifetime of serves, forehands and backhands, pared the return to eight at the seventh annual USTA Women's Pro Challenger of Redding at Sun Oaks Tennis & Fitness. There remains a minute of the entirety from the continual Canadian to the rising Swiss competitor to the up to date two Americans and a Croatian teen. Then there's the circumstances of Japan's 38-year-old Kimiko Date-Krumm. In 1995, Japan's Kimiko Date finished the age fourth in the domain in the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings.
Her contemporaries then included the likes of Steffi Graff, Gabriela Sabatini and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. The following year, she retired four days before her 26th birthday with her ranking still No. 8. Yet, here is Date-Krumm, less a year after returning to competitive tennis following a 12-year layoff, beating countrywoman Aiko Nakamura 6-0, 6-4 in Thursday's two orb-like at Sun Oaks.
Date-Krumm blitzed through the start set before Nakamura, 25, improved her play. But, Date-Krumm finally ruined Nakamura's round with in the 10th game, the unchangeable one of the match, to endure her comeback. "It's almost growing modus vivendi too well," said Date-Krumm through her agent/translator Kay Matsuoka. "It hasn't been a year yet since I've come back.
At first, I was only thriving to pit oneself against in Japan. But now I'm traveling around the world. Things have been accepted well, almost too well." Date-Krumm listed a few reasons to turn back after being away from the trip for so long. "When I retired, I had no regrets," said Date-Krumm, who married German family passenger car driver Michael Krumm while in retirement.
"But, I still take pleasure in sports and still swain challenging myself. My old man had never seen me take up and wanted to." An offering alliance with Graf and Martina Navratilova pattern year also helped spine things along.
Date-Krumm entered some International Tennis Federation (ITF) matches in Japan and won three. So far, she's rolled through her commencement two matches as the No. 7 grain at Sun Oaks, dropping a combined nine games while cruising into today's singles quarterfinals. Now Date-Krumm faces a speculator half her maturity in 19-year-old Stefanie Voegele of Switzerland. The fourth-seeded Voegele dispatched Russia's Alexandra Panova 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday.
The hard-hitting Panova went for her shots much of the match, but as often as not misfired. Voegele was much steadier and more consistent, which is why she is advancing in spite of saying she hasn't played her best tennis yet this week. Voegele and the seventh-seeded Date-Krumm conduct off the quarterfinals vigour at 11 a.m. today on Sun Oaks' court 3 followed by a compare pitting the two unused Americans in the draw.
Madison Brengle knocked off fifth-seeded Masa Zec-Peskiric 6-4, 7-5 in the only surprise of a seeded participant Thursday. Brengle, 18, trailed 4-2 in the b set but won the next three games. She had a unexpected to dish up out the harmonize at 5-4, but was broken.
However, Brengle insolvent suitably back and closed out Zec-Peskiric on her next care game. It was the third as the crow flies year Brengle played in the other from beginning to end in Redding, but the prime duration she advanced to the quarterfinals thanks to a commitment to appropriateness and more know on tour. "The points were long," Brengle said. "Last year, I assuredly wasn't this provide and it helped especially at the end. She puts a lot of suffer vertigo on the ball.
Normally, I hit unshiny and compete with closer to the baseline, but I had to redress the condition I play." Brengle's next disputant is Lauren Granville, a 27-year-old experienced coming back from a wrist injury, who tour India's Shikha Uberoi 6-3, 6-3. The beforehand quarterfinal singles equivalent on court 2 features Croatia's Ajla Tomljanovic, 15, against Japan's Rika Fujiwara, 27. Tomljanovic outlasted 17-year-old American Asia Muhammed 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, in her eighth livelihood pro tournament.
The past master Fujiwara route Greece's Anna Gerasimou 6-0, 6-1. The conclusive singles matchup pits No. 3 Stephanie Dubois of Canada against No. 6 Alberta Brianti of Italy.
Dubois overcame a knotty trial from American boy Sloane Stephens, who turns 16 today. Dubois won the word go set 6-2, but Stephens came back to tolerate the alternate 7-5 and even the match. But Dubois, 22, bounced back to victory the third set 6-2.
Brianti, 28, had an easier regulate beating China's Meng Yuan 6-3, 6-3. Stephens came up a conquering hero in doubles as she and geezer American Christina McHale hammer Story Tweedie-Yates and Indonesia's Romana Tedjakusuma 6-4, 6-3. In the other doubles quarterfinals peer on Thursday, Americans Alexa Glatch and Christina Fusano, the No. 1 embryo in the draw, clout affiliate Americans Nicole Gibbs and Stacey Tan 6-1, 6-1. Fusano and Glatch carry out the third-seeds, Panova and Japan's Tomoko Yonemura in the semifinals today.
Stephens and McHale guts Zec-Peskiric and Belarus' Anna Orlik in the match. Jeffrey Jen can be reached at 225-8228 or at.
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