DANIELA HANTUCHOVA IN PATTAYA 2015. THE ORIGINAL PIC

Soooo happy about winning the Pattaya title for the 3rd time,yeaaaaaay
thank you so much for all your support during the week,means the world to me!!
yours Dan

DANIELA HANTUCHOVA CONQUERS PATTAYA 2015

A day after they spent a combined total of almost six hours to win their semifinal matches, Daniela Hantuchova and Ajla Tomljanovic had another battle on their hands in the final of the PTT Thailand Open - and it was experience that just edged out youth this time. 

 Tomljanovic, who won an all-WTA Rising Star showdown against Monica Puig the day before, came out stronger in the final, taking the first set in 32 minutes and looking safely in control up 6-3, 2-1. But Hantuchova has been no stranger to battling back - she saved two match points to beat Marina Erakovic in the semis - and she found another second wind in the final, winning eight of the next nine games to take the second set, 6-3, and jump out to a 3-0 lead in the third and deciding set. Tomljanovic got things back to 3-all, and then 4-all too, but Hantuchova made one last push right at the end, holding then breaking one last time to win in two hours and seven minutes, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. "Today was very tough because Ajla was playing some great tennis,
" Hantuchova said. "I had to really fight for it - at the end I felt maybe I was a little fresher and sharper, and that decided the match. "But Ajla has a great future ahead of her. She's also a very nice girl. It's nice to have somebody like her in the game. And like I said on the court, I'm sure she'll have many more finals to come." This is the third time Hantuchova has won the PTT Thailand Open, her first two titles here coming in 2011 and 2012. 
She has seven WTA titles overall now, including Indian Wells in 2002 and 2007.

Daniela Hantuchova blog. PTT Pattaya Open, THE ORIGINAL PIC

Very happy to b in another semifinal here in Pattaya for the 3rd time @wtatennis.love these sunsets here
#paecefull
#mangostickyrice

PTT THAILAND OPEN PATTAYA CITY, THAILAND FEB 09 - FEB 15, 2015. MAIN DRAW SINGLES

PTT THAILAND OPEN PATTAYA CITY, THAILAND FEB 09 - FEB 15 2015

TOURNAMENT INFO 
 TIER: International 
PRIZE MONEY: $250,000 
SURFACE: Hard 
DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Rowe 

The WTA's tour stop in the Thai beach resort town of Pattaya City has grown significantly in stature and status since its maiden staging at the Dusit Resort Pattaya in 1991, highlighted by being upgraded from Tier IV to International-level in 2009. Previous PTT Thailand Open champions include Conchita Martínez, who netted the last of her 33 WTA titles here in 2005, and two-time winners Vera Zvonareva and Daniela Hantuchova. "I play well under good conditions and surroundings," Hantuchova said. 
"I feel comfortable playing in Pattaya City. I love the weather, the courts are in the hotel and near the beach, and the people are so nice." The tournament not only focuses on attracting the world's top tennis stars, but also supports local Thai competitors by offering them wildcards into the qualifying and main draws. Pattaya City earned acclaim in 2010 when players voted it the WTA International Tournament Of The Year.

PTT THAILAND OPEN PATTAYA CITY, THAILAND FEB 09 - FEB 15 2015

TOURNAMENT INFO 
 TIER: International 
PRIZE MONEY: $250,000 
SURFACE: Hard 
DIRECTOR: Geoffrey Rowe 

The WTA's tour stop in the Thai beach resort town of Pattaya City has grown significantly in stature and status since its maiden staging at the Dusit Resort Pattaya in 1991, highlighted by being upgraded from Tier IV to International-level in 2009. Previous PTT Thailand Open champions include Conchita Martínez, who netted the last of her 33 WTA titles here in 2005, and two-time winners Vera Zvonareva and Daniela Hantuchova. "I play well under good conditions and surroundings," Hantuchova said. 
"I feel comfortable playing in Pattaya City. I love the weather, the courts are in the hotel and near the beach, and the people are so nice." The tournament not only focuses on attracting the world's top tennis stars, but also supports local Thai competitors by offering them wildcards into the qualifying and main draws. Pattaya City earned acclaim in 2010 when players voted it the WTA International Tournament Of The Year.

EKATERINA MAKAROVA WINS PTT PATTAYA OPEN 2013

MAKAROVA_PLISKOVA 63, 76

PATTAYA, Thailand, Feb. 2 

Ekaterina Makarova defeated Karolina Pliskova 6-3, 7-6 (9-7) Sunday in the championship match of the WTA's PTT Pattaya Open in Thailand. It was the second WTA title for Makarova but first since she won the AEGON International in June 2010. Pliskova, who won the Malaysian Open last March, fell to 1-1 in WTA finals. Makarova, seeded fourth in the tournament, won 75 percent of the points on serve Sunday and fought off five break points. She had the only break of the match to claim the first set and used her solid serving to get in position to take the second in the tiebreaker. Pliskova also served well Sunday, pounding out 10 aces against one double fault and winning two-thirds of the points when serving. She allowed Makarova only three break chances, all in the first set. 
 Makarova collected $43,000 along with the title, boosting her career winnings to about $4.7 million. Pliskova, who advanced through the tournament as an unseeded player, took home $21,400, increasing her career total to $600,000.

NEWS PTT PATTAYA OPEN, 1 February 2014. MAKAROVA VS PLISKOVA

PATTAYA CITY, Thailand 
No.4 seed Ekaterina Makarova defeated Andrea Hlavackova over three topsy-turvy sets at the PTT Pattaya Open on Saturday to move within touching distance of a second career title. Watch live action from Pattaya City this weekend on WTA Live powered by TennisTV! It is three and a half years since Makarova picked up her only previous piece of singles silverware, at the Wimbledon tune-up event in Eastbourne, and in the final she will face another unseeded opponent, Karolina Pliskova. 

 Just as in her quarterfinal with Kimiko Date-Krumm 24 hours earlier, Makarova came flying out of the traps against Hlavackova only to lose her way. A break in the second game proved enough for the Russian to take the opening set, but she was unable to build on this momentum as Hlavackova reeled off six unanswered games to level the match up. Makarova halted the Czech's charge at the start of the decider with a break to move 2-1 and hung onto this slender advantage to close out the match, 63 06 64. "The best part of my game is that I was fighting," Makarova said. "She's playing so aggressive, so flat. It was difficult to return because she was serving so good today. "At the end of the second set I was so angry because here I'd already played two matches in three sets and I really wanted to finish it in two sets. But she played amazing all that set and it was difficult to do anything." Earlier in the day, Pliskova overcame Julia Goerges in a serve-dominated encounter. The players hit a combined total of 29 aces, but in the end it was a double fault from Goerges midway through the third set that proved the difference. That mistake helped Pliskova open up a 4-2 lead and a few games later she served out to love for a 63 46 63 victory. "There weren't any rallies because we were both serving well and we have similar games, so it was tough," Pliskova said. "In the second set she was serving really well. I almost couldn't do anything. I tried to stay calm and play my game and wait for my chance."

News PTT Pattaya Open, 31 January 2014.

PATTAYA CITY, Thailand 
Karolina Pliskova came back from the brink to defeat No.3 seed Sorana Cirstea in the quarterfinals the PTT Pattaya Open on Friday. Watch live action from Pattaya City this weekend on WTA Live powered by TennisTV! Serving to stay in the match at 5-4 down in the second set, the writing appeared to be on the wall for Pliskova as she slipped 15-40 behind. Somehow, she served her way out of the cul-de-sac, saving both match points before going on to pinch the set on a tie-break. Having dominated much of the first hour on court, Cirstea began to unravel in the decider. And as the unforced errors began to mount, Pliskova ruthlessly capitalized to wrap up the final set in just 27 minutes.
 "I didn't expect to win," Pliskova said. "She was playing amazing in the first set and I didn't have any chance to play my game. She was playing fast and she was killing all my second serves. In the second set I was just trying to hold my serves and hoped that in the tie-break anything could happen." Pliskova's 16 76(3) 60 win sees her advance to her first semifinal of the year, where she will face another unseeded player, Julia Goerges. "I'm happy that I've won hard matches here," Pliskova said. "I played my last semifinal in Kuala Lumpur which is almost a year. So I'm happy that I'm not going to lose ranking points." Like Pliskova, Goerges' progress was far from straightforward, coming from a break down in the final set to knock out No.5 seed Elena Vesnina. Goerges had lost all three of her previous encounters with Vesnina and could have been forgiven for fearing the worst after dropping an opening set in which she had led 4-2. However, the German showed admirable resolve to turn the match around, eventually running out a 57 63 63 winner. "It was a pretty up and down match," Goerges said. "Elena is a great player and I knew it was going to be tough - I'd never beaten her before. "I think I should have won the first set but I just kept fighting and I was serving really well today, which I think was key.
I'm really glad I'm in the semifinals." On the other side of the draw Andrea Hlavackova will take on the last remaining seed, Ekaterina Makarova. Hlavackova, who benefitted from the withdrawal of No.1 seed Sabine Lisicki earlier in the week, made a flying start against No.8 seed Peng Shuai but in the end was forced to dig deep to close out a 62 75 victory. No.4 seed Makarova meanwhile battled for more than two hours before eventually seeing off the stubborn resistance of Kimiko Date-Krumm, 62 46 64.

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PTT PATTAYA OPEN WOMEN´S DOUBLES. 27 JANUARY 2014.

ELENA VESNINA AND MAKAROVA
The 2014 PTT Pattaya Open, WTA tennis tournament features a strong line-up in the doubles competition with 4 of the world’s top 6 doubles players competing in the US$250,000 tournament, which is being played at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Pattaya from 26 January – 2 February. 
Top billing goes to the Asian pair of Peng Shuai from China and Hsieh Su-Wei from Taiwan. 
The pair are jointly ranked at No 3 in the world doubles rankings after a year in which they won the Grand Slam doubles at Wimbledon and the year-end WTA Championships as well as 3 other WTA titles in 2013. The beaten finalists in the WTA Championships last year, Elena Vesnina (ranked No 5) and Ekaterina Makarova (ranked No 6), both of whom hail from Russia will also competing in Pattaya. 
They also won a Grand Slam doubles title at Roland Garros and in addition triumphed in Indian Wells. Other leading doubles players featuring in Pattaya are world No 11 Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic, Anastasia Rodionova of Australia (ranked No 22), Alla Kudryavtseva of Russia (ranked No 26) and Julia Goerges of Germany (ranked No 27). Thailand has 6 players ranked in the top 200 in doubles; Tamarine Tanasugarn at No 83, Nicha Lertpitaksinchai at 157, Peangtarn Plipuech at 157, Luksika Kumkhum at 161, Varatchaya Wongteanchai at 166 and Noppawan Lertcheewakarn at 176. Several of these players are expected to be in the doubles draw at the PTT Pattaya Open.

PTT Pattaya Open increases the prize money to US$250,000 .

The 2014 PTT Pattaya Open WTA tennis retains its date behind the Australian Open, increases the prize money to US$250,000 and features an exciting line-up of stars headed by Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki of Germany. 
The winner of the tournament, which will be played at the Dusit Thani Hotel, Pattaya from 26 January – 2 February there is a cheque for US$43,000 and 280 ranking points. 
 Sabine Lisicki is making her second appearance at Pattaya, currently ranked No 15 in the world, she reached the final in Pattaya last year, going down in a three set marathon to Russia’s Maria Kirilenko. Her outstanding achievement in 2013 was reaching the final at Wimbledon, beating Serena Williams on the way before falling to Marian Bartoli at the final hurdle. Making her comeback appearance in Pattaya is crowd favourite Vera Zvonareva of Russia, she missed the whole of the 2013 season after having surgery on a shoulder injury. 
She is now fully fit again and will be hoping to recover the form which led her to back-to-back wins in Pattaya in 2009/2010 and to the dizzy heights of No 2 in the world. Making her comeback appearance in Pattaya is crowd favourite Vera Zvonareva of Russia, she missed the whole of the 2013 season after having surgery on a shoulder injury. 
She is now fully fit again and will be hoping to recover the form which led her to back-to-back wins in Pattaya in 2009/2010 and to the dizzy heights of No 2 in the world. Another crowd favourite returning is Romania’s Sorana Cirstea, she has an excellent record at Pattaya reaching the semi-final in 2012 & 2013 and hoping to go one better this year. 
 A newcomer to Pattaya is Russian Ekaterina Makarova who along with fellow Russian and doubles partner Elena Vesnina won the French Open doubles title and were runners-up in the year-end WTA Championships.
 The pair are also accomplished singles players finishing the year at no’s 24 and 25 in the world respectively. Another new face to Pattaya is Germany’s Julia Goerges who after a relatively poor year in 2013 is looking to climb back up the rankings. The PTT Pattaya Open is celebrating its 23 rd anniversary in 2014, making it one of the longest running tournaments on the WTA calendar and the oldest women’s professional sporting event in South-East Asia. The 2014 PTT Pattaya Open will commence with the qualifying rounds on 26 – 27 January, with main draw matches starting on 27 January with play starting from 15.00 daily until Friday 31 January. 
 For the final 2 days of the tournament, Saturday 1 February and Sunday 2 February matches will start from 16.00

PTT Pattaya Open, Main Draw Singles. 27 JAN- 2 FEB

PTT Pattaya Open, Pattaya City. THAILAND Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2014.

TOURNAMENT INFO 
 Tier: International 
Prize Money: $250,000 
Surface: Hard
Director: Geoffrey Rowe 

The WTA's tour stop in the Thai beach resort town of Pattaya City has grown significantly in stature and status since its maiden staging at the Dusit Resort Pattaya in 1991, highlighted by being upgraded from Tier IV to International-level in 2009, when it became known as the PTT Pattaya Open. Previous Pattaya City champions include Spainiard Conchita Martínez, who netted the last of her 33 titles here in 2005, Russian Vera Zvonareva and Slovak Daniela Hantuchova - a two-time winner. "I play well under good conditions and surroundings," Hantuchova said. "I feel comfortable playing in Pattaya City. I love the weather, the courts are in the hotel and near the beach, and the people are so nice." The tournament not only focuses on attracting the world's top tennis stars, but also supports local Thai competitors by offering them wildcards into the qualifying and main draws. Pattaya City earned acclaim in 2010 when players voted it as the WTA's International Tournament Of The Year.

KIRILENKO SE IMPONE A LA UZBECA AMANMUDAROVA EN TALIANDIA 2013

KIRILENKO_AMANMUDAROVA 63 75
Gran partido de la rusa a dos mangas, en casi dos horas de juego.
La rusa impuso la experiencia, con buen servicio 70% de primeros!
En cuanto a los ganadores, la rusa fue mejor con 42 winners, muchos de ellos al resto, aunquela uzbeca supo buscar el revés de la rusa y se anotó 47 ganadores, pero en errores la uzbeca cometió bastantes más, clave estadísitica, con 34 sobre los 25 de la rusa..
Kirilenko suma y sigue!!

HANTUCHOVA Y KIRILENKO EN TAILANDIA, BELLIÍSIMAS Y ELEGANTES. PTT PATTAYA OPEN 2013

DANIELA HANTUCHOVA AND KIRILENKO MUY MUY BELLAS,....
Belleza fuera de las pistas, modelos y artistas...
Y grandes competidoras dentro de ellas..
Ante todo, muy muy amigas..!!
Os dejo con estas dos bellezas

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