Miami : Doubles title for Maria and Nadia !

Maria KirilenkoSony Ericsson Open

Miami, USA
March 19-April 1, 2012
Hard – WTA Premier Mandatory – $4,828,050

Singles
- First round : bye
- Second round : won against Alisa Kleybanova (RUS), 7-6(1), 6-3
- Third round : won against Ksenia Pervak (KAZ), 6-2, 6-1
- Round of 16 : Marion Bartoli (FRA) won, 6-1, 6-2

>>> Singles results, click here

Doubles with Nadia Petrova (RUS)
- First round : won against Su-Wei Hsieh (TPE) / Shuai Peng (CHN), 7-6(2), 6-4
- Round of 16 : won against Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) / Vera Zvonareva (RUS), 6-1, 7-5
- Quarterfinal : won against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) / Lucie Safarova (CZE), 6-1, 7-6(5)
- Semifinal : won against Vania King (USA) / Monica Niculescu (ROU), 6-3, 6-4
« It’s great to be in the final of this tournament – last year I lost first round here in doubles, so I’m really happy to go this far now. It’s great to play with Nadia. We’re a good team. Hopefully this title will be ours. »

- Final : won against Sara Errani (ITA) / Roberta Vinci (ITA), 7-6(0), 4-6, [10-4]
« It was a great week for us to be able to win the title here at the Sony Ericsson Open. We are working hard to try to get to the Olympics. It’s nice to win such a great tournament like this, especially playing with Nadia. »

>>> Doubles results, click here

Great thursday in Stanford

Maria Kirilenko in Stanford

Maria won thursday in the second round of Bank of the West Classic in Stanford against Shahar Peer (ISR) in one hour and 31 minutes. The score : 6-4, 6-3.

To see the singles results, click here.

Then, Maria and Victoria Azarenka (BLR) defeated Shahar Peer (ISR) and Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) in the second round of doubles. The score : 6-3, 4-6, [10-3].

To see the doubles results, click here.

Photo by Shun Cheung (www.shuncheung.com)

End of the US Open for Maria

The russian duet Alisa Kleybanova and Ekaterina Makarova defeated Maria and Elena Vesnina tuesday in quartefinal of the doubles tournament of US Open. The score : 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. To see the statistics of the match, click here.

To see the doubles results, click here.

Maria Kirilenko

Photo by John Nguyen (www.gototennis.net)

MARIA SCHEDULE
September 21th, 2009
Hansol Korea Open – Seoul $220,000

September 28th, 2009
Toray Pan Pacific Open – Tokyo $2,000,000

October 3rd, 2009
China Open – Beijing $4,500,000

October 12th, 2009
Japan Women’s Open Tennis – Osaka $220,000

October 19th, 2009
Kremlin Cup – Moscow $1,000,000

Maria and Flavia in semifinal !

Maria and the Italian Flavia Pennetta won wednesday in the quarterfinal of the doubles tournament of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells against the Russian Alisa Kleybanova and the Romanian Monica Niculescu. The score : 6-2, 6-2 in one hour and eight minutes.

In semifinal, Maria and Flavia will play against Vera Zvonareva (RUS) and Victoria Azarenka (BLR).

To see the doubles results, click here.

Maria starts against Kleybanova

Maria will play the first round of the Medibank International of Sydney against the Russian Alisa Kleybanova. Maria never played against her before.

In the doubles tournament, Maria will play with Agnieszka Radwanska. First round against the spanish duet Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual.

To see the singles draw, click here
To see the doubles draw, click here

Medibank International SydneyMedibank International Sydney
Sydney, Australia – January 11-17, 2009

Premier
Prize Money : $600,000
Draw : 32M/32Q/16D
Surface : Hardcourt/Outdoors
Official website : www.medibankinternational.com.au