May 27, 2010

Dinara Downed in French Open Doubles

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Dinara’s 2010 Roland Garros experience came to an end Friday, as she and Agnes Szavay fell in the second round of doubles to sixth-seeded Cara Black and Elena Vesnina, 62 63.

Dinara’s next scheduled event is the UNICEF Open at ‘s-Hertogenbosch, which starts June 13. She has had a great deal of success there, reaching the final in 2006 and 2008 and the semifinals in 2007 and 2009.

 

Doubles Win For Dinara at French Open

Dinara shook off her first round singles loss at the French Open, pairing up with Agnes Szavay for a 61 61 rout of Klara Zakopalova and Riza Zalameda on Wednesday in the first round of the doubles event. In the second round, Dinara and Szavay will play sixth-seeded Cara Black and Elena Vesnina.

Dinara has reached the round of 16 in doubles at Roland Garros three times, but never further. Dinara and Szavay have won one Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title together, at Gold Coast in 2008. Of Dinara’s eight Tour doubles titles, one came at a Grand Slam, the 2008 US Open alongside Nathalie Dechy.

May 25, 2010

Disappointing Roland Garros For Dinara

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Dinara lost a heartbreaker in the first round of the French Open on Tuesday to Kimiko Date Krumm, 36 64 75.

“First set I was pretty dominant,” Dinara said in her press conference. “Second set I was up a break. Third set I was 4-1 double-break up. I should have closed it out in two sets.”

Dinara said seeing Date Krumm struggle with cramping threw off her rhythm.

“I just started to look at her instead of thinking about what I was doing,” said Dinara, who was the runner-up here last year. “And then I just was thinking more about her than about myself and what I had to do. I lost the momentum.”

Dinara talked about recently splitting up with her coach, Zeljko Krajan.

“After Madrid I made the decision to stop,” said Dinara, who is now working with Argentine Gastón Etlis. “He did the best job that anybody could do with me. He brought me to No. 1 in the world. But I decided that I wanted to stop, and that’s it.”

Dinara said she is still optimistic about her future despite her recent struggles.

“I will not give up,” she said. “I will have to swallow this loss and keep on moving.  I was in the worst situations, and that’s life. After rain always comes sun. I will do my best.”

Dinara is not leaving Roland Garros yet, though, as she is in the doubles competition with Agnes Szavay.

May 10, 2010

Dinara Denied In Madrid

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Defending champ Dinara dropped a tight two-setter to qualifier Zakopalova, 76(1) 76(3), in the first round of the Madrileña Madrid Open on Monday.

Dinara jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the first set, but could not sustain it and served for the second set twice but also could not hold on, falling to 0-2 all-time against Zakopalova. Next up for the Czech is Aravane Rezai.

“The result today was about lack of match practice,” Dinara said. “I have hardly hit a ball in three months and you can’t really expect much when you have had no practice and no matches. I have to look ahead and get some matches.”

Dinara did win a doubles match, however, coming out on top in a match tie-break in the first round Sunday alongside Agnes Szavay over Hsieh Su-Wei and Akgul Amanmuradova. However, Dinara and Szavay later had to withdraw from the event because of a right thigh injury suffered by Szavay in singles action.

Dinara’s next scheduled event is Roland Garros in two weeks. She was the runner-up there last year.

May 4, 2010

Dinara Eliminated In Rome

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Third-seeded Dinara dropped a tight match to Alexandra Dulgheru in 2 hours and 40 minutes in the second round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome on Tuesday.

Dinara, the defending champ, rallied from a 4-0 first set deficit to knot the set at 4 before eventually coming up short. Then in the second set, she was twice two points from losing the match before rallying. However, Dulgheru was too strong in the third set and prevailed, 64 67(5) 61, to advance to the round of 16.

“Obviously this was very disappointing,” Dinara said. ”The third set was particularly difficult. After winning the second set, I was 5-0 down in a second. I don’t know if I was over-hitting or over-waiting. I don’t think I was moving my feet enough. I’m going to watch this match on video. I think the only good thing about this match was that my back didn’t create any problems.”

Dinara’s next event, her third one since returning to the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour after a three-month layoff because of her back injury, will be next week at the Mutua Madrilena Madrid Open, where she is also the defending champ.

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