WTA Tour - Keothavong progresses

Eurosport - Thu, 17 Jul 09:40:00 2008

British number one Anne Keothavong picked up one of the biggest wins of her career as she defeated India's Sania Mirza 7-6(4) 6-1 in the first round of the Stanford Classic.

2008 Wimbledon Anne Keothavong first round - 0

The 24-year-old had to qualify for the event but has now set up a second round clash with sixth seed and former Wimbledon finalist Marion Bartoli in the next round.

It was a disappointing result for Mirza though who reached the final of this event last season.

Seventh seed Nadia Petrova was also knocked out, beaten 6-4 3-6 6-3 by Slovak youngster Dominika Cibulkova, but fifth seed Patty Schnyder cruised past Amber Liu 6-1 6-1.

The Swiss made quick work of Liu, eliminating the 328th-ranked player in just 44 minutes.

The 29-year-old Schnyder, currently the world number 13, was coming off a disappointing opening-round loss to Casey Dellacqua at Wimbledon.

Schnyder is seeking better results at this tournament, where she was runner-up two years ago. In five prior performances here, she is 8-5, including a semi-final appearance in 2005 and a quarter-final effort in 2007.

Wimbledon finalist Serena Williams is the tournament's top seed followed by Stanford defending champion Anna Chakvetadze of Russia

Seán Fay & / AFP

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  1. Let's ignore the racist baffoon and instead concetrate on the fact that Anne is in great form and leading a revival of British Women's tennis. There's a way to go yet but this is more good news. It's not that long ago that Anne's stated aim was to break into the top 100. She's now 82 in the world and will no doubt climb higher after this tournament. Go girl.

    From Bobito, on Wed 16 Jul 7:21PM
  2. Anne Keothavong was born in Hackney, East London, and grew up in North East London. She speaks English as her native language. Which not only makes her British, but pretty much as English as it gets. Unless, of course, you are racist, and you define Englishness by an ethnic criteria that no-one can pass any more [unless the racist is lying, and pretends to be descended from Boewolf].

    From Reda, on Wed 16 Jul 4:15PM
  3. Firstly, it says "British number one Anne Keothavong...", not English number one, making your point on even a basic level completely wrong.
    Secondly, Britain is a society in which a huge world wide cross-section of nationalities live; they settle here and have their children here, making them just as British as even the most racist white person who lives in Britain. The fact that you feel the need to pass comment on Anne's colour I believe demonstrates you are of a narrow minded disposition, which, whether intentionally or not renders you racist.
    After reading this Gonzalo C, I hope you will from this point on think what you are saying, so racist undertones within your comments cannot be identified, as they will almost certainly offend many people.

    From Ben O, on Wed 16 Jul 3:24PM
  4. Racist @#$%

    From tontonsky, on Wed 16 Jul 1:31PM
  5. she looks very english

    From Gonzalo C, on Wed 16 Jul 8:21AM
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