Zvonareva Win at WTA Championships

14 Thursday 28th October, 2010 Hernandez earns Man United League Wozniacki, Cup progress BY STUART CONDIE from the right side of the area, sending the ball loop- LONDON (AP) - Javier ing over goalkeeper Wayne Hernandez scored his third Hennessey. Zvonareva win Foley headed the ball out goal in three days Tuesday to give Manchester United a 3-2 from almost underneath the win over Wolverhampton bar, but the referee awarded Wanderers and continue his the goal after a linesman told club’s attempt to win a third him - correctly according to at WTA straight League Cup title. replays - that it had crossed Wolves twice equallized the line. with their first goals at Old The 20-year-old Bebe was Trafford since February 1980 playing in the Portuguese but Hernandez, on as a substi- third division last year. He tute, dummied a defender and was unknown outside Championships Portugal before United made lifted the ball over the goal- keeper for a 90th-minute win- a surprise move following BY MICHAEL CASEY always tough to start a new tour- nament. Against Elena, I knew we ner and a place in the quarter- recommendations from a have had so many tough matches finals. club scout and former assis- DOHA, Qatar (AP) — in the past. It’s nice to get this Bebe and Park Ji-sung tant manager Carlos Caroline Wozniacki swept aside one.” scored the other goals for Queiroz. Elena Dementieva 6-1, 6-1 in the Wozniacki needs to win two of United. Elokobi headed in from a group stage of the WTA her matches in the Maroon Group Birmingham also advanced corner four minutes later Championships on Tuesday, put- to fend off a challenge for her top from the fourth round but the and, after Park scored with a ting her one win away from ensur- ranking from No. 2 Vera Premier League club needed shot into the top corner, ing she will remain the world’s Zvonareva of Russia. an injury-time equalizer Foley collected a back-heeled top-ranked player for 2010. The eight-player tournament before beating third-tier pass from Steven Fletcher Wozniacki of Denmark raced features the world’s top perform- struggler Brentford 4-3 in a and hit a shot under Amos to out to a 3-0 lead in the first set on ers in 2010, although the Williams penalty shootout. make it, 2-2 with 14 minutes her way to thrashing Dementieva sisters are absent due to injury. Ipswich beat Northampton left. who often had no answer for The top two players from the two 3-1, Wigan beat Swansea 2-0 Hernandez then made his Wozniacki’s strong serves and groups will advance to the semi- and West Bromwich Albion dramatic late entrance. well-placed groundstrokes. finals. won 4-1 at Leicester. “We tend to build up “Very nice start, definitely. I’m The humid and hot conditions United manager Alex heroes very quickly here, but very happy to be through this first appeared to influence the outcome Ferguson fielded a second- the boy’s justifying the match,” said Wozniacki, who had of several matches. Temperatures string line-up including goal- praise at the moment,” a 4-3 record against Dementieva had cooled by the evening from a keeper Ben Amos, winger Ferguson said. “He’s such a coming into the tournament. “It’s high of 84 degrees, but players Gabriel Obertan and great professional, the kid.” Portuguese forward Bebe, Brentford was within sec- Russia’s Vera Zvonareva returns the ball to Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic who started a match for the onds of beating its topflight during 1st day of Qatar WTA Tennis Chmpionships in Doha, first time since joining the opponent but ended up going Qatar,Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) club in August. out when Birmingham goal- But equalizers by George keeper Maik Taylor saved the complained about the conditions. was coming up with great shots Elokobi and Kevin Foley 10th kick of the shootout Zvonareva earlier beat a strug- afterwards,” she said. “It feels forced Ferguson to introduce from Craig Woodman. gling Jelena Jankovic 6-3, 6-0 in amazing to win my first match of Hernandez, who scored twice Brentford took the lead in the opening match of the White the championships.” in the Premier League on the 68th minute, Charlie Group. Jankovic said later she She said the difference in the Sunday for a 2-1 win at Stoke, MacDonald heading the ball became ill during the match, suf- two sets was that she was “man- as an 81st-minute substitute. to Sam Wood for the midfield- fering tingling and dizziness. aged to go for my shots and make “He’s got a great attitude er to score with a low left-foot She told organizers she was too more shorts without unforced to the game and he wants to shot from about 12 metres ill to attend a post-match news errors.” learn,” United defender Wes (yards). It led until the sec- conference, but would continue in “In the second set, I found my Brown said. “He tries his ond minute of injury time, the tournament. rhythm and was playing more hardest and he deserved his when former England striker “I am still suffering from an ill- aggressive and going for my shots goal at the end.” Kevin Phillips collected a ness that affected me last week and making those,” she said. “I Bebe put United ahead in pass by Liam Ridgewell and and I had medical treatment after will just have to improve my con- the 56th minute with an equallized from close range the match today when I received sistency, maybe little bit better apparent attempt to cross to make it, 1-1. an IV,”she said in a statement. “I serve and return.” had difficulty in breathing during Also, Samantha Stosur of the match, felt dizzy and tingling Australia staged a big comeback and felt like I didn’t have any from 4-0 down in the first set power. I finished the match but I against Francesca Schiavone of had a really hard time.” Italy to win 6-4, 6-4 in the Maroon Dementieva also blamed the Group. weather for her poor showing, Using her powerful forehand, saying the combination of heat the seventh-ranked Stosur was and humidity was “killing you” able overcome seven aces from the and was the reason she was sixth-ranked Schiavone and her “going for the wrong shots all the own inconsistent service game. time.” Schiavone could be seen getting The loss for Jankovic, who held a pep talk from her coach after the No. 1 spot in 2008, continues a her struggles in the first set. It run of poor form. She has seemed to work as she took a 4-3 dropped to eighth in the world lead in the second set with an ace. and was beaten at this month’s But Stosur stormed back to tie the Kremlin Cup by No. 248 Zarina set at 4-4 with a forehand winner, Diyas. She has struggled for much pumping her fist as the crowd of the year with injuries—includ- cheered. ing ankle, back and, more recent- The fifth game went back and ly, sinus problems. forth until Schiavone’s weak Zvonareva, meanwhile, has returned was crushed by Stosur risen to No. 2 in the rankings this to give her a 5-4 lead on her way to year after reaching the finals of the victory. Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. Stosur said the key to the Zvonareva started slowly, but match was her being able to break was able to take advantage of sev- Schiavone at 4-0 in the first set. eral double faults and unforced “I think that helped kind of errors by her Serbian opponent to lead 4-2 and 5-3 in the first set. The change the momentum a bit,” she Russian closed out the set when said. “Then I held, and then when Jankovic double-faulted. you start getting a few games Zvonareva said she didn’t play back, you never know how your her best tennis and made too opponent’s feeling,” she said. “They probably think they should many unforced errors. But she Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez, right, celebrates with stepped up her game in the second have won the set. So it was just a Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki throws a kiss after she beat Russia’s set and was satisfied to come away matter of playing point by point. teammate Wes Brown after scoring the winning goal in his Elena Dementieva in the 1st day of Qatar WTA Tennis Chmpionships with the victory. Then you kind of get into it and team’s 3-2 win against Wolverhampton Wonderers during in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. “Overall, I played really well. things start flowing a little bit their English League Cup soccer match at Old Trafford (AP Photo / Kamran Jebreili) Even if I had unforced errors, I more.” Stadium, Manchester, England, Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

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