Tennis: Samantha Stosur
Samantha Stosur, the Australian tennis
player crushed the Russian Vera Zvonareva during the first round of the
Medibank International.
The Medibank International is a professional
tennis tournament that takes place in Sydney, Australia. It has been held
since 1935 and is known as the fifth oldest tennis tournament in the world.
The tournament includes both men's singles & doubles and women's singles
& doubles events.
Samantha Stosur who is just 22 years
old, started playing professional tennis in 1999 on the ITF circuit. In
2001 she won four straight ITF titles: three in Japan and the other one
in Australia.
In 2004 she reached the semi-final
of the Gold Coast event, after she beat up Meghann Shaughnessy, Karolina
Šprem and Magui Serna, before being defeated by Ai Sugiyama, who would
win the tournament.
In 2005 Samantha finished the year
ranked #96 in singles and #2 in doubles.
In 2006 she represented Australia
along with Todd Reid at the Hopman Cup and won all her singles matches.
Then she lost in the first round of Sydney to Nicole Vaidišová in
three sets.
During the match Stosur was wearing
a heavy bandaging on her left wrist preventing any injury. The Australian
accounted for Zvonareva in straight sets 6-1, 6-4.
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