Wrapping up the week

Another tournament week has just passed and the WTA tournaments in Montreal and Stockholm saw new winners, one of them also a first time WTA-Event winner.

Dinara Safina finished her campaign. I saw her match against Schnyder, she looked rock solid in all her movements. She's got the timing, she always had the shots. Now she has the patience and reduced unforced errors, I would bet a lot on her winning that hard court swing US Open series and eventually do well at the US Open itself. But that's another story on another piece of paper.
Her toughest match came in the quarters against Sveta, but Dinara survived. She also overcame a second set collaps in her semifinal against Victoria Azarenka. Finally, unseed Dominika Cibulkova appeared to be overwhelmed by playing her first Tier I final and after taking out Dementieva, Petrova, Jankovic and Bartoli, she must've been all pleased. Engine off...
Congratulations to Dinara for this victory, she's making her way up in the circle of the top players this season.

The blonde Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark secured her first WTA tour title ever at the Tier IV Event in Stockholm. Having had to play both the semifinal and final today, the danish teenagers didn't falter long and wiped away defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska in the semis and then whitewashed unseed Vera Dushevina from Russia in the final 6:0 6:2. She didn't drop a set throughout the whole tournament and will be one of the future players to watch if she continues to improve like she does.

On the ITF curcuit german Anna-Lena Grönefeld continued her comeback run with just another ITF-Title run, this time at the 75.000 $ event in Rimini/Italy. She outlasted no other than Spaniard Lourdes Domingues-Lino in the final easily with 6:1 6:2. Grönefeld didn't drop a set throughout the tournament and will move up in the rankings again. Since her return to professional tennis in May this year she has now won five ITF-Titles. I doubted it before, but it looks as if we will be seeing more of her in the future.

Austrian Patricia Mayr won the other ITF tournament this week in the Ukraine also in fine fashion without dropping a set. She is currently ranked 170 in the world but will move higher due to that victory.