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WTA Tour Classic Betting – New York

WTA TOUR CLASSIC BETTING – NEW YORK – 18th AUGUST

The Forest Hills Women’s Tennis Classic is a tennis tournament held at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, New York. Held since 2004, this WTA Tour event is a Tier IV tournament, played on outdoor hard courts. It is a preparation tournament for the last Grand Slam event of the year, the U.S. Open. The tournament is a fairly low-grade affair, involving just sixteen players. The 2008 event has only attracted three players ranked in the world’s top 50. Get a free £25 bet on Tennis when you open an account with Blue Square

Leading Contenders

Frenchwoman Pauline Parmentier (world-ranked 46) has received wildcards into French Open tournaments in singles since 2005 and in doubles since 2004. She reached the second round of the 2007 U.S. Open, as a qualifier, losing to Martina Hingis. She has won four ITF singles titles, and two ITF doubles titles. Parmentier won her first WTA Tour title in October 2007, at the Tashkent Open in Uzbekistan. Her second WTA win (and first Tier III) came in Austria in July 2008.

New Zealander Marina Erakovic (49) has 14 ITF titles to her name, 9 singles and 5 doubles, 2 of each coming in the 2008 season. She also won a WTA doubles title at the Dutch Ordina Open in June 2008.

Chinese Shuai Peng (50) beat former World no.1 and 5-time Grand Slam winner Martina Hingis in the 2007 China Open, winning 7-5, 6-1 in the final match if Hingis’ professional career. In January 2008, Peng beat no.1 seed Ana Ivanovic of Serbia 6-1, 6-3, in the semi-final of an exhibition tournament in Hong Kong. She also has 2 WTA doubles titles to her name, both gained on hard courts in China (September 2007) and India (March 2008).

Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro (55) reached the quarter-finals of the 2008 French Open. She has also won 6 ITF singles titles and 4 ITF doubles titles.

Czech Iveta Benesova (56) reached the third round of the 2008 French Open. She has also won a Tier III WTA title, though that was in Mexico in 2004. This season she has won an ITF singles title in Italy, and was runner-up in Estoril, as well as collecting ITF doubles titles in Colombia and Sweden.

Russian Ekaterina Makarova (57), though not yet achieving much main-draw success on the WTA Tour, has won one ITF $25,000 title and two $10,000 titles, reached the third round at two Grand Slams (2007 US Open and 2008 Australian Open), one $75,000 ITF semi-final, two $50,000 semi-finals, two $50,000 quarter-finals, three $25,000 finals, and three $25,000 semi-finals.

Swiss Timea Bacsinszky (60) has 6 ITF singles and 4 ITF doubles titles under her belt. She made an excellent start to 2008 by reaching the semi-final of the Tier II Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, winning three qualifying matches before beating third seed Daniela Hantuchova in a retirement. She then won the first set against world no. 1 Justine Henin, before losing the next two.

Russian Vera Dushevina (62) won the Wimbledon girls’ title in 2002, defeating Maria Sharapova in the final.
In 2005 she reached the fourth round of the Australian Open, along with her first WTA singles final at Eastbourne, finishing runner-up to former World No. 1 Kim Clijsters. It took two years to reach her second, losing in straight sets to Agnieszka Radwańska at the Nordea Nordic Light Open.

Compatriot Elena Vesnina (63) has never yet won a WTA singles title or progressed beyond the semi-final stage at WTA level. However, she reached the fourth round of one Grand Slam (2006 Australian Open) and the third round of two others (Wimbledon 2007 and the 2008 Australian Open), the fourth round of one Tier I WTA event (Miami, 2008) and the third round of another (Miami, 2006), the third round of two Tier II WTA events (Amelia Island, 2006 and again in 2008), five Tier III WTA quarter-finals, two Tier IV WTA semifinals (Forest Hills and Tashkent in 2007), three Tier IV WTA quarterfinals, three ITF $75,000 semifinals, and three ITF $50,000 quarter-finals, and has won one ITF $25,000 title and one ITF $10,000 title outright.

Swede Sofia Arvidsson (69) won a WTA title in Memphis in February 2006. She also has 14 ITF singles titles, the latest coming in May 2008 in Zagreb, Croatia, along with 9 ITF doubles titles.

Czech Petra Cetkovska (70) reached the fourth round of the 2008 French Open, before being whitewashed 6-0, 6-0 by Ana Ivanovic. Since turning professional in 2000, she has amassed 15 ITF singles titles and 16 ITF doubles titles. She also has one WTA doubles title, partnering compatriot Andrea Hlavackova to success in the 2007 Prague Open.

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