Anna Tatishvili 21-Georgian top seed has reached pick of her career and it might be she to get place in elite. Georgian top seed celebrated the fourth victory at Family Cercle Cup the most prestige international tournament which is underway in Charlestone, America (prize money 721 000 $). As a result she gained 60 point and guaranteed to get in top 100 of Women’s Tennis Association (WTA).
Anna beat Venezuelan Gabriela Paz (the 479th) and Ukrainian Tetiana Luzhanska (the 194th) in the qualifying draw. Yesterday, she won over Jelena Dokic (7:5, 2:6, 6:4) who was world No.4 tennis player and now she is in the 64th place.
The match of Georgian and Australian (born in Croatia) tennis players lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes. It turned out very dramatic.
After Dokic Tatishvili managed to beat Kirilenko of Rusia – 5:7, 7:5, 6:3. Kirilenko is No.28 seed and was considered as favorite, but in spite of this Tatishvili managed to beat her. The match between them lasted for three hours.
As a result Tatishvili gained 60 rating points and 7850 $. Anna ha 668 ponts and supposedly she will be in top 100 in renovated rating of WTA. Virginia Rossano No.100 seed owns 658 points.
In 1/8 final Georgian tennis player play against Belgium Yanina Vikmayer No.6 seed, she is on the 23rd place with 2300 points. 21-year-old Belgium player was No.12 top seed, she started competition from the second round at Charlestone tournament and beat Chinese Zhi Zheng 6:4, 6:0.
Tatishvili plays against Vikmayer the second time in her career. In 2008 Tatishvili played against her at Indian Harbour Beach, Florida and lost – 2:6, 0:6. As for Vikmayer she won this championship. In case of taking revenge and going through quarter-final Tatishvili will gain 120 points and her next rival will be top seed of the world Caroline Wozniaci, who plays against No.15 seed Czech Barbora Zaflavova.
Dato Manjavidze
