Safina to face giant-killer Cibulkova at Rogers Cup final
LOGINREGISTERHELP
YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN
TV SCHEDULE: PROGRAM NOTE | TSN | TSN ALTERNATE FEED | tgf face cream ESPN CLASSIC | NHL NETWORK
NHL
NBA
MLB
CFL
NFL
Curling
Tennis
Golf
Soccer
NASCAR
Nationwide
Craftsman
Formula One
IndyCar
Auto Racing+
Olympics
AHL
Boxing
CHL
CIS
ECHL
Figure Skating
Horse Racing
Lacrosse
MMA
NCAA
Skiing
Summer Sports
Winter Sports
Yachting
Xbox
More+
Hockey Canada
Fantasy
Daily Line
Shows
Blogs
TSN Talent
Main
Schedule
Results
Race
Rankings
Money
Winners
ATP+
Schedule
Results
Race
Rankings
Money
Winners
WTP+
Tennis on TSN
Safina to face giant-killer Cibulkova at Rogers Cup final
The Canadian Press
8/2/2008 11:17:43 PM
Text Size
MONTREAL - Probably the hottest player on the WTA tour right now will meet the biggest giant-killer of
washing face picture
the Rogers Cup in the final of the US$1.34-million tournament.
Seventh seed Dinara Safina defeated 11th seed Victoria Azarenka 6-0, photoshop cs2 face tuoch up 2-6, 6-3 face fuck hardcore on Saturday to earn a date in the Rogers Cup final with unseeded Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova.
Cibulkova, 19, continued her romp through the men s face care seeded players with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory over 10th seed Marion Bartoli of France.
Though the upstart Slovakian has made a habit this week of upsets, Safina feels her game is so strong right now she doesn't need to worry about who's on the other garden stone face planters side of the net.
''She's a very tough opponent, she proved that this week,'' Safina said. ''She beat some very good players. pee on her face But it's another match. I just want to focus on myself, playing my game, being aggressive and let's see who's going to be stronger Sunday.''
Cibulkova - the world's 31st ranked player - has beaten fifth seed Elena Dementieva, 12th seed Nadia Petrova, second seed Jelena Jankovic and now Bartoli to definition of face off reach her second career WTA tour final, but her first at a Tier I event.
''Winning my first title is still very far yet,'' Cibulkova said. ''It's still one match. I'm so excited about this, about my game and that I'm in
north face lifty
the final of a Tier I for the first time. I south american face lift procedures will try to play my best (Sunday).''
Cibulkova's appearance in the final assures she will best dry face moisturizer men be in the top 20 when the next rankings come out Monday, which is a long way from her No. 156 ranking at the end of 2006.
''I feel like I belong in the top 20 and maybe I can face qigong still be better,'' Cibulkova said. ''I'm really happy to be there because my goal for this year was to start in the top 50, and now I will get to the top 20. For me it's like a dream.''
Safina continued her torrid play of late, improving her record since May 11 to 27-3 and following up her victory in Los Angeles last week with an appearance in the final here.
''She's been playing amazing since the clay court season,'' Azarenko said. ''She's playing sun face art like the number one player in the world.''
Safina said she's not ready to start shooting for that top spot.
''It's still so far away,'' she said. ''If I would be, like, top five, I yellow face would have maybe 200 points between us. But it's still a big difference in cum on your face the points. At the moment I'm watch saving face not focusing on that because it's still really far away. If it will get closer, then I might think about it.''
Semifinal Saturday was plagued by face of rumatoid arthritis rain, as the afternoon semi pitting Cibulkova against north face aconcagua Bartoli was suspended three times for a total of issues catholics face four hours and 11 minutes.
Bartoli took the first set 6-4 before the first interruption, but the third time play was stopped the rain continued for three hours, small red dot on face 20 minutes face sitting sex stories with Cibulkova leading 2-1 in the second best hairstyle round face set.
''It really helped me that it started raining because I face painting examples was able to go in the locker-room and talk to north face nylon cargo pants my coach,'' Cibulkova said. ''It wasn't easy to talk to my coach because he was cat face seat cover really mad. Then I realized that if I start to play my free clip art smiley face game, to put more pressure on face description her, to step in the court, then I have a chance to play against her and to win this match.''
When play resumed just before 9 p.m., Cibulkova and Bartoli had their match moved over to a side court dual face watches while Safina and Azarenko played their semifinal on centre court.
Afterwards Bartoli was upset about having to make the move to a lesser court.
''Do you think it's fair to change a semifinal when you already played one set on it and it goes
blood spots face
to another court?'' Bartoli asked reporters. ''Exactly, that's not fair. We played on doll face designs machine embroidery Court 1. For me, that's not fair.''
At discounted north face down filled coats first, it appeared Safina would finish her match before Cibulkova, as she charged out clip art smiley face picking nose of the gate to take the first set 6-0 by relying on a booming first serve that she was connecting at 76 per cent. But in the second set, that percentage dropped to 43 per cent and Azarenko took advantage to take the set 6-2.
Again in the third set, Safina charged out to north face a 5-1 lead before Azarenko came back to make it 5-3 before Safina served out the clock face number words match, ending it with an ace.
This was the first time in the tournament Cibulkova was pushed to three sets as Bartoli won the final four smiley face seat covers games of the first set to win it 6-4, showing no evident side effects from the twisted ankle she suffered Friday evening.
Coming out of the second rain suspension, Bartoli broke Cibulkova to tie the set 2-2 and actually grey ferret face went ahead 4-3. But Cibulkova held serve and then broke Bartoli at love face fucks before serving out the set.
Cibulkova broke serve to open the third set then saved two crucial break point opportunities for Bartoli to go up 5-3. Cibulkova then broke moon face Bartoli's serve once face lifts more to close out the match.
In the only uninterrupted match of the day, the un-seeded doubles of team of Russian Maria Kirilenko and Italy's Flavia Pennetta upset the second-seeded tandem Austrian Rennae Stubbs and Kveta Peschke of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-0.
Kirilenko and Pennetta will face the top seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of the U.S. in Sunday's final. Black and Huber received a walkover when Russians Elena Vesnina and Vera Zvonareva pulled out because of a wrist injury to Zvonareva.
Dinara Safina (Photo: best self tanner for face The Canadian Press)
CLICK HERE FOR TENNIS TICKETS
PHOTO GALLERIES
Rogers Cup - Montreal: Watch the women battle it out in Montreal as the Rogers Cup unfolds in pictures. Launch Gallery
Rogers Cup - Toronto: Rafael Nadal wins his womans orange face watch fifth
