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Peer sweeps into Hobart second round

Mon, 01/11/2010 - 22:45 by Inderjit Singh

Hobart -- Israeli Shahar Peer needed just more than an hour Monday to advance out of the first round of the $220,000 Moorilla Hobart International in Australia.

Peer, the tournament's No. 2 seed, piled up five service breaks in a 6-3, 6-2 win over Olivia Rogowska in 69 minutes. Peer won more points on Rogowska's serve (31-24) than the Australian player managed.

All four seeded players on Monday's card in Hobart won, including fifth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro's 6-1, 6-2 dismantling of Yaroslava Shvedova in 53 minutes. Also, No. 7-seeded Jie Zheng beat Kaia Kanepi 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4); and eighth-seeded Gisela Dulko stopped Melina Czink 6-4, 6-2.

Peer sweeps in Hobart second round

Mon, 01/11/2010 - 21:02 by Inderjit Singh

Hobart -- Israeli Shahar Peer needed just more than an hour Monday to advance out of the first round of the $220,000 Moorilla Hobart International in Australia.

Peer, the tournament's No. 2 seed, piled up five service breaks in a 6-3, 6-2 win over Olivia Rogowska in 69 minutes. Peer won more points on Rogowska's serve (31-24) than the Australian player managed.

All four seeded players on Monday's card in Hobart won, including fifth-seeded Carla Suarez Navarro's 6-1, 6-2 dismantling of Yaroslava Shvedova in 53 minutes. Also, No. 7-seeded Jie Zheng beat Kaia Kanepi 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-4); and eighth-seeded Gisela Dulko stopped Melina Czink 6-4, 6-2.

Israel's Peer claims Tashkent championship

Mon, 09/28/2009 - 10:08 by Inderjit Singh

Tashkent -- Israel's Shahar Peer won her second straight WTA event Sunday, defeating Akgul Amanmuradova in the Tashkent Open in Uzbekistan.

Peer downed the Uzbekistan player 6-3, 6-4.

The win was the fifth on the tour for Peer, who also won in Guangzhou, China, last week.

"I've played 10 matches in row without dropping a set, and that's a nice feeling," Peer said.

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Peer rolls into Tashkent final

Sun, 09/27/2009 - 12:02 by Inderjit Singh

Tashkent -- Israel's Shahar Peer and Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova were semifinal winners Saturday at the Tashkent Open tennis tournament.

Peer, the second seed, won a tight match against fourth-seeded Olga Govortsova of Belarus 7-6 (7-5), 6-2, twice rallying from a break down in the first set.

She won last week's Guangzhou (China) Women's Open and has not lost a set at Taskent.

"I'm happy I'm playing better tennis after every match," Peer said. "I just want to keep going that way (Sunday)."

The unseeded Amanmuradova, a Tashkent native, was a surprise 6-4, 7-6 (7-3) winner over top-seeded Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan, sending a home crowd into euphoria.

Shahar Peer extends winning streak

Thu, 09/24/2009 - 21:23 by Inderjit Singh

Tashkent -- Shahar Peer ran her winning streak to seven matches with a second-round victory Thursday at the Tashkent Open tennis tournament in Uzbekistan.

Peer, who is coming off a tournament championship at Guangzhou, China, last week, qualified for the Tashkent quarterfinals with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Kathrin Woerle. The No. 2-seeded Peer piled up six service breaks in the win.

Fourth-seeded Olga Govortsova also advanced to Friday's quarterfinals with a straight-set win, knocking out Vesna Manasieva 6-2, 6-3. She dropped serve just once in the match.

Peer continues strong play at Tashkent

Wed, 09/23/2009 - 19:39 by Inderjit Singh

Tashkent -- Second-seeded Shahar Peer, coming off a tournament win last week, collected a first-round victory Wednesday at the Tashkent Open in Uzbekistan.

Peer won the WTA stop in Guangzhou, China, Sunday and continued her strong play with a 6-1, 6-2 romp over Maret Ani. The match took just 59 minutes as Peer fired eight aces at Ani and had to deal with just one break-point situation.

No. 4-seeded Olga Govortsova was a 6-3, 6-2 winner over Arina Rodionova in the tournament's final first-round match of the hard-court tournament.

The second round began with top-seeded Yaroslava Shvedova's 7-5, 6-2 win over Ekaterina Ivanova behind six service breaks.

UAE bars entry for Israeli tennis player

Sun, 02/15/2009 - 19:20 by Shruti Sharma

Dubai, United Arab Emirates -- Women's tennis officials say they're "deeply disappointed" over the United Arab Emirates' decision to bar an Israeli player from the country.

UAE officials refused to grant a visa to Shahar Peer, who was seeking to compete in the Sony Ericsson World Tennis Association Tour's stop in Dubai, which began Sunday, CNN reported.

"We are deeply disappointed by the decision of the United Arab Emirates denying Shahar Peer a visa that would permit her to enter the country to play in the Dubai Tennis Championships," said Larry Scott, chairman and chief executive of the tour. "Ms. Peer has earned the right to play in the tournament and it is regrettable that the UAE is denying her this right."
Had she been allowed in, Peer would have been the first Israeli athlete to participate in a professional sporting event in the UAE, CNN reported.