Andalucia Tennis Experience. 3-11 Abril 2010 / Marbella
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The second edition of Andalusia Tennis Experience has come to the end and to all staff who have worked to make this tournament a reality we thank all the support shown during this time and we invite you to repeat it in 2011. So, thanks for everything and see you next year!

 

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Apr 11, 2010

Once the second edition of Andalusia Tennis Experience comes to the end it is time to make a resume. For the second consecutive year, Conchita Martinez was in charge of the tournament every time more consolidated on the circuit. The former tennis from Aragon valued her experience on this adventure, which ends today.

After reaching ...

Apr 11, 2010

The doubles team formed by Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci clinched the victory in doubles at Andalucia Tennis Experience tournament. It was the first victory for Errani and Vinci as a team. They defeated Kondratieva - Shvedova team in two straight sets 6-4 6-2 in only 1 hour and few minutes.After the match Errani said: “I am very happy...

Apr 11, 2010

Italian Flavia Pennetta upsets Carla Suarez from Spain in over two hours final of Andalucia Tennis Experience tournament. Despite a great support of the public, the Canarian did not manage to win her first WTA title. Pennetta gave a fine performance in the first set, leading 5-1 and although Carla gained to get 5-2 in the scoreboard, Pennet...

Apr 11, 2010

La canaria Carla Suárez se ha hecho hoy con un puesto en la final del Andalucia Tennis Experience al imponerse a María José Martínez en un ajustado y largo encuentro que ha terminado con un marcador de 6-2, 3-6 y 2-6.Con este logro, Carla repetirá en una final que ya alcanzó el año pasado.Sin emba...

Apr 10, 2010
Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters, after her performance at Andalucia Tennis Experience tournament, spent her last hours in Spain enjoying a very relaxed afternoon with her family doing shopping in Puerto Banus.  The world number 10 together with her partner, daughter Jada and Belgian tennis player Kirsten Flipkens enjoyed a boat ride throug...
Apr 10, 2010

The second semifinal, which took place this afternoon on Centre Court of Puente Romano Tennis Club in Marbella, gave us the name of another finalist of Andalucia Tennis Experience tournament. Italian Flavia Pennetta will face Spanish Carla Suarez for the title at 12:00 noon.The Italian semifinals match has concluded with the victory of Flavia Pe...

Apr 10, 2010

Carla Suarez and Maria Jose Martinez have played one of the most attractive matches of the tournament has seen so far. Both players have met three times in their head to head with two wins for Carla and one for Maria José. The player from Murcia was definitely less tired than Carla after playing only four games against Azarenka, who had t...

Apr 10, 2010

The Andalucia Tennis Experience Centre Court will inaugurate the semifinal round of the tournament tomorrow. In the first match of this stage Carla Suarez will face Maria Jose Martinez; in the second one Flavia Pennetta will play Sara Errani. Suarez has won her ticket to the semifinal throughout an intense match against Malek from Germany. ...

Apr 9, 2010

Victoria Azarenka has suffered from left thigh injury while playing against Spanish Maria Jose Martinez on the centre court of Andalucia Tennis Experience.

When she was up 4-0, she suffered from a sudden pain, which made her suspend the match to receive a treatment from the tournament physiotherapist. After the massage given to the back pa...

Apr 9, 2010

Carla started the match very concentrated and won the first game to love, breaking her opponent’s service. Despite this demolishing start produced by the Spaniard, her opponent has straightened the situation, breaking her serve in return in the very next game. They kept the set tight until 4-3 result appeared on the screen and then Malek b...

Apr 9, 2010

Victoria Azarenka has turned up as the last quarterfinalist of the tournament after winning her match against Andalusian Estrella Cabeza in two straight sets 6-2 6-4.Although Cabeza received a strong support from the public, once again she did not manage to clinch the performance in her homeland with the victory.  

In the beginning of...

Apr 8, 2010

Taking advantage of her visit in Andalusia on the Costa del Sol and in Marbella, the Belgian tennis player, who not long after her come back from the maternity leave, reached Top 10 in the World Ranking after winning the Sony Ericsson Open Title in Miami; did not...

Apr 8, 2010

The Spanish Beatriz García Vidagany, number 258 of WTA ranking has defeated World Number 10, Kim Clijsters who was a great favorite to win the tournament trophy. This long and tight match ended after over two hours, giving the victory to the Spaniard (7-5, 4-6, 6-4).  

The Valencian player surprised Clijsters already in th...

Apr 8, 2010

Neither Anabel Medina nor Sorana Cirstea will be able to repeat their success from last year and play the semifinals round. The first one has lost to Sera Errani from Italy in straight sets (6-1, 7-6) in less than two hours of play. The match has started up the hill to Valencian player already during first few games...

Apr 8, 2010

Andalucia Tennis Experience player enjoyed the official dinner last night at Puente Romano Hotel in Marbella.

After desert, flamenco group entered the scene and some of the most animated players, such as Anabel Medina, got up and went to the dance floor.

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Apr 8, 2010

The Belgian Kim Clijsters upsets Alexandra Dulgueru from Romania, her opponent in the first round in three tight sets 6-4, 6-7, 6-2.

Clijsters, who played on clay first time in three years and after her recent victory at Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, started a little bit disorientated and was down after first few games.

She ...

Apr 7, 2010
Thursday order of play seems to be very interesting as, besides the high level of the matches, we will get to know the names of the 8 players who will go through to the quarterfinals of the Tennis Experience Andalucia tournament. The Spaniard Anabel Medina will face Sara Errani from Italy in the match, which is a repetition of the quarterfinal...
Apr 7, 2010

The Spanish Maria Jose Martinez is the first player who has gone through to the quarterfinal round after defeating Italian Alberta Brianti on Wednesday morning.

It took her just over an hour to clinch the victory in two straight sets 6-0. 6-2.

The Spaniards go through to the next round

Both of other two Spanish...

Apr 7, 2010

Both winners of recently finished Sony Ericsson Open tournament in Miami, Kim Clijsters and Flavia Pennetta (who won the Doubles Title together with Gisela Dulko), will make their first performance on the second day of the first round of Andalucia Tennis Experience tournament.

The Belgian, who will debut her recently obtained place in the ...

Apr 6, 2010

Victoria Azarenka made her first performance at the Andalucia Tennis Experience tournament clinching a victory over Austrian Yvonne Meusburger in two straight sets 6-3 6-0.

After the match, Azarenka seemed to be “happy” about the way she played, valuing her opponent very positively, saying “she is a very strong player&rdq...

Apr 6, 2010

The Canarian Carla Suarez has easily beaten Italian Roberta Vinci in the morning session of the second day of the tournament. The Spanish started a bit weak and was close to lose the first set, to then eventually clinch a victory 4-6 , 0-6.

Suarez has said after the match that “it was complicated” but she “played well fro...

Apr 6, 2010

The Andalusian player Estrella Cabeza, who entered the tournament with the Wild Card, has surprised this evening clinching her win over Petra Martic 1-6 7-6 6-2, overcoming a first set against, and even a match point.

Cabeza, who has gone through the first round of Main Draw, may face seed number one Victoria Azarenka later on this week.

Apr 5, 2010

Kim Clijsters has made her debut as World number 10 training at the Puente Romano Tennis Club in Marbella. She has also confirmed that her Wednesday performance in the Andalusia Tennis Experience tournament will be “the first one on clay in three years”. The last time she did it was at the tournament in Warsaw in 2007, where she anno...

Apr 5, 2010

The Belgian tennis player, who thanks to her victory at the Sony Ericsson Open tournament in Miami today officially becomes number 10 in the WTA ranking, has arrived in Malaga.  

On the flight from Brussels, Clijsters has arrived with her family and made her way to the Puente Romano Hotel, where she was received by Conchita Marti...

Apr 5, 2010

Alongside the Andalucia Tennis Experience Tournament, there was a special beach soccer event organized on the Puente Romano beach in Marbella, where we could enjoy the presence of various football players.

The ex players of Athletic Bilbao and Celta Vigo football clubs Julen Guerrero and the Russian Alexander Mostovoi, a current player of ...

Apr 4, 2010

Over a hundred kids from various Andalusian tennis clubs have shared the court with some of the participants of Andalucia Tennis Experience Tournament, such as Vivi Ruano and Anabel Medina and two Andalusian players Estrella Cabeza and Pilar Dominguez. 

Kids have been given some professional advices from the Spanish players during one...

Apr 4, 2010

Belgium Kim Clijsters, who will join Andalucia Tennis Experience´s main draw on Monday, just reached victory in the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami against North American Venus Williams. 

Thanks to this win she will arrive to the Puente Romano Tennis Club as a Top 10 player. 

T...

Apr 3, 2010

All Main Draw players of Andalucia Tennis Experience Tournament, except from Clijsters, Pennetta and Dulko, who are still participating in Miami, have arrived in Marbella to get ready for the tournament, which is starting on Monday the 5th of April.

Among the players who are hitting the ball at the Puente Romano Tennis Club, you can spot B...

Apr 3, 2010
The pairings of the first round of the Main Draw, which will commence this Monday, 5th of April on the courts of The Puente Romano Tennis Club, have already been released. Among them Maria Kirilenko will face Sorana Cirstea (2009 semifinalist), the Spaniard from the Canary Islands Carla Suarez will play Roberta Vinci from Italy and in the Span...
Saturday, April 3

We already know the preliminary tournament of the Andalucia Tennis Experience, which begins tomorrow, Saturday 3rd April at 10:00 hours in Puente Romano Tennis Club. Doors will open at 9:00 for spectators. 

The 32 players, which began their training today, will be competing for one of the 4 berths in the competition proper, which begi...

Apr 2, 2010

Tomorrow, Saturday April 3rd, it will be celebrated at 12:00 hours  the draw for competition with the presence of Mr. Manuel Jiménez Barrios, General Secretary for Sports for the Andalucian Junta; Conchita Martínez, Tournament´s Director, Laura Ceccarelli, WTA´s Supervisor and some main draw players....

Apr 2, 2010

All spectators that have purchased a ticket for the Andalucia Tennis Experience will also be able to enjoy legendary Spanish band Danza Invisible performing for free.  

Anybody who wants to enjoy the concert just has to present their tic...

Mar 31, 2010

A selection of the finest tennis players in the world will be taking part in the second edition of the Andalucía Tennis Experience, a tournament organised by the Junta de Andalusia’s Council of Tourism, Commerce and Sport and that will be played between April 3 and 11 at the Club de Tenis ...

Apr 1, 2010

There’s just a few days left before the start of the second edition of the Andalucía Tennis Experience, organized by the Tourism, Commerce and Sports Ministry of the Andalucía Regional Government.  The latest news is that top 10 women’s star Victoria Azarenka, from Belarus, has added her name to a lo...

Mar 30, 2010
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 The Puente Romano Tennis Club in Marbella is to host the second edition of the Andalucía Tennis Experience from 3rd to 11th April.  The tournament is organized by the Tourism, Commerce and Sports Ministry of the Andalucía Regional Government.  Once again, the Marbella Puente Romano Tennis Club has been chosen to hos...

Mar 17, 2010

There is less than a month to go before the start of the second edition of the Andalucía Tennis Experience, a tournament being organised by the Consejería de Turismo, Comercio y Deporte de la Junta de Andalucía and that will be held on the facilities of the Club de Tenis Puente Romano in Marbella from April 3 to 11. So, the ...

Mar 5, 2010

The broadcasting of the tournament, organised by the Consejería de Turismo, Comercio y Deporte at the Club Puente Romano in Marbella between 3rd and 11th April, is generating considerable media interest.

Andalucía will again be present all over the globe with the transmission of the second edition of the Andalucía Tenn...

Feb 19, 2010

Luciano Alonso presented the tournament today, which is included in the WTA Women’s World Tour and features the confirmed presence of Serena Williams

For the second consecutive year, the Council of Tourism, Commerce and Sport is sponsoring the ‘Andalucía Tennis Experience’, a tournament included in the WTA Tour wo...

Feb 3, 2010

This morning the main changes affecting the second edition of the tournament were announced at the International Tourism Fair FITUR 2010 being held at the moment in Madrid. The event was attended, among others, by the Councillor for Tourism, Commerce and Sport of the Junta de Andalucía, Luciano Alonso, the President of the Spanish Tennis ...

Jan 22, 2010

One of the principal new features of the second edition of the Andalucía Tennis Experience will be the event for wheelchair players – the Open de Tenis en Silla de Ruedas Andalucía Tennis Experience 2010, in the Master Nacional Femenino category. The tournament will bring together the eight top Spanish women’s wheelchai...

Jan 18, 2010