Black Tennis Pros

The doubles team of American Mashona Washington and Canadian Sharon Fichman were defeated in the quarterfinal round of the Abierto Mexicano TELCEL by the Czech Republic's team of Vladimira Uhlirova and Renata Voracova 7-5, 6-1.

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ACAPULCO, Mexico, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Venus Williams had to stage a major rally Thursday to down unheralded Spaniard Laura Pous Tio and post a quarterfinal win at the Mexican Open.

Williams, the defending Acapulco champion, was trailing 5-1 in the final set after losing the first frame to Pous Tio 4-6 and taking the second set 6-3. But she broke her opponent's serve three times before finally finishing the match on serve by holding at love and winning it 7-5.

With the win, Williams will go on to face Romanian Edina Gallovits in the semifinals. Gallovits gained the spot by dispatching Canadian Sharon Fichman 7-5, 6-2 on the clay courts.

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It's 1:15 in the morning. I tried laying down but I guess I don't like going to bed!

I had a pretty late match today. Afterwards I did press and then all my routines to get the body up and running again, and now I'm eating more. Today it was chicken and rice. No pasta... there's a limit of how much I can torture myself.

I was much more productive today - I didn't watch much TV. I was working on some marketing for V Starr Interiors (my interior design company). I have a charity event tomorrow for Make A Wish. I won't be there but I'm excited about that. I also need to be working on some designs... I've had a lot of problems: I'm taking a class but I've been extremely unsuccessful in opening my books this year. I really need to get rid of my TV programs! I always have to multitask because I get bored if I don't. Even when I'm watching Smallville, I have to be doing something at the same time. It makes me happy.

You may have seen my Facebook or Twitter pages by now. When I was younger, I wasn't very cool and didn't really have any friends. I always thought Facebook was where you could connect with people you used to know, and all I ever did was read a lot of books, so I figured it wasn't for me. I was a nerd. But recently I found out someone started a Facebook fan page for me and so I took it over. And I really like it, it's fun. Everyone likes Twitter and Facebook. I don't have any childhood friends on there though... it took me 25 years to get cooler.

Tomorrow I play an opponent I haven't played before, so I'm looking forward to that. Also, my mom is coming here hopefully, as I mentioned she has been threatening to come. I got her some earrings in Dubai but I like them so much I'm wearing them now! I can rationalize it. She always loses an earring. One always comes out of her ear, and she'll come around asking, 'Did you see my earring? It fell out!' She's always wearing just one.

Have a good night... talk to you tomorrow!

Venus

P.S. I've attached a picture of me and my sister, Isha :)

What is Harold up to? Jake
He's very happy. The little guy's growing up but he'll always be my little son. I miss him. Special little guy. I picked a really good one... I don't know how but I did! He has a habit of stealing my pillow. Every time I come back he has stolen it, so naturally I just move over and take another one. He's back in Florida right now. I can't wait to get back and see him stealing those pillows.

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Along with Canadian teammate Sharon Fichman, American Mashona Washington won the doubles title at the $50,000 Goldwater Classic in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday after defeating the doubles team of Canadian Marie-Eve Pelletier and Georgian Anna Tatishvili 4-6, 6-4, [10/8].

Congrats Mashona!!!

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At the $50,000 2009 Goldwater Classic in Phoenix, Arizona, American Mashona Washington and teammate Sharon Fichman of Canada, reached the doubles final with a 6-4, 7-5 win over number three seeds Americans Kimberly Couts and Lindsay Lee-Waters. The two will play Canada's Marie-Eve Pelletier and Georgia's Anna Tatishvili.

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Americans Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears won their first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour team title at the Estoril Open on Saturday, when the third-seeded Americans beat Sharon Fichman of Canada and Hungarian Katalin Marosi 2-6, 6-3, 10-5 (Match TB) in 74 minutes.

Kops-Jones and Spears, who has previously made a run to the quarter-final in Miami (l. to Peschke-Raymond) this year, won just eight points on return of serve in the first set but managed to turn around their 13th match of the season.

In the Match Tie-break, Kops-Jones and Spears won three points against serve to open up an 8-4 lead which they coolly converted into their eighth win of the year.

The American duo had fought back from a one-set and 5-0 deficit in Friday’s semi-finals against Julie Coin and Marie-Eve Pelletier for a 3-6, 7-5, 10-3 (Match TB) win.

For Kops-Jones it was her second Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title after partnering Christina Fusano in Quebec City (d. Dubois-Varacova) in November 2007.

Spears has now four tour-level trophies, including 2003 Auckland (w/Ashley), 2004 Vancouver (w/Mattek), 2005 Cincinnati (w/Granville). She also finished runner-up at 2005 Memphis (w/Granville).

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SINGLES

Round 1

Alexandra Stevenson, USA defeated Anna Gerasimou, GRE
6-3, 3-6, 6-4

Asia Muhammed, USA defeated by Sharon Fichman, CAN
6-2, 6-7(7), 4-6


Round 2

Alexandra Stevenson, USA defeated by Yuliana Fedak, UKR
3-6, 1-6


DOUBLES

Round 1

Asia Muhammed, USA and Nicole Gibbs, USA
defeated
Kimberly Couts, USA and Sharon Fichman, CAN
1-6, 6-3, [10-5]


Quarterfinal Round

Asia Muhammed, USA and Nicole Gibbs, USA
defeated
Liga Dekmeijere, LAT and Christina Fusano, USA
2-6, 7-6(6) [10-7]


Semifinal Round

Asia Muhammed, USA and Nicole Gibbs, USA
defeated by
Danielle Harmsen, NED and Kim Kilsdonk, NED
1-6, 0-6


SINGLES

Round 1

Todd Paul, USA defeated by Jesse Witten, USA
4-6, 3-6

Jarmere Jenkins, USA defeated by Artur Chernov, RUS
4-6, 5-7


DOUBLES

Round 1

Jarmere Jenkins and Ty Trombetta, USA
defeated by
Luis Diaz Barriga, MEX and Antonio Ruiz-Rosales, MEX
6-0, 2-6 [6-10]

Todd Paul, USA and Brett Ross, USA
defeated
Ryler Deheart, USA and Ashwin Kumar, USA
4-6, 7-6(3) [10-5]


Quarterfinal Round

Todd Paul, USA and Brett Ross, USA
defeated by
Gastao Elias, POR and Sam Groth, AUS
6-4, 6-4

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