Francesca Schiavone born in the year 1980 became a professional only in the year 1988. She was born in Italy and is an Italian professional player. Francesca Shiavone won the 2012 FRENCH Open singles title and this win made her the first Italian women to win a Grand slam event in singles. Next in the 2011 French Open she was a runner up. As on 2012, 16th of April Francesca Shiavone is ranked world number 12.
Francesca started her 2011 journey with the Hopman Cup but then retired with an injury against Kristina. Francesca was seeded 5th in the 2011 Australian Open and she advanced to the quarter finals for the first time in her career. At the 2011 Dubai Championship, she was seeded third but unfortunately she lost against Kuznetsova in the 16th round. Going ahead to the 2011 Qatar Ladies Open Francesca Schiavone lost against Peng Shuai again in the 16t round. Francesca Shiavone also participated in the 2011 Malaysian Open, 2011 Grand Prix, 2011 Mutua Madrid Open and other but failed to become a champion or completely win any of these tournaments. In the US Open, Francesca lost in the fourth round while in the China Open Francesca won in the first round but again lost in the second round.
Starting the year 2012, the season started at the Brisbane International where Francesca Shiavone reached the semi finals. She eventually lost to championship Kaia Kanepi . Francesca also struggled while playing the Fed Cup losing to Lesia. Francesca continued to play the mini cup IN BOTH Doha and Dubai losing in both of them in the seventh seed. As much as she tried the clay courts were just not built for Francesca Shiavone because she came close in many tournaments but could not win any.
Lucie Safarova and Petra Kvitova led their nation, the Czech Republic, to a 2-0 lead over Italy in their Federation cup semi final tie.
Safarova was able to get the better of her opponent in the ties first match beating Schiavone two sets to love. However the Italian did put up a fight with the first set being forced to a tie breaker which Safarova was able to win. Kvitova then tightened her Nations grip on the tie by also downing her opponent Sara Errani, two sets to nothing.
The Italian team, which has showed strong form throughout the season, now has an uphill battle in order to stay in the tournament.
The Czech team now only needs one more win to clinch the tie and make an Italian fight back impossible. The players will now swap opponents and play in the reverse singles with a win in either securing the tie for the Czech Republic. If however the Italians do pull off an upset and win both matches then the tie will come down to the doubles match.
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On Tuesday, Ana Ivanovic, former World No. 1 in women’s ranking, grilled Francesca Schiavone to seal a berth in the round 2 of the Dubai Duty Free Championships. Ivanovic kept her unbeaten run against the Italian tennis player in their 4th match with a straight win 6 – 1, 7 – 5. She took just 1 hour and 41 minutes to beat the 7th seed player.
The Serbian tennis sensation started the match in a classic manner; winning the first 5 games of the first set including two breaks which left Schiavone at a complete loss or words. Schaivone managed to hold just 1 game before having her confidence squeezed again, and losing the first set in record time.
Nothing was going the Italian’s way and she appeared frustrated at her game play. She was nowhere near her brilliant form and her shots were wayward a lot of the time; eveny her favourite forehand winners were failing to find the target.
Francesca Schiavone steadied herself in the break between sets and returned as an improved player; managing to hold on to her serve in the first few games to hold the scores level at 2 – 2. A switch of breaks saw the score tick over to 3 – 3 and with no further drama scores advanced to 4 – 4.
Both of them broke each other three times in succession before Ana Ivanovic managed to hold on to her serve at take the set 7 – 5.
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April 30, 2012 9:04 am | 
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