Tag: Knapp

Serena Williams defeats Karin Knapp, 6-0, 6-2, in the third round of Cincinnati

Too much Serena Williams  for Karin Knapp. The world no.1 was in no mood to concede anything to the Italian to win 6-0 6-2 in just 54 minutes. Serena: I just wanted to have fun The American commented "More than anything I was just trying to stay...

Sam Stosur grabs her 8th career title (the 2nd of a good season) after winning a very tough final against Karin Knapp. Karin had a quite busy day after defeating seed no.1 Sara Errani in a rain-postponed semifinal 7-6 (4) 4-6 7-5 in 2 hours...

Karin Knapp wins the “Italian challenge” against her compatriot and friend Roberta Vinci. The crucial part of the match was the first set as Roberta squandered a 5-2 lead and she wasn’t even able to convert 2 sets points when she was leading 5-3. Eventually...

Even if the Nurnberg tournament had 3 Germans as the top 3 seeds, we will have 2 Italians to play for the title. Roberta Vinci and Karin Knapp will play to win the first title of their season. Roberta had a free pass to take...

Finally Genie Bouchard can win her maiden title. Seed no.2 in Nurnberg Genie reached the final without losing a single set. The match against Karin Knapp was rather smooth for Genie that broke the Italian 3 times without conceding a single break. The match ended...

Ana Ivanovic starts her campaign in Rome in style. The world no. 13 has just conceded 2 games to Karin Knapp in less than 1 hour. Both sets had just the same sequence with the Italian winning just the first game to then lose the...

That wasn’t a walk in the park.. not at all! World no.3 Maria Sharapova had a really tough time to defeat Karin Knapp in Melbourne. Maria raced in the first set to win the opener 6-3… then things got difficult! The Italian fought back to win...

On the top half of the draw in Luxembourg we have the best possible semifinal as the seed no.1 (Caroline Wozniacki) and no.3 (Sabine Lisicki) will clash for a place in the final. Caroline Wozniacki had a difficult match against Bojana Jovanovsky to win only...