Davenport Successfully Defends at Amelia Island


Posted on April 11, 2005

World No. 1 Lindsay Davenport successfully defended her Amelia Island title Sunday, putting down a strong challenge from No. 12-seeded Italian Silvia Farina Elia 7-5, 7-5.

"I really felt I was being forced into all sorts of errors," Davenport said. "She would get balls back, and then when she would be on the offensive. She was mixing it up well with hard shots and drop shots and angles. I felt like she was the reason I didn't play my best."



Davenport joined Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Steffi Graf and Gabriela Sabatini as the only three-time winners at Amelia Island.

"This is a huge win," Davenport said. "Whenever I can win on clay against a really tough tournament, it gives me a lot of excitement."

Davenport has now appeared in 83 singles finals, winning 47 titles over 13 years. The American says this will be her farewell year on tour.

Farina Elia benefited from Serena Williams suffering a twisted ankle in their quarterfinal match.

"I really fought hard today," Farina Elia said. "I played really my best game. I did what I could today. I think Lindsay came up with unbelievable points in a very important game. All the time I had break points she came up with a serve, an ace."

The Italian is now 3-10 in career singles finals.

In the doubles final the Australian team of Bryanne Stewart and Samantha Stosur won their second title as a team this year, defeating Kveta Peschke and Patty Schnyder 6-4, 6-2.

"I don't know if we really let them play the way they wanted to play today," Stosur said. "They weren't really moving that much on the net. We rallied quite well from the baseline."

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2 Rafael Nadal2 Petra Kvitova
3 Roger Federer3 Maria Sharapova
4 Andy Murray4 Caroline Wozniacki
5 David Ferrer5 Samantha Stosur
6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga6 Agnieszka Radwanska
7 Tomas Berdych7 Marion Bartoli
8 Mardy Fish8 Vera Zvonareva
9 Janko Tipsarevic9 Na Li
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