Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki Advance To 2012 New Haven Open At Yale; Kvitova Tops US Open Series

Petra Kvitova and US Open Series trophy (click to enlarge)

It was a good day for Petra Kvitova at the 2012 New Haven Open at Yale. She won her quartefinal match with Lucie Safarova 3 and 3 while also picking up her trophy as the winner of the 2012 US Open Series. The US Open Series is a series of hard court events over the summer leading into the US Open. This will allow Petra to pick up the highest bonus money offered from the US Open Series depending on how she finishes at the 2012 US Open. Should she win it, she would pick up a 1 million dollar bonus in addition to the winner’s 1.9 million dollar share. That would give her a record one-event prize money payout for a female athlete at 2.9 million dollars. The current record for a one-event prize money payout for women’s sports is 2.2 million dollars, twice done by Kim Clijsters in 2005 and 2010. But that’s the next tournament. For this event, I’d really like to see Caroline Wozniacki, who easily handled Dominika Cibulkova 2 and 1, win her next match and face Petra in the final. As for the US Open series, here are a few (but not all) of the winners from the women’s side of the US Open Series. The New Haven Open is also part of the US Open Series, but nobody can catch Petra Kvitova for first place or Li Na for second place.

2012 US Open Finish	2012 Olympus US Open Series Finish
2012 US Open Finish	1st Place		2nd Place		3rd Place
Champion	$1,000,000		$500,000		$250,000
Finalist	$500,000		$250,000		$125,000
Semifinalist	$250,000		$125,000		$62,500
Quarterfinalist	$125,000		$62,500		$31,250
Round of 16	$70,000		$35,000		$17,500
Round of 32	$40,000		$20,000		$10,000
Round of 64	$25,000		$12,500		$6,250
Round of 128	$15,000		$7,500		$3,750
Awardees	TBC	$TBC	TBC	$TBC	TBC	$TBC
Awardees	Petra Kvitová	$TBC	Li Na	$TBC	TBC	$TBC