Errnieszka Pushwanska va Zvonareva today:
5 W/23 UE in 21 games...
Good win for Sharapova today... played crappy first set, but then turned around. This should lift her confidence even higher.
I am hoping for Masha - Vera final. Will root for Vera though
Ana tried very hard this year. She doesn't deserve this much vitriol and scorn.
If anything she should treat this as a confidence booster, after 2 bad years of injuries and she can get to this point against Kim, she knows she can make it with just a little bit more.
Yesterday's match was so thrilling. On the one hand I am gutted I didn't take my chances, but on the other, I'm happy to see that I can compete and come really close to beating the player I consider to be the best in the world right now. Sure, it will take a few days to get over, but there are many positives from this performance. It was a fun tournament for sure.
Only in the WTA can Serena not play for 9 months and in that time fall out and back in the top 10.
Serena not play for 9 months and in that time fall out and back in the top 10.
Only in the WTA can Serena not play for 9 months and in that time fall out and back in the top 10.
Someone please kill this thread
Ya that is a little surprising, even taking into account her being reigning Wimbledon champion and having QF points from the French I would have thought due to all the struggles she has had to keep her from the game that she would be solidly outside the top 10. But seeing as some of the other girls can only seem to do well in spurts save for Woz, Kim, Vera as has been said its not to surprising. After the French though she'll tumble down, and if she doesn't play Wimledon or should she play not do well...she'll free fall BIG time....
Haha! You're basically asking for the disbandment of WTASomeone please kill this thread
Serena will have 0 points after Wimbledon. But she'll get all the wild cards she wants, assuming she actually returns.
Only in the WTA can Serena not play for 9 months and in that time fall out and back in the top 10.
Venus Williams will travel to Germany with United States Fed Cup team, but is unlikely to play, a source told Tennis.com. Williams hasn’t played a match since injuring her right hip at the Australian Open.
On Tuesday, U.S. Captain Mary Joe Fernandez will officially announce the team that will face Germany in a Fed Cup playoff April 16-17 on indoor clay. Teenager Christina McHale has said that she has been asked to go to Germany but is unsure as to whether she will be asked to play. Bethanie Mattek-Sands, Liezel Huber and Melanie Oudin have been part of Fernandez’s core group over the past two years, but Oudin is in slump and doesn’t like to play on clay. Fernandez also picked doubles standout Vania King for the U.S, team that fell to Belgium in February, so she does have some options, but Germany features a strong team that includes Miami semifinalist Andrea Petkovic, No. 35 Julia Goerges, Sabine Lisicki and Anna-Lena Groenefeld.
Venus has not played Fed Cup since 2007, but must at least show up for a tie this year in order to maintain her eligibility for the 2012 Olympics and not have appeal her status to the Olympic Committee. – Matthew Cronin
That Sharapova/Azarenka match was so bad I actually found myself wishing Wozniacki was playing.
Time for shopping in Germany, Venus.
Time for shopping in Germany, Venus.
25K Pelham 1R: Ashley Weinhold (USA) d. (1/wc)Melanie Oudin (USA) 63 46 62
Oudin will be R.I.P. by the end of the year.
Oh you mean the girl who refuses to hold serve??
we could use that title for most of the ladies on the wta tour :twisted:
we could use that title for most of the ladies on the wta tour :twisted:
i think her mom will be very upset with her if she fires her coach, you know what i'm saying?:wink:
lol the funny thing is actually that she´s still Top 10 even though she didn´t play a single match in 9 months.
There you see the huge gap between her and the rest.
Would be great to see her come back.
Does she have a protected ranking?
Good question. I don't know if she deserves one, and I'm sure the WTA would be horrified at the possibilities if she doesn't. Serena just floating in the draw isn't good as she could take out one of the only few other marquee players early or she loses early to someone like Clijsters. Either way you're setting yourself up for less-than-stellar later rounds.
LOL Indeed. It's not Mommy's tennis career on the line though.
OMG. She held TWICE in a row and is up a... HOLD
Can't believe I'm saying this but I was VERY disappointed in Maria.That Sharapova/Azarenka match was so bad I actually found myself wishing Wozniacki was playing.
lol the funny thing is actually that she´s still Top 10 even though she didn´t play a single match in 9 months.
There you see the huge gap between her and the rest.
Would be great to see her come back.
Does she have a protected ranking?
Oh, and Oudin lost. MJF would be crazy to have her on the Fed Cup team when they play Germany.
Clijsters out for 4 weeks and will miss Madrid. She already stated she won't play Beijing and Tokyo this year. Unless Vera steps up (which history says she won't), Woz basically will be #1 the rest of the year unless some other WTA girls develop brains (I know.. foreign concept).
Kim only has 650 points to defend between now and summer break. She 'just' needs to win RG and SW19 and she has about 11500 points. I think that should be enough to be #1!
Btw, Kirilenko lost to Tatishvili and hasn't yet managed to win 2 matches in a row this year. But maybe her expectatitons are too low for an upgrade?