Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Centrale (from 13.00hrs)
1. Safina vs. Camerin
2. Vinci vs. Myskina
3. Morigami vs. Clijsters
4. Castaño vs. Pennetta (NB 20.30hrs)
5. Merrill Lynch Tour of Champions

Pietrangeli (from 13.00hrs)
1. Nakamura vs. Groenefeld
2. Dementieva vs. Peng
3. Dushevina vs. Schnyder
4. Petrova vs. Srebotnik

Court 2 (from 14.00hrs)
1. G.Navratilova/Uhlirova vs. Black/Stubbs
2. T.Li/Sun vs. Camerin/Garbin
3. Knapp/Oprandi vs. Dulko/Kirilenko

Court 4 (from 16.00hrs)
1. Merrill Lynch Tour of Champions

Court 5 (from 14.30hrs)
1. Stosur vs. Oprandi
2. Jugic-Salkic/Krizan vs. Santangelo/Washington
3. Zvonareva vs. Dechy

Court 6 (from 13.00hrs)
1. Sánchez Lorenzo vs. Jankovic
2. Sugiyama vs. Medina Garrigues
3. Beygelzimer/Vanc vs. Peschke/Schiavone
4. Huber/M.Navratilova vs. Safina/Vinci


For those of you who moan that Henman always gets favourable courts at Wimbledon it's worth noting that the organisers here seem willing to put any Italian on Centre even if it means many of the top seeds (Dementieva, Schnyder & Petrova) relegated to other courts. That includes what could be the best match of the day

Dementieva v Peng
A real danger match for Elena as Peng seemed to have found some form last week & Dementieva has a horrible record here.

Other good matches - we'll see how tired Petrova is when she takes on the tricky Srebotnik. Zvonereva could find some form & upset Dechy & what state will Myskina be in today as she takes on Vinci!?

Women's Singles - Second Round
(11) Ana Lena GROENEFELD (GER) d. Aiko NAKAMURA (JPN) 64 63
(5) Elena DEMENTIEVA (RUS) d. Shuai PENG (CHN) w.o.
(16) Dinara SAFINA (RUS) (wc) d. Maria Elena CAMERIN (ITA) 64 64
Jelena JANKOVIC (SCG) d. (LL) Maria SANCHEZ LORENZO (ESP) 63 46 62
(q) Romina OPRANDI (ITA) d. Samantha STOSUR (AUS) 62 62
(10) Anastasia MYSKINA (RUS) d. Roberta VINCI (ITA) 60 16 64
(6)Patty SCHNYDER (SUI) d. Vera DUSHEVINA (RUS) 76 (8) 62
Anabel MEDINA GARRIGUES (ESP) d. (18) Ai SUGIYAMA (JAP) 62 46 64
(2) Kim CLIJSTERS (BEL) d. (q) Akiko MORIGAMI (JPN) 46 61 63
Vera ZVONAREVA (RUS) d. (17) Nathalie DECHY (FRA) 62 62
Katarina SREBOTNIK (SLO) d. (LL)Ekateryna BYCHKOVA (RUS) 36 63 62

Women's Doubles - Second round
(2)Cara BLACK/Rennae STUBBS (ZIM/AUS) d. Gabriela NAVRATILOVA/Vladimira UHLIROVA (CZE) 63 64
Ting (sr) LI/Tiantian SUN (CHN) d. Maria Elena CAMERIN/Tathiana GARBIN (ITA) 61 62
(8) Kveta PESCHKE (CZE)/Francesca SCHIAVONE (ITA) d. Yulia BEYGELZIMER (UKR)/Andreea VANC (ROM) 61 62

Women's Doubles - First round
Mara SANTANGELO (ITA)/Mashona WASHINGTON (USA) d. Mervana JUGIC-SALKIC (BIH)/Tina KRIZAN (SLO) 46 63 63

Merrill Lynch - Tour of Champions - 3rd/4th place Final

Hingis has won People!! :yahoo:
And also Dementieva

:party: I'm really happy to see Hingis back and doing well. Maybe this will be the first title of her comeback.

Can we say that yet?? I so hope so, she definately deserves it. What is she now in the race, 6 I think? 6th best player this year after so many years outta the game. It just proves the class of the lady.
We needed her back.
We also need Seles, Capriati and Serena back but thats another story!

Who is this Oprandi?? She crushed Vera today, 6-0, 6-1! :o

Hmmm. I wasn't expecting that scoreline today. Zvonereva crushed Dechy in the previous score so it seemed she was firing on all cylinders but then some young Italian upstart of a qualifier comes and spoils her party!
She's only 20 and I think it is only her 2nd tourny? Maybe she could do quite well? Although she has Kuzzy next so :whip:

Clijsters has lost the first set by the way, 6-4!

Yep. And down an early break in the second.

Venus takes the first set over Schnyder, 7-6.

But Schnyder comes back to level it at a set a piece.

Schnyder now leads 6-7, 6-3, 1-0

whose pic with butt out in your avatar trisco?

Friday, May 19, 2006

Centrale (from 13.00hrs)
1. Dementieva vs. Safina
2. Kuznetsova vs. Oprandi
3. Jankovic vs. V.Williams
4. Pennetta vs. Hingis (NB 20.30hrs)
5. Dulko/Kirilenko vs. Medina Garrigues/Srebotnik

Pietrangeli (from 14.00hrs)
1. Pratt/Stewart vs. Black/Stubbs
2. Safina/Vinci vs. Peschke/Schiavone (after suitable rest)
3. T.Li/Sun vs. Hantuchova/Sugiyama


Should be a good day - decent QF line up.

Kuznetsova should end the dream run of Oprandi & Venus & Hingis should both win their matches. The less sure one is Safina v Dementieva - can Safina follow up her win over Clijsters?

Apparently, she can. 6-1, 6-1 :o

Oprandi has just taken the second set off Kuzzy :o

Go Oprandi!! (Whoever you are.)

Nothing against Kuzzy. It's just cool to see an unknown newcomer doing so well.

I agree!!

Oprandi has just broken back in the third set it's 1-2, Oprandi to serve.

Came back to find Oprandi serving for the match at 5-4 :o , but she got broken, so 5-5 Kuzzy serving.

Kuz holds to love, 6-5

Come on, Oprandi, let's have a tie-break!!

Great hold from Oprandi from 0-30 down, time for the tie-break!

Kuzzy takes the tie-break 7-4, but a great fight from Oprandi!

Venus was having a fairly tight match with Jankovic, but seems to be running away with it now, up 5-0 in the third.

Kuznetsova serving at 2-3 vs. Safina, after a break a piece in the early going.

Congartulations Martina Hingis on a 6-2 7-5 win over Dinara Safina.
You'll move up to 13-14 in the world. This is your 1st title since your comeback, a very impressive tier-I event. Ths should be excellent preparation before RG

Number 14, I believe.

Well done Martina :D

Congradulations to Martina Hingis!!!