Just looked at the scores and noticed that Kuznetsova is a break down to Pironkova in the first set :o

this was my mad upset pick. come on piron!

hmm...and Kuzzy gets it back on serve.....

is venus having a few problems against Pin? They seem to be exchanging breaks of serve.....in fact Pin has 3 BPs now :unsure:

kuzzy down a break again.

and venus has broken Pin back again :shrug:

pin head aain't beating venus, no way.

there have now been 8 (I think) breaks of serve in the venus vs. pin match - and it's back on serve :blink:

Kuzzy looking like she might in trouble against Pironkova though :unsure:

kuzzy hangs tough and breaks back serving to stay in the set now.

venus takes the first set 7-5

60% first serve for venus as opposed to 81% from Pin :blink:

kuzzy serving for the set now. looks to have tamed pironkova.

what the hell is wrong with venus? down a break in the 2nd now.

bet she breaks straight back....those two have been swapping breaks the whole time. :shrug:

kuzzy fails to serve out the set and it goes to a tb.

i will wait and see who wins this tb then it's gotta be my bedtime!!! :blink:

6-0 i'm guessing kuzzy will win the tb.

Kirilenko has just put out morigami 6-1 6-1 :clap:

tie-break to Kuzzy and Venus gets broken yet again......

Pin actually manages to consolidate a break :o

and Pironkova goes a break up on Kuzzy at the start of the second set..... :o :o

After all the early excitement Kuzzy wins 7-6(0), 6-2 and Williams wins 7-5, 6-4, although i don't think the scoreline actually shows how tough those matches were.

The first set of Kuzzy's match lasted over an hour, and both of venus's sets were 45 mins. and 14 breaks of serve in the Venus match :blink:

Venus and Kuzzy through with tough matches today.
Mirza was lucky too, being 20 down in the final set.

Other seeds through were, Ivanovic, Chakvetadze, Hantuchova, Petrova.
Ivanovic and Hantuchova looked really good today.

Here are the results in full:
Singles - Second Round
(2) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL) 76(0) 62
(4) Ana Ivanovic (SRB) d. Tathiana Garbin (ITA) 60 63
(6) Anna Chakvetadze (RUS) d. (Q) Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 63 64
(8) Venus Williams (USA) d. Camille Pin (FRA) 75 64
(9) Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) d. Alizé Cornet (FRA) 62 75
(14) Nadia Petrova (RUS) d. Anne Kremer (LUX) 75 75
Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d. (21) Alona Bondarenko (UKR) 76(4) 61
(24) Li Na (CHN) d. Maria Elena Camerin (ITA) 64 63
(27) Maria Kirilenko (RUS) d. Akiko Morigami (JPN) 61 61
(28) Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) d. Anastasia Rodionova (AUS) 64 61
(29) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d. Pauline Parmentier (FRA) 75 64
(31) Sania Mirza (IND) d. (Q) Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) 61 46 75
Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP) d. Catalina Castaño (COL) 62 64
Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) d. Yvonne Meusburger (AUT) 63 61
(Q) Marta Domachowska (POL) d. Sofia Arvidsson (SWE) 75 16 61
(Q) Sabine Lisicki (GER) d. Mariya Koryttseva (UKR) 61 75

Doubles - First Round
(3) Chan/Chuang (TPE/TPE) d. Castaño/Kanepi (COL/EST) 63 61
(4) Peschke/Stubbs (CZE/AUS) d. (A) Savchuk/Shvedova (UKR/RUS) 76(4) 76(4)
Jankovic/Mattek (SRB/USA) d. (5) Dechy/Safina (FRA/RUS) 63 67(4) 64
(7) Yan/Zheng (CHN/CHN) d. Poutchkova/Rezai (RUS/FRA) 62 61
Vaidisova/Zahlavova Strycova (CZE/CZE) d. (9) Raymond/Schiavone (USA/ITA) 26 64 62
(10) Medina Garrigues/Ruano Pascual (ESP/ESP) d. Kerber/Meusburger (GER/AUT) 62 60
Davenport/Hantuchova (USA/SVK) d. (11) Kirilenko/Szavay (RUS/HUN) 62 75
(12) Azarenka/Peer (BLR/ISR) d. Bammer/Paszek (AUT/AUT) 61 63
(13) Husarova/Pennetta (SVK/ITA) d. Craybas/Osterloh (USA/USA) 64 62
Ani/Tu (EST/USA) d. (14) King/Pratt (USA/AUS) 75 63
Williams/Williams (USA/USA) d. (WC) Adamczak/Wheeler (AUS/AUS) 75 61
Bondarenko/Bondarenko (UKR/UKR) d. Cohen-Aloro/Razzano (FRA/FRA) 76(3) 63
Kuznetsova/Mauresmo (RUS/FRA) d. (WC) Dominikovic/Hewson (AUS/AUS) 62 60
Gagliardi/Schnyder (SUI/SUI) d. (WC) Bai/Kriz (AUS/AUS) 64 61
Hsieh/Kudryavtseva (TPE/RUS) d. Krajicek/Radwanska (NED/POL) 46 64 64
Govortsova/Kustova (BLR/BLR) d. Gallovits/Olaru (ROU/ROU) 63 75
Navratilova/Zakopalova (CZE/CZE) d. (WC) Dellacqua/Moore (AUS/AUS) 46 76(5) 63

Venus had to really grind it out today, what a relief :phew:

Pin was just running everything down, and she's such a methodical, calculating player too. Hitting the ball with such variations in height and width. Venus's serve was a bit ragged, and wasnt always flowing off the ground, but when she was good, she was superb, especially in the latter stages of the second set.

So pleased she's through :D :yahoo:

Looking forward to her match against Mirza.

well no big shocks today.
I don't know why everyone gets their knickers in a twist when players go breaks down.
It's the early rounds folks, it's just all about getting through this week.
We can't expect the big guns to play well every match... :)

I expected to Pin to put up a fight here.. remember her last year in the first round against Maria?

True but it does sound it wasn't just Pin's game that was the problem here...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/7193173.stm