http://www.bankofthewestclassic.com/playersstars.htm

Good line-up (starts July 14)
- Serena Williams
- Anna Chakvetadze
- Elena Dementieva
- Marion Bartoli
- Daniela Hantuchova
- Patty Schnyder
- Shahar Peer
- Francesca Schiavone
- Nadia Petrova

I assume Lindsay probably isn't fit enough to play...

Anna Keovathong plays in the qualifers too.

Will be looking for
- Serena Williams
- Elena Dementieva
- Daniela Hantuchova
- Patty Schnyder
- Nadia Petrova
to do well. Going to be interesting, can't wait. Do hope they'll air some of it on TV here - they normally don't. :(

We have some coverage (not live though) but British Eurosport are mainly showing one of the ATP tournies - probably Indianapolis but I'm not sure.

Yes, I'll be looking forward to watching Serena, Daniela and Elena. I like Patty but generally only on the clay.

Elena has pulled out of Stanford :(

:(

Oh well, nothing gained but nothing lost with no points to defend :)

She'll still be a huge contender on this surface, especially going into the US Open.

Cant see anyone but Serena claiming this title :shrug:

Qualifying early results

Good start from Keothavong winning 6-0, 6-2 though Baltacha lost 7-5, 6-4.

Also through is Georgie Stoop - she was a wild card into qualifying and won 6-7, 7-6, 6-0 over Savchuk.

Larcherde Brito the big prospect from Portugal got a big win over the top seed Domachowska 6-0, 6-1!!

You say that Dl, but it is Serena we're talking about :lol:

Well i was speaking as if we were in an ideal world roflmao

It'd be nice to see Lindsay have an injury-free tourny, she's still a threat on this surface :)

asa long as Chokevetadze :rolleyes: doesn't win I don't acre who does... roflmao

Oh remember her run on the hardcourts last year choka? It might inspire her again! roflmao

Never forgive her for beating Venus in San Diego :angry:

She was lucky to get a stupidly easy route into the SF at the US Open - the highest rank player she faced before Kuzy was Peer (18) :rolleyes:

Oh don't remind me about that dl, I used to like her then and was pleased when she beat Venus... :wacko:

Now I don't care who beats her (Chokevetadze :rolleyes: )...:lol:

That SF with Kuznetsova was absolutely horrible :yikes:

Getting the ball over the net was an achievment :rolleyes:

I used to like Anna too choka, but she just became too deranged this year roflmao

roflmao

You can almost predict the pattern of her matches. Wins the first set comfortably, falls to piece in the 2nd set and somehow scraps through in the 3rd.

She has the most bizarre scorelines in her matches!

Good news for the Brits - Keothavong and Stoop both won their second round in qualifying and are now both one match away from the main draw.

Great news indeed... :)

Really hope they can get through to the main draw! :pray:

Yeah, Keothavong needs to now start playing MD tourny's now, she's way past Challenger level IMO. A MD appearance here would be a good backup for a good Wimby :)

Unless Stosur is playing :lol:

Oh yeah, she has the same curse as Kirilenko, Stosur! :yikes:

















Plays her best tennis against lindsay roflmao

hopefully Dani can re-jig her season :pray:

Yeah she needs a good American harcourt season, especially with so many points to defend in the indoor season :unsure:

I do worry about that foot injury though, and she looked well below par at Wimbledon :shrug:

i would have expected a muted performance at Wimby. it was her first tournie back from the foot, no?? and the injury is indeed worrisome :(

I just worry that she came back too soon at Wimby, because she was not moving well at all in that match :unsure:

i guess we'll find out where she's at this week...

Serena to take this touirnament I think then no.1 gets closer and closer :P

Serena is definitely the favourite here but we'll see, has been very up and down this year... :unsure:

some great wins with some poor losses too... :ok:

Good luck to them then. :ok:

Don't know anything about Stoop :unsure:

Keothavong is a break up already in the final qualifying round at Stanford... :D :pray:

make that a double break up... :blink:

:D

Anna is 4-0 up already... :yikes:

I think Coin could be injured, the scoreboard has frozen... :unsure:

oh back, up and running again.

Anne breaks for the third time and will serve for a bagel set... :blink:

5-1 now.... :nails:

but Anne breaks again to take the first set 6-1... :D :bow:

Anne takes it :)

and holds at start of second set... :D

and now 2-0 up in set 2... :huh:

4-0 up :D

5-0 up... :nails:

:yikes: and Anne eases into the main draw with a 6-1 6-0 demolition of Coin... :bow: :party: