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Post by R. Black on Jun 4, 2006 14:11:25 GMT -5
Good for Hingis her match has stopped.
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Post by GoDom on Jun 4, 2006 14:11:30 GMT -5
Yes, and you would know why if you had seen the last 5 games. Explain, please? She played very well in the last 5 games and made 2 or 3 UE's, compared to 26 in the previous 12 games.
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:11:42 GMT -5
How did that last game go, Ali? Bad AM or good JHH? Very good JHH. She was very aggressive. There were a couple of smashes. Thanks, Ali! :lust: I was unable to follow Martina properly while Justine was out there letting the 2nd set get away from her. And then it ended. But tomorrow she'll take care of business easily, mark my words!
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:12:30 GMT -5
Explain, please? She played very well in the last 5 games and made 2 or 3 UE's, compared to 26 in the previous 12 games. Thanks, GoDom, that's good to hear. For her self-respect.
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Post by Traveling Man on Jun 4, 2006 14:22:39 GMT -5
Very good JHH. She was very aggressive. There were a couple of smashes. Thanks, Ali! I was unable to follow Martina properly while Justine was out there letting the 2nd set get away from her. And then it ended. But tomorrow she'll take care of business easily, mark my words! I hope she's scheduled to play on Suzanne Lenglen, since she's never lost a match on it. I'm going to sleep now. It's already a quarter past 12 and I have my first day at work tomorrow. It's a multinational, but I'm not nervous. Just feeling a bit ill, but nothing a good night's sleep won't fix, hopefully. See you guys tomorrow, when I get home.
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:26:13 GMT -5
Get a good night's sleep, Ali! Good luck on your first day on the job.
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Jun 4, 2006 14:36:27 GMT -5
I'm upset over Maria Sharapova's monumental choke against Dinara Safina after being up 5-1 in the third set. Masha has lost a few grand slam matches seh should have won. But this loss takes the cake because it's one of the worst choked jobs in grand slam tennis history. I never thought that after she won Wimbledon 2004 that Masha would develop into a choker in the grand slams. But that seems to be the case. And I hope this horrendous loss today against Safina doesn't ruin her game like Anastasia Myskina's choke job loss to Justine Henin in Athens 2004 after leading their Olympic semifinal match 5-1 in the third set. Myskina never recovered from that terrible loss. I hope Masha doesn't suffer the same fate and have this mind boggling loss ruin her game and confidence the way Myskina's crushing Olympic loss to Henin did in 2004. I hope Martina Hingis has a tough match today. She needs to play some tough tennis to get ready for the quarterfinals. And congrats to Nicole Vaidisova on the biggest win of her career with her comeback win over Amelie Mauresmo. Maria didn't choke.
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:37:14 GMT -5
Off topic, but I just noticed I've written 8,300 posts at wtaworld since 2001, yikes!
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Jun 4, 2006 14:38:13 GMT -5
Tina's stats aren't bad in the second set, but Peer's are The break is going to really help Martina. She's going to have to come out tomorrow much fresher.
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Jun 4, 2006 14:38:18 GMT -5
It was a shame, after waiting around so long, that it took another hour before Nastya turned up.
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:40:10 GMT -5
Maria didn't choke. Sure she did; she said afterward that her mind went off into another world and she could no longer think straight. (I wish she'd give Kim free entry into that world!) Now posters at wtaworld are saying Amelie didn't choke, either. Guess she just forgot how to play tennis, then; oops!
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:41:45 GMT -5
Tina's stats aren't bad in the second set, but Peer's are The break is going to really help Martina. She's going to have to come out tomorrow much fresher. She will. Melanie will tell her what she needs to do, and she'll be psyched to get out there and do it.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Jun 4, 2006 14:43:15 GMT -5
Good. I mostly like today's results. Safina vs Sharapova was a very entertaining match. Dinara is looking very good and I think she'll beat Kuzzy. It was also good to see Niki put Mauresmo out of her RG misery.
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Jun 4, 2006 14:44:27 GMT -5
But Amelie clearly played like shit after the first set. Maria didn't get significantly worse from 5-1 up.
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Post by Edna Krabappel on Jun 4, 2006 14:47:58 GMT -5
Maria didn't get significantly worse from 5-1 up. I agree. It was like Maria's 1R match against Washington - now Maria didn't do anything really wrong, Safina just totally outplayed her. She simply did not miss after being 1-5 down.
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:48:04 GMT -5
Hmm. Well they're going to air the match at 4 pm, so I'll see what I think.
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 14:49:17 GMT -5
Hingis losing this set to Peer doesn't give me much hope that she could take out Kim later, which I was hoping.
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Jun 4, 2006 14:58:24 GMT -5
Lindsay last year looked horrible through the first three rounds, and she managed to take out Kim in the 4r. If she can keep Kim out there long enough, she could break down.
Martina still has to get there, though.
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Post by GoDom on Jun 4, 2006 15:00:34 GMT -5
Hmm. Well they're going to air the match at 4 pm, so I'll see what I think. So you didn't see the match yet? Just wondering how you can be so sure then that Maria choked.
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Post by The Chloe on Jun 4, 2006 15:05:39 GMT -5
Maria lost after being up 5-1 in the final set? VAMOS.
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Post by Grarliner on Jun 4, 2006 15:09:31 GMT -5
Peer has made it a match - good. Unfortunately, the stoppage helps Hingis regroup. She'll win that one tomorrow, most likely.
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Post by shenaynay on Jun 4, 2006 15:10:15 GMT -5
It's bad when I hope Sweta is a finalist already.
That Amelie match was depressing.
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Post by DBBN on Jun 4, 2006 16:24:14 GMT -5
Okay, predictions for the Schnyder match: 4-6 6-3 6-0 OR 4-6 6-3 6-1 ? Close enough for a from me
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Post by DBBN on Jun 4, 2006 16:33:05 GMT -5
Today was a great day, too bad I slept and worked through it Really good for the game to have Safina and Vaidisova pull off the upsets and make their first Slam QF's along with ALG. The only bad thing is that Hingis has to win this match if only for the sake of her ranking -- the three teenyboppers, so close to her in the rankings, could push her out of the Top 16 again now that they've each made the QF. But a Peer win would be better for tennis. And a Hurley suicide would be better for many lives as well.
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Post by DBBN on Jun 4, 2006 16:37:21 GMT -5
1 A. MAURESMO 3306.00 2 K. CLIJSTERS 3126.00 ROLAND GARROS QF 174 3 M. SHARAPOVA 2345.00 4 N. PETROVA 2308.00 5 L. DAVENPORT 2080.00 6 E. DEMENTIEVA 1956.00 7 J. HENIN-HARDE 1882.00 ROLAND GARROS QF 174 8 M. PIERCE 1810.00 9 S. KUZNETSOVA 1789.00 ROLAND GARROS QF 174 10 P. SCHNYDER 1753.00 11 A. MYSKINA 1487.00 12 V. WILLIAMS 1420.00 ROLAND GARROS QF 174 13 F. SCHIAVONE 1356.00 14 A. GROENEFELD 1284.00 ROLAND GARROS QF 174 15 N. VAIDISOVA 1261.00 ROLAND GARROS QF 174 16 M. HINGIS 1256.00 ROLAND GARROS 4R 96 17 D. SAFINA 1248.00 ROLAND GARROS QF 174 18 D. HANTUCHOVA 1052.00 19 F. PENNETTA 991.00 20 M. KIRILENKO 843.00
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Post by DBBN on Jun 4, 2006 16:37:46 GMT -5
Um...tiny.
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Jun 4, 2006 17:48:00 GMT -5
Dick Enberg needs to quit now.
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Post by janie on Jun 4, 2006 18:02:06 GMT -5
Having watched it now, the only absolute choke I saw of Maria's was when she served to stay in the first set: back-to-back DFs, sloppy play. In the 3rd set it looked more like a combination of Maria's impatience, disbelief, and of course Safina stepping up big time, getting better and better point by point, game by game at the end. The final game was the most fun; Maria played well, but Safina played great. Fun to watch, but too bad ESPN2's whole tennis time was hogged by this match. I hope they will show a 2-second clip of the DEFENDING CHAMPION ... but no. Not a glimpse, not a mention of either Belgian, neither of whom has lost a set yet, and both of whom were always a lot more serious of contenders to win than Sharapova was. And Sharapova has never even reached the semis here. Nice. <end of rant>
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