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Post by molala on Jun 30, 2006 13:51:38 GMT -5
I heard Max just cranked it up the last two sets against James. Then he and Jonas killed their doubles opponents, and they play each other in the fourth round!!
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Jun 30, 2006 14:02:50 GMT -5
Haas loses 8-6 in the third. Tommy
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Post by :rolleyes: on Jun 30, 2006 14:03:57 GMT -5
Bratina and Sveta lost,
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Post by Grarliner on Jun 30, 2006 16:27:28 GMT -5
Well, grass has never been Hingis' best surface. I'd still call it a better result than the N/A of last year! Articles Hingis Honest in Defeat Hingis Fight ©EPA / G. Penny Friday, 30 June, 2006 Three Grand Slams into her comeback and Martina Hingis playing tennis at the highest level again is no longer just a novelty act to be applauded whatever the outcome. So defeat, particularly when the once unflappable Swiss Miss was three-love up in the third set as against Ai Sugiyama, is bound to be followed by some cold, hard analysis – most of it from herself - when she faces the press. Of course nobody is abrupt enough to say that the 1997 champion is not the player she was. The far more polite suggestion that her comeback had hit a plateau is the one that is offered for the world number one to consider. Always adept at swatting journalists’ questions as effectively as she returns tennis balls, she points out that she won the Rome Open just last month and was on a roll in the French Open until she lost to Kim Clijsters in the quarter-finals on a day when she was suffering from illness. So “still moving up” rather than plateauing is her view of her current career trajectory. But it is clear that Hingis is at a loss to explain exactly how she lost on her return to the Wimbledon Centre Court stage she once graced so successfully. Ever the Swiss diplomat, there are compliments for Sugiyama. “She played a great match. She's probably, on this surface, harder to play than anything else because she's very fast. She likes those flat balls. I tried to be even faster, but not today.” But Hingis knows that not too many years ago this was not the sort of match she was ever likely to lose from a winning position and she admits: “I was up, and all of a sudden I lose the next four games. It's like, OK, how did that happen? Lack of concentration sometimes. “But, no, I played well. Even in the third set, I definitely had the momentum. It's just, I couldn't finish it off.” She reminds her questioners that she was always subject to the occasional “little crisis midway through the season”, pointing out that the two matches she won at Wimbledon this week are two more than she won in 1999 and 2001. But she immediately looks as if she regrets that statement when there is a clamour of journalists asking her if she sees this defeat as a “crisis” in her career. Heh. Martina's smart. But ahhh! Up 3-0 and couldn't put it away!
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Post by Traveling Man on Jun 30, 2006 16:36:41 GMT -5
Oh, and I officially don't care about the women's side now. Word. Sigh.
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Post by Traveling Man on Jun 30, 2006 16:41:36 GMT -5
I feel bad for Ali and other devoted Hingie fans, though. But she'll be back. This was just an aberration. She was out of sorts today, maybe hormonal or some health thing. I'm just glad she's back and I have the opportunity to watch her play. Sometimes, the losses are tough, like today when she was up 3-0 in the third set, but to quote Monica Seles "It's just a game and the game isn't me." Looking forward to the hardcourt season. Janie
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Post by Grarliner on Jun 30, 2006 16:44:17 GMT -5
Maybe I'm nuts, but I can see Hantuchova giving Justine a scare in the 4r.
And how about Radwanska! Holy shit!
Na Li! This really IS a historic Slam for China. Maybe they will get their Championship contender for 2008 after all. Can she beat Vaidisova?
Bremond's breakthrough?
It would be lovely to have some further upsets in the bottom half. I'm not looking forward to the Belgian semi.
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Post by shenaynay on Jun 30, 2006 19:52:16 GMT -5
You're nuts.
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Jun 30, 2006 20:08:41 GMT -5
Hantuchova is looking anorexic again, and she blows. She's not beating Justine.
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Post by Brinyi on Jun 30, 2006 23:07:51 GMT -5
Maybe I'm nuts, but I can see Hantuchova giving Justine a scare in the 4r. N U T S
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Post by Grarliner on Jun 30, 2006 23:17:06 GMT -5
Maybe I'm nuts, but I can see Hantuchova giving Justine a scare in the 4r. N U T S Yeah, well, the veggies have been in a dry spell too.
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Post by DBBN on Jun 30, 2006 23:47:33 GMT -5
Hantuchova has always given Justine problems in the past. I don't see why she wouldn't now.
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Post by shenaynay on Jun 30, 2006 23:55:54 GMT -5
Have they even played since Daniela's massive fluke win at IW and FAKE INJURY OMG at US Open.
Also, Justine is a lot different now since then.
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Post by DBBN on Jul 1, 2006 0:15:21 GMT -5
They've played four times, all in 2002.
Justine should win, but I'm not inking her in just yet.
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Post by shenaynay on Jul 1, 2006 0:17:33 GMT -5
I'll ink in 7-5 6-3 Joostine.
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