USO women's draw

[lexpretend]

I think this must be the longest gap between the draw coming out and it getting posted in the Cult. Everyone busy?

www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/draws/ws/index.html

- Ugh @ Li drawing Clijsters and Stosur. Not that Stosur will make it to R4 but we'd better not see an AO repeat
- Cake draw for Ma$ha. I imagine Petra's heavy schedule will take its toll on her by the QF, not that she's been putting up much resistance to Sharapova this year anyway
- King vs Shvedova - hilarious, would be so much more hilarious if they weren't so nice
- No luck for Venus, Kerber in the second round is a horrendous match-up even if she's not having a Sjögren's day. Paszek in R3 might actually be tougher for Kerber considering what ensued last time they played...
- This is a really good draw for Stephens to make a deep run if she so wishes
- And also...JaJa

[lexpretend]

Azarenka d. Goerges
Li d. Lepchenko
Sharapova d. Wozniak
Kvitova d. Pavlyuchenkova
Stephens d. Giorgi
S.Williams d. Kirilenko
Kerber d. McHale
Vinci d. Jankovic

Azarenka d. Li
Sharapova d. Kvitova
S.Williams d. Stephens
Kerber d. Vinci

Azarenka d. Sharapova
S.Williams d. Kerber

S.Williams d. Azarenka

[Traveling Man]

I just flew in - had gone out of town to attend a wedding. Predix in a bit.

[Paean]

Azarenka d. Lisicki
Li d. Lepchenko
Sharapova d. Wozniak
Kvitova d. Petkovic
Ivanovic d. Pironkova (WTF is this section)
SWilliams d. Scheepers
Kerber d. Errani
Cibulkova d. Radwanska

Li d. Azarenka
Sharapova d. Kvitova
Swilliams d. ivanovic
Kerber d. Cibulkova

Li d. Sharapova
Kerber d. Swilliams

Kerber d. Li

[janie]

Yes! A Care Bear - Li final. Boreas draw FTW!

[Traveling Man]

Azarenka d. Goerges
Clijsters d. Stosur
Sharapova d. Safarova
Kvitova d. Bartoli
Stephens d. Pironkova
S.Williams d. Kirilenko
Kerber d. McHale
Vinci d. Jankovic

Clijsters d. Azarenka
Kvitova d. Sharapova
S.Williams d. Stephens
Kerber d. Vinci

Kvitova d. Clijsters
Kerber d. S.Williams

Kvitova d. Kerber

[Grarliner]

Petra has been playing well lately but way, way, way too damn much. I don't see her winning this in what would be her sixth week in a row of tennis.

I think the Li-Kim rematch goes to Li this time. Kim has barely played and hasn't really played well since the AO.

I question whether Azarenka is going deep here.

Hard to see Stosur going far here, although her draw is pretty friendly. But she'll chump up to Lepchenko in r3 or something.

Wozniacki really lucked out with that draw. It really shows how far she's fallen that nobody yet even thinks she can navigate through that dreck! I'll go out on a limb and say she does get to the QF. It would be tough not to with that draw.

Zakopalova is 24th seed?

Mirjana Lucic is still alive?

Maybe the only difficult opponent for Serena in there is ... Kirilenko.

I wish for Venus to lose to BMS.

Someone needs to beat Jankovic early and badly. Here's hoping, K-Bond.

Serena will probably win. The only danger is someone in the top half, I think. Maria and Aza have injury question marks over their heads, Petra played too much and Li is Li. I think Li in the final would be the most discomfiting opponent for Serena but ... we can't keep getting lucky like in 2009 and 2011. Bitch is gon' win again.

[Old Hag]

Zheng d. Morita

The rest doesn't matter.

[janie]

Aug 26, 2012 3:15:20 GMT -5 Grarliner said:

Petra has been playing well lately but way, way, way too damn much. I don't see her winning this in what would be her sixth week in a row of tennis.

I think the Li-Kim rematch goes to Li this time. Kim has barely played and hasn't really played well since the AO.

I question whether Azarenka is going deep here.

Hard to see Stosur going far here, although her draw is pretty friendly. But she'll chump up to Lepchenko in r3 or something.

Wozniacki really lucked out with that draw. It really shows how far she's fallen that nobody yet even thinks she can navigate through that dreck! I'll go out on a limb and say she does get to the QF. It would be tough not to with that draw.

Zakopalova is 24th seed?

Mirjana Lucic is still alive?

Maybe the only difficult opponent for Serena in there is ... Kirilenko.

I wish for Venus to lose to BMS.

Someone needs to beat Jankovic early and badly. Here's hoping, K-Bond.

Serena will probably win. The only danger is someone in the top half, I think. Maria and Aza have injury question marks over their heads, Petra played too much and Li is Li. I think Li in the final would be the most discomfiting opponent for Serena but ... we can't keep getting lucky like in 2009 and 2011. Bitch is gon' win again.

Maria doesn't have an injury question mark, does she? She w/drew from summer events with a mysteriously long-lasting stomach virus.

For me I guess the only most intriguing part of the women's draw is already over: the qualies.

[lexpretend]

I assume neither Azza nor Shazza's USO Series absence was due to a deathbed injury and more to do with careful schedule management in a gruelling summer.