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Post by jimm on Aug 10, 2008 15:32:03 GMT
Jamea Jackson in first round. Probably Tax Garbin in next. Cmon Marion nice straight setters, no nonsense.
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Post by SuperMarion on Aug 10, 2008 16:31:50 GMT
eh? wit happened here??
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Post by SuperMarion on Aug 10, 2008 16:36:47 GMT
Did you see Jamea on grass in 2006 Jim?
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Post by jimm on Aug 10, 2008 17:11:36 GMT
Did you see Jamea on grass in 2006 Jim? No Bot might see her at the DFS next year
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Post by jimm on Aug 10, 2008 17:12:06 GMT
Bartoli Continues Summer Revival in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, OH, USA - While many of the stars of women's tennis are in Beijing for the Olympics, a strong field has assembled in Cincinnati this week for the $175,000 Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open, currently in its fifth year as a Tier III summer hardcourt stop on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Headlining the field this week will be Marion Bartoli, who dropped out of the Top 10 after falling early at Wimbledon but has been inching back after some impressive finishes so far this summer hardcourt season.
Bartoli, who cracked the world's Top 10 shortly after reaching the final of Wimbledon last year but fell to No.15 after falling third round this year, has inched back to No.13 over the last few weeks after playing some of her best tennis of the year on summer hardcourts, reaching the final of the Tier II event in Stanford and the semifinals of the Tier I event in Montréal. She has won seven of her nine matches since the aforementioned Wimbledon loss and now returns to a tournament she has done very well at previously, reaching the quarterfinals or better in two of three tries - a semifinal in 2004 and a quarterfinal in 2006. She will open against Jamea Jackson, who is on her way back from injury and received a wildcard into the draw.
Another player who has revived her season recently, Nadia Petrova, will be the No.2 seed. Petrova was 8-11 to start the season - reaching just one quarterfinal in her first 11 events - but since transitioning to grass and summer hardcourts has gone 13-5, with quarterfinals or better in three of five events (including finishing runner-up at Eastbourne and reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon). This will be her first trip to Cincinnati and she begins with Galina Voskoboeva.
The next seeds are Maria Kirilenko, Katarina Srebotnik and Amélie Mauresmo. Mauresmo has the most impressive resumé of them all, winning 24 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour titles in her career - including two majors, at the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 2006 - and getting all the way to No.1 in the world. Mauresmo is playing here for the first time. Kirilenko and Srebotnik have been here once before, Kirilenko falling first round in 2004 and Srebotnik a runner-up in 2006.
Also seeded are recent Stanford champion Aleksandra Wozniak and rising stars Ekaterina Makarova and Tamira Paszek.
This is the fifth year Cincinnati has been a stop on the Tour. Lindsay Davenport won the inaugural title in 2004, defeating Vera Zvonareva in the final. Patty Schnyder won in 2005, defeating Akiko Morigami in the final. Zvonareva came back and won the title in 2006, defeating Srebotnik in the final. In 2007, Anna Chakvetadze defeated Morigami in the final.
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