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Post by jimm on Aug 19, 2008 21:25:12 GMT
30-30 hold serve Marion!!
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Post by jimm on Aug 19, 2008 21:31:12 GMT
YAY!!!!!! What a brave fight by Lil Marion!!!! Wins 2-6 6-4 7-5!!! Way to go Marion!!
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Post by jimm on Aug 20, 2008 8:00:06 GMT
August 19, 2008
Mauresmo, Bartoli Survive Openers; Black, Huber Out
NEW HAVEN, CT, USA - The last three first round matches and the first two second round matches were on the Day 3 schedule at the Pilot Pen Tennis presented by Schick on Tuesday, although the biggest surprise came in the doubles competition.
Nine first round matches were played on Sunday and Monday and the last three all took the court Tuesday. No.6 seed Flavia Pennetta was the highest-profile winner, cruising past Gisela Dulko without any trouble, 63 61. Also moving on were Amélie Mauresmo, who toughed out a 62 67(3) 62 victory over Kaia Kanepi, and qualifier Monica Niculescu, who beat Maria Kirilenko in another three-setter, 67(7) 62 61.
Mauresmo hasn't had her best season in 2008 but showed encouraging signs last week in Cincinnati, reaching her first semifinal of the year in her first event since Wimbledon. In New Haven she returns to one of her most treasured sites, having reached the quarterfinals or better in all seven of her previous tries (including one final in 2005, where she was a runner-up to Lindsay Davenport). With her win over Kanepi, she improved to 15-7 lifetime at the Tier II tournament.
The first second round match of the day nearly ended in an upset, but No.3 seed Marion Bartoli battled back to beat Tsvetana Pironkova - who has had some huge wins in her blossoming career - in a tight three-setter, 26 64 75. No.4 seed Agnes Szavay, who burst into prominence right here last year by making it all the way to the final as a qualifier, played lucky loser Sara Errani under the lights in the night match and battled for over two and a half hours for a 64 67(3) 64 victory.
There was high drama in Day 3 doubles, as top seeds and co-world No.1s Cara Black and Liezel Huber were ousted in their first match of the week by wildcard pair Liga Dekmeijere and Patty Schnyder in a match tie-break, 63 36 106. Black and Huber are the clear-cut No.1 team this year, winning seven Sony Ericsson WTA Tour doubles titles together, six of those coming at the Tier II level or higher. Also drawing the crowds was the unseeded team of Davenport and Daniela Hantuchova, which beat Jill Craybas and Olga Govortsova, 63 64.
The remaining six second round singles matches plus several more doubles matches are all on the Wednesday schedule at the Pilot Pen Tennis.
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Post by SuperMarion on Aug 20, 2008 19:29:08 GMT
Here by yourself again! :9 Great win. I think the news wires had written her off by the end of the first set.
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Post by jimm on Aug 21, 2008 23:26:49 GMT
Caroline Wozniacki made it three wins in a row over Marion, winning 6-4 6-3 at New Haven today.
The match was level until 4-4 in the first set. However the Dane went on to win the next eight games, and deliver Marion a 2nd set bagel.
Wozniacki's impregnable first serve was a key strength of her game today. Marion reached only one break point in the match.
During Tuesday's match Marion's ankle/calf area remained taped-up from Montreal. At this stage it isnt possible to assertain whether or not residual injury had any bearing on today's outcome. However, Marion's participation at New Haven remained doubtful right up until last weekend.
New Haven is rather inconveniantly placed in an already congested tour calender. In view of Marion's fitness, today's exit at New Haven at least ensures Marion will now be able to focus her undivided attention on next week's US Open.
The draw for the US Open has already been made. Marion is seeded 12, and will play Russian Galina Voskoboeva, whom she has beaten on both their previous encounters. Voskoboeva was in fact Marion's first victim on her way to winning the tournament in Quebec in 2006. Hopefully this is a good omen to wash away the disappointment of today's defeat.
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Post by Supermarion on Aug 22, 2008 16:16:02 GMT
She got a hammering Jim. These Wozniack(i)'s are getting to be Marion's bogey players.
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Post by Supermarion on Aug 22, 2008 16:17:13 GMT
That early draft is a mess. IsnconveniEnt.
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