Kuzzie started well but tailed off in the second and had Azarenka not made sure that all nine of her toys found their way out of her pram, I'm fairly certain we would have had a third. A set that I'm not fully convinced Sveta would have won.
Girl's got game, no two ways about it. Unfortunately she's also got too much rage (that's not always pent up), a loose grip on reality (was it really necessary to argue a line call in the very first game?) and an unbecoming tendency to want too much to happen too quickly. Maybe she just rubs me up the wrong way, but I'm almost in favour of Vika dropping out of the top ten till she irons some of that out.
S-LIGHT-ly concerned that Sveta may already have peaked.
Not even going to attempt to convey the intensity of the other semi.
-- I know she lost, but Venus continues to impress with her very un-clay-court like brand of clay court tennis. Especially when she comes to the net. She fills the only remaining unoccupied slot in my five picks for RG.
-- I'm officially scared of this man, and what he can achieve with Dinara: Yet again, Zeljko nursed Dinara back into the match from a set and 2-0 down.
-- No, that'd be a little unfair to Dinara, who still has to go out there and execute. She may not have the Slam results to back up her ranking. But the backbone and unrelenting intensity she exhibited from the second set onwards is very, very convincing.
(Photos: AP)
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