Another day, a fresh new round of WTA upsets.
Except nowadays I’m not so sure of what qualifies as an upset.
Peer d. Li Na 7-5 3-0 (Ret.)
Wickmayer, Razzano, Wozniacki and Li Na. That’s some kinda run.
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I just find the whole of ShaharGate tiresome - only a little less so than those overly simplistic and mostly inane analyses that continue to pretend we live in a world without root causes.
Poetic justice is the way I heard her run here described.
Really?
I suppose they still think sport and politics don’t mix.
Try telling Arthur Ashe that.
What I don’t find tiring and infinitely more poetic, is how players like Peer and Safarova appear to have rediscovered their form of late 2007. Back then they were heading up the second tier.
Could they have somehow profited from Fed’s glory in Oz?
Seems he’s not the only one intent on turning the clock back three years.
I figure his incredible victory over Murray delivered a massive EMF burst, that has partially reconfigured the universe back to what it was in 07.
With the return of the Pre-Safinite Sisterhood, and with Fed once again delivering beatdowns that leave your eyebrows singed, it does seem suspiciously déjà vu.
Zvonareva d. Jankovic 6-3 6-2
Smokin’ hot and smokin’ not.
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Vera came into this event on a high having carried over the larger part of her most potent form from Thailand.
With Indian Wells (and all those points to defend) only weeks away, it couldn’t have come at a better time.
Jelena carried over the most potent parts of precisely nothing.
This time last year, I was predicting for her to win her first Slam at RG – nowadays one wonders whether she’ll even be in top ten contention by then.
I’d actually like to see Vera go on and win this thing – though she’s a set down to Vika as we speak.
Kulikova d. Kuznetsova 7-5 6-7 (2-7) 4-6
Not poetic. Not poetic at all.
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