[twiffatticy]

Order of Play - Sunday, February 14, 2010

Centre Court (from 12.00hrs)

1. Sorana Cirstea vs. Francesca Schiavone
2. Sabine Lisicki vs. Chan Yung-Jan
3. Daniela Hantuchova vs. Vesna Manasieva (NB 16.00hrs)
4. Marion Bartoli vs. Ekaterina Makarova (NB 19.00hrs)
5. Zheng Jie vs. Alicia Molik

Court 1 (from 12.00hrs)

1. Maria Kirilenko vs. Regina Kulikova
2. Alisa Kleybanova vs. Anna-Lena Groenefeld
3. Katarina Srebotnik vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Court 2 (from 12.00hrs)

1. Kateryna Bondarenko vs. Magdalena Rybarikova
2. Anastasija Sevastova vs. Vera Dushevina
3. Timea Bacsinszky vs. Kirsten Flipkens

[antonyandruleit]

Main Draw

Top Half

[1] Wozniacki vs Bye
Shvedova vs Cibulkova
Razzano vs WC Sfar
Peer vs [13] Wickmayer

[11] Bartoli vs Q Makarova
Schyder vs Dulgheru
Martinez Sanchez vs Safarova
[8] Na Li vs Bye

[3]Venus Williams vs bye
Lisicki vs Q Chan Y J
Benesova vs Govoertsova
Cirstea vs [14] Schiavone

[9] Stosur vs Garbin
Srebotnik vs Pavlyuchenkova
Hantuchova vs Q Manasieva
[5] Dementieva vs Bye

Bottom Half

[6] Jankovic vs Bye
Bammer vs Rezai
Bacsinsky vs Q Flipkens
Vesnina vs [12] Zvonareva

[16] Zheng vs Q Molik
Kleybanova vs Q Groenefeld
K Bondarenko vs Rybarikova
[4] Azarenka vs Bye

[7] Aga Radwanska vs Bye
Q Sevastova vs Dushevina
Petkovic vs A Bondarenko
Czink vs [10] WC Pennetta

[15] Petrova vs WC Vogele
WC Kirilenko vs Q Kulikova
Mirza vs Medina Garrigues
[2] Kuznetsova vs Bye

[Smabeabumjess]

Odd seeing Wozniacki as the top seed at such a big event. Guess I should get used to it.

[RotsLoado]

Regina Kulikova d. Maria Kirilenko 63 60

Guess (kind of hope?) she is still injured.

[qwerty1]

Regina Kulikova d. Maria Kirilenko 63 60

Guess (kind of hope?) she is still injured.

That scoreline does suggest she's still hurt, but knowing Makiri, it's hard to tell.

[KatoabamyHant]

What a great opportunity for Lisicki to resurrect her tennis career.

[vintsqyuid]

What a great opportunity for Lisicki to resurrect her tennis career.

Venus must be Sabine's next opponent.

[KatoabamyHant]

Venus must be Sabine's next opponent.

Well, Sabine has to win a match first; and Venus has to find a way to get by Bye. Nothing automatic about that tough matchup.

[vintsqyuid]

Well, Sabine has to win a match first; and Venus has to find a way to get by Bye. Nothing automatic about that tough matchup.

Sabine already won her match today. Now, Venus has to find out how to defeat bye tomorrow.

[kilibry]

Odd seeing Wozniacki as the top seed at such a big event. Guess I should get used to it.

At least until the US Open is over this year.

[KatoabamyHant]

Sabine already won her match today. Now, Venus has to find out how to defeat bye tomorrow.

She's cooked.

[twiffatticy]

Order of Play - Monday, February 15, 2010

Centre Court (from 12.00hrs)

1. Sania Mirza vs. Anabel Medina Garrigues
2. Samantha Stosur vs. Tathiana Garbin
3. Virginie Razzano vs. Selima Sfar
4. Melinda Czink vs. Flavia Pennetta (NB 19.00hrs)
5. Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Anastasija Sevastova

Court 1 (from 12.00hrs)

1. Shahar Peer vs. Yanina Wickmayer
2. Patty Schnyder vs. Alexandra Dulgheru
3. Medina Garrigues/Wozniacki vs. Peer/Voskoboeva
4. María José Martínez Sánchez vs. Alberta Brianti
5. Iveta Benesova vs. Olga Govortsova (NB 18.00hrs)

Court 3 (from 12.00hrs)

1. Yaroslava Shvedova vs. Dominika Cibulkova
2. Andrea Petkovic vs. Alona Bondarenko
3. Elena Vesnina vs. Vera Zvonareva (NB 15.00hrs)
4. Nadia Petrova vs. Stefanie Voegele

Court 6 (from 12.00hrs)

1. Sybille Bammer vs. Aravane Rezai
2. Kleybanova/Schiavone vs. Grandin/Tu
3. Senoglu/Shvedova vs. Azarenka/Kuznetsova
4. Hantuchova/Vesnina vs. Bondarenko/Bondarenko

Court 7 (from 12.00hrs)

1. Borwell/Kops-Jones vs. Peschke/Srebotnik
2. Dzehalevich/Kudryavtseva vs. Makarova/Yan (NB 13.30hrs)
3. Groenefeld/Schnyder vs. Dekmeijere/Garbin

[RotsLoado]

RESULTS
Singles - First Round
(11) Marion Bartoli (FRA) d. (Q) Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) 62 60
(14) Francesca Schiavone (ITA) d. Sorana Cirstea (ROU) 62 75
(Q) Alicia Molik (AUS) d. (16) Zheng Jie (CHN) 63 46 62
Sabine Lisicki (GER) d. (Q) Chan Yung-Jan (TPE) 61 64
Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) d. (Q) Vesna Manasieva (RUS) 64 64
Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) d. Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK) 63 61
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) d. Katarina Srebotnik (SLO) 62 61
(Q) Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER) d. Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 16 75 62
(Q) Anastasija Sevastova (LAT) d. Vera Dushevina (RUS) 62 57 75
(Q) Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) d. Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) 63 64
(Q) Regina Kulikova (RUS) d. (WC) Maria Kirilenko (RUS) 63 60

[adoreorerie]

Nice win for Shahar today in her opening match with Yanina; took her in 3 sets.
I wonder who the crowd was rooting for?
Do you think the fans are allowed to wave Israeli flags in suppost of her like at other venues?

[gymnAnemoe]

Zvonareva is on the court, I'm surprised they scheduled her today, coming all the way from Thailand as she is.

[whatisthebluepill]

Zvonareva is on the court, I'm surprised they scheduled her today, coming all the way from Thailand as she is.

They did the samething to Mauresmo last year but she withdrew.

[vintsqyuid]

They did the samething to Mauresmo last year but she withdrew.

Safarova was also scheduled for today but she w/d.

[gymnAnemoe]

So is Vesnina the replacement of Sugiyama as Dani's doubles partner? I don't remember having seen heard of them playing together before.

(And, looks-wise, it makes a great team).

[vintsqyuid]

So is Vesnina the replacement of Sugiyama as Dani's doubles partner? I don't remember having seen heard of them playing together before.

(And, looks-wise, it makes a great team).

Good question but Vesnina is a very capable doubles player.

[Sx1qBli0]

Sania Mirza’s career-threatening injury returns
Monday, 15 Feb, 2010

DUBAI: Sania Mirza, the first Indian woman to score high profile success in tennis, admitted on Monday after defeat in the first round of the Dubai Open that a career-threatening wrist injury had returned.

Mirza was beaten 6-3, 6-4 by Anabel Medina Garrigues, the world number 33 from Spain, and her performance looked little like those of the zingy, dynamic player who has become the heroine of much of Asia.

“It hurts when I stretch to a forehand. It hurts when I try to hit a hard cross court backhand,” the 23-year-old from Hyderabad said.

“So you know it’s tough when you’re playing with that and then mentally you’re struggling, thinking ‘oh great the wrist is back. Oh how am I going to deal with it’.”

“I was thinking during the match. And ‘okay, what am I going to do? Do I play Malaysia? Do I go back home? Do I see my doctor?’ All these things were going on in my head at that point in time.”

Mirza did pause to acknowledge that Garrigues was “a very good player, no doubt about it,” and to state that the injury was not the main reason for her defeat.

She also revealed that after a doctor came on court, taping the wrist and taking a few anti-inflammatory tablets were the only short-term remedies possible.

Mirza apparently began to feel the injury again two days ago and since then it has kept getting worse. When she tried to take a more optimistic view, she vacillated between doing so and admitting increasing worry about her future.

“You go through good patches and bad patches and that is something we have to deal with as athletes. It’s like your good day at work and your bad day at work,” said Mirza.

“For us it happens every week, every day. So it’s just something you have to fight through and hope that things change around, because they have to. At some point they will.

“You know you win one of those ugly matches and you suddenly get your confidence back. But right now that’s not my major concern. My main concern is my wrist – which I have to sort out.”

Afterwards Mirza reportedly went to a specialist to discover how much deterioration there has been to an injury which seemed to have improved after an operation nearly two years ago.

She appears doubtful for the 220,000-dollar Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur starting a week today.

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/...-returns-ha-09