[verybigf]

She better not! I just put her on my team!!!

LOL, trying to find an official link, but I think it's legit.

http://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/breves2...o-forfait.html

After her win in Paris Open, Amélie Mauresmo has announced she would withdraw from Dubai tournament, which began Sunday. The French had little chance to shine in the UAE since the organizers have scheduled on Monday, against the Spaniard Medina Garrigues (No. 14), which would have forced to travel through the night to arrive on time.
Expected, good choice.

Foxy

[HawksBurnDown]

LOL, trying to find an official link, but I think it's legit.

http://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/breves2...o-forfait.html

After her win in Paris Open, Amélie Mauresmo has announced she would withdraw from Dubai tournament, which began Sunday. The French had little chance to shine in the UAE since the organizers have scheduled on Monday, against the Spaniard Medina Garrigues (No. 14), which would have forced to travel through the night to arrive on time.
Expected, good choice.

Foxy

Amelie's in a place again where she has to pull out of tournaments because she won the one before. It truly is a magical time.

[RIjdrVs3]

Definitely a nice "problem" to have

[LINETFAD]

UAE is going to get so much flak over the Shahar Peer thing...Even Qatar let her in, why couldn't Dubai?

Mauresmo pulling out is good. With a traveling schedule like that, she'd have been hard pressed to make it out of the first round, much less have a decent rest of the tournament.

[drugsprevi]

UAE is going to get so much flak over the Shahar Peer thing...Even Qatar let her in, why couldn't Dubai?

Mauresmo pulling out is good. With a traveling schedule like that, she'd have been hard pressed to make it out of the first round, much less have a decent rest of the tournament.

UAE won't care about the flak
The only thing that will affect them would be losing the tournaments (or the players) and that won't happen.

[HawksBurnDown]

Meanwhile, all this distraction almost made me miss this tastiness: Agnieszka drew lil sis first up in Dubai.

And Ana gets a rematch v. Kleybanova.

[Doctorpills]

Urszula wins the first Tour-level match between the sisters Radwanska in straights in front of a crowd of... their parents...maybe a few cousins.

Nice on-court interview afterwards, but a little awkward considering the interviewer must have made up 10% of the crowd.

[Scukonah]

Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
February 15-21, 2009
Premier
Prize Money: $2,000,000
[B]Draw:[/B] 56M/32Q/28D
Surface: Hardcourt/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Salah Tahlak

Official Web Site:
www.dubaitennischampionships.com


Player Name Nat. Rank
Serena Williams USA 1
Dinara Safina RUS 2
Jelena Jankovic SRB 3
Elena Dementieva RUS 4
Vera Zvonareva RUS 5
Venus Williams USA 6
Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS 7
Ana Ivanovic SRB 8
Agnieszka Radwanska POL 9
Nadia Petrova RUS 10
Marion Bartoli FRA 11
Alize Cornet FRA 14
Dominika Cibulkova SVK 18
Anna Chakvetadze RUS 19
Jie Zheng CHN 20
Anabel Medina Garrigues ESP 21
Amelie Mauresmo FRA 23
Kaia Kanepi EST 24
Agnes Szavay HUN 25
Ai Sugiyama JPN 26
Sybille Bammer AUT 27
Alisa Kleybanova RUS 28
Na Li CHN 29
Daniela Hantuchova SVK 33
Maria Kirilenko RUS 37
Francesca Schiavone ITA 38
(From Official Site)

[inmeirulez]

Damn, the entire top eleven.

[RIjdrVs3]

But will Petrova be playing?

And Domi for that matter?