Sunday, 13 May 2007

Nearing Roland Garros

Both in WTA and ATP there are going to be Tier I events so it's really exciting. In the WTA we have the BNL d'Italia and ATP Masters Series Hamburg.
In The WTA Amelie Mauresmo is the highest rank (no.3). In her quartet she will probably face Patty Schnyder and Serena Williams, with her current status I don't think she'll have enough to beat Serena if they meet. However Serena will have to fight against some strong players or rising stars, so it'll be difficult for her.
We then have my most dislike player Jelena Jankovic at no.3 seed. She will play from Alona, Flavia or Tathiana early on and may have to fight against Nadia Petrova for the Semi final spot.
Anna Chakvetadze is the 7th seed with Daniela Hantuchova on her eighth as well. They also have Gisela and Sybille in there eigtht so it will be interesting as there about the same level at the moment.
Nicole should have an easy draw up to the semis so if everything goes to plan she will do fine as on her eighth the most difficult is Katarina.
The Last quartet is filled with Safina, Ivanovic,Li and Kuznetsova besides them I don't see much competition for semi final spots. It looks difficult as Ivanovic will be on a high but will she be out of gas and Na Li against Svetlana will be difficult too.
My Quaterfinal line up
Samantha Stosur Vs. Serena Williams
Alona Bondarenko Vs. Elena Dementieva
Daniela Hantuchova Vs. Nicole Vaidisova
Ana Ivanovic Vs. Na Li
Semifinal
Serena Vs. Alona
Nicole Vs. Li
and the final is...
Serena Vs. Nicole (yeah, go girls)
...What may happen is
Amelie Mauresmo Vs. Serena Williams
Jelena Jankovic Vs. Nadia Petrova
Daniela Hantuchova Vs. Nicole Vaidisova
Dinara Safina Vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova
Semis...
Serena Williams Vs. Jelena Jankovic
Nicole Vaidisova Vs. Svetlana Kuznetsova
then i don't know???
On the ATP
we have Roger Federer as No.1 seed though at this rate Nadal will quickly catch up. I believe by next year Federer would only be a few hundred points above Nadal.
Well as you know by now I really like Marat Safin so I hope he will get through, though recently he hasn't been doing so well but I hope he can get to play Federer.
Then we have a score of players like Djokovic, Youzhny and Blake who I like in the second quartet.
We then have Murray and Hewitt on the third quartet which I like.
and the final quartet we have Richard Gasquet and Dmitry Tursunov.
What I want to happen:
Marat Safin Vs. Robby Ginepri
Novak Djokovic Vs. James Blake
Andy Murray Vs. Lleyton Hewitt
Richard Gasquet Vs. Dmitry Tursunov
though the chances are slim
then in the semis
Marat Vs. Blake (needs a boost)
Hewitt (needs a boost) Vs. Gasquet
Marat Vs. Hewitt (will never happen on clay)
What may happen:
Federer Vs. Ljubicic
Djokovic Vs. Berdych
Robredo Vs. Davydenko
Gonzalez Vs. Nadal
Nadal will win and Federer will not be the finalist I think.

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