The Last Grand Slam of the Year

When I looked at the draw for the womens tournamnet the first thing I thought wasthat it was overly top heavy, I have been proven right as the eventual finalist of the bottom half was someone nobody would have expected to take the title nor was the semifinalist Anna Chakvetadze. Justine deserved this win but I would have liked a closer contested final as this year all the finals have been lack luster showing the incompetence of the draw.
Justine played strongly in the first two matches taking her opponent away to pieces whilst some early upsets of Ai Sugiyama and Tatiana Golovin who would have tested both Justine and Dinara more. Both players strolled through the first three rounds however it was Justine who was vitorious demolishing Dinara.
Serena Williams did not look as graceful going into the quatrefinals though she did beat her oponnents in straigt sets. Generally everything went as planned whilst Marion Bartoli was tested by the Mauresmo thrasher Lucie Safarova and Serena yet again took longer than needed to defeat her opponent. Both sisters work better under pressure and it showed when Serena took an easier win against Bartoli 6-3,6-4.
Jelena Jankovic had a relatively easy draw but she laboured through some of her matches showing her lack of energy to the many tournaments she has played. An early upset took the form of Samantha Stosur whilst Elena Dementieva couldn't take the heat and was kicked out by Sybille Bammer 6-1,6-2. Jelena made another 3 set match against Sybille Bammer whilst Jelena took a long time to get through Sybille went through blissfully until the fourth round.
Venus Williams was going to expect an early test by Ana but with her skills Ana would just be a pushover in such a large stadium. Yet again we see from Ana the inexperience and nerves she has. She has potential to be the best and we could see that from her easy wins before Venus but once it gets to the big time she crumbles.
We now begin the bottom half and compared to the top it's nowhere near as difficult. We have a round round upset of Daniela Hantuchova here against Julia Vakulenko whilst Nadia Petrova Loses Agnes Szavay in the third round. Both of these are good players but are not title contencers making this an easy eighth for anyone to go through. But the extent that Nadia lost is quite humiliating for her. In the end this eighth produced three unseeded round three players showing how unpredictable it was.
The next eighth was also a predictable draw with 90% chance that Svetlana would go through to the semis rendering this to be a walkover draw for her, this becomes evident when she gets to the final. Generally she takes little time against her opponents except for Camille Pin. Martina Hingis also showed that she was losing her game when she was defeated by Victoria Azarenka who was easily beaten by Svetlana. The nest eighth was yet another unexciting one with the Anna Chakvetadze probably going through in one of the easiest draws, this could be seen when she went through with ease to the quatrefinals. Patty Schnyder who generally is a round 4 player lost to Tamira Paszek who recently did well in Wimbledon.
The last eighth had the potential to be the best out there but sadly we had a injured Maria who was defeated in the third round in Wimbledon and Nicole who hadn't played in a while, this therefore meant that the other two seeds Peer and Radwanska would have generally a posibilty of getting to the Quatres. When we saw how Maria was disbanding most of her opponents we thought that there was a possibility of her getting to the finals but she was then dispatched by Agnieszka, Nicole also had a tough match with Shahar but I would really have liked to know whether Nicole could have gone further if she beat Shahar.
Overall by this stage it was looking the most top heavy it had ever been, with eight seeds at the top and only 4 at the bottom. Both Justine and Serena had relatively unchallenging fourth round matches therefore yet again they play in the quatrefinals. Whilst both Serbians were tested whilst Ana lost to Venus Jelena prevailed in three sets against Sybille.
The bottom half showed Svetlana only one seed (31) until the semis when Agnes Szavay became her quatrefinal opponent. Whilst Anna Chakvetadze and Shahar Peer went easily through.
Justine then went hardly on the first set and then thrashed Serena in the second. Venus took a tough match against Jelena therefore allowing Justine to play both Williams sisters in the US. Whilst the Russians prevailed in an unchallenging test.
From this point on or even in much earlier stages we knew that the winner would come from the top half and the bottom half finalist was just a lucky winner to get an easy draw, eventually it was Justine against Svetlana. On paper this game would have been quite exciting but anybody who follows tennis would have known how easy this would be for Justine, I bet she was smiling to herself when she was walking to the court knowing that she was going to win her seventh title. Well congrats to Svetlana in getting to the year ending but honestly the field is too strong for her and it would be lucky if she can do her best there!

US Open

Before I talk about the actual US Open I have to say I haven't blogged in an while because I've been so busy with coursework, well anyway this is what I predicted before the Slam.
Henin Vs. Golovin (r1)
Bartoli Vs. S.Williams
Jankovic Vs. Dementieva (r3)
V.Williams Vs. Ivanovic
Petrova Vs. Hantuchova (r1)
Hingis Vs. Kuznetsova
Chakvetadze Vs. Schnyder
Vaidisova Vs Sharapova

Mostly these are the top seeds except for Tatiana Golovin who I thought looked stronger than Dinara this year, but she lost to Ahsha Rolle in the first round!

Federer Vs. Gasquet (r2)
Berdych Vs. Roddick
Davydenko Vs. Murray
Haas Vs. Blake
Robredo Vs. Youzhny (r2)
Hewitt (r2) Vs. Djokovic
Gonzalez (r1) Vs. Ljubicic
Nalbandian Vs. Nadal

Well Justine was always the favourite to take the title with Maria doing badly in Wimbledon her first Grand Slam so I guess all eyes are on her. Well I'm amazed that Ai sugiyama was beaten by Ekaterina Makarova, I always thought Ai Sugiyama was the player that coul not be obstructed by unseeded players, well I guessed wrong. On the other side I didn't expect Tatiana Golovin to go out in the first round but now Dinara will go through so I'm happy!
On Jelena's side I didn't expect Elena to lose to Sybille so badly but now I hope Sybille does well. I also really wanted to see Zi Yan play Ana Ivanovic and see what would happen! With the fifth section I am so shocked that Daniela went out in the first rounf because I thought she would fight on and very shocked by Michaella's defeat which I'm really annoyed about but at least it's Agnes who is in my fantasy tennis.
Nicole has also got a very difficult draw for her ranking, Alla who is a good youngster, Flavia who though isn't doing so well this season has been very good and now Shahar who is always a threat to the top 16 seeds and if she gets through she will be greeted by Maria Sharapova!
In the mens the seeds that have gone out which I liked include Tursunov, Gasquet, Safin, Youzhny and Hewitt. I'm so unhappy and Djokovic made a scare yesterday that I'll never forget! I hope the quaters will be
Isner Vs. Young (Go down Federer, Go on youths)
Berdych Vs. Roddick
Davydenko Vs. Murray
Haas Vs. Blake
Robredo Vs. Moya
Monaco Vs. Djokovic (Calleri beat Hewitt)
Ginepri Vs. Ljubicic
Nalbandian Vs. Tsonga (Go down Nadal)
Then
Young Vs. Roddick (Americans!)
Murray Vs. Haas (Not doing so well players so would be nice for them to play each other after injury)
Djokovic to have a walkover match!
Ljubicic Vs. Tsonga

Roddick Vs. Murray
Djokovic to have another walkover match!
That would be my favourite draw!!!!!!!!!!!!