Semi-Final Line Up Completed

Well only 3 more matches on the WTA Singles Tour until the season ends and it's looking like a final match between Justine and Maria.
First let's go to the Yellow Group.
Justine was sure to place in the top 2 I believed before the tournament and she has shown her strength and depth in the game, personally I believed the last spot would go to Jankovic or Serena but as Serena had to retire from injury Bartoli took her spot. From that retirement Anna Chakvetadze was ahead of the game with one free match on her hands. Looking at the aweful form Jelena Jankovic was in Chakvetadze was deemed to be the second semifinalist and that became true. Therefore letting Justine win the group and Anna come second in an awefully easy line up in the end as main threats Jelena and Serena had fallen from grace.
The match between Justine and Jelena had determined much of the proceedings of the future matches, the easy defeat by Jelena meant that she was not in form and directly contrasting this with the Anna Chakvetadze game who Justine beat 61 , 76(4) meant that Anna looked in a better state as Justine was in great form, as seen with her thrashing of Marion Bartoli 60 60 (to all Bartoli fans I'm sorry to say she deserves what she got.)
With Serena retiring Anna's hopes were elevated higher than ever and it only took a win from Jelena (though tough) to clinch the final spot, whether Jelena beat Marion was not important and I guess by what happened she had felt disheartened and retired, this meant that Jelena has a 0-3 record in the Season Endings which is not something to be proud of, I'm not sure if it was her nerves or her form but I tend to think it was her form as at the last tournament she played she wasn't doing well (a sign of playing too many tournaments).
The draw that I had though would be the dommed group became the easier group to qualify in.
On the Red group I had always thought that Daniela had no chance and depending on what Maria could do it would be Maria and Ana and that was true, from what we saw of Maria this week we can finally say she's coming back. With three wins and an easy thrashing of Ana Ivanovic we have seen Maria progress on her back to form and how good would that be! But one thing I thought was that Svetlana Kuznetsova wasn't in bad form but she was just outclassed by her opponents showing how much she doesn't deserve her No.2 ranking. Well I think it will be easy pickings for Justine and Maria in the semifinals and I am actually prepared to read about the Maria Vs Justine final.

Leading to the Finale

Well another year passes by and this year we see the general dominance from Justine Henin and Roger Federer however flaws in the perfect game of Roger Federer are showing and will he be dominant two years on? But this blog isn't to comment on that rather on the year ending tournament.
Well what a shame Andy Murray couldn't get to the final, the heartbreaking thing was he was only one match away. But he let someone who also deserved it through and that was Richard Gasquet, good luck to Richard as I always knew you'll have your year in tennis. Though Andy Murray may not lift Britain's hopes there are still a lot to watch in the men's Year End and also the Final of the Paris Masters, David Nalbandian Vs. Rafael Nadal, Nalbandian is definitely having the time of his career beating Roger Federer in two Masters and setting a final against Rafael Nadal, will he continue his run next year to get to the Top 10? who knows but I was dissapointed that Novka Djokovic lost so early but I guess it prolonged our hopes for Andy Murray to get to the Year End. On the women's side I was really hoping to see Nicole Vs Lindsay and I'm sure if Nicole didn't retire and was in form like her previous tournament she would have done that but oh-well guess I'll just have to hope for her fitness next time. But Lindsay Davenport is still showing the power she has in the game and if she goes back full-time I'm sure her come-back would be more glittering than Martina Hingis!
But the year ends our looming and on the mens side a blockbuster line-up of Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, Davydenko, Roddick, Ferrer, Gonzalez and Gasquet. Personally I think the top 3 seeds will be dominant and then the other 5 will be left to fight of because I'm guessing Federer and Nadal will be winners in there groups and Djokovic will be second in either of them so the group that doesn't have Federer or Nadal and Djokovic will be the luckier one! But I'm hoping to see Djokovic in the final so hopefully he'll be drawn with Federer and come second play Nadal and beat him!
Well we now know the women's draw and what a lopsided one it is,
Yellow Group
Justine Henin
Jelena Jankovic
Serena Williams
Anna Chakvetadze
Red Group
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Ana Ivanovic
Maria Sharapova
Daniela Hantuchova

Well in the Yellow group I think the three biggest threats are drawn together so personally I think the winner will come from that group. Justine should beat all of them in her group as she has had success against Jelena and Serena this year in important events so Three wins for Justine, then it will be a tussle for Jelena and Serena to win against each other and hopefully both will beat Anna Chakvetadze so i don't think Anna has a chance.
On the Red side which I think is massively uneven Svetlana and Ana look to be the top as Maria has been off for a long time from injury and Daniela Hantuchova I'm just unsure about so to be safe I think Svetlana and Ana should go through unless Maria does anything special. Svetlana will beat Ana, maybe beat Maria and beat Daniela
Ana will lose to Svetlana, maybe beat Maria, tussle with Daniela
Maria will maybe beat all of them
Daniela will maybe lose to all of them
so it means my SF line up
Justine Vs. Ana
Serena Vs. Svetlava