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.
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