The seeding is holding pretty well at Wimbledon, leading to a very exciting day of tennis today as the third round gets underway. Just some quick observations on rounds 1 and 2:
Round 1: Emilie Loit of France defeated China's Tiantian Sun 6-3 6-1: the People have got to be displeased. USA's Jill Craybas out to Alona Bondarenko of the Ukraine 1-6 2-6. USA's Ashley Harkleroad out to Italy's Roberta Vinci 2-6 1-6. This is more hindsight since I see that she is a factor for round 3, Patty Schnyder very narrowly defeated France's Camille Pin 6-1 6-4 8-6. The Daniela Hantuchova (with a number 10 seed - I'm impressed) on. Possibly hamstring hampered Serena on. Oops, USA's Meghann Shaughnessy out 2-6 4-6 to Jarmila Gajdosova of Slovakia. Greece's Daniilidou (out in the first round on the French clay) on. Oops, USA's Shenay Perry down 6-2 6-7 (4-7) to France's Aravane Rezai (somebody was over-confidently not focused). Veteran doubles great Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain took out her young home sister Anabel Medina Garrigues; Anabel made quite the noice in Paris; sorry about that. Sanya Mirza 6-0 6-3 in her match. Number 11 seeded Petrova took out USA's Vania King 6-0 6-1. USA's Bethanie Mattek 6-1 6-0 over Russia's Vasilisa Bardina. Israel's Anna Smashnova down love love to Germany's Martina Muller. China's Shuai Peng down 4-6 4-6 to Hana Sromova of Czech Republic (the People's Republic can't be too happy with that.) This is really interesting: Tatiana Golovin's injury was tested to the utmost by the Republic of China's Su-Wei Hsieh 5-7 6-3 8-6.
Round 2: Number 17 seeded Tatiana is again tested in three rounds, this time successfully by Austria's Tamira Paszek: Tatiana is out 2-6 6-3 1-6 (I hope the Queen is happy now!). Emilie Loit out. Patty Schnyder on. The Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia 7-5 7-6 (7-3) over Likhovtseva! Serena on. Daniilidou out. Martina Hingis, raising the brow of her still fervent fan base, 6-1 6-2 over Japanese Aiko Nakamura. But Aiko's home sister, Akiko Morigami has caused the upset of the event so far on the women's side with her defeat of the number 13 seed Russia's Dinara Safina 6-4 7-5. USA's Laura Granville on! Meilen Tu 4-6 3-6 against French Open finalist Ivanovic. Virginia Ruano Pascual on (opps, didn't see that.) Sania Mirza out to Petrova 2-6 2-6. Mauresmo on. Kutzy on. Dementieva on. Ai Sugiyama on in three sets. Sharapova on. Venus on. The seeds held in all but 7 of the 32 matches.
Round 3 preview: At this posting Justin Henin and Patty Schnyder are on, and will face each other in the next round. Venus faces upstart Japan's Akiko Morigami (quite interesting.) Virginia Ruano Pascual faces Petrova. USA's Laura Granville is waiting for her match with Martina Hingis (whose birthdate is listed as 30 September 1980; is that right: Marina Hingis is 26.)
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