The women's double tournament at the Australian Open has been just incredible throughout. First there was the team of Su-Wei Hsieh(ROC) and Shuai Peng (PROC), who suprisingly enough were the number 16 seed: tennis diplomacy off the table? The first two rounds unfolded pretty much according to the rankings, but in round three Hsieh and Peng took out the number 2 seed Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual while the number 3 seed USA's Lisa Raymond and co lost to France's Nathalie Dechy and co. In the quarters the Hantuyama unit as they are called sent the no. 1 seed home, while Serena and Venus took a little while with Hsieh and Peng. I stopped keeping up at that point, because I saw that Serena and Venus faced Francesca Schiavone and partner in the next round. Francesca Schiavone can be tough, but Serena and Venus handled the team 6-0 6-2. The Hantuyama unit sent Nathalie Dechy and Italy's Mara Santangelo packing. That's good tennis.
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