It was no surprise to me that Samantha Stosur, who has, almost, the perfect game to play on Grass was defeated so early. The big problem of Sam on that surface is her foot work. Not it’s bad, but it doesn’t allow her to be quick enough to use her forehand as much as she does on Clay. So she was out on the first round, so was the destroyer of her dreams, Schiavone.
Kanepi, who defeated the Aussie, is now on her first Grand slam quarter final. And since she had problem with injuries last year, she had to pass by the qualification rounds to make it here. Which might caused her a problem against Kvitova who is having the time of her life at this tournament, defeated everybody on her way. She defeated Cirstea, Zheng, Azarenka and even trashed out Wozniacki 6-2, 6-0.
The Williams sisters are always dominants on grass and this year is no exception as they both reached the quarter final. It wasn’t that complicated for them, only their round of sixteen opponent shows a bit of problem, but didn’t last. Serena had to face Sharapova, and if the tall Russian held her part of the bargain in the first set, she just became too heavy on her foot in the second. Venus didn’t expect such an opposition from Growth, which a salute for reaching a fourth round in Slam. She just lack of experience on those great event and I guess that was the end of her.
Kuznetsova is continuing her disastrous year and lost in the second round to Rodionova who then lost to Na Li, who is now also in the quart a final after beating Radwanska and she will now face Serena. They had such a fight in Australie this year, we never know what can happen.
Another Player struggling for a while is Pennetta, and she was out in the third defeated by Zakapalova who then lost the Kanepi.
Cjisters brilliantly come back after losing the first set to Henin, but Justine had in her head to beat the other Belgian playing the same game then her from the baseline, as kim was totally dominant from there. She would probably say that the injury timeout bugged her. Sorry Justine, it is just something you were doing then and you still do now.
And speaking of drama queen, Jelena Jankovic was in a good way to do better then she ever did in wimbledon, but it is true, this time, that she has an excuse, as just got a bad injury in her second round match, just got worst in her third and couldn’t keep up against a very in form Zvonereva who is going after the Belgian in quart.
Let’s also mentioned the good run of the pack of bones Pironkova, who, without having very tough opponents, doesn’t have any problem to get rid of them either but what will she be able to do against Venus Williams in quart?
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