Wednesday, January 7, 2009

A look at the Brisbane quarterfinals

Top seed Ana Ivanovic had to save two match points before she could dispense with Roberta Vinci in their second round match in Brisbane. Her reward will be a meeting with Amelie Mauresmo, who had to fight off match points against Julie Coin. The winner is probably going to end up playing Marion Bartoli, who is favored to defeat Tathiana Garbin (nice to see Garbin show up in a quarterfinal, though).

At the other end of the draw, Olga Govorstova will play the relentless Sara Errani, and Lucie Safarova will play Victoria Azarenka. I would like to see the Safarova-Azarenka match. Safarova is another in that long list of the talented but inconsistent (that list seems to be getting longer, doesn't it?).

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