Tak właśnie zwróciłem uwagę, że dwie Włoszki, które mogły coś zdziałać u siebie już są poza turniejem. Z byle kim nie przegrały, ale z drugiej strony i Switolina i JJ były w zasięgu, zwłaszcza w domowej imprezie.
_________________ MTT bilans finałów (8-10) W: Queen's Club 13, Monte Carlo 14, Australian Open 15, Nottingham 15, Chennai 16, Rio de Janeiro 17, Wiedeń 17, Acapulco 18 F: Auckland 14, Miami 14, Roland Garros 14, Waszyngton 14, World Tour Finals 14, Rio de Janeiro 15, US Open 15, Estoril 16, Pekin 17, Rio de Janeiro 18
Serena Williams, the two-time defending champion at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, withdrew from the event ahead of her third round match on Thursday due to a right elbow injury.
"It actually started a little bit in Madrid last week," Williams said in a press conference. "I wasn't serving my best. I have to be able to serve and hit my shots with a lot of confidence, and when you're injured, you don't have that much confidence. It's so important to have it when you go up against any player out there, whether it's in my match today or in the final of a Grand Slam. You just really need it.
"It wasn't an easy decision. I talked with my coach and he said it wouldn't be very smart for me to play, and that we have to make the right decision for the future, and not for now. I told him that I hate quitting, but then he told me this isn't about quitting, it's about making the best decision."
Williams also didn't want to make the same mistake she made last year ahead of Roland Garros.
"I'm learning from bad decisions in the past, even last year," she said. "I ended up taking four days off before Paris and practiced just a day or two before the tournament started, and you never want to enter a Grand Slam under those circumstances, especially as a defending champion like I was last year."
And her prognosis for this year's French Open?
"I think if I continue to play it could get worse, and I would have a situation on my hands, so this is the mature decision," Williams said. "As soon as I've done a medical check I'll let everyone know."
Rome has always been a special tournament for Williams. She won her first clay court title here in 2002 - which you can look back on here - and she hasn't lost a match here since way back in 2010.
"I've played here 100 times and I think I've won 30 times - well, I don't know the math, but I've done really well here!" she said. "But I love Rome. I love playing in Rome. I have a lot of friends here. I love the Tournament Director. I just love being here, and pulling out of this tournament is not fun."
By virtue of the No.1-seeded Williams' withdrawal, American qualifier Christina McHale gets a walkover into the quarterfinals, where she will have an all-qualifier, all-WTA Rising Star battle with Daria Gavrilova, who defeated Timea Bacsinszky, 6-4, 7-6(0), to reach her very first WTA quarterfinal.
McHale and Gavrilova will be playing against each other for the very first time.
_________________ “I doubt about myself, I think the doubts are good in life. The people who don’t have doubts I think only two things: arrogance or not intelligence.”
"When these kind of matches happen you suffer, but I really enjoy these moments. I really enjoy suffering, because what's harder is when I am in Mallorca last year and I had to watch these kind of matches on the TV."
[3] Maria Sharapova (RUS) d [Q] Bojana Jovanovski (SRB) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 3 | [10] Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) d [6] Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) | 6 - 7 (2) | 7 - 5 | 7 - 6 (7) | [4] Petra Kvitova (CZE) d [16] Jelena Jankovic (SRB) | 6 - 3 | 6 - 2 | [Q] Alexandra Dulgheru (ROU) d [8] Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) | 6 - 4 | 6 - 3 | [2] Simona Halep (ROU) d [14] Venus Williams (USA) | 6 - 2 | 6 - 1 | [Q] Daria Gavrilova (RUS) d Timea Bacsinszky (SUI) | 6 - 4 | 7 - 6 | [Q] Christina McHale (USA) d [1] Serena Williams (USA) | 0 - 0 | Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) V Victoria Azarenka (BLR) do rozegrania
_________________ “I doubt about myself, I think the doubts are good in life. The people who don’t have doubts I think only two things: arrogance or not intelligence.”
"When these kind of matches happen you suffer, but I really enjoy these moments. I really enjoy suffering, because what's harder is when I am in Mallorca last year and I had to watch these kind of matches on the TV."
Chyba zdążą, swoją drogą ten mecz to na razie ładny materiał dla hejterów Szarapowej.
_________________ MTT bilans finałów (8-10) W: Queen's Club 13, Monte Carlo 14, Australian Open 15, Nottingham 15, Chennai 16, Rio de Janeiro 17, Wiedeń 17, Acapulco 18 F: Auckland 14, Miami 14, Roland Garros 14, Waszyngton 14, World Tour Finals 14, Rio de Janeiro 15, US Open 15, Estoril 16, Pekin 17, Rio de Janeiro 18
Rejestracja: 31 gru 2011, 0:02 Posty: 5243 Lokalizacja: Warszawa
Udany turniej w Rzymie, w dużej mierze za sprawą świetnej postawy Carli (po raz kolejny w tym roku!) i Darii Gawriłowej. Ta ostatnia to - wiadomo nie od dziś - bardzo utalentowana tenisistka z dobrym czuciem. Poniżej mały pokaz jej możliwości dla tych, którzy jej jeszcze nie znają - całkiem niezły, mimo, że z meczu przegranego.
Coś tam gra, ale konsultacja psychiatryczna wysoce wskazana. Tzn. jeśli Ana Ivanovic wygląda na czyimś tle jak stabilna emocjonalnie i spokojna zawodniczka, to coś jest na rzeczy.
_________________ MTT bilans finałów (8-10) W: Queen's Club 13, Monte Carlo 14, Australian Open 15, Nottingham 15, Chennai 16, Rio de Janeiro 17, Wiedeń 17, Acapulco 18 F: Auckland 14, Miami 14, Roland Garros 14, Waszyngton 14, World Tour Finals 14, Rio de Janeiro 15, US Open 15, Estoril 16, Pekin 17, Rio de Janeiro 18