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2011 Australian Open - Women's Winner

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Who wins the first Women's major from down under? Serena is not playing.

Here is the draw for the seeds.

01 Wozniacki
29 Cibulkova

21 Wickmayer
15 Bartoli

11 Henin
23 Kuznetsova

32 Pironkova
06 Schiavone

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04 Venus
30 Petkovic

20 Kanepi
14 Sharapova

09 Li Na
17 Rezai

28 Hantuchova
08 Azarenka

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07 Jankovic
27 Dulgheru

24 Kleybanova
12 Radwanska

13 Petrova
19 Ivanovic

26 Martinez-Sanchez
03 Clijsters

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05 Stosur
25 Kvitova

22 Pennetta
10 Peer

16 Pavlyuchenkova
18 Kirilenko

31 Safarova
02 Zvonareva
 
whoa, anyone seeing the Date-Krumm vs Radwanska match? Radwanska hit a return, and the racquet head broke completely off and went flying, never seen that happen by hitting a tennis ball, wonder if it was cracked already>?
 
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Careful BN 24,
Bobby Riggs (the original M.C. Pig) once questioned the quality of women's tennis! :biggrin:

Too much digging, probing or questioning of gender equity can "can" an intern. :)

The WTA event at Cincy has struggled historically with ticket sales, tv viewership, and corporate sponsorship,
the solution--
it will be combined with the ATP tour at Cincy this year.

It appears the WTA is doing a credible job in advocating for better prize money, promoting their stars, marketing their unique products, i.e. tennis & fashion wear, etc.
However they are in denial re. the real issues of lagging viewership, sponsorship, and ticket sales.

To answer your question of quality of WTA tennis, the level of play is not just a recent phenomenon,
Herein lies the extreme violation of political correctness,
the unmentionable, the forbidden subject, the "look the king is wearing no clothes!"
But yes, the diminished quality of women's tennis is noticable.
 
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The dead spot was amazing. Roddick had finished his match on Hisense, and hadn't noticed it. But shortly afterwards, they noticed that before the next match started. They actually drilled a couple small holes through the court, and it went back to normal.

It was like popping a blister.
 
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Bucknut24;1860481; said:
haha yea

here's roddick reaction when he saw it

YouTube - Australian Open: how to solve a dead spot
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That was unbelievable!
The ball appeared to be lifeless!
A tennis ball dropped on a "dead spot blister" generally bounces a bit, but that ball went flat and sat.

This has been an unusual Aussie Open so far.

Court Blisters in a major open,
Todd Woodbridge's professional suicide "Big boobs, crabby and pregnant" twitter,
And last but not least, the "intern" exposing the impotent and naked king.
 
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gracelhink;1860640; said:
That was unbelievable!
The ball appeared to be lifeless!
A tennis ball dropped on a "dead spot blister" generally bounces a bit, but that ball went flat and sat.

This has been an unusual Aussie Open so far.

Court Blisters in a major open,
Todd Woodbridge's professional suicide "Big boobs, crabby and pregnant" twitter,
And last but not least, the "intern" exposing the impotent and naked king.
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Smart longshot bet on Kvitova. She took out Stosur today in straight sets, and looked very solid in doing it. It was an excellent day for left-handed Czech women.

Clijsters looked very shaky but advanced.

Zvonareva got a very helpful suggestion from the chair to challenge a ball at 9-9 in the 2nd set tiebreaker. She hit a ball crosscourt that caught the side line but was called out. She didn't realize it, and had her back to the court getting balls because the next point would have been hers to serve. After a second or two (all the time one should get in order to request a challenge), the chair said over the mic "Vera, that was called out", so she turned around and asked for a challenge that she won. She was even awarded the point since her opponent was ruled to not have made an attempt at the ball. That gave her a match point, which she won. She almost had a set point against her, and instead the match ended on the next point.

I think her style is too defensive to win the tournament, though.

I think the semi-finalists will be Wozniacki, Azarenka (although I haven't yet seen her play this week), Clisters, and Kvitova.
 
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Bucknut24;1860889; said:
I thought it was good of the official to tell her it was called out since she didn't realize it, especially since it was in fact in
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I thought they could have replayed the point, since Safarova was saying that she could have made a play for the ball without the out call.

As far as whether or not Safarova could have played the ball, she probably could have reached it, but looked to have given up on it before it bounced, so there was a basis for giving Zvonareva the point. It was very similar to a call that Roddick lost in a major last year and then got into it with the chair umpire - the same spot on the court, except Roddick was the player that gave up on the ball, not the one that hit it.

In my mind, it's up to the player to see and/or hear the call. I don't remember if the woman in the chair said '10-9, Safarova' before saying 'Vera, the ball was called out'. Vera had to know the score was 9-9 before the point, since they had just changed ends. So just announcing the score should have been enough to let Vera know that the 'out' call had been made.

Since she went out of her way to let Zvonareva know that she may want to challenge it, I thought she'd have the point replayed, as somewhat of a compromise.
 
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