Wimbledon 2006

[alsl]

I hope this thread covers Wta too..

Anyway...BIG NEWS IN EASTBOURNE!!!

semifinal line ups

kim clijsters vs justine henin hardenne
Anastasia myskina vs svetlana kuznetsova

so there will definetly be a russian and belgian in the final!!!WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ;D

Hope the final will be Sveta and Justine..get some revenge on a faster court Sveta!!

and in the doubles..
Sveta and Mo will be going agaisnt Bartoli/Peer or Hantuchova/Sugiyama in the quarters.

[Annie]

Great great news Adelene ;D ;D ;D Thanks Glad Nastya is picking up too ;D

[Annie]

Wimbledon Ladies' Singles Preview

Friday, 23 June, 2006


Venus Williams, defending her Wimbledon crown for the third time, can expect to face top seed Amelie Mauresmo of France in the quarter-final round of the 2006 Championships.

Sixth seeded Williams, whose experience at Wimbledon includes winning finals in 2000, 2001 and 2005, as well as twice being a runner-up to sister Serena in 2002 and 2003, may need to call on all her history of success on the All England Club courts to take on Mauresmo, the reigning Australian Open champion, who so far has been no further than three semi-finals at Wimbledon.

Mauresmo starts Wimbledon as favourite for the first time against qualifier Ivana Abramovic of Croatia, and could be playing fellow French player Tatiana Golovin in the third round, followed by the 14th seeded Dinara Safina of Russia in the last sixteen.

Williams begins against fellow American Bethanie Mattek and is due to take on Anastasia Myskina of Russia in the fourth round. Myskina, a quarter-finalist for the first time last year, has been no further than the last sixteen in both the Australian and French championships this year.

Of the three women who have won Grand Slam titles since Wimbledon last year, second seed Kim Clijsters of Belgium has by far the hardest start against Vera Zvonareva of Russia, ranked 47th, who underlined her form on grass by coming through the field at Birmingham last week to lift the title over Jamea Jackson in the final.

Providing Clijsters can pass that first test she should be heading for a quarter-final against another Russian, seventh seeded Svetlana Kuznetsova who was runner-up in the French Open final to Justine Henin-Hardenne.

Third seed Henin-Hardenne, also runner-up in the Australian Open this year where she was forced to retire in the final, opens against 99th ranked Meng Yuan of China and should then head to the quarter-finals against eighth seed Patty Schnyder of Switzerland.

But Schnyder faces a fourth round match against her fellow Swiss player Martina Hingis, the youngest champion of Wimbledon in 1997, who is back in the Championships for the first time since 2001. Hingis, seeded twelfth, begins against Olga Savchuk of the Ukraine.

Maria Sharapova, the third former champion in the draw, begins against Anna Smashnova of Israel who suffered first round defeats in the Australian and French Opens this year. Sharapova, a semi-finalist in the Australian and a fourth round loser in the French, should face seventh seed Elena Dementieva of Russia in the quarter-finals.

Wimbledon's semi-final line-up is seeded to be Mauresmo against Sharapova and Henin-Hardenne against Clijsters. Whether that happens in reality depends on who can set the pace and find form in the early rounds. Hingis lurks as an intriguing opponent for Henin-Hardenne while Clijsters, the US Open champion, will have to carve out her career-best Wimbledon to reach the final.

Britain has five players in the ladies' singles. Anne Keothavong, the highest ranked at 143rd in the world, begins against Karolina Sprem of Croatia. Katie O'Brien faces Tathiana Garbin of Italy. Naomi Cavaday plays 18th seed Ai Sugiyama of Japan, Sarah Borwell is matched against Marta Domachowska of Poland, and Melanie South takes on the 11th seed Francesca Schiavone of Italy.

Written by Barry Newcombe

[SAFINNO1]

Gasquet seals Nottingham triumph

Gasquet won last year's Nottingham title on his 19th birthday
Richard Gasquet retained his Nottingham crown with a 6-4 6-3 win over Jonas Bjorkman in the final of the Red Letter Days Open.
The 20-year-old Frenchman denied his Swedish opponent a hat-trick of titles with an impressive performance.

Gasquet's play from the baseline was too good for former champion Bjorkman.

Gasquet said: "I played a perfect match. I played well with my forehand - that was key because sometimes I miss more with it than with my backhand."

Bjorkman saved one match point on his own serve with an ace, but was unable to do anything about the next as he sent a backhand volley wide.

Bjorkman said: "I came up short today against the future.

"Today against Richard, I realised I'm a bit old."

Gasquet's victory will be a warning to Roger Federer, who he faces in the first round of Wimbledon.

[reese]

Ahh well done Richard!!

[SAFINNO1]

Ancic defends 's-Hertogenbosch, def. Hernych 6-0 5-7 7-5

[SAFINNO1]

Now all the Minor tournaments are out the way - the big one is here Wimbledon 2006

The mens draw is available at
www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/draws/ms/index.html

The womens draw is available at
www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/draws/ws/index.html

MONDAY OOP

Centre Court 1.00 pm Start
Roger Federer (SUI)[1] 8-)vs Richard Gasquet (FRA)
Meng Yuan (CHN) vs Justine Henin-Hardenne (BEL)[3]
David Nalbandian (ARG)[4] vs Wesley Moodie (RSA)

Court 1 1.00 pm Start
Vera Zvonareva (RUS) vs Kim Clijsters (BEL)[2]
Robin Soderling (SWE) vs Tim Henman (GBR) ;D ;D - COME ON TIM - He should be on Centre Court
Kristian Pless (DEN) vs James Blake (USA)[8]

Court 2 12.00 noon Start
Olga Savchuk (UKR) vs Martina Hingis (SUI)[12] ;D ;D ;D
Tommy Robredo (ESP)[11] vs Simon Greul (GER)
Nicolas Almagro-Sanchez (ESP) vs Mario Ancic (CRO)[7] (What a contrast of people from a prat to class - batter him Mario ;D)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)[5] 8-)vs Romina Oprandi (ITA)

Court 3 12.00 noon Start
Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)[15] vs Maria Elena Camerin (ITA)
Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)[32] vs Mark Philippoussis (AUS)
Patty Schnyder (SUI)[8] vs Antonella Serra Zanetti (ITA)
Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP)[24] vs Fernando Vicente (ESP)

Court 4 12.00 noon Start
Frank Dancevic (CAN) vs Radek Stepanek (CZE)[14]
Hana Sromova (CZE) vs Virginia Ruano Pascual (ESP)
Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)[30] vs Zi Yan (CHN)
Roko Karanusic (CRO) vs Rainer Schuettler (GER)

Court 5 12.00 noon Start
Ivo Karlovic (CRO) vs Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)
Virginie Razzano (FRA) vs Na Li (CHN)[27]
Meilen Tu (USA) vs Vassilissa Bardina (RUS)
Albert Portas (ESP) vs Arnaud Clement (FRA)

Court 6 12.00 noon Start
Kirsten Flipkens (BEL) vs Jamea Jackson (USA)
Tommy Haas (GER)[ 8-)19]vs Jiri Vanek (CZE)
Alicia Molik (AUS) vs Yung-Jan Chan (TPE)
Wayne Arthurs (AUS) vs Fabrice Santoro (FRA)

Court 7 12.00 noon Start
Xavier Malisse (BEL) vs Benedikt Dorsch (GER)
Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) vs Viktoria Azarenka (BLR)
Oliver Marach (AUT) vs Yeu-Tzuoo Wang (TPE)

Court 8 12.00 noon Start
Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs Jurgen Melzer (AUT)
Aiko Nakamura (JPN) vs Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS)
Martina Sucha (SVK) vs Katarina Srebotnik (SLO)[21]
Jan Hernych (CZE) vs Tomas Berdych (CZE)[13]

Court 9 12.00 noon Start
Jie Zheng (CHN) vs Iveta Benesova (CZE)
Stefano Galvani (ITA) vs Alexander Waske (GER)
Maria Sanchez Lorenzo (ESP)vs Elena Vesnina (RUS)

Court 11 12.00 noon Start
Vera Dushevina (RUS) vs Akiko Morigami (JPN)
Benjamin Becker (GER) vs Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)
Catalina Castano (COL) vs Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)
Potito Starace (ITA) vs Mikhail Youzhny (RUS) ;D ;D ;D

Court 13 12.00 noon Start
Ai Sugiyama (JPN)[18] vs Naomi Cavaday (GBR)
Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)[13 vs Tzvetana Pironkova (BUL)
Thomas Johansson (SWE)[12] vs Jonas Bjorkman (SWE)
Igor Kunitsyn (RUS) vs Gael Monfils (FRA)[21] ;D ;D

Court 14 12.00 noon Start
Sofia Arvidsson (SWE)[28] vs Eva Birnerova (CZE)
Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs Ruben Ramirez-Hidalgo (ESP)
Davide Sanguinetti (ITA) vs Kevin Kim (USA)
Ivana Lisjak (CRO) vs Katerina Bondarenko (UKR)

Court 15 12.00 noon Start
Jiri Novak (CZE) vs Kristof Vliegen (BEL)[30]
Paul Goldstein (USA) vs Novak Djokovic (SCG)
Kveta Peschke (CZE) vs Kristina Brandi (PUR)

Court 17 12.00 noon Start
Emma Laine (FIN) vs Gisela Dulko (ARG)[31]
Daniele Bracciali (ITA) vs Dominik Hrbaty (SVK)[20]
Carlos Berlocq (ARG) vs Richard Bloomfield (GBR)

Court 18 12.00 noon Start
Paradorn Srichaphan (THA)[29] vs Agustin Calleri (ARG)
Vincent Spadea (USA) vs Fernando Verdasco (ESP)[28]
Shinobu Asagoe (JPN vs Maria Kirilenko (RUS)[17]
Marion Bartoli (FRA)[24] vs Camille Pin (FRA)

Court 19 12.00 noon Start
Viktoria Kutuzova (UKR) vs Lilia Osterloh (USA)
Tathiana Garbin (ITA) vs Katie O'Brien (GBR)
Florent Serra (FRA) vs Lukas Dlouhy (CZE)
Anastasia Yakimova (BLR) vs Severine Bremond (FRA)

TBA
Not Before 5pm
Karolina Sprem (CRO) vs Anne Keothavong (GBR)
Klara Koukalova (CZE) vs Nicole Vaidisova (CZE)[10]

[iman]

THANKS SAFINO!!!!!!

[marats]

Congrats Richard and Mario !

[Annie]

Good luck to all my Russians ;D ;D ;D Busy day today

[jewell]

Maybe not so busy... stupid rain.

[Annie]

Well I guess Wimby is the only grandslam that likes to test patience LOL... well RG did some this year

Anyway, hope it won't be as bad as it is right now in Moscow: HUGE thunderstorm with lightning, rain, hail and it looks like it's not midday but midnight

[lena]

let's hope when "Rogi" will step on court the sun will give us a smile

[Annie]

;D ;D ;D ;D Go Rogelio!!!!!!!!!!

[jewell]

Go Roger!!! Except when you come up against Tim in the second round.