Magical Downunder---Australian Open 2007 Melbourne

[Happiness]

Hi everyone

YEAH!!! ;D ;D

Now I can finally rest my poor heart!!! And study some more!!!

Take Care




Happiness

[kuniochi]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

That's the only thing I'm capable of saying now. Still shaking......

[Annie]

more yummies enjoy!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D All I can say is..a couple more matches like this - and there will be one admin less on this forum

[maribrasil]

admin said:

more yummies enjoy!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D All I can say is..a couple more matches like this - and there will be one admin less on this forum

Not only one admin less...Some other members will die too

And on that pic

[Annie]

[davis]

I had to calm myself down with statistics

TODAY'S WINNERS:

Roger Federer (SUI)[1] vs. Bjorn Phau (GER)
Marcos Baghdatis (CYP)[11] vs. Rainer Schuettler (GER)
Marat Safin (RUS)[26] vs. Benjamin Becker (GER)
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA) vs. Andy Roddick (USA)[6]I
van Ljubicic (CRO)[4] vs. Mardy Fish (USA)
Stefan Koubek (AUT) vs. Wayne Arthurs (AUS)
Thomas Johansson (SWE) vs. Marco Chiudinelli (SUI)
Nicolas Massu (CHI) vs. Novak Djokovic (SRB)[14] ;D
Filippo Volandri (ITA) vs. Richard Gasquet (FRA)[18]
Dudi Sela (ISR) vs. Paradorn Srichaphan (THA)
Mario Ancic (CRO)[9] vs. Go Soeda (JPN)
Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP) vs. Tommy Robredo (ESP)[7]
Zack Fleishman (USA) vs. Agustin Calleri (ARG)[30]
Jose Acasuso (ARG)[27] vs. Sam Querrey (USA)
Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP)[24] vs. Jan Hajek (CZE)
Gael Monfils (FRA) vs. Daniele Bracciali (ITA)
Danai Udomchoke (THA) vs. Martin Vassallo Arguello (ARG)
Jonas Bjorkman (SWE) vs. Olivier Patience (FRA)
Lukas Dlouhy (CZE) vs. Teimuraz Gabashvili (RUS)
Gilles Simon (FRA) vs. Amer Delic (USA)
Simon Greul (GER) vs. Yen-Hsun Lu (TPE)
Marc Gicquel (FRA) vs. Alun Jones (AUS)
Radek Stepanek (CZE)[20] vs. Michael Llodra (FRA)
Nicolas Mahut (FRA) vs. Juan Monaco (ARG)
Florent Serra (FRA) vs. Nicolas Devilder (FRA)
Ivo Karlovic (CRO) vs. Jurgen Melzer (AUT)
Joachim Johansson (SWE) vs. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)
Jan Hernych (CZE) vs. Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)[25] ;D
Jiri Vanek (CZE) vs. Dominik Hrbaty (SVK)[22]
Kristian Pless (DEN) vs. David Ferrer (ESP)[16]
Vincent Spadea (USA) vs. Igor Andreev (RUS)
Feliciano Lopez (ESP) vs. Brian Wilson (USA)


TOMORROW'S ORDER OF PLAY

Rod Laver Arena Start Time 11:00 AM
Maria Sharapova (RUS)[1] vs. Camille Pin (FRA)
Robert Kendrick (USA) vs. Rafael Nadal (ESP)[2]
Kim Clijsters (BEL)[4] vs. Vasilisa Bardina (RUS)

Rod Laver Arena Start Time 7:30 PM
Yung-Jan Chan (TPE) vs. Alicia Molik (AUS)
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS)[19] vs. Michael Russell (USA)

Vodafone Arena Start Time 11:00 AM
Vania King (USA) vs. Ana Ivanovic (SRB)[13]
Chris Guccione (AUS) vs. Olivier Rochus (BEL)
Nathalie Dechy (FRA) vs. Martina Hingis (SUI)[6]
Not Before 4:00 PM
James Blake (USA)[5] vs. Carlos Moya (ESP)

MCA Start Time 11:00 AM
David Nalbandian (ARG)[8] vs. Janko Tipsarevic (SRB)
Klara Zakopalova (CZE) vs. Samantha Stosur (AUS)[24]
Peter Luczak (AUS) vs. Alex Kuznetsov (USA)
Not Before 7:30 PM
Andy Murray (GBR)[15] vs. Alberto Martin (ESP)

Show Court 2 Start Time 11:00 AM
Tomas Berdych (CZE)[13] vs. Hyung-Taik Lee (KOR)
Nicole Pratt (AUS) vs. Virginie Razzano (FRA)
Albert Montanes (ESP) vs. Tommy Haas (GER)[12]
Madison Brengle (USA) vs. Patty Schnyder (SUI)[8]

Show Court 3 Start Time 11:00 AM
Olga Savchuk (UKR) vs. Sania Mirza (IND)
Sergio Roitman (ARG) vs. Nikolay Davydenko (RUS)[3]
Xavier Malisse (BEL)[29] vs. Arnaud Clement (FRA)
Dinara Safina (RUS)[9] vs. Ekaterina Bychkova (RUS)

Court 6 Start Time 11:00 AM
Christophe Rochus (BEL) vs. Sebastien Grosjean (FRA)[28]
Eleni Daniilidou (GRE)[32] vs. Aiko Nakamura (JPN)
Evgeny Korolev (RUS) vs. Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)[10]
Alize Cornet (FRA) vs. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK)[15]

Court 7 Start Time 11:00 AM
Lukas Lacko (SVK) vs. Robert Smeets (AUS)
Sophie Ferguson (AUS) vs. Jelena Kostanic Tosic (CRO)
Alexander Waske (GER) vs. Dmitry Tursunov (RUS)[21] ;D
Vera Zvonareva (RUS)[22] vs. Tzipora Obziler (ISR)

Court 8 Start Time 11:00 AM
Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG) vs. Potito Starace (ITA)
Renata Voracova (CZE) vs. Meghann Shaughnessy (USA)
Max Mirnyi (BLR) vs. Luis Horna (PER)
Andreja Klepac (SLO) vs. Shuai Peng (CHN)

Court 10 Start Time 11:00 AM
Mischa Zverev (GER) vs. Michael Berrer (GER)
Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) vs. Emma Laine (FIN)
Youlia Fedossova (FRA) vs. Catalina Castano (COL)
Frank Dancevic (CAN) vs. Victor Hanescu (ROM)

Court 11 Start Time 11:00 AM
Yulia Beygelzimer (UKR) vs. Laura Granville (USA)
Kristof Vliegen (BEL) vs. Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER)
Ahsha Rolle (USA) vs. Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP)
Fernando Verdasco (ESP) vs. Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA)

Court 13 Start Time 11:00 AM
Anna Chakvetadze (RUS)[12] vs. Sybille Bammer (AUT)
Paul Goldstein (USA) vs. Jarkko Nieminen (FIN)[17]
Anna-Lena Groenefeld (GER)[17] vs. Sandra Zahlavova (CZE)
Robin Soderling (SWE)[23] vs. Florian Mayer (GER)

Court 14 Start Time 11:00 AM
Robby Ginepri (USA) vs. Nicolas Almagro (ESP)[32]
Ashley Harkleroad (USA) vs. Meng Yuan (CHN)
Andreas Seppi (ITA) vs. Bobby Reynolds (USA)
Tamira Paszek (AUT) vs. Severine Bremond (FRA)

Court 15 Start Time 11:00 AM
Julien Benneteau (FRA) vs. Paul Capdeville (CHI)
Varvara Lepchenko (UZB) vs. Agnieszka Radwanska (POL)
Emilie Loit (FRA) vs. Aravane Rezai (FRA)

Court 18 Start Time 11:00 AM
Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI)[31] vs. Kevin Kim (USA)
Emmanuelle Gagliardi (SUI) vs. Tathiana Garbin (ITA)[30]
Fabrice Santoro (FRA) vs. Igor Kunitsyn (RUS)
Flavia Pennetta (ITA)[28] vs. Kaia Kanepi (EST)

Court 19 Start Time 11:00 AM
Alan Mackin (GBR) vs. Nicolas Lapentti (ECU)
Stephanie Cohen-Aloro (FRA) vs. Alona Bondarenko (UKR)[29]
Juan Martin Del Potro (ARG) vs. Alessio Di Mauro (ITA)
Elena Bovina (RUS) vs. Na Li (CHN)[19]

Court 21 Start Time 11:00 AM
Roberta Vinci (ITA) vs. Anastassia Rodionova (RUS)
Gilles Muller (LUX) vs. Gaston Gaudio (ARG)
Akiko Morigami (JPN) vs. Tsvetana Pironkova (BUL)
Marin Cilic (CRO) vs. Ilia Bozoljac (SRB)


LOVELY LOVELY PHOTOS EVERYONE, THANKS SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!

[Happiness]

maribrasil said:

admin said:

more yummies enjoy!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D All I can say is..a couple more matches like this - and there will be one admin less on this forum

Not only one admin less...Some other members will die too

And on that pic

DROP DEAD NOW!!!

[Happiness]

davis said:

I had to calm myself down with statistics

LOVELY LOVELY PHOTOS EVERYONE, THANKS SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!

Hi Davis

So did I!!! Almost insane

Anytime dear ;D

Take Care




Happiness

[Annie]

Thanks davis sweetie and good luck to all the Russians tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

[lau]

Thanks everyone for posting pics info, everything... and..., wooohoo!! ;D Great that he won the match! ;D
Now lets think of the second round...

[Happiness]

admin said:

Thanks davis sweetie and good luck to all the Russians tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D

I second that Annie ;D ;D ;D

[Annie]

without watermark ;D

[reese]

THE MODERATOR: Questions.

Q. Do you like these late-night matches?
MARAT SAFIN: Not really fun.

Q. Not really fun?
MARAT SAFIN: No.

Q. You have a knack of giving the fans good value for money at that time of night.
MARAT SAFIN: Half of them, they left after the first two sets with us it was quite boring. We had to stay. I cannot say it was really a beautiful match, but it was a lot of fighting. I guess some people that stayed, they really enjoyed it.

Q. Given you're still on the comeback from injuries last year, do you think it's good to get a five-setter under your belt early in the tournament? MARAT SAFIN: It's kind of difficult to play. I've been injured for such a long time. There's a lot of things that really are giving me some trouble, for me to stay and for me to start the year, start to move on the court in a tournament. It's completely different to the practice. Once you're injured with the knee, it takes a little bit of time to get used to the movement on the courts, the tough conditions. A five-set match, actually last set I played pretty well. Hopefully everything will go okay and I'm moving all right. But it's -- even a little bit unlucky tonight you can lose this match, so...

Q. Were there stages tonight where you thought you were going to lose it?
MARAT SAFIN: Yeah. Well, after third set, I couldn't really find my game. I didn't believe in myself that I could pull this one off. I was lucky. He missed a couple of shots. Maybe it's a little bit lack of experience, so I took advantage of this. When I had my chance, I took them. He made a couple of easy mistakes that he shouldn't have. They were unnecessary mistakes from him. He just threw the balls out, forehand, backhand, that was it. It was a break without doing anything.

Q. You've come here before off long-term injuries, time-outs, had to play some long matches, then made it to the final. Do you draw confidence from that for this campaign?
MARAT SAFIN: Well, hopefully. Hopefully this match will give me enough confidence to keep on going, because the other match is going to be tough. The guy beat Srichaphan. The draw is pretty tough, so these kind of matches, sooner or later you need to, because these kind of matches, they give you the confidence.

Q. Pretty good record in five sets. When you lose in the fifth set, it's close. Do you go to a fifth set with a special frame of mind?
MARAT SAFIN: Well, kind of. I don't know for some reason I'm going to the fifth set a little bit more positive than I used to be before for some reason. But today, this kind of match, I knew I will have a chance in the fifth set because the guy started to be a little bit tired. He started to make a little bit easy mistakes, like shooting the forehand and the backhand. He was not serving as hard as he was serving at the beginning of the first couple of sets. I knew that I just have to stay with him. I would say that I was not a hundred percent today on the court. I was missing a lot of shots. Movement was terrible. But then in the end of fourth, fifth set, I started to move a little better because he slowed down. For me, this kind of match gives me a little bit of confidence and get used to the courts, to the speed of the ball. Fifth set, just have to stay there against this kind of player because sooner or later they going to snap because they don't have enough, I would say, experience because he's a newcomer. He didn't play really a lot of matches with fifth set. I have to take advantage of this.

Q. You said your movement was not that good. Was that the explanation, why you were a little bit off with your forehands?
MARAT SAFIN: Well, yeah. Forehand was terrible today. Just nervous, like a normal person. Because you want to do well, it's a new year. Last year was terrible from the beginning till almost the end of it. Starting from a blank list, you want to do well. The expectations are a little bit too high. Maybe the bar is a little bit too high. Maybe you just want to get through the first round. Of course, you start to be nervous.

Q. Do you feel like you're the defending champion?
MARAT SAFIN: No, far away. I just want to try to break through to the top 20. Just it's tough because really so many years on tour you start to think a little bit too much. When you're young, you don't think about things that you are thinking at age of 28, 26, 27. That's why it's difficult to play when you're getting older.

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[hellanvodka]

I was dead!!!This match wasted me 5 years life............just drove back from Melbourne Park, if i dont have to work tomrrow, i will get drunk....anyone dare to share some Vodka.... I am alive again...earn 10 yrs life back from his victory! Davai Marat! LOve ya!

[Happiness]

Hi everyone

Once again I would like to thank a few people

Most of all to Annie and Sabz for having the patiente to endure with me at the Live Scores!!! LOL

Reese and Annie for the Wonderfull Photos!!! I'm still recovering for it!!!

Davis for the results and the order of play for tomorrow

And once again Reese for the Transcript

YOU GIRLS MADE MY DAY!!! Along with Maratik!!! ;D ;D ;D

Take Care




Happiness