emily webley smith and dani brown look forward to second week in mexico hope they dont meet early in the comp again though nice to see them meet in final
Emily continued her good form from last week outplaying unranked Belarussian qualifier Sasha Khabibulina 6-0, 6-1 and 4th seed Dani Brown overcame a 2nd set hiccup to beat American Julianna Gates 6-4, 0-6, 6-4
Rd2:
E Webley-Smith v C Nagle (USA)(6)
D Brown (4) v L Ogata (Brz)
Emily now plays American 6th seed Courtney Nagle who's ranked about 60 places higher at 588. Nagle has only won 3 matches so far this year so Emily will be confident of reaching another quarter-final. If she does, she'll be back in the world's top 600.
Dani plays 17 year old Brazilian clay-court specialist Lais Ogata who's ranked 1267. Ogata lost 6-2, 6-0 to an unranked Argentinian last week so Dani shouldn't have too many problems
Disappointing results for both....Emily had the harder match as Nagle is top 600 but given her form last week I thought she'd win plus Nagle had only won 3 matches in 2007 prior to this tourney !
Very poor result for Dani....Ogata has been losing to unranked players recently....wonder what happened in sets 2 and 3, maybe Dani missed multiple chances or got injured