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Naomi won 6-2, 7-5...was quite tricky, she had to work her way into it...says the girl was consistent but could hit some big shots off her forehand

Now got Adamczak who won 7-5 in the 3rd today

Sarah won 6-1, 6-4..she's in one piece at this tourney !!



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PockyTastic wrote:

Anne has drawn Sara Errani in the first round. Errani has just had a run to the SF in Bali so it will be a very difficult encounter for her. If she comes through that match, her likely second round opponent will be Sania Mirza.



i know that will be a tough match but i think she can pull it off. Any thoughts on this?

Well done naomi.



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The week after an unusually successful tournament is often a good time to play someone, as Sara will have used up a lot of mental energy being unused to playing back-to-back matches against the likes of Lindsay Davenport and Aiko Nakamura

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That's true. There's bound to be a lull in her form. Also Errani said that she was surprised by her success on hard court as she dislikes the surface, I think she's more of a claycourter, so hopefully the Kolkata surface won't be too her liking (I heard something about dung courts??)

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Great wins for Naomi and Sarah.
Really think Naomi will come through that
2nd match and make the main draw.

That would be yet another step forward.


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Errani's ranked 90, has made three WTA semis this year, two on clay...won a 25K and made 50K+H final too...both on the dirt. Doesn't compete much on other surfaces. She's not very good indoors to say the least....Stoopy beat her 6-2, 6-1 on indoor hard last yr and a week later Natasha Khan beat her 6-0, 6-2.

She'll be tough especially having beaten Medina Garriques this week, who's been top 25...however as DavidC says, hopefully there will be a comedown and Anne can take advantage

If she can get through, there's a real chance to make last 8 as Mirza is very doubtful...the only reason she hasn't withdrawn so far is because its in India

Sadly this tourney isnt held on dung, hard courts I think. Naomi is hoping to find some dung courts to check them out





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Looking ahead to the final qualies round:

I'd be surprised if Naomi doesn't beat Adamczak..the Aussie got beat 3 and 0 in Bali qualies..Anne beat her 6-1, 7-5 in Lexington. Adamczak has quite a good 1st half of the year, won a round at the Aussie Open, did well in some challengers on clay

Sarah's gonna have to play out of her skin to come through though. She famously beat Domachowska 6-3, 6-7, 6-4 at Wimbledon 2006 so we can hope for a repeat. The Pole is now ranked in the 180s but has been as high as 36 and took out Bally twice in straights this yr. If she could stay injury-free she'd still easily be top 100, has won matches at WTA level this year

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matches start at 5.30am GMT tomorrow morning for anyone interested in following live scores

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Sheddie wrote:

Sadly this tourney isnt held on dung, hard courts I think. Naomi is hoping to find some dung courts to check them out

Dung would be a novelty! According to the WTATour website the tournament is Greenset Indoors, which should be more helpful to Anne than Sara.

 



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Sarah is on the scoreboard!

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DOUBLES DRAW:
[1] King/Kudryavtseva (USA/RUS) vs. A.Bhambri/Chakravarthi (IND/IND)

Iyer/Wozniak (IND/CAN) vs. Efremova/Ivanova (RUS/RUS)

[3] Gajdosova/Gallovits (SVK/ROU) vs. Keothavong/Sromova (GBR/CZE)

Shvedova/Senoglu (RUS/TUR) vs. Nagle/Stephenson (USA/USA)

Domachowska/N.Uberoi (POL/USA) vs. Adamczak/Rao (AUS/IND)

S.Bhambri/Lakhani (IND/IND) vs. [4] Errani/Pennetta (ITA/ITA)

[WC] Shrivastava/Shroff (IND/IND) vs. Brianti/Koryttseva (ITA/UKR)

Amanmuradova/Dellacqua (UZB/AUS) vs. [2] Poutchek/Rodionova (BLR/RUS)

Tough opener. GL Anne


-- Edited by Tutu at 10:44, 2007-09-16

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Naomi is through to the main draw w00t.gifclap.gif

Came from a break down in the 3rd to beat Adamczak 6-7(4), 7-5, 6-4 !!

First time she's qualified for a WTA I believe after several near misses

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Not too confident about Sarah's chances though, she was a double break down and about to lose the 1st when scoreboard froze

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Congrats to Naomi! clap.gif

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wow. This must be the first time in ages since we've had 2 brits in MD

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