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Brits:
A Keothavong vs V King
K O'Brien vs S Peer cry
M South vs A Bonderenko cry
E Baltacha vs A Cuerva???????
N Cavaday vs V Williams furious NO NO NO NO NO

Other draws
A Ivanovic vs R De los Rios
M Sharapova vs S Foretz
S Williams vs K Kanepi
J Jankovic vs O Savchuk

At least Naomi will be on a show court

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Baltacha and South in the top half, the other 3 in the bottom half, so Monday for Baltacha and South, and Tuesday for the other 3.

At least Cavaday's going to be on centre court, but she's getting thrashed. Anne should win, but then she'd have Venus in round 2 so won't get any further.

Mel and Katie have tough draws at will struggle to win as well, while Baltacha's going to have a toughish match as well.

Think we'll do well to get 2 in the second round, unlike the men who have been given a lovely draw



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cavaday has never had any luck with her wimbledon draws

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Not good for Naomi

Her 3 wimbledon Draws

2006 v 18th Seed (then ranked 21) Ai Sugiyama
2007 v 9th Seed Martina Hingis (And she managed a set)
2008 v 7th seed Venus

The way she is going will be top seed next year, or maybe in a couple of years after 3rd/4th,

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So Naomi will be first up on centre court on Tuesday (as Venus is the defending champion) then?

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I certainly don't expect Naomi to win, but if you are ever going to play Venus, 1st round strikes me as the round to play her.

Who knows what Venus is going to turn up ?

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Ooooooooh, Anne could face Venus or Naomi in R2.

Anne and Bally have the best chances of winning but having said that Katie's got Peer who is really on a slump right now and Mel's got Bondarenko who has been patchy at best this season. It's doable.

Naomi... oh my. Oh my.

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Oh dear poor Naomi. No chance for her really. Even Mel and Katie haven't been that blessed. The draw could of been kinda.

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Anne should be King who isn't as comfortable on grass.
Bally has a toughish draw but she can't let these chances pass. Same with Katie who has a chance to get a good win against a seeded player is she just keeps her head!
Mel's draw could of been worse but she'll need to play her best.
As for Naomi, another year, another Wimbledon, another seed. Obviously she'll do well just to keep the score respectable but if Venus is spraying errors and Naomi gets the crowd behind her we might see an upset. Something tells me we won't though! LOL!

-- Edited by tharris at 15:10, 2008-06-20

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Sorry Naomi but im going to be rooting for Venus on tuesday...

Go Anne, Mel and Bally!

I have CC tickets for thursday and I BETTER see two of my favourites play each other. (Anne and Venus). I will still be rooting for Venus though. :p

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Tutu wrote:

Sorry Naomi but im going to be rooting for Venus on tuesday...

Go Anne, Mel and Bally!

I have CC tickets for thursday and I BETTER see two of my favourites play each other. (Anne and Venus). I will still be rooting for Venus though. :p



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I think Anne and Bally have good shots. Hope they can do it.

Katie can win that Peer isn't that good on grass and is beatable atm.

Mel, well she may win a set but i can;t see her coming through that.

Naomi, well good luck and just enjoy yourself.

I think Bally and Katie have decent shots at the 3rd round if they play well.

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Indeed Anne, Bally and Katie seem to be in with a shout. Peer has been struggling this year and has only played one match on grass so far which was a straight sets loss to Petrova at Eastbourne. Bally has drawn Kerber who made round two of Birmingham. Mel and Naomi have just got to hope that their opponent are well below their bests and play flawless tennis....

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Anne has the best draw, deserves a good one after getting Jankovic last year. King won their only previous match 6-2, 7-6 at the 2006 Aussie Open but she lost to Katie at the NTC a couple of weeks ago and didn't look anything special....decent counter-puncher but Anne's weight of shot should be too much

Bally also has a great chance, she always plays like she's top 50 at Wimbledon....remember how close she was to beating Srebotnik last year. Kerber's only ranked 125....hasn't been having a great year, lost 4 & 2 to Naomi in Jan..........Cjubulkova's the projected round 2 seed which could be a lot, lot worse....who knows, could be 2002 all over again

Given Mel's form atm she may have half a chance of getting a set as Bondarenko seems to be at her best on clay.....however she can certainly play on grass, made round 3 here last year and nearly beat Schynder.....also made Birmingham quarters

Nothing really to say about Naomi's draw apart from "ouch".....unfortunately for her she's not in best form either by some way after all the injuries this year......hopefully she can make it competitive.....should be a good experience for her

Grass is quite a good surface for Peer, last yr she made the Eastbourne quarters and 3rd round at SW19 before losing to Bartoli. This is a good time to play her, she's lost 3 straight matches and strangely opted for a tier 4 on Spanish clay last week



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Happy with the draws barring Naomi's. Some of them are toughish, but almost everything is tough when you're a WC.

None of our girls drew Ula or Suarez, sadly. cry.gif I bet they both will now reach the third round and make me look like an idiot...

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