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Anne Keothavong has made the main draw for the WTA tournament, the first time she's made a WTA draw on her own ranking Given that there are a large number of European 25Ks this week plus a tier 4 in Slovenia which she would have got into easily, going for this tournament which has much bigger points on offer, shows real ambition.

The entry list looks imposing at the top with Hingis, Mirza and Sprem but after that I reckon Anne could beat a lot of those players with maybe the exception of Razzano and Serra Zanetti. Hopefully she gets a good draw

Entry list:

1. Martina Hingis
2. Sania Mirza
3. Karolina Sprem
4. Yuliana Fedak
5. Melinda Czink
6. Kaia Kanepi
7. Aravane Rezai
8. Galina Voskoboeva
9.Yulia Beygelzimer
10. Virginie Razzano
11. Hana Sromova
12. Anastassia Rodionova
13. Nicole Pratt
14. Olga Poutchkova
15. Tamarine Tanasugarn
16. Angelique Widjaja
17. Antonella Serra Zanetti
18. Sandra Kloesel
19. Lioudmila Skavronskaia
20. Tatiana Poutchek
21. Chan Yung-Jan
22. Arantxa Parra Santonja
23. Anne Keothavong
24. WC
25. WC
26. WC Gold/Silver Exempt Only
27. Q
28. Q
29. Q
30. Q
31. X- Anda Perianu
32. X-Tzipora Obziler



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Exams begin on the 21st, so I can't go and see Keothavong.

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That's a real shame, how's your revision going ? Maybe you could just take an afternoon off to see her first round match ? How far is Kolkata from Calcutta ?

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well done Anne, that's excellent news. I just hope she doesn't get a nasty draw!


Good for her that she's going for it as well and not trying to get the easy points in the challengers.



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UltimateFlemingFan wrote:

That's a real shame, how's your revision going ? Maybe you could just take an afternoon off to see her first round match ? How far is Kolkata from Calcutta ?


I couldn't study anything for the last four days because I was sick, so I can't go and see her.

'Kolkata' is the new official name for 'Calcutta'. I prefer Calcutta.

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Oh that's a shame especially with the tournament being so close to you. Will it be shown on TV ?

I prefer Calcutta aswell, why do they have to keep changing the names !!! It's so confusing, like with changing Bombay to Mumbai.

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I am rather angry with all the name change that goes on out here.


Yep, it'll be shown Live. I hope that they'll show Anne K. Never seen her before.

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Greenleaf wrote:

I am rather angry with all the name change that goes on out here.




the one that annoys me the is Chennai and Madras! They dont even sound remotely similar! At least with others like Kochi and Chochin, Khambat and cambay and the ones you have mentioned you can kind of tell!


 



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Main draw

(1) Martina Hingis SUI v Melinda Czink HUN
Tzipora Obziler ISR v Yulia Beygelzimer UKR
Abigail Spears USA v Akgul Amanmuradova UZB
Tamarine Tanasugarn THA v (6) Kaia Kanepi EST

(4) Aravane Rezai FRA v WC Ankita Bhambri IND
Tatiana Poutchek BLR v Anne Keothavong GBR
Sandra Klösel GER v Galina Voskoboeva RUS
Qualifier v (5) Sania Mirza IND

(7) Nicole Pratt AUS v WC Sunitha Rao USA
Arantxa Parra Santonja ESP v Olga Poutchkova RUS
Qualifier v Angelique Widjaja INA
Alberta Brianti ITA v (3) Yuliana Fedak UKR

(8) Anastassia Rodionova RUS v Alla Kudryavtseva RUS
Hana Sromova CZE v WC Shikha Uberoi IND
Qualifier v Qualifier
Casey Dellacqua AUS v (2) Karolina Sprem CRO


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Poutchek is a really good draw for Anne considering some of the other names she could have faced in rd1 !! The 27 year old from Belarus is ranked 113 and though she's been as high as no 55, that was way back in 2002. They've played once before, in rd1 of a WTA qualifying event on the Gold Coast at the start of this year, Poutchek won 6-4, 6-2.

Poutchek has qualified for 4 WTA tournaments this year, her best performance was down under in Canberra where she reached rd2. She qualified for the US Open but lost in rd1 to Julia Fedak, the world no 64 from the Ukraine. Poutchek best result on the challenger circuit came in August when she reached the final of the Bronx 50k challenger.

Aswell as Keothavong she's played 2 other Brits this year, beating Sarah Borwell 6-2, 6-3 in Eastbourne but losing in a 3rd set tiebreak to Naomi Cavaday at Birmingham.

Keothavong v Poutchek is 2nd on centre court tomorrow so Greenleaf should be able to see her in action. Please give us a match report if you do watch it. The match will start at around 2.30pm Indian time, what's that in GMT.

Anne is also in action in doubles partnering Brianti of Italy. They face Poutchek and Kudryavtseva in rd1.

It looks like Anne will be able to play a whole string of WTAs this autumn. She's currently 4th on the qualifying draw for the Guangzhou main draw next week and then she should also stand a good chance of getting in Tashkent and then Bangkok.

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we are 4 and a half ahead of india, so should be about 10am BST

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mkkreuk wrote:


the one that annoys me the is Chennai and Madras! They dont even sound remotely similar! At least with others like Kochi and Chochin, Khambat and cambay and the ones you have mentioned you can kind of tell!


 




Yep, it's really tragic. And it's almost like they are trying to rub off the history of a city.



No Live coverage before evening.

Won't get to see Anne K.



-- Edited by Greenleaf at 10:02, 2006-09-18

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Well at the moment play appears to have been delayed by rain, and the Tanasugarn match before Anne is in the early stages of set 2 when they resume. So, there might be a chance of you seeing her.

When does the live coverage start, India time ?

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In an hour!

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That's great news, you should get to watch Anne then.

How close is your TV to the computer ? I just wondered as the scoreboard is so poor, whether you could provide some scores for us ?

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