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Post by Laury on Jun 16, 2004 14:15:29 GMT
Here are the seededs:
1. Miss Serena WILLIAMS (USA)
2. Miss Anastasia MYSKINA (RUS)
3. Miss Venus WILLIAMS (USA)
4. Miss Amelie MAURESMO (FRA)
5. Miss Lindsay DAVENPORT (USA)
6. Miss Elena DEMENTIEVA (RUS)
7. Miss Jennifer CAPRIATI (USA)
8. Miss Svetlana KUZNETSOVA (RUS)
9. Miss Paola SUAREZ (ARG)
10. Miss Nadia PETROVA (RUS)
11. Miss Ai SUGIYAMA (JPN)
12. Miss Vera ZVONAREVA (RUS)
13. Miss Maria SHARAPOVA (RUS)
14. Mrs Silvia FARINA ELIA (ITA)
15. Miss Patty SCHNYDER (SUI)
16. Mrs Anna SMASHNOVA-PISTOLESI (ISR)
17. Miss Chanda RUBIN (USA)
18. Miss Francesca SHIAVONE (ITA)
19. Miss Fabiola ZULUAGA (COL)
20. Miss Elena BOVINA (RUS)
21. Miss Magdalena MALEEVA (BUL)
22. Miss Conchita MARTINEZ (ESP)
23. Miss Jelena DOKIC (SCG)
24. Miss Mary PIERCE (FRA)
25. Miss Nathalie DECHY (FRA)
26. Miss Lisa RAYMOND (USA)
27. Miss Alicia MOLIK (AUS)
28. Miss Emilie LOIT (FRA)
29. Miss Dinara SAFINA (RUS)
30. Miss Eleni DANILIDOU (GRE)
31. Miss Amy FRAZIER (USA)
32. Miss Meghann SHAUGHNESSY (USA)
So, Nicki is defeating Catriel: Safina is better seeded than Eleni!
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Post by tall_one on Jun 16, 2004 19:18:54 GMT
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Post by tall_one on Jun 17, 2004 16:15:40 GMT
Ladies' Singles Preview
Thursday, June 17, 2004
The absence, because of illness and injury respectively, of the Belgian pair Justine Henin-Hardenne and Kim Clijsters, has opened the way for a possible repeat of their recent successes at The Championships for the Williams sisters, Serena and Venus.
Serena has won Wimbledon for the past two years and her older sister Venus was champion for the two years before that, in 2000 and 2001. The finals of 2002 and 2003 were all-Williams affairs, an astonishing domination which may well be extended further because of the ongoing viral problems suffered by world number one Henin-Hardenne and the wrist operation which Clijsters underwent last week.
The Williamses, of course, have been through their own spells of stress because of injury. A knee operation after her 2003 Wimbledon win kept Serena out of action for eight months. She only returned to action in the spring of this year and her ranking has dropped to tenth.
Venus has been sidelined by ankle and knee worries and seen her own ranking fall to eight. But, in acknowledgement of their achievements on the lawns of the All England Club, they have not only been installed as first and third seeds but managed to avoid each other in the draw. The first time they meet would be another family final.
Serena's opening round opponent is the Chinese 21-year-old Jie Zheng, ranked 48th, who will be making her Wimbledon debut. In the third round the defending champion is due to face Eleni Daniilidou of Greece, the 30th seed, while the biggest test is scheduled to come in the quarter-finals, against fellow-American Jennifer Capriati, the seventh seed.
Venus will start her bid with a match against a Swiss, Marie-Gayane Mikaelian, a 20-year-old from Lausanne who is just outside the top 100 in the rankings. Like her sister, the biggest test for Venus should come against another American, the fifth-seeded Lindsay Davenport, at the quarter-final stage.
Davenport is, with the exception of the Williamses, one of only two former Wimbledon winners in this year's field. The other is Conchita Martinez, the 22nd seed, who was champion in 1994, when she defeated the great Martina Navratilova.
Navratilova makes a welcome return to the singles event as a wild card at the age of 47 and can expect to make progress at the tournament she loves above all others since she faces the 100th-ranked Colombian, Catalina Castano, before a possible second round match-up with Jelena Dokic, the 23rd seed, or Gisela Dulko, the Argentinian girl who defeated Navratilova at the French Open last month.
Having won the French Open so convincingly, Russia's Anastasia Myskina, has been awarded the second seeding which splits the Williams sisters and appears to have an easy draw until the fourth round and a clash with fellow-Russian Maria Sharapova, the US-trained teenager who is seeded sixth.
As if that was not sufficient indication of the proliferation of Russians in the field, Myskina's quarter-final opponent is scheduled to be the sixth seed, Elena Dementieva, whom she beat so convincingly in the Roland Garros women's final.
Discounting qualifiers, there are 13 Russians directly accepted into the draw, second only to the United States with 17.
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Post by Laury on Jun 17, 2004 20:10:31 GMT
Ohh I understand, you posted both previews in a hurry, so you confused the forums.
Anyway it is not such important, and thank you for posting, i have read them!
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Post by tall_one on Jun 17, 2004 20:58:27 GMT
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