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Five Matches to Watch on Day 6 of the US Open
1. Jelena Jankovic (SRB)[4] v. Kaia Kanepi (EST)[31] -- The song remains the same for Jankovic. She's been playing terribly all month, so anyone can beat her. Simona Halep and Mirjana Lucic each took a set off the #4 seed, and they're both ranked 60+ below Kanepi. But Kanepi's closing skills are...
Steady Jankovic Last One Standing at Indian Wells
Not all of the big names in the WTA made it out to Indian Wells, and the ones who did (Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova) all crashed out before the quarterfinals. It's probably not surprising, then, that on one of the slowest hard courts to be found in the world,...
Doha Round Robin Review
White Group #1 Dinara Safina (0-1, withdrew) Instead of the long, ugly defeats she had subjected innocent crowds to over and over again this fall, Dinara Safina decided to keep her run at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha mercifully short. After only two games in her first match against...
Doha Day 1 Preview
Three matches on the card for Day 1 in the desert of Doha, one from the White Group and two from the absurdly stronger Maroon Group. The way that the draw for these round robin tournaments works is pretty simple. The #1 and #2, #3 and #4, #5 and #6, and #7 and #8 players are paired off, and one...
Sharapova Takes Tokyo
Maria Sharapova won the Toray Pan Pacific Open final in Tokyo in only seven games Saturday, after a wrist injury to Jelena Jankovic stopped the match before the end of the first set. Sharapova was leading 5-2, 0-30* when Jankovic retired. This was Sharapova's fourth title in Tokyo, by far the...
Tuesday's Tennis Links -- August 18th, 2009
A lot of other SB Nation sites do a regular links feature, so I thought I'd introduce one here at The Daily Forehand. Look for links here weekly, every Tuesday morning, which will aim to bring you stories and articles you may have missed from the week before. Another programming note: stay tuned...
Jankovic Wins Cincinnati, Another Poor Final for Safina
In yet another letdown in the final of a big tournament, Dinara Safina fell to Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 6-2 in the final of Cincinnati. The match was hardly as close as the score would let on, with Jankovic in control from the get-go. Jankovic's steady defense and counter-punching quickly undid...
Sunday Open Thread: ATP Montreal & WTA Cincinnati Finals
Two matches that could both be pretty good (or that could both be blowouts), on the card for Sunday. (Click "Continue reading" below the poll to see the rest of this post, and join in the comments on the open thread) The men are up first in Montreal at 1:30 EST, with #3 Andy Murray taking on #6...
Jankovic Prevails in Typical WTA Drama
WTA Cincinnati coverage For the second time this week, a battle of Eastern European women in Cincinnati ended by the score of 7-6, 0-6, 7-6. #5 Jelena Jankovic was on the winning end of this one, defeating #4 Elena Dementieva in a match that lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes. Jankovic had triple match...
Bartoli Bounces Back
I didn't think Marion Bartoli had much of a chance of beating Samantha Stosur in the semifinals of Stanford. I didn't think so after the first set, which Bartoli won 6-3, and I certainly didn't think so after the second set, which Stosur took convincingly, 6-1. But there Bartoli was, breaking...
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