Discussions on the women's game should be done here for clarity. Thanks.

Seeds: ¹Jelena Jankovic (SRB), ²Serena Williams (USA), ³Dinara Safina (RUS), ⁴Elena Dementieva (RUS), ⁵Ana Ivanovic (SRB), ⁶Venus Williams (USA), ⁷Vera Zvonareva (RUS), ⁸Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS), ⁹Agnieszka Radwanska (POL), ¹⁰Nadia Petrova (RUS), ¹¹ Caroline Wozniacki (DEN), ¹²Flavia Pennetta (ITA), ¹³Victoria Azarenka (BLR), ¹⁴Patty Schnyder (SUI), ¹⁵Alize Cornet (FRA), ¹⁶Marion Bartoli (FRA), ¹⁷Anna Chakvetadze (RUS), ¹⁸Dominika Cibulkova (SVK), ¹⁹Daniela Hantuchova (SVK), ²⁰Amelie Mauresmo (FRA), ²¹Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP), ²²Jie Zheng (CHN), ²³Agnes Szavay (HUN), ²⁴Sybille Bammer (AUT), ²⁵Kaia Kanepi (EST), ²⁶Ai Sugiyama (JPN), ²⁷Maria Kirilenko (RUS), ²⁸Francesca Schiavone (ITA), ²⁹Alisa Kleybanova (RUS), ³⁰Aleksandra Wozniak (CAN), ³¹Alona Bondarenko (UKR), ³²Tamarine Tanasugarn (THA)

Defending Champ, Maria Shriekapova is out with a shoulder injury. Davenport is also out because she's pregnant.

Who takes the women's title?

Is it just me or is Serena's bootay getting bigger by the tournament?

Venus jus got beaten and im sooooo heart broken!
wotz with her and AO sef?
the only thing that will make me hapi is for Andy Murray to loose. . . lets c

Hey ya!! The Aussie Open has never really been her strong point

Some Third Round Results:

Kleybanova - Ivanovic 7-5, 6-7, 6-2 
Dokic - Wozniacki 3-6, 6-1, 6-2 
Jankovic - Sugiyama 6-4, 6-4 
Bartoli - Safarova 3-6, 6-2, 6-1 
Cornet - Hantuchova 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 
Zvonareva - Earrani 6-4, 6-1 
Safina - Kanepi 6-2, 6-2 
Petrova - Voskoboeva 6-1  abandoned

Other Third Round Fixtures:

Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP) vs. Maria Jose Martinez Sanchz (ESP)
Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) vs. Flavia Pennetta (ITA)
Virginie Razzano (FRA) vs. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
Samantha Stosur (AUS) vs. Elena Dementieva (RUS)
Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) vs. Alyona Bondarenko (UKR)
Jie Zheng (CHN) vs. Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR)
Victoria Azarenka (BLR) vs. Amelie Mauresmo (FRA)
Peng Shuai (CHN) vs. Serena Williams (USA)

And wetin happen to Serena?
Crashed OUT

. . . or is it Venus who crashed OUT

This is Jelena Jankovic's to lose.

Ivanovic is out yet another cutie-pie fallen by the way side

Serena is through to the fourth round winning in straight sets

Suarez-Navarro, the spanish lady that beat Venus is also through to the fourth

A-40:

Ivanovic is out yet another cutie-pie fallen by the way side

the girl is all face . . . no serve no ground strokes.

I agree she has a poor ground stroke she would need to work on that if she is ever going to win a Grand Slam

and Jelena "play 1000 tournaments to be number one even without a slam" Jankovic is out. Duly flogged 6-1, 6-4 by my favorite female tennis player Marion Bartoli the doctor's daughter.

the majors still eludes her. Safina through to the quarter finals in three sets.

Jelena out. just heard now.
when is she going to win a grand slam?
indeed, female tennis is downhill now, no clear leaders.

less cloth for serena please please

bawomolo:

less cloth for serena please please

Grand Slam TV Ratings would drop to an all-time low!! what do you think 90% of the male audience look out for?

I don't know who does this ranking but what is Jankovic still doing at the top of the World rankings?

A-40:

I don't know who does this ranking but what is Jankovic still doing at the top of the World rankings?

I think someone shld revamp the rankings so you cant just play 1000 tournaments and then claim to be number 1. Jankovic plays so many tournaments that even reaching the semis in all of them shld give her enough points to vault over people like Venus.

They should scale it so ranking points are relative to tournaments played. Venus won Wimbledon and the yr end championships and yet she's only no 6.

Well,you might be right.
Some way,the rankings have to give credence to the No1 Spot with regards to Grand Slams.
However,if you look at it from the angle of Masters titles,then maybe Jankovic deserves it.Though with her latest outster,the no.1 ranking is in severe jeopardy.
I think she does just enough to make her no.1.However it's kind of puzzling that the top female player in the world is yet to register a GS to her name.

Eastbay:

Well,you might be right.
Some way,the rankings have to give credence to the No1 Spot with regards to Grand Slams.
However,if you look at it from the angle of Masters titles,then maybe Jankovic deserves it.Though with her latest outster,the no.1 ranking is in severe jeopardy.
I think she does just enough to make her no.1.However it's kind of puzzling that the top female player in the world is yet to register a GS to her name.

Jankovic won 4 titles all through last season and only one was a masters title (Rome) . . .

So how come she's no1?
Like OI said,she does enough to be top.
If she finishes in the latter stages of all tournaments,she will be No.1.
I think she's consistenet though.I just thought she could take the title in Melbourne.
But like I also said,it's odd she hasn't won a GS

Serena is the only form of entertainment in female tennis.
I wish kournikova and those Russian divas back to the game jor

Eastbay:

So how come she's no1?
Like OI said,she does enough to be top.
If she finishes in the latter stages of all tournaments,she will be No.1.
I think she's consistenet though.I just thought she could take the title in Melbourne.
But like I also said,it's odd she hasn't won a GS

consistency is not playing 200 more tournaments than everyone, finishing in the QF of 75% of them, winning 4% and getting knocked out early in the remainder but scoring enough points to be World number 1.

It took Rafa Nadal winning 8 titles including 2 GS, 1 olympic gold and 3 masters titles to be world number 1 . . . kinda shows you why female tennis is a joke really.

Jankovic - 4 titles, no GS, no olympic title, 1 masters shield . . . the rest tier II titles.

Nadal's case was different inthe sense that there was only one dominator in the men's game.
The women's game is a lot more open,i.e. there isn't one person winning all the grand slams.That's why it's easy to be consistent in your own example to become number one.

Eastbay:

Nadal's case was different inthe sense that there was only one dominator in the men's game.
The women's game is a lot more open,i.e. there isn't one person winning all the grand slams.That's why it's easy to be consistent in your own example to become number one.

- There was only one dominator in the mens game because the guy is just damn too good.

- the womens game is "more open" because frankly they are just a collection of average ball bashers so anyone can beat the other on their lucky day.

Jankovic is out too!!! Very good all hands are on deck for my baby momma Serena to win her 3rd or is it 4th Australian Open

It's hard to pick a winner in the women's game. Form doesn't count and certainly not the ranking(those are nothing more than numbers), i think it'ld be better to just list the women top twenty, close your eyes and pick someone. You just might pick the winner. In that case, i pick, sharapova-sorry she didn't come for her fashion parade this time so it's jankovic-sorry,she'll have to continue her search for a grandslam some other time. alright,this time i can go wrong. Venus. Ahhhh. I give up.

Serena bt Kutnesova to advance in the Aussie open

This female title seems to have Serena written all over it

She's yet to play Dementieva

Serena leads by a set 6-3

Serena in the finals.
Beats Dementieva 2 straight

Serena or no one