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First Round Results: (Men)

Federer - Russell 6-4, 6-2, 6-4
Ascione - Cilic 6-2, 6-2, 6-1
Starace - Minar 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6
Berlocq - Benneteau 6-7, 7-5, 6-2, 6-3
Ferrero - Delic 6-7, 6-3, 6-3, 6-4
Koubek - Rochus 6-7, 7-6, 6-4, 1-2 Retired
Lapentti - Peya 6-1, 6-4, 2-1 Retired
Youzhny - Hernych Retired
Robredo - Roitman 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
Economidis - Guccione 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1
Tipsarevic - Vemic 7-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
Safin - Vicente 6-1, 6-3, 6-1
Volandri - Capdeville 6-3, 7-5, 6-3
Vassallo Arguello - Falla 6-3, 6-3, 6-7, 7-6
Wawrinka - Ramirez Hidalgo 0-6, 5-7, 6-2, 7-5, 6-4
Ljubicic - Clement 6-1, 7-5, 7-6
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Davydenko - Galvani 6-3, 6-1, 6-1
Eschauer - Sidorenko 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Llodra - Devilder 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
Almagro - Gimelstob 6-4, 6-4, 6-4
Chela - Santoro 6-7, 6-0, 6-3, 6-3
Monfils - Rochus 4-6, 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1
Pastor - Pashanski 7-6, 6-4, 6-4
Nalbandian - Lee 6-2, 6-1, 3-6, 6-3
Gasquet - Mahut 6-3, 6-2, 6-2
Vliegen - Udomchoke 6-2, 6-3, 6-3
Bolelli - Verkerk 6-1, 6-4, 6-4
Canas - Hanescu 6-3, 6-1, 6-4
Melzer - Acasuso 6-4, 7-5, 6-4
Monaco - Fognini 3-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4
Daniel - Roger-Vasselin 6-1, 4-1 Retired
Stepanek - Gonzalez 6-2, 6-2, 6-4
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Djokovic - Santiago 6-3, 7-6, 6-4
Recouderc - Querrey 7-6, 2-6, 6-0, 6-7, 6-3
Patience - Eysseric 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4
Zabaleta - Calleri 6-4, 6-7, 7-6, 7-5
Tursunov - Di Mauro 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3
Verdasco - Haehnel 4-6, 6-2, 6-2, 6-0
Hartfield - Ginepri 6-4, 1-6, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2
Ferrer - Bracciali 6-1, 6-1, 6-2
Baghdatis - Grosjean 6-3, 6-2, 6-4
Pless - Lu 6-3, 6-2, 7-6
Hajek - Johansson 7-5, 7-6, 7-6
Ulihrach - Hrbaty 6-2, 5-7, 6-7, 6-4, 6-3
Mathieu - Mayer 6-3, 6-4, 6-2
Simon - Spadea 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3
Massu - Horna 6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 6-7, 6-2
Andreev - Roddick 3-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3
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Karlovic - Blake 4-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7-5
Bjorkman - Luczak 6-7, 5-7, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1
Hernandez - Guzman 7-6, 6-0, 6-2
Kohlschreiber - Dlouhy 6-2, 3-6, 7-5, 4-6, 17-15
Moya - Seppi 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 2-6, 6-0
Serra - Kunitsyn 6-3, 6-0, 6-2
Brzezicki - Kendrick 6-1, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1
Garcia-Lopez - Berdych 7-5, 6-4, 6-4
Hewitt - Mirnyi 6-3, 6-1, 6-3
Gaudio - Gicquel 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
Montcourt - Becker 6-3, 6-1, 6-3
Nieminen - Lopez 6-2, 6-4, 7-6
Montanes - Soderling 7-6, 4-1 Retired
Gulbis - Henman 6-4, 6-3, 6-2
Cipolla - Gabashvili 7-6, 6-3, 6-2
Nadal - Del Potro 7-5, 6-3, 6-2

Ade, this ur Blake sef! Anyways, as expected against a player who serves aces like no other, Blake lost in four sets. (The dude hit 22 aces in the match; Blake hit just 1).

Apart from Ginepri, all the ajebos americans have fallen in the first round. It's not even certain he will also progress. They'd better started getting used to playing on clay.

Roddick has fallen in the first round.  Gonzo, Henman might follow soon (both 2 sets down).

Blakes takes the first set against big-serving Karlovic.

The match between the King of clay and Del Potro is in progress. Nadal is up 1-0.

You're right Ade.  It's good that we have another anti-Nadal in the house.

Justine Henin, Dinara Safina, Tamira Paszek have all joined Serena Williams in the second round.

In the men's category, Janko Tipsarevic, Marat Safin, Potito Starace have progressed into the next round.

Weather-permitting, Gonzo, Davydenko, Federer, Canas, Youzhny, Volandri, Ljubicic, Gasquet, Nalbandian, Chela, Ferrero, Robredo will all be in action today.

davidylan:
Rain delay on opening day, Serena is down 5-6.
If the swiss "master" gets to the final i'd be shocked, he doesnt have a very good draw.

Nothin' dey happen! The tougher the opponents, the better for Roger

As for the women, I tip JH to take it the fourth time.

First Round Fixtures:

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Roger Federer SUI (1)  vs.  Michael Russell USA
Marin Cilic CRO  vs.  Thierry Ascione FRA
Ivo Minar CZE  vs.  Potito Starace ITA
Carlos Berlocq ARG  vs.  Julien Benneteau FRA (30)
Juan Carlos Ferrero ESP (17)  vs.  Amer Delic USA
Stefan Koubek AUT  vs.  Christophe Rochus BEL
Nicolas Lapentti ECU  vs.  Alexander Peya AUT
Jan Hernych CZE  vs.  Mikhail Youzhny RUS (13)
Tommy Robredo ESP (9)  vs.  Sergio Roitman ARG
Chris Guccione AUS  vs.  Konstantinos Economidis GRE
Janko Tipsarevic SRB  vs.  Dusan Vemic SRB
Fernando Vicente ESP  vs.  Marat Safin RUS (22)
Filippo Volandri ITA (29)  vs.  Paul Capdeville CHI
Martin Vassallo Arguello ARG  vs.  Alejandro Falla COL
Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo ESP  vs.  Stanislas Wawrinka SUI
Arnaud Clement FRA  vs.  Ivan Ljubicic CRO (7)

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Nikolay Davydenko RUS  vs. Stefano Galvani ITA
Alexandre Sidorenko FRA vs. Werner Eschauer AUT
Michael Llodra FRA  vs.  Nicolas Devilder FRA
Justin Gimelstob USA  vs.  Nicolas Almagro ESP
Juan Ignacio Chela ARG (18)  vs.  Fabrice Santoro FRA
Olivier Rochus BEL  vs.  Gael Monfils FRA
Ivan Navarro Pastor ESP  vs.  Boris Pashanski SRB  
Hyung-Taik Lee KOR  vs.  David Nalbandian ARG
Richard Gasquet FRA (11)  vs.  Nicolas Mahut FRA
Kristof Vliegen BEL  vs.  Danai Udomchoke THA
Martin Verkerk NED  vs.  Simone Bolelli ITA
Victor Hanescu ROU  vs.  Guillermo Canas ARG
Jurgen Melzer AUT (27)  vs.  Jose Acasuso ARG
Fabio Fognini ITA  vs.  Juan Monaco ARG
Edouard Roger-Vasselin FRA  vs.  Marcos Daniel BRA
Radek Stepanek CZE  vs.  Fernando Gonzalez

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Novak Djokovic SRB (6)  vs.  Santiago Giraldo COL                  
Sam Querrey USA  vs.  Laurent Recouderc FRA
Jonathan Eysseric FRA  vs.  Olivier Patience FRA
Mariano Zabaleta ARG  vs.  Agustin Calleri ARG (26)
Dmitry Tursunov RUS (21)  vs.  Alessio Di Mauro ITA
Fernando Verdasco ESP  vs.  Jerome Haehnel FRA
Robby Ginepri USA  vs.  Diego Hartfield ARG
Daniele Bracciali ITA  vs.  David Ferrer ESP (12)
Marcos Baghdatis CYP (16)  vs.  Sebastien Grosjean FRA
Kristian Pless DEN  vs.  Yen-Hsun Lu TPE
Thomas Johansson SWE  vs.  Jan Hajek CZE
Bohdan Ulihrach CZE  vs.  Dominik Hrbaty SVK (24)
Florian Mayer GER (31)  vs.  Paul-Henri Mathieu FRA
Vincent Spadea USA  vs.  Gilles Simon FRA
Luis Horna PER  vs.  Nicolas Massu CHI
Igor Andreev RUS  vs.  Andy Roddick USA (3)

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James Blake USA (  vs.  Ivo Karlovic CRO  
Peter Luczak AUS  vs.  Jonas Bjorkman SWE
Juan-Pablo Guzman ARG  vs.  Oscar Hernandez ESP
Lukas Dlouhy CZE  vs.  Philipp Kohlschreiber GER (28)
Carlos Moya ESP (23)  vs.  Andreas Seppi ITA
Florent Serra FRA  vs.  Igor Kunitsyn RUS
Robert Kendrick USA  vs.  Juan Pablo Brzezicki ARG
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez ESP  vs.  Tomas Berdych CZE (10)                
Lleyton Hewitt AUS (14)  vs.  Max Mirnyi BLR
Marc Gicquel FRA  vs.  Gaston Gaudio ARG                  
Benjamin Becker GER  vs.  Mathieu Montcourt FRA                  
Feliciano Lopez ESP  vs.  Jarkko Nieminen FIN (20)
Robin Soderling SWE (25)  vs.  Albert Montanes ESP
Ernests Gulbis LAT  vs.  Tim Henman GBR
Flavio Cipolla ITA  vs.  Teimuraz Gabashvili RUS
Juan Martin Del Potro ARG  vs.  Rafael Nadal ESP (2)

Seeds:  ¹Roger Federer (SUI), ²Rafael Nadal (ESP), ³Andy Roddick (USA), ⁴Nikolay Davydenko (RUS), ⁵Fernando Gonzalez (CHI), ⁶Novak Djokovic (SRB), ⁷Ivan Ljubicic (CRO), ⁸James Blake (USA), ⁹Tommy Robredo (ESP), ¹⁰Tomas Berdych CZE, ¹¹Richard Gasquet (FRA), ¹²David Ferrer (ESP), ¹³Mikhail Youzhny (RUS), ¹⁴Lleyton Hewitt (AUS), ¹⁵David Nalbandian (ARG), ¹⁶Marcos Baghdatis (CYP), ¹⁷Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP), ¹⁸Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG), ¹⁹Guillermo Canas (ARG), ²⁰Jarkko Nieminen (FIN), ²¹Dmitry Tursunov (RUS), ²²Marat Safin (RUS), ²³Carlos Moya (ESP), ²⁴Dominik Hrbaty (SVK), ²⁵Robin Soderling (SWE), ²⁶Agustin Calleri (ARG), ²⁷Jurgen Melzer (AUT), ²⁸Philipp Kohlschreiber GER, ²⁹Filippo Volandri (ITA), ³⁰Julien Benneteau (FRA), ³¹Florian Mayer (GER), ³²Nicolas Almagro (ESP)

Who else but the Swiss Master . I don't see Nadal reaching the finals.

;d

When in Rome, u do the Romans, australian

Must we imbibe everything? Moreoso, this kind?

@ Spoilt

I love so much your post,  sounds best so far. I'm sure u aint really spoilt

This guy obviously has an issue here,  blatant insecurity, inexplicable plight, etc. He hasnt even shown up since he released the thread.

But guys, be easy on him,  I understand that ladies would want to contribute more chauvinisticaly  in here and they won't outrightly mind if they earn much more than their husband, but majority of u guys won't want your wife earning more than u. I think he didnt really throw muh light on the matter,  remember! he said it is making life miserable for him, not she is,

where is he gan ?

Why do certain women dominate for too long? , like the Falcons too in Africa

u r right.

their performance is amazing, not that easy though

Arsenal Ladies Honors (2006/07 season)

1. UEFA cup winner (Beat Umea Ik in final 1-0 on aggregate)

2. FA Premier League (Premiership) champions,  they did not just go unbeaten, they went un-draw (22 wins 0 draw, 0 loss; GF 113, GA 13). They've won it for 4 consecutive times now. 9 in all

3. FA Cup winners (Beat Charlton 4-1 in final) 2 consecutive winners,  8 in all

4. League Cup (Carling),  Beat Leeds 1-0 in final. They've won it 9 times

It seems i've decided to stick to our ladies. Dont u think they shld join the premiership?


Chelsea came 7th in the league, Man U and Liverpool are not even in the premiership division

Our guys went trophyless,  our girls went trophyful
What a man can't do, a woman can do better,  innit?

http://www.arsenal.com/article.asp?thisNav=Ladies&article=344199&Title=Ladies+Honours

Yes!

We've done it, Vamos Roger!

Fatality!

The streak is coming to an end.

Federer leads 3-0 in the third set

He can't have it all.

Besides, if he manages to get that kind of service, he'll find it difficult to play with players who return serves very well.

6-2, 2-6

Not so fast!

It's going to be one set apiece pretty soon. The score is Federer - Nadal 6-2, 2-5 at the mo'.

Svetlana Kuznetsova and Jelena Jankovic will play for the Italian Open title, and apart from Justine Henin nobody on the tour is playing as sharply as those two.

Kuznetsova, seeded second, beat Daniela Hantuchova 6-4, 6-2 Saturday. Jankovic, seeded third, routed Patty Schnyder 6-1, 6-3 in the other semifinal of this clay-court warmup for the French Open, which begins next weekend.

"I feel really comfortable here," Kuznetsova said. "I have the game on clay and I've showed it the past three weeks.

Kuznetsova is ranked a career-high No. 3 this week following her runner-up finish in last week's German Open and a semifinal appearance in Warsaw, Poland, the week before.

Jankovic is also at a career high in the rankings -- No. 5 -- and has not dropped a set this week. The Serb won a clay-court title in Charleston, S.C., last month and lost to Henin in Warsaw and Berlin.

"She moves incredibly well on clay. Tomorrow is going to be a tough match," Kuznetsova said. "But I think I have the game to win."

Kuznetsova was the runner-up to Henin at last year's French Open.

"This year I can see how I can hurt other players a lot on clay courts," Kuznetsova said. "I can play with a lot of spin. I really understand the game much more this year."

Kuznetsova has defeated Jankovic in two of their three matches. Jankovic, however, beat her in three sets at last year's U.S. Open.

"I'm just going to concentrate on myself and try to put my serves in," Jankovic said.

Kuznetsova used her speed to run down Hantuchova's angled shots and flattened her backhand for a series of winners. Hantuchova beat Anabel Medina Garrigues in a long two-setter that ended late Friday and did not appear to have fully recovered.

"I know she likes hard courts better and it takes some time to get used to the clay," Kuznetsova said.

Kuznetsova broke to go up 2-1 in the first and maintained the lead for the rest of the set. After trading breaks early in the second set, Kuznetsova won the final games.

Schnyder upset Serena Williams in a third-set tiebreaker Friday and appeared out of energy in her semifinal. She was late arriving to the ball, missed routine groundstrokes and committed double-faults.

"She played unbelievably yesterday and it's really hard to play two days in a row like she did," Jankovic said.

Schnyder, who has a cold, never held serve.

"I couldn't breathe," she said. "I had trouble in the long rallies."

Jankovic's only problem came when she served for the match and had trouble with her serve.

"It was terrible. I was just a little bit tight," Jankovic said. "It happens to everybody. I just had to hang in there."

davidylan:
Long may Nadal continue to pile on your misery.  

he's going down tomorrow.

Mikel was just too good for Man Utd, esp. Scholes; he shielded the guy like he didn't exist.

David,

At least Chelsea made my day.  

As for Nadal  

It's another Nadal - Federer final!

David, u sef dey watch am?

What a combo!  Mikel-Drogba-Lamps-Drogba!

Goaaaaaaaaaal!!!!!!!!!

What a set-up!

Four succesive breaks of serve. It's obvious these guys are tired.

6-5 Nadal.

Hewitt breaks back. It's now 4-4.

Neva start o!

Nadal is a break up.

Nadal takes the second set 6-3.

Let's see where the pendulum swings in the third set. Back to Hewitt?

Hewitt takes the first set 6-2 .

Doyin, what would you like to eat?

Hewitt breaks again as he goes 4-1 up.

Now 5-1.  Nadal to serve to stay in the set.

That's if Hewitt allows it. Nadal is a break down in the first set.

Yipee!  Lucky Federer progresses into the final.  He beat the claycourt specialist 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.  As tight as the scoreline is, the match was actually tighter.

Up next, Hewitt - Nadal!