Australian Open Day 7: Sunday, Jan 19 - Order of Play

[kskate2]

In bed with the flu makes for easy tennis-watching

I believe I misspoke a couple days ago in saying I didn't like Pennetta...I was confusing her with Vinci. I actually like Pennetta and her fight to come back from injury.

Get better GG. Lots of chicken soup and OJ.

 

[rubydo]

Genie and Casey go at it in Prime-time.
Flavia and Angie get their chance early.

here is the list of singles matches:
Serena Williams (USA) [1] vs. Ana Ivanovic (SRB) [14]
Casey Dellacqua (AUS) vs. Eugenie Bouchard (CAN) [30]
Na Li (CHN) [4] vs. Ekaterina Makarova (RUS) [22]
Angelique Kerber (GER) [9] vs. Flavia Pennetta (ITA) [28]

My predictions below based on instinct . I don't believe in logic in sports, its the instinct which knows better..

1) Ana can give some bother to the best player of all times. When Ana clicks, "you never know"... my instinct smells something about this match, maybe a Serena mental fatigue? hard to tell. Serena is my best of all times anyway. Serena wins a tougher match than what was expected.
2) Genie wants to see her bunch of "crazy" Canadians again and will win this.
3) Na Li. I cant see her lose this.
4) Flavia lights up in the big stage while Kerber tends to fade under pressure. My logic says Kerber but my instinct says Flavia, so I predict a Flavia win!

Will be interesting to see how many I got right

Flavia made your predication on this match come true. Good performance by the Italian, her serve and backhand look as good as ever. Kerber's serve is one of the worst on the tour. Come on Genie, want to hear O Canada sung again at the end of the match.:clap Li and Serena seem safe bets too.

 

[golds girl]

In bed with the flu makes for easy tennis-watching

I believe I misspoke a couple days ago in saying I didn't like Pennetta...I was confusing her with Vinci. I actually like Pennetta and her fight to come back from injury.

Get better GG. Lots of chicken soup and OJ.

Thanks...I'll try.

 

[my sherona]

Makarova conqueror of the williams sister venus and serena in the AO can't get herself started against Na Li. 6-2

 

[golds girl]

I hope Ana plays a lot of tournaments this year and goes deep because really she's a much better all-court player than quite a few players ahead of her e.g. Errani.

 

[tennisville]

Ana is awesome right now , what return winners

 

[golds girl]

Li made Makarova look like a Junior

 

[tennisville]

After clearly being the second best player in that set , Serena takes the first :clap

Champions will to dig through and win when you are not at your best

 

[kskate2]

Serena breaks and takes the opener 6-4. Ana is playing well, but on the critical points she can't run around her very attackable BH.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

Well, Serena would make her life easier if she could find some consistency on her serve. Here and in Brisbane while it showed up when she was in trouble, it would be a whole lot better if it worked on a level that she wasn't in those positions in the first place.

 

[Moxie]

Li is through easily. Happy about that.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

I like that Ana is still being aggressive, but it has to suck to lose the first set after playing Serena so well. This is probably the best I have seen Ana play Serena.

 

[nehmeth]

Ana with the break in the 2nd. Nice.

 

[Sundaymorningguy]

Serena better pick it up Ana by far is being the more aggressive of the two.

 

[kskate2]

2 SP's for Ana

 

[kskate2]

Ana takes the set on her 3rd SP. Well done. We're heading for the decider

 

[my sherona]

Ana is playing like makarova 2 yrs ago same venue. Go Ana ! 6-3

 

[Moxie]

Wow…bold tennis from Ivanovic. She was standing in deep to return. She has put Serena a bit on her back foot. Let's see if she can do it for another set. Serena will surely have her back up.

 

[nehmeth]

Serena is looking flustered and uncomfortable out there...

Ana is completely disrespecting the Williams serve... beautiful.

 

[kskate2]

Ana up an early break in the decider 2-0. Let's see if she can keep it