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THE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Wimbledon, England; grass; Grand Slam)
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1. First-round scoreboard-report: Chakvetadze v Kerber
2. First-round draw: Bottom half
3. Second-round draw: Top half
4. Order of play for Wednesday

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1. First-round scoreboard-report: Chakvetadze v Kerber
(Tuesday 26th June)
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+ ANNA CHAKVETADZE [8,EF] d. Angelique Kerber, 7-5 6-3

The match was third on Court 13, and started at 15:28 (three minutes
after BBC2 ended its transmission, reducing the slight probability
that this match had of being televised).


First set
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CHAKVE __*__@* *@*@ 7
KERBER @* *@__*____ 5

Anna serving 0-0: 0/40 (3 BPs). Broken.
Kerber serving 1-0: 40/0. Held.

A shocking start for Anna. I hope she isn't injured or something
after winning 's-Hertogenbosch!

Anna serving 0-2: Held to love.
Kerber serving 2-1: 30/15. 30/30. 40/40. Ad Kerber. Held.
Anna serving 1-3: 30/0. 30/15. 40/30. 40/40. Broken.
Kerber serving 4-1: 0/30. Broken.
Anna serving 2-4: 15/15. 15/30. 40/30. Held.

Phew! Already the hideous thought of Anna limping out of Wimbledon
without being televised is going through my head, and there won't be
another chance for me to see her play for the first time in 2007. :-(

There've been several occasions in the past when someone has won a
tournament the week before Wimbledon, only to crash out early at
Wimbledon. The obvious example to me is Monica Seles in 1996, when
she won Eastbourne, then lost in the second round of Wimbledon to
Katarína Studeníková on the very day of which this (26th June) is the
11th anniversary.

Kerber serving 4-3: 15/30. 30/30. Held.

And already, Kerber has won more games off Anna than she did at 's-
Hertogenbosch (6-2 6-2).

Anna serving 3-5: 0/15. 30/15. 30/30. 40/30. Held.
Kerber serving 5-4: 0/40 (3 BPs). Broken.

YES!! Anna has recovered from two breaks down!! I thought she was
badly out of sorts, but now she has the momentum on her side, which
should put her in a stronger position than the 5-5 score.

Anna serving 5-5: 15/15. 15/30. 30/30. Held.

Phew! At 15/30, it looked like Anna's bad day at the office might be
continuing!

Kerber serving 5-6: 0/15. 15/40 (2 SPs). Anna won the first set 7-5
at 16:05 (37m).


Second set
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CHAKVE * *@* * * 6
KERBER _*___* *_ 3

Anna serving 0-0: 0/15. 40/30. 40/40. Held.
Kerber serving 0-1: 30/30. 40/30. Held.
Anna serving 1-1: 0/15. 15/30. 30/30. 30/40 (BP). 40/40. Ad Anna.
Held.

Well recovered. At 30/40, I was already thinking about how Anna was
going to have to fight back from a break down in this set, but now
she may not have to.

Kerber serving 1-2: 0/15. 40/15 to 40/40. Ad Anna (BP). Broken.

And for the first time in the match, Anna is a break up. It should be
plain sailing from here, as long as she doesn't rest on her laurels.

Anna serving 3-1: 0/30. 30/30. 40/40. Ad Anna. Held.

Well recovered again. At 0/30, I thought Anna was going to be pulled
right back into the heart of battle, but 4-1* is a huge lead, even
though it's just one break.

Kerber serving 1-4: 40/0. 40/40. Ad Kerber. Held.

That could be the key game of the match. For Anna to pull her
opponent back from 40/0, yet still let her hold serve and reduce the
deficit to two games, on a bad day for Anna, could well be fatal to
Anna's chances. I cannot overemphasise how important is
the /momentum/ of a tennis-match: as we saw in the first set, it is
far more important than the score.

Anna serving 4-2: 15/15. 30/15. 30/30. 40/30. 40/40. Ad Anna. Held.

A very important hold for Anna. If she'd been broken after all those
little leads in that game, it would have handed the momentum firmly
over to Kerber.

Kerber serving 2-5: Held to love.
Anna serving 5-3: 0/15. 15/15. 15/30. 40/30 (MP #1). 40/40.
Ad Kerber (BP). Deuce #2. Ad Anna (MP #2). Anna won 7-5 6-3 at 16:45
(second set 40m, match 1h17m).

I'm very relieved that Anna closed out the match in that game,
because although she had accumulated a huge lead, I didn't sense that
she had the momentum firmly in her favour.


PA SportsTicker:
>>>
A quarter-finalist at both the Australian Open and French Open,
eighth-seeded Anna Chakvetadze booked her spot in the second round
with a 7-5 6-3 victory over Angelique Kerber of Germany.

It was a bit of a sloppy performance for Chakvetadze, who overcame 27
unforced errors. She did rifle 33 winners, compared to just 14 for
Kerber.
<<<

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2. First-round draw: Bottom half (Tuesday's losers removed)
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2.1 Third quarter: Nicole Vaidišová
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* ANA IVANOVIC [6,DF] v Melinda Czink (ajde Ana!)
* Edina Gallovits v Meilen Tu
* Aravane Rezaď v Shenay Perry (allez Aravane!)
* Anne Kremer v FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE [29] (dajee Anne!)

* Virginia Ruano Pascual v ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES [22] (ˇvamos
Virginia!)
* Tatiana Perebiynis [Q] v Emmanuelle Gagliardi (davai Tatiana!)
* Sania Mirza [DF] won
* NADIA PETROVA [11] won

* NICOLE VAIDIŠOVÁ [14,EF] v Karin Knapp (pojdme Nicole!)
* Nicole Pratt v Casey Dell'Acqua [Q]
* Victoria Azarenka v Jelena Kostanic Tošic
* Yan,Zi [Q,S] v TATHIANA GARBIN [21] (jia you Zi!)

* Ayumi Morita [Q,S] v MARA SANTANGELO [28] (ganbatte Ayumi!)
* Caroline Wozniacki [WC] v Anastasiya Yakimova (kom sĺ Caroline!)
* Yvonne Meusburger won
* AMÉLIE MAURESMO [4] won


2.2 Bottom quarter: Maria Sharapova
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* SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA [5] won
* Bethanie Mattek won
* Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova v Agnieszka Radwanska (aide Tsvetana!)
* Anna Smashnova v MARTINA MÜLLER [32]

* TATIANA GOLOVIN [17,DF] v Hsieh,Su-Wei [Q,S] (allez Tatiana!)
* Tamira Paszek v Barbora Záhlavová Strýcová [Q] (auf jetzt Tamira!)
* Iveta Benešová v Catalina Castańo (pojdme Iveta!)
* ELENA DEMENTIEVA [12] v Nathalie Dechy (davai Elena!)

* Kateryna Bondarenko v DINARA SAFINA [13] (davai Kateryna!)
* Akiko Morigami [S] v Alberta Brianti (ganbatte Akiko!)
* Hana Šromová won
* VENUS WILLIAMS [23] won

* AI SUGIYAMA [26] won
* Alizé Cornet [LL] won
* Séverine Brémond v Ekaterina Bychkova, 6-4 *4-3
* MARIA SHARAPOVA [2,EF] won

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3. Second-round draw: Top half
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* JUSTINE HENIN [1] v Vera Dushevina
* Elena Vesnina v Emilie Loit (davai Elena!)
* ALYONA BONDARENKO [24] v Ágnes Szávay [Q] (davai Alyona!)
* Roberta Vinci v PATTY SCHNYDER [15] (forza Roberta!)

* DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [10,EF] v Elena Likhovtseva (both nice; podme
Daniela!)
* KATARINA SREBOTNIK [19] v Nika Ožegovic [Q] (dajmo Katarina!)
* SAMANTHA STOSUR [27] v Milagros Sequera
* Alicia Molik v SERENA WILLIAMS [7] (go Alicia!)

* JELENA JANKOVIC [3] v Jarmila Gajdošová
* LUCIE ŠAFÁROVÁ [25,DF] v Eleni Daniilidou (pojdme Lucie!)
* MARION BARTOLI [18,S] v Olga Govortsova [Q] (both nice; allez
Marion!)
* SHAHAR PE'ER [16] v Kaia Kanepi (kadima Shahar!)

* Aiko Nakamura [S] v MARTINA HINGIS [9] (ganbatte Aiko!)
* Laura Granville v SYBILLE BAMMER [20]
* MICHAËLLA KRAJÍCEK [31] v Katie O'Brien [WC] (both nice; kom op
Michaëlla!)
* ANNA CHAKVETADZE [8,EF] v Tatiana Poutchek (davai Anna!)

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4. Order of play for Wednesday
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Court 3 (start 12:00 BST = 11:00 GMT)
1. WS 1r: ELENA DEMENTIEVA [12] v Nathalie Dechy
2. MS 2r: Fernando Verdasco v Andreas Seppi
3. MS 2r: Gilles Muller v JUAN CARLOS FERRERO [20]
4. WS 2r: ANNA CHAKVETADZE [8,EF] v Tatiana Poutchek

Full order of play:
http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/scores/schedule/

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