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THE CHAMPIONSHIPS (Wimbledon, England; grass; Grand Slam)
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1. Photos
2. Third-round TV-report: Chakvetadze v Krajícek
3. Wooden-Spoon List
4. Women's Doubles: Second round

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1. Photos
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http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/players/wtaq416.html

Search Getty Images for "chakvetadze"

Many players including Anna:
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/gallery?pg=1&cap=1
http://www.sonyericssonwtatour.com/2/photogallery/?Event=wimbledon_r3

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2. Third-round TV-report: Chakvetadze v Krajícek (Friday 29th June)
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- ANNA CHAKVETADZE [8,EF] lt. MICHAËLLA KRAJÍCEK [31],
6-7 (8/10) 7-6 (7/5) 2-6

I should preface my remarks by saying that at the time I wrote them,
I had only watched the first set up to 5-6, and the third set from
2-4 to the end. I'll post my full TV-report at a later date.

I'm not going to sugarcoat this loss. It was my first and last chance
to see Anna play live in 2007, and I've never seen her play worse.
I saw very little power or accuracy compared with what I've come to
expect from Anna.

Michaëlla went for her shots more than Anna, though Anna has superior
mobility, and it seemed that she would be too solid for Michaëlla as
she broke early and served for the first set at 5-4.

But Anna played a horrible choky game to get broken back, and just as
it started raining, Michaëlla went 6-5* up with a winner that Anna
thought was out. She shouted at the umpire, and looked close to tears.

At 2-4* in the third, Anna had two break-points to get back in the
match, but Michaëlla was playing very impressive aggressive tennis.
At *2-5, Anna capitulated with an absolutely horrible game: not going
for her shots, yet still missing them.

I don't know whether Anna was feeling "very, very bad", but I expect
a lot more courage than that from someone who is ranked #7 and is a
member of my Eternal Fanship. When Anna loses, I want to see her go
down with all guns blazing.


Michaëlla Krajícek
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I am a pretty little Dutch girl
As pretty as can be
And all the boys in the neighbourhood
Are crazy over me

Michaëlla is now a member of my demi-fanship (my second tier of
favourites, the first tier being my Eternal Fanship).

Although I first saw Michaëlla play at the French Open 2006, and
again at Birmingham 2007 (both first-round losses), she has been a
revelation to me this Wimbledon. She was more impressive in the third
round than her victim Anna Chakvetadze, who is a member of my Eternal
Fanship!

I already knew that Michaëlla serves big and moves great, that she
can play spreading rallies from the baseline, and is also very
willing to come to the net behind her wicked sliced backhand, but
when I watched her quarter-final (ultimately a three-set loss to
eventual finalist Marion Bartoli), her added value was sharp
groundstrokes of flairsome power!

I tuned in at the start of the third set of that quarter-final to see
Michaëlla hit three flairsome groundstroke-winners, including a
crosscourt backhand winner onto the sideline just like Karina
Habšudová used to do!

Indeed, the match reminded me of my all-time favourite match to
watch: a Wimbledon 2000 first round between Monica Seles and Karina
Habšudová, which was also played on Court 2, and which Monica won in
three sets after dropping the first 3-6.

Michaëlla is also slim, cute and exceptionally pretty, with beautiful
eyelashes. Before she changed her hairstyle from a ponytail to a
short, boyish cut, she was very definitely one of the prettiest girls
in tennis - and, well, once you get used to it and see close-ups on
TV, she still is.

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3. Wooden-Spoon List
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1. VENUS WILLIAMS (23)
2. MARION BARTOLI (18)
3. ANA IVANOVIC (6)
4. JUSTINE HENIN (1)
5. SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (5)
6. MICHAELLA KRAJICEK (31)
7. NICOLE VAIDISOVA (14)
8. SERENA WILLIAMS (7)
9. MARIA SHARAPOVA (2)
10. JELENA JANKOVIC (3)
11. NADIA PETROVA (11)
12. PATTY SCHNYDER (15)
13. Tamira Paszek
14. Laura Granville
15. AMELIE MAURESMO (4)
16. DANIELA HANTUCHOVA (10)
17. Akiko Morigami
18. SHAHAR PE'ER (16)
19. Aravane Rezai
20. Elena Vesnina
21. Agnieszka Radwanska
22. ANNA CHAKVETADZE (8) <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
23. Victoria Azarenka
24. Milagros Sequera
25. AI SUGIYAMA (26)
26. LUCIE SAFAROVA (25)
27. Virginia Ruano Pascual
28. ALYONA BONDARENKO (24)
29. ELENA DEMENTIEVA (12)
30. MARTINA HINGIS (9)
31. MARA SANTANGELO (28)
32. KATARINA SREBOTNIK (19)
33. Hana Sromova (Q)
34. Olga Govortsova (Q)
35. Meilen Tu
36. Vera Dushevina
37. Bethanie Mattek
38. Katie O'Brien (WC)
39. Nicole Pratt
40. Alicia Molik
41. Severine Bremond
42. Jarmila Gajdosova
43. Sania Mirza
44. Roberta Vinci
45. TATIANA GOLOVIN (17)
46. SYBILLE BAMMER (20)
47. Yvonne Meusburger
48. Elena Likhovtseva
49. DINARA SAFINA (13)
50. Kaia Kanepi
51. FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE (29)
52. Emilie Loit
53. MARTINA MULLER (32)
54. Tatiana Poutchek
55. TATHIANA GARBIN (11)
56. SAMANTHA STOSUR (27)
57. Alize Cornet (LL)
58. Eleni Daniilidou
59. Tatiana Perebiynis
60. Agnes Szavay (Q)
61. Iveta Benesova
62. Aiko Nakamura
63. Caroline Wozniacki (WC)
64. Nika Ozegovic (Q)
65. Alla Kudryavtseva
66. Flavia Pennetta
67. Melinda Czink
68. Jorgelina Cravero (Q)
69. Julia Vakulenko
70. Tzipora Obziler
71. Karin Knapp
72. Lourdes Dominguez Lino
73. Chan,Yung-Jan
74. Anne Keothavong (WC)
75. Vania King
76. Camille Pin
77. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (Q)
78. Aleksandra Wozniak
79. Jamea Jackson
80. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (WC)
81. Alberta Brianti
82. Tamarine Tanasugarn
83. Shenay Perry
84. OLGA POUTCHKOVA (30)
85. Tsvetana Kirilova Pironkova
86. Angelique Kerber
87. Jelena Kostanic Tosic
88. Julia Schruff
89. Melanie South (WC)
90. Zuzana Ondraskova
91. ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES (22)
92. Jill Craybas
93. Nathalie Dechy
94. Naomi Cavaday (WC)
95. Ayumi Morita
96. Elena Baltacha (WC)
97. Peng,Shuai
98. Greta Arn
99. Edina Gallovits
100. Timea Bacsinszky
101. Vasilisa Bardina
102. Sandra Kloesel
103. Casey Dell'Acqua (Q)
104. Anastasia Rodionova
105. Ekaterina Bychkova
106. Meghann Shaughnessy
107. Yaroslava Shvedova
108. Ashley Harkleroad
109. Hsieh,Su-Wei
110. Varvara Lepchenko
111. Virginie Razzano
112. Maria Elena Camerin
113. Kateryna Bondarenko
114. Tatjana Malek
115. Anne Kremer
116. Sun,Tiantian
117. Anna Smashnova
118. Viktoriya Kutuzova (WC)
119. Yan,Zi (Q)
120. Kristina Brandi (Q)
121. Maria Kirilenko
122. Gisela Dulko
123. Emmanuelle Gagliardi
124. Eva Birnerova
125. Catalina Castano
126. Martina Sucha
127. Anastasiya Yakimova
128. Anna-Lena Groenefeld

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4. Women's Doubles: Second round (Tuesday 3rd July)
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- Anna Chakvetadze [EF]/Victoria Azarenka
lt. (MARIA KIRILENKO [DF]/ELENA VESNINA)[12], 7-6 (7/3) 1-6 6-8

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Dr. Andrew Broad
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http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/chakv/

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