Ashley had a great win on day four in the second round of the
Australian Open. Ashley, as her M.O. seems to go, took out a seeded
player in Anna-Lena Groenefeld, who was the no 17 seed. Ashley came
out on fire breaking Groenefeld in her first two service games.
Ashley did give up a break in the middle game of the first three but
only after it went to duece six or seven times. Ashley also had
three or four game points before giving the break to Groenefeld.
The rest of the match went in a similar fashion with Ashley winning
the match 6-2, 6-2.

Ashley broke Groenefeld 5 times only giving up the one break in the
second game of the first set. Ashley didn't have as many winner as
she did in her first match with only 9 but she did also reduce her
unforced errors to 14.

Ashley, also had a good net winning percentage although with fewer
approaches than in the previous match.

Later in the day Ashley teamed up with what appears to be a
permanent partner in Galina Voskoboeva, to defeat their first round
opponents Meilen Tu and Milagros Sequera 6-3, 7-5.

Ashley will face Daniele Hantuchova in the next round. Most
Harkleroad fans will remember the great match had with Daniele at
the 2003 French Open.