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DFS CLASSIC (Edgbaston, Birmingham, England; grass; WTA Tier III)
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1. My photos
2. Quarter-final eyewitness report: Hantuchová v Bartoli

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1. My photos
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I have uploaded all my photos for Sunday 17th June 2007, in one big
zip-file, to:
http://www.divshare.com/download/1917585-f12
(seems to be down just at the moment - if so, try again later)

Sunday's players:

Maria Sharapova (62 photos)
Jelena Jankovic (27)
Daniela Hantuchová (26)
Marion Bartoli (21)
Cara Black (2)
Liezel Huber (2)
Meilen Tu (2)
Sun,Tiantian (2)

Permission to copy my Birmingham photos is granted provided that:
(a) no money is exchanged;
(b) they are labelled as "Copyright 2007 Andrew Broad".
Please let me know if you do use them on another website.

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2. Quarter-final eyewitness report: Hantuchová v Bartoli
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- DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [3,EF] lt. MARION BARTOLI [5,S] 7-5 4-6 5-7

A frustrating match for me as a Daniela-fan, because I believe that
Daniela is much more talented than Marion, especially on grass
(I wrote this before Marion went on to reach the Wimbledon-final!),
but she failed to impose herself at the right times.

Play was suspended on Saturday night with Daniela facing break-point
at 30/40 in the very first game of the third set. I had already
posted a report on Saturday's play when I had to break off for
Wimbledon. This report covers the resumption of play on Sunday.

The third set resumed on Centre Court on Sunday, and both players
were pretty nervous. Marion did convert that break-point, and was
never behind in the game-score, though she did look very choky when
serving for the match at 5-4. But instead of seizing the momentum,
Daniela helped Marion on her way to the semi-finals with some cheap
errors in the last two games.

My full match-report, with a description of every point, can be found
at...
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/hantu/reports.html

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

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