I have updated the Photos section of this Group as follows:

* Men > Fabrice Santoro (+17)
* Men > Raemon Sluiter (+2)

* Women > Marion Bartoli (+8)
* Women > Aiko Nakamura (+7)
+ Women > Yan Zi (6)
* Women > María Sánchez Lorenzo (+6)
* Women > Arantxa Parra Santonja (+3)
* Women > Peng Shuai (+1)


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AUSTRALIAN OPEN
(Melbourne, Australia; outdoor hard (Rebound Ace); Grand Slam)
=============== http://www.australianopen.com/
Women's Doubles
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Congratulations to Yan,Zi for becoming the first Selesian to win a
Women's Doubles title! (AFAIK)

YAN,ZI/ZHENG,JIE [12]:
1r + Evgenia Linetskaya/Galina Voskoboeva, 6-1 6-0
2r + Lourdes Domínguez Lino/María Sánchez Lorenzo, 6-4 6-0
3r + ELENA DEMENTIEVA/FLAVIA PENNETTA [7], 6-1 6-2
qf + VIRGINIA RUANO PASCUAL/PAOLA SUÁREZ [4], 4-6 7-5 6-1
sf + SHINOBU ASAGOE/KATARINA SREBOTNIK [9], 6-2 7-6 (7/2)
f + LISA RAYMOND/SAMANTHA STOSUR [1], 2-6 7-6 (9/7) 6-3

Zi and Jie recovered from 6-2 3-1 down in the final, saving two
championship-points in the tiebreak. They also saved three match-
points in the quarter-finals - five in total!

According to www.wtatour.com, Zi and Jie "used a back-court strategy
to perfection against the top-seeded tandem of Raymond and Stosur,
using a variety of passing shots, lobs and groundstrokes to
neutralize their aggressive, net-rushing opponents."

Yan said, in an on-court interview, "We're very excited to win the
tournament. They gave us a great match today."


Press-conference
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Zi Yan and Jie Zheng
Friday, January 27, 2006


YAN-ZHENG/Raymond-Stosur

2-6, 7-6, 6-3

Q. How does it feel to be China's first Grand Slam winners?

ZI YAN: We feel very exciting and very happy.

Q. You lost the first set. Were you very nervous?

ZI YAN: Yeah, little bit nervous. Because first time in the center
court. It's so big and so many people. So we have little bit nervous.

Q. Why did you play better in the second and third sets?

ZI YAN: Because we think is lost the first set. We just keep play.
No think about the match.

Q. What did you talk about after the end of the first set?

ZI YAN: We just say, "Come on" (laughter).

Q. What do you think this will mean for Chinese tennis?

ZI YAN: (Through translation.) It will be good for Chinese tennis.
In the near future, think we could be better, make a progress,
improve a lot, and it can stimulate a little bit.

Q. What is your next goal, the Beijing Olympics?

ZI YAN: Is long way. Is far way.

We just do the best we both.

Q. How will you celebrate tonight? What will you do?

ZI YAN: Just have some eat just because we leave tomorrow early
morning. So we need rest.

Q. Did you make a call to home, your family?

ZI YAN: Yeah, we have messaged them.

Q. Just messaged?

ZI YAN: Yes.

Q. You receive some message from them?

ZI YAN: Yeah, many. Many, many.

Q. From your parents?

ZI YAN: Yeah, parents, friend and...

JIE ZHENG: Coach.

ZI YAN: Coach.

Q. The game was televised in China?

JIE ZHENG: Yes.

Q. How long have you been playing together?

ZI YAN: Five years. Five years.


Quotes from Raymond and Stosur
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Stosur: "Both of them staying back on our serves is a little bit
different to a lot of teams. You've got to find the angles on the
court, then you don't want to open up the angles too much to give
them room to pass you. They were pretty good lobbers as well, so you
couldn't really back off, either. You just had to try and pick what
they were gonna do and do it. We were doing that for a set and a
half. And then once they got a sniff, they kind of didn't let it go,
and they really picked up their game a bit in the end to close it
out."

Raymond: "I think that any time you have a country who misses a
Grand Slam in order to play their national games, I mean, they're
pretty serious about patriotism. And as far as playing for their
country, it's obvious. There's so many Chinese girls now. When I
first started playing, I couldn't name one, 10, 12 years ago. I
don't know how many were in the main draw here. And obviously, they
have two very good doubles teams now."


Raymond was referring to the Chinese players (notably Peng,Shuai)
skipping Wimbledon 2005 to play the Chinese National Championships.

Shuai would like to turn professional, leave the Chinese national
set-up and strike out on her own. But they won't give her the
financial support to do so unless she signs a contract promising to
win a gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympics!

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/seles/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/seles/selesians.html