Elena can't hit through Venus, nor is her defense up to snuff to handle Venus' bludgeons.
Five winners in Dubai, three winners in Stanford...she hit like 12 in their first match and around 15 in their Miami one. Think it was 13 or 14 in the Doha match last year.
If Lena still had bangs, Venus would slap them clean off.
It's like the tournament directors said, "Let's plan an entire event around making Lena D. look at bad as possible." I hear they offered Msykina a couple million to come out of retirement just to beat Lena, but Myskina's answer was so contradictory and confusing they gave up and just gave her a first round match against Vee instead.
Elena can't hit through Venus, nor is her defense up to snuff to handle Venus' bludgeons.
Five winners in Dubai, three winners in Stanford...she hit like 12 in their first match and around 15 in their Miami one. Think it was 13 or 14 in the Doha match last year.
hrmm.... Venus owns Dementieva..... Dementieva has only won matches at the YEC once..... Its not looking good for her.... Venus can be in bad form and still manage to whoop up on Lena.... (standford)
My two favs against each other, I hope that both will qualify bor SF, but that is just not realistic!
If Venus doesnt play horrible tennis, she will win this, Elena hates the game of Venus, it got even worse over the last years.
But last yeah in Doha it was a pretty tough fight, and if this will go over 3 sets, Elena will have definetly an advantage!
Elena has to face venus first AGAIN? Just like last year... I was hoping for elena to build momentum and face one of the others first, guess that won't be happening...
A 9-2 head to head record does not automatically give Venus the win here because she's trying to come back from a knee injury and therefore no one knows how she's going to play.
It just so happens that Venus in recent years has always played well against Elena not allowing her to take control. Otherwise Elena has a game that can disrupt anyone.
Anyway it depends on Venus and how healthy she is and how well she plays. If she's so so, Elena would do good to take advantage.
This should just be the confidence boosting match that Vee needs right now. However, if she is still playing subpar, expect Elena to sweep up. I really can't wait to see the outcome of this match