Gold Coast Round 1 Results (Tuesday)

C.Pin def A.Barna 6:2 6:4

T.Golovin def Z.Yan 6:1 6:4

S.Karatancheva def M.E.Camerin 6:2 6:4

S.Stour def (4)K.Sprem 6:4 6:2

K.Koukalova def J.Hewitt 6:4 1:6 6:2

(2)P.Schnyder def V.Razzano 6:2 6:4

(7)E.Likhovtseva def E.Loit 4:6 7:6 6:2

hard to believe likhovtseva won this tournament 8 years ago!!

i remember waking up to hear that she had beaten sugiyama in a thrilling 3 set final- seems like a lifetime ago!!

tennis was very different back then

i can't believe patty won it 6 years ago. i remember her beating mary in the final. and then it all went wrong.

Even harder to believe, Silvija Talaja was the 2000 champion - beat Kournikova, Sanchez-Vicario and Martinez in the last three rounds, cracked the top 20 just before RG that year... and then her career abruptly died :o

Tatiana :hatoff:

Sesil :rocker2:

Klara :woohoo:

but Karolina :eek: carrying on from where she left off last year :sad:

Patty :D she'll better get far, so she doesn't lose to many places if she loses early at the AO

Sammy :woohoo:

Jaslyn...o so close

Z.Yan :sad:

S.Karatancheva :bounce:

(4)K.Sprem :mad:

K.Koukalova :smooch:

My faves :D

Camille :) but Anca has been poor for a long time now
Tatiana :hearts: expected easy win
Sesil :eek: at the scoreline
Sam :p but with it being in Australia and H2H record not a surprise
Jaslyn :sad: but great fight
Patty :bounce: hopefully she'll finally use all of her talent
Elena :D not great scoreline but a wins a win

yup.. strange isn't it Lena winning in 1996 against her doubles partner at the time :eek: it was the start of a very good year for her :D

then she beat defending champion Mary at the AO, on her way to the 4th round, also beat ASV on clay in Berlin but a few days later she lost to ASV 6-0 6-0 at the French! :o and she also reached the 4th round at Wimbledon...

she's still capable of giving the big names a hard time, but too inconsistent :(