Stanford QF [6] Marion Bartoli defeats [2] Anna Chakvetadze 6-3 6-4

allez
so happy for u marion

HA! :p

Well done Marion :banana:!!!!!!!!! It was so worth to get up this night, thank you so much!!!!!!
Take the title :hearts:!

MARION! :bowdown:

NOW she's hitting balls to the crowd!

such a dominante performance! great groundstrokes, good serving! well done Marion!!!

Great match Marion!

Where did that confidence come from? She was really hitting the ball cleanly today.

GO MAR!!! I loved the match, there we're some nice rallies. Marion was smacking the ball!

Make the final!!!! and lose to Serena please :p

There are no words Anna. :o :help:

2008 has just been a wave of inconsistency. Can you ever put together two good tournaments let alone two good wins? :rolleyes:

Can't even beat slumping Marion. Pathetic...

Marion was on fire, combined with ANNA making tons of unforced errors... but it was a fine match to watch, with great rallies!
Now be in the final against: Winnerena!!!

Marion no pressure now,plays free tennis Gl vs Ai.hopefully you'll win:)

Anna LOST!!!!!!!! :hearts:

What a great day of results at Stanford today. Now I like/respect everyone left. I fucking love it.

Great win, Marion. This is what should have happened in Paris. Very happy for her. :)

There are no words Anna. :o :help:

2008 has just been a wave of inconsistency. Can you ever put together two good tournaments let alone two good wins? :rolleyes:

Can't even beat slumping Marion. Pathetic...

Last time I check Marion ain't a slump no longer sos

Blergh... such a sloppy first set from Anna, Bartoli should have won it by a bigger margin aside from a few good serves from Chak. Pity that just when Anna began to play better (and they actually had some really fun angled rallies midway through that second set) off the ground, her serve went to shit and Marion was stable enough to take the match. Nice match by Marion, glad to see her in better form, although I had hoped for a different result tonight.

Anyway... I just hope Anna goes away and works on those damn putaways and gets the timing back on her backhand.

marion simply outplayed chakky.
she is super agressive today and outplayed chakky in rallies.
good to see her get back in form.

just rubbish

You mean I am not watching the match live? :unsure: Anyway, thank God I know the results. can Chakvetadze be any more boring?:shrug:

thanks Marion! :devil: :kiss:

There are no words Anna. :o :help:

2008 has just been a wave of inconsistency. Can you ever put together two good tournaments let alone two good wins? :rolleyes:

Can't even beat slumping Marion. Pathetic...

:rolleyes::rolleyes:
chakky is slump as well.
BTW did you watch this match.?? Marion was simple too good and didn't miss much from the baseline and put a lot of pressure on her.
please stop being a sore loser.

God can Chakvetadze be any more boring?
she is a nightmare to watch :o

Marion is not a good mover.. You would think that Anna would move her butt around-- instead she was quite content to slug it out with her at the baseline :rolleyes:

Chakky's forehand is so much worse than last year. I think she changed it.

Marion played very well though.

Cool, congrats Marion.

Czakwetadze out of the tournament is always a good thing, moreso if a player I like beats her.Well done Marion and good luck in the SFs. :yeah:

Well done Marion. :banana:

Now please make the Final. :yeah:

Marion for the title now! :D Without the pressure as the defending Wimbledon runner-up,she seems to play more comfortably now.Hopefully this is the first step for another miracle run. ;) :)

Anna. :hug: :hug: :hug: A tier II quarterfinal isn't so bad. :)

Allez Marion! :hearts:

Win the title! :drool:

Sometimes I wonder whether I watch the same match as some of the posters. Neither Marion was dominant, nor Anna was making tons of errors (I was watching a live stream, so shots missing tramlines by a small margin were hard to see), even though she tended to make them in some of the least appropriate moments. Secondly, she produced lots of beautiful winners, and often had upper hand in the rallies. She also defended valiantly. What undid her today was her inability to hold the serve, especially in the second set when she may have held just once.

In comparison, Marion was more solid, and had clear advantage serving.

The match was beautiful to watch with a lot of interesting well executed rallies. Both players were preparing the winners by creating positions for angle shots, and by moving the opponent along the baseline. Often very small elements of the game, or pure luck, were deciding who was winning the point.

The 8th and the 9th games of the 2nd Match proved to be decisive. When Marion was already looking as a likely winner, Anna was able to break her on 4:4, and then in a somehow haphazard manner, slipped to 0/40 in her own service game. Once before in the match she was able to win her game from such disadvantage but not this time. A lack of concentration? In any case, it proved to be very costly, and Marion didn't allow the opportunity to slip away, and convincingly held her serve.

I have an impression that Anna suffered a few such periods of lack of concentration, as I didn't see in her game obvious weaknesses (I am not speaking about her serve).

In combination with solid determination of Bartoli they cost her the match.

As I said above, the match was a pleasure to watch. There were a few points of exceptional beauty. I don't understand those who say that Chakvetadze's or Bartoli's game is boring.

Allez Marion!! :hug::bigclap:

Ai vs. Marion :hearts: Dont really mind whoever makes it to the finals, both will lose to Serena. :lol:

Marion played surprisingly well. Anna was her usual craptastic self.

Ai for the final! :bounce:

Simple: Marion has always had the game. Now all she has to do is tone her body up and she'll be back top 10 LICKIDY SPLIT!!! :) GOOD JOB MARION!!!! ALLEZ

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:lol: Did anyone watching the match on Tennis Channel just hear Anna yell at someone to shut up? Not a good day at the office for the CHAK!!

Pathetic

wow...

Sometimes I wonder whether I watch the same match as some of the posters. Neither Marion was dominant, nor Anna was making tons of errors, even though she tended to make them in some of the least appropriate moments. Secondly, she produced lots of beautiful winners, and often had upper hand in the rallies. She also defended valiantly. What undid her today was her inability to hold the serve, especially in the second set when she may have held just once.

In comparison, Marion was more solid, and had clear advantage serving.

The match was beautiful to watch with a lot of interesting well executed rallies. Both players were preparing the winners by creating positions for angle shots, and by moving the opponent along the baseline. Often very small elements of the game, or pure luck, were deciding who was winning the point.

The 8th and the 9th games of the 2nd Match proved to be decisive. When Marion was already looking as a likely winner, Anna was able to break her on 4:4, and then in a somehow haphazard manner, slipped to 0/40 in her own service game. Once before in the match she was able to win her game from such disadvantage but not this time. A lack of concentration? In any case, it proved to be very costly, and Marion didn't allow the opportunity to slip away, and convincingly held her serve.

I have an impression that Anna suffered a few such periods of lack of concentration, as I didn't see in her game obvious weaknesses (I am not speaking about her serve).

In combination with solid determination of Bartoli they cost her the match.

As I said above, the match was a pleasure to watch. There were a few points of exceptional beauty. I don't understand those who say that Chakvetadze's or Bartoli's game is boring.
Obviously people did watch a different match than you.
Chakvetadze is an error machine, she made 38 tonight:help:

:lol: Did anyone watching the match on Tennis Channel just hear Anna yell at someone to shut up? Not a good day at the office for the CHAK!!


OMG! but I got distracted before coming to post it :lol:

sad for anna but happy for marion.......not able to defend anything this year

:rolleyes:


Anna. :o :help:

Obviously people did watch a different match than you.
Chakvetadze is an error machine, she made 38 tonight:help:

Yep! error, winner,error , error, winner, error, winner, winner, winner, error, error, error. This is pretty much how the match went for her :help:

i thought marion played a really great match. that's her game. just blasting her groundstrokes with great consistency. perfectly executed. get that final!
good try, anna. never looked into the match except for a couple of games in the second set when the shots clicked. sad that i remember how great she was last year against hantuchova at this very event, she has really regressed.

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just rubbish

:rolleyes::rolleyes: sore loser

welldone marion...make it to the finals now

Best I've seen Marion play in some time. :yeah: Her new service motion is so much better than the old one. It's only a matter of time before she starts moving up the rankings again.

Chakvetadze was bad besides a couple of games in the second set. Silly errors after getting herself back in the set ruined her. The TTC commentator has such trouble with her name. He even called her Chakvetardze tonight. :o

Chakvetardze.

Chakretardze? lol

Anyway, stop sucking Anna and get back to your good self.

Allez Marion.

Title of defending Wimbledon finalist has been lifted and here comes the great performances :D Go Marion!

Well done Anna, welcome to the retarded players of the year ! :yeah: Long live early rounds exits, just lovely... Take a break, get back to hard training asap working on the basics of tennis and getting your head together...

All I know is when Marion's game is on and she is whacking near the lines,she is bloody hard to beat1

:woohoo: Such a great win, come on!

:worship:

:woohoo:

Bartoli..:hearts: take the title please..

Wow. Good win for Marion; totally unexpected result but :yeah:

Allez Marion! :bounce: Now get to your first tier 2 final.

Oh yes!

Well done Marion i knew she could do it!

Now get to the final :)

Anna :sad:

Wow, good for her!

:hearts:

Anna :) :) :) :)

Anna is competly out of form this year... I still can't believe why she took the title in Paris Indoors... Maybe Daniela was out of order there...

Chaky :bigcry:

Win the title now :)

Marion :banana: :worship: :woohoo:

I'm so happy- i really hope she's out of that slump! Now you have to get to the Final!!

Let Anna's freefall begin!

Anna :help::help::help:

Well done Marion!!

Yesss !! Keep going Marion ;)

:haha: this is just great :D
at least keothavong took bartoli to a 7-5 final set :p
well done marion :yeah: but i hope you lose to sugi next :)
as for jokevetadze, thats another 70 ranking points taken off this week. she has 275 points to defend next week - its all good. wave bye bye to the top 10 anna :wavey:

Marion :hearts: Let her eat cake. Love those angles :D

There are no words Anna. :o :help:

2008 has just been a wave of inconsistency. Can you ever put together two good tournaments let alone two good wins? :rolleyes:

Can't even beat slumping Marion. Pathetic...

Based on her true talent...these are the types of results she should be having. :shrug:

You should be thankful that she had that uber-inflated year in 2007...now its time for her to go back to her righteous place of mediocre. OK?

Marion:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

BRILLIANT. She spoke in an interview about how after Wimbledon she felt all the pressure had been lifted off her shoulders; and how she was looking forward to her favourite part of the year hardcourts. Well, she is really proving true to her word. I love this result.

It is so apt. :D

Chak had been living off getting the right wins at the right time while sucking almost full-time for months now. It's no longer enough.

oh anna it was so hit and miss, well onto L.A.

marion was very solid well done!

Marion :D

:woohoo: :banana:! Fantastic result for Marion:)

I hope that at the very least she reaches the final now:bounce:

chaky :o

:bounce: Marion win this:drool: