Well, after watching the highlights I can notice that Tamira made a huge improvement ... she came to the net :speakles:
That is very good and I hope she will keep doing it, despite losing some points because of it. She has such good groundstrokes, which are not worth anything when she stays back at the baseline! So I think I can be happy with Tamira's off-season-training with Stefan Koubek
Mimi lost 0-6 6-7 to Bojana. Really tough draws in Brisbane and Sydney
Have seen the whole Tamira - Ivanovic match in Brisbane and have to say her game has not improved. Her serve is still a huge weakness, Ivanovic always stepped in and attacked the weak Tamira serve. Hit many easy forehand return winners. Also it doesn`t help that Tamira is so short. IMO Tamira really must change her serve, because if she has a bad serve day she could lose to anyone right now.
[7] ZVONAREVA, Vera RUS v DULGHERU, Alexandra ROU
RODINA, Evgeniya RUS v HRADECKA, Lucie CZE
MAKAROVA, Ekaterina RUS v TANASUGARN, Tamarine THA
LARSSON, Johanna SWE v [25] KANEPI, Kaia EST
[17] CIBULKOVA, Dominika SVK v RYBARIKOVA, Magdalena SVK
MARINO, Rebecca CAN v ARN, Greta HUN
BREMOND, Iryna FRA v ZAHLAVOVA STRYCOVA, Barbora CZE
PASZEK, Tamira AUT v [12] WILLIAMS, Serena USA
do your best, i've put a X on that tournament for 2012 Looking to make it to the French open when flights will start to be cheaper. I was quite lucky last year, flight for Florida was 270$ this year it's 375$ and flight for Paris was 630, now it's 881$
That stinks. Wow--the prices really went up alot. I guess it's due to the increase in oil prices. Hopefully you'll get to see her as well at the Rogers Cup and Bell tournament in Quebec.
Well hopefully it will work out for the French Open then. Or the Washington tournament--I remember you went there last year too? Or maybe even the US Open!
Well hopefully it will work out for the French Open then. Or the Washington tournament--I remember you went there last year too? Or maybe even the US Open!
Yep I was at Washington tournament only for the final weekend. It was not planned it's just that when Mimi won the Thursday, I decided to book my flight and take the risk. But Mimi doesn't plan to play those small tournaments this year. Plan my change, we never know.
US Open open for sure, I'm there every year. And the Canadian Open is in Montreal this year so.. home sweet home! But there is too many months before those tournaments