Good Morning, everyone. Today is Williams Sisters Day.

Day 11 or Day 10?

Keep Smiling

howdy Doody folks
not just a day for the WS's but a day that 2 talented Russians have to leave the nerves and the doubts at the hotel. I am expecting a couple of competitive matches

Morning All. Heart in throat and hoping and praying for WS victory today. Let us hope we get to see some good tennis.

Enjoy tennis world here:
http://www.nowgoal.com/22.shtml

Hej alla, get ready to rumble. Go V. Go S. I want a all Williams final. You know who is really funny, Richard's new wife when she shouts, "come on Serena/Venus." She's very loud and they caught her on camera, it was hilarious.

I'm sorry, but who dresses Bud Collins???

WTA Semifinal preview:

(A-5)Dinara Safina vs (A-1)Venus Williams
Dinara has made 4 consecutive Slam semifinals after defeating Sabine Lisicki in 3 sets despite 15 DFs on her serve. On her previous 3 trips to the semifinals, her road to the title has been derailed by Serena Williams,who went on to win the title. Dinara draw has been very kind as the highest player she played,other than Amelie Mauresmo, was ranked 41. Venus has won the last 52 sets(32 singles and 20 doubles) that she has played at Wimbledon. Saw the replay of her match against Agnieszka Radwanska on Wimbledon Primetime and some of the shots Agnieszka hit would have been winners on another day but not against Venus. That match was the best one,IMO, that Venus has played.

Prediction : Venus Williams advances to her 8th Wimbledon final in straight sets(one may be a 7-5 or 7-6)

(A-8)Elena Dementieva vs (A-2)Serena Williams
Elena has cruised through the draw without media attention winning all of her matches in straight sets with the highest rank opponent she played was 37. After not making the Wimbledon SF during most of her career, she has now made consecutive SF. Serena has played very well in her last 2 matches and is determined to take the Venus Rosewater Dish from her sister,who is trying to 3-peat since Steffi Graf in 1993. Also, Serena will remember that she led Elena by a set and a break at the Beijing Olympics but lost and also led Svetlana Kuznetsova by a break at the French Open but her normal reliable serve let her down.

Prediction : Serena Williams quest for her 11th Slam(and 3rd Wimbledon) title will continue in straight sets(one may be 7-5 or 7-6)

WTA Doubles Semifinal Preview:

(1)Cara Black and Liezel Huber vs (4)Serena Williams and Venus Williams
Cara/Liezel are the undisputed number one team in the world as they have won 23 titles since the start of 2007 including consecutive Sony Ericsson Championships and 3 Slams(2007 Australian Open, 2007 Wimbledon, 2008 United States Open). Only Slam missing from their resume is the French Open where they have lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginie Ruano Pascual in consecutive years. In their last 2 matches, they have lost the first set but rallied to win. Serena/Venus is trying to repeat Wimbledon and win their 2nd Slam of 2009 winning the Australian Open in January. They lost a tight 3 setter that was decided in a tiebreak to Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Nadia Petrova. After they broke Bethanie/Nadia serving for the match at 5-4, the Williams Sisters had a chance to serve it out at 6-5 but could not capitalize. They are going for their 14th career title(11th Slam or Olympics) and 4th Wimbledon (2000,2002,2008). I will list their other Slam titles if they make the final.

Prediction: Serena Williams and Venus Williams

(3)Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs vs (2)Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginie Ruano Pascual
Samantha/Rennae was tested in their quarterfinal match against Kristina Barrois and Tathiana Garbin rallying from a first set deficit to keep their quest to win their first career title as a team. Anabel/Virginie is trying to win the Channel Slam(and their 6th title as a team with 2 of them consecutive French Open titles) and give Virginie a Career Slam. They defeated Alisa Kleybanova and Ekaterina Makarova, who defeated Daniela Hantuchova/Ai Sugiyama and Bethanie Mattek-Sands/Nadia Petrova.

Prediction: Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs

Samantha Elin
Richard got himself a young trophy wife...she is so typical of the...how do you say...er..airhead-bride, for lack of better terminology. You know the younger gold-digger/bimbette and the old husband.( I know nothing about the women, she might be a very smart women and very much in love with Richard But she is very animated

Hi everyone

Looking forward to these matches

Master Ace I am in song with you both in singles and doubles predications.Watched the Williams sisters in their doubles match yesterday a great combination indeeed.Also happy to have some aussies left to cheer on in StosurStubbs in their doubles match.

Correction:

"On her previous 3 trips to the semifinals, her road to the title has been derailed by Serena Williams,who went on to win the title"

Meant to say - ...derailed by Serena Williams twice, who went on to win the title, and Svetlana Kuznetsova in the French Open finals.

Demi looked nervous in her interview (doe in the headlights)
Serena looked annoyed( a lioness playing with her food before she pounces)

Hott Cliffie is announcing the match. Oh yeah, I'm going to enjoy this.

finally, it will appear everything possible!
http://go.654.la?1290

Yello Fuzzy, she cracked me up at the FO when Lucie DF, she shouted, "that it Venus!" LOL!

I'd love to see Elena win this one or at least make it a good match and/or take it to three sets. I don't know if Elena has much of a chance considering how well Serena played against even Azarenka... but a girl can dream!

Wow I can't believe it TW worked straight away tonight for me. Hiya gang.

Which Richard has a young trophy wife?

AM, there is no tennis on Fox tonight.

Serena starts with an ace! OK maybe it will be a bloodbath after all...

Samantha Elin
I know Oracene's eyes have rolled numerous times over that girl

Demi playing well!

C'mon Serena - starting a little tight.

Demi with an Ace!

AA Hi,got your post about new job,sorry to hear its boring maybe better days ahead.

No the reason being which I think is totally insane,channel 9 has rights from now on to s/finals and finals at Wimby

wow what a match so far...back on serve

Gotcha it was Richard Williams.

God I feel like a voice beyond the grave or something of that nature, that rarely I am able to post here anymore! What is this! Atleast 100 of my posts have never seen the light of day. lol

AM which means I won't get to watch any tennis tonight but I am ok with that. I need updates on Dinara though.

Would help if I pulled up the sb.

Guys I am on delay here at the moment,channel 9 in Sydney wont start their telecast for another 1/2 hr could someone do a match call pls

Fuzzy you are great at this,if you dont mind.

temes I feel like a new poster as I haven't been able to post all week. But all is good now.

Anyone else has MASSIVE problems getting their posts to show? lol

Anyway, now that I can post, Go Serena!

Yello fuzzy, Demmy just DF and she yelled, "come on Serena." LOL!

Aussiemarg
will do...getting the brekkie going, I will start next game or after the changover

Serena holds 3-2

Not Wimbledon related, so I apologize if it's not acceptable to post this here, but it is relating to a currently running tennis tournament. I just noticed on the live scores section of the website that John Isner lost in the round of 32 at a tournament called 'Winnetka' - wherever that is... to an unranked player. Anybody know what happened to John? I remember a couple of years ago (1? 2?) he was being touted as a possible American 'up and comer'. But this doesn't look good...

Both ladies hitting very well, seems like will be a good match...however if Demmy gives Serena an opening she will run away with it.

I have an easy time posting, Temes. Come on Serena!

Fuzzy thank you

Good for you Sammy. lol I am able to post for a short time, then I get typepad ads or my posts simply won't post. I will probably dissapear soon because of that. I'M DESPERATE! :( lol

Serena is over hitting. Clean it up.

Serena not playing as well as she played against Azarenka 3-all

Demi serving 2-3
a nice serve 15-0
FH 2 FH rally Serenas deep ball gets the error 15-15
another nice serve, Demi hits the pop up return for a winner 30-15
another big serve 40-15
2nd serve, bad footwork by Serena, she hits the FH long
game Demi 3-3

Damien: I read somewhere that Isner had mono for a while.

I have to correct spelling error to appear intelligent "disappear" !!!

As American network television is bent on screwing up the live coverage, I find the build-up, the interviews, the montages and especially the compilation with music very entertaining.

Did I hear Oasis' "f'ing in the bushes" opening bars (what a driving sound that is) before Fed's (of course, glorious tape-delayed) match yesterday? I like.

Temes,
What browser are you using? IE8 was giving me some issues too until someone posted on how to resolve it. Another poster gave another solution to fix the Firefox issues. Ads are the current problem in loading TW.

Damien,
Isner lost to Ryan DeHeart,who played Rafael tough at USO last year. Also, John could not play Wimbledon as he had mono so Winnetka was his first tournament back.

Lena is hanging with Srena for now... I'm pleasantly surprised...
Davai, Elena!

Serena holds 4-3

Serena serving 3-3
2nd serve, Demi hits the BH long 15-0
2nd serve, DF 15-15
ace down the T 30-15
big serve into the body 40-15
2nd serve, FH error by Serena into the net 40-30
Ace down the T
game Serena 4-3

Come on Serena, now break her. I love Demmy's dress. Go Caro, Scandinavia's#1, world's#9!

Good match so far. Serena seems to be very nervous though while LenaD seems very comfortable. I think Serena needs to relax a bit if she really wants to win this match because LenaD is looking very good right about now. Serving well and moving the ball well.

Sokol, I feel exactly the same way. I didn't think Elena would be able to keep up this much. Of course Serena's not playing like she did against Azarenka, but it's still nice to seeing Elena not giving it away either.

Demmy start DFing.

Ahhh... yes - it says on his Wikipedia entry that he withdrew from the French open because of mono. Thanks Ruth!

MA, I use Firefox. What solution, do you have a link to it? It's okay if not, I'll try to find it.

I think Serena came with a murderous intent. After that very first service game hiccup, she is now focusing. Once she takes this set (I am positive she would), a bagel awaits for Elena.

'morning all! If I recall, Isner played well at IW, losing to Delpo, or Querrey or some other super tall guy. There is a Winetka Illinois.

Hi Temes! missed you. weird that your posts weren't showing up. hope that problem has passed.

so far the serena/demi match is very dull imho. hoping they're just loosening up.

nice job by Lena to save 3 PBs

Davai!

Elena came to play today - down 0-40 with and came back. Serena is not going to be happy with herself about that one!

Sokol, Serena is a better matchup for Elena, Venus not so much.
Elena played Venus last year and she never stood a chance. Check that score. This one Elena can win

good match so far! here for livescore: http://www.nowgoal.com/22.shtml

wow, Lena holds from being 0-40. You go, girl, keep fighting...

Davai!

Regarding browser issues - I seem to have none of the problems that others are complaining about with Google Chrome. Except that it will hang/crash infrequently so I guess it's a trade off... I think it's the Java that is causing Chrome to crash on this site because it is unsupported in Chrome still. Though I don't understand why tennis.com uses Java to begin with (I could see it being used possibly for this typepad, but it even loads on the home page?)

Hi Annie!!! Atleast I can post for now.

Damn damn damn 3 breakpoints wasted!

Gee I tried Firefox for a while on my lap top then I couldnt get my posts through due to some new pad type poster system

I just gave up in the end.I took Firefox off my computer.

Though tonight I must say I had no trouble getting on at all.

samantha: i love demi's dress too.

Dementieva?

Winning five straight points after falling down love-40?

That's not in the script.

Color me VERY surprised.

OK so I've decided that if Serena has the best return of serve, Elena may well have the best return of the return of serve. :) When she can recover quickly from her serve, she's attacking Serena's return of serve very well.

Master Ace, it seems your 7-5/6 is accurate.

Demis serving 3-4
the serve is challenged,2nd serve, deep return forces the error 0-15
2nd serve, DF 0-30
DTL return forces an error 0-40
nice FH drive by Demi, forces Serena into an error 15-40
big serve down the middle 30-40
2nd serve, Demi hits a great FH DTL off the return, then inside out for a winner deuce
2nd serve, Serena sprays the FH going for too much ad in
Demi playing well , a long rally Demi breaks open the point by going DTL, Serena misses the CC
game Demi 4-4

"For Firefox users to solve your typepad issues:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Then click on add to firefox, follow prompts etc.

It seems the ads are the problem, not typepad itself, this blocks them from loading at all."

Temes,
This was posted by Art Coverlay on Tuesday.

Here comes the focus - 40-0 - yes, Serena!

BTW, I love Cliffie!!!

Serena serving 4-4
inside out winner by Serena 15-0
a nice deep drive gets the error from Demi 30-0
121mph serve 40-0
huge serve down the T
game Serena 5-4

nbc is showing 4 hours of tenny this afternoon. are they going to repeat what espn is showing now or maybe, if we're lucky, we can see a replay of roddick/hewitt.

Master Ace thanks for the info on Firefox type pad.

Elena needs to be do better in Serena's service games. Easier said than done, I know. Apart from that first game, when Elena broke, I don't think she's won a point when Serena's served (except one where I think Serena messed up of double-faulted)? Not good...

Come on, break her Serena!

Thank you MA! Now let me try to figure out how to use that lol!

Serena's legs are flying all over the place. I'm not sure if this is a good sign, I like her more controlled looking.

AA Gee I have to put up with The Footy Show NRL style while waiting for Wimby to start.You think they would scarp this show for Wimby proper start but no Footy rules instead.

Backhand top spin lob off the back of one foot for a winner.

I love when pros tell you not to hit off your heels - LOL!!

Demmy's hitting some quality second serves. Placement, angle, kick, the whole deal.

Bob/Mike had 3 set points at 0-40 but Wesley/Dick rallied to hold serve and force a 1st set tiebreak.

Well I want Elena to win. I have seen her a couple times this week and she looked good.

Demi serving to stay in the set 4-5
Serena hits the dropshot, Demi is there for the droppa winner 15-0
Demi comes in and Serena hits a spectacular BH topsin Lob winner in the corner 15-15
2nd serve, a great wide serve 30-15
another great serve, wide 40-15
service Ace guess where? out wide!
game Demi 5-5

Who is that server from Russia? I do not recognize her.

Yips? What yips?

5-all.

Did Elena just hit two aces in a row against Serena?! OK ok... where's the real Elena? I feel like that was her evil twin.

nice serving by Lena (I'm not watching the match, but for me every time Lena holds is good serving :-), plus no DFs...)

Ruth: maybe it's just me - does it seem that tennis players get mono/glandular fever more often than "ordinary" people?

Or maybe it's just that among the people I've met it's not usually discussed even if they've had it.

Dementieva really showed up today. Serena is playing really well, but she hasn't had this good of a challenge yet in the tournament.

Matt, I felt the same way. Great minds think alike?

"where's the real Elena? I feel like that was her evil twin.'

I like that "twin", hope to see more of that :-))

Well AM I have to put up with the AFL Footy show and that doesn't finish until after 11pm.

Demmy's serve is better than before. Come on Serena, break her.

Serena serving 5-5
big serve 15-0
and another 30-0
one more huge serve down the middle 40-0
dropshot by Serena, Demi is quick and bunts it up the line , Serena can't recover 40-15
Serena hits the BH DTL winner after drawing Demi out wide
game Serena 6-5

Superb match. Two women taking care of their serves and hitting a very clean ball. Well played.

I stand corrected. This chicky Elena has come to play some tennis. Very high quality tennis so far. Good stuff. Good stuff.

Davai, Elena, hold here! Force the TB

Bob/Mike is up a minibreak at 4-2 as they change sides.

Nice hitting Serena.

great tennis. Luck for us we will get to watch the whole thing again on tape delay on NBC while Vee and Dinara are playing live - ugh!

Very good match so far......both the girls are so impressive

I have to say a very good match so far. Expected it though. Now we are down to the question of who has the better nerves as it looks like we may be heading for a tie break. Neither one of these ladies has played a tie break this tournie.