Wow, Dinara's hitting the crap out of the ball. If she can keep the dfs in the single digits I think she'll be fine.

look at that... Dinara breaks... now, please, consolidate, girl
Davai!

Thanks Beckham I dont need to take that extra Valium,well not for the moment anyway.

Jenni is there a link to her game at all?

Davidenko is the first of four men today who will leave the tournament with 180 points and $59,200. I'm punting on Tsonga being the next.

Dina holds for 4-2. Davai!

Dinara with 3 BPs...

Yep, AM.

http://atdhe.net/7622/watch-wta-cincinnati-safina-vs-clijsters

Alleeez Tsonga! GOAT meat for lunch. S'il vous plait?

Tsonga in all whites, instead of the red shirt. Making peace, are we?

Dinara breaks for 5-2 and will serve for the first set...
I hope she can serve it out...

Ok, quick question, is the Fed perpetually cold?! Dude, is always in a jacket, even after practise when by all indications it's hot as hail, he wears a jacket?! When out and about in the US, Mirka in tank tops, the Fed is still in a sweater or jacket?! He always sounds like he's recovering from a cold?! What gives?!

Thanks Jenni.

Kim, welcome to the WTA, this is now a beatdown, she just can't handle the pace, I mean Dinara is clobbering her into submission...

I know that Roger will most likely be the winner, but I hope Tsonga will make it close...
Allez, Tsonga!

Pete,

Land of Tulips.

We have a party game in Europe. "Can you name ten famous Belgians, Oh Hercule Poirot does not count."

""Tsonga in all whites, instead of the red shirt. Making peace, are we? ""

Absolutely right. The Soft Power and all that..

"Dinara is clobbering her into submission..."

nice to hear that, like music to my ears :-)))

Dinara takes the first set 6-2. Even though I thought that she'll win it, I'm a little suprised how easy it was... after all that talk about Kim...
Davai, Dina, continue...

Pspace,

Keep dreaming about GOAT meat for lunch! hehe.

Dina had 2 DFs so far (at least that's what my SB says)... I think if she had to throw couple DFs in the set, it's good that she did it in the first game to get it over with :-))

hi guys
so muzz won esasly ...ummmm ...i thouggt this was going to be more closer
congrats to muzz fans..esp pspace ..i hopin for fed to win agains jo and finally win against muzz in a 3 setter since forever

and dina takes the 1 set ..davai girl cmon this is your tournament to lose

Dinara won her last match against Kimmie prior to the latter's "retirement."

It seems to be serving Dinara right to keep remembering that! (even if she is 1-6 lifetime against Kimmie).

OK, Federer and Tsonga getting underway. Tsonga to serve.

I guess Zonger won the toss, since the Fed isn't serving?!

Nice point to start.

unbeliveble espn showin golf yes golf intead that the fed Aarghhh why
does somebady have a link to the match ? please :)

Beckham -- maybe it's in the Nike contract -- "wear jacket at all time unless the temp. is over 105F". Or maybe he just hates to be chilly -- I'm the same way -- always carrying a sweater around.

Fed really rocks the turquoise (aqua? teal?)

"espn showin golf yes golf intead that the fed"

surprised?

Hope Roger can improve upon his return game this match.

Horrific, casual volley... c'mon Fed!

ooh gee thanks for that volley flub, Fed.
Tsonga honey, be prepared for the seasoning coming your backhand's way.

Nice love hold for Tsonga.
Again as much as I want Fed to go through I hope this match is really, really competetive (not sure it will be)
I agree with Cahill and think Djokovic/Roddick may be the most entertaining one today

ESPN2 is showing Fed live, so no problem if ESPN is showing golf?

oh, Dina :-((
Kim gets the break and will serve at 2-0. Come on, Dinara!

Is it Fred or Fed who has shown up?

Dang...can't watch today, SBing is agony...

Love holds for both players to start things off - ha.

And Fed answers with a nice love hold of his own.

Horrific is an understatment but since I'm now in a zen mode...do better next time Fed..

Cherry...lol but before the "jackets" he was always in a sweatshirt or jackets with zippers.

"ESPN2 is showing Fed live'

oh, then it's great for those of you, who can watch...
I wish I was home...

ladyjulia : Hard to say. One poor volley, apart from that, not much to go by.

of course my stream is frozen solid.

Dina breaks right back. Come on now, hold...

Sorry you can't see it live, sokol. ;-( Don't work too hard!

Good attacking approach and putaway volley from Tsonga.

Tsonga is like 4/4 at net today...it's too early to tell if it's Fred or Fed...;)

for anyone watching Dina-Kim: how's the quality of that match? would you advise to watch it later tonight if they'll decide to show it?

On the positive side, Federer seems to be moving OK to the forehand wing. Couple of BH errors in this game.

and jo holds ..i want to see how fed play today last night he play really wel on the first set esp in the ground strokes then go in a mini walkabout ..but serve well .. it think jo will be a good test to see how fed is returning and will be help him to practice if he wins to play muzz tomoroow

sokol im surprised cus generally here in latin america espn gives privelege to tennis over golf but well i guees that given that this is a major they prefer to show it

"she is young, she's very talented, and is obviously over her burnot."

jb: I agree Kim's young, I agree she's very talented, but I lean more to what Pete offers as the reasons for her strategic withdrawal from the Tour than I do to what I think of as burnout. And, as Seinfeld might say, "not that there's anything wrong with that" (ie what Kim did). But's let's call a spade a spade.

One of my pet peeves, I'm afraid, is athletes who retire and un-retire and, sometimes, un-retire again -- whether it's George Foreman, Michael Jordan, or Brett Favre! The grownups (including professional athletes) that I admmire usually have a better handle on how they want to deal with the various passages and stages of their lives.

BTW I was pleasantly surprised to read on TW that Mary Pierce (who did NOT retire) is thinking of returning to the Tour at 34. Go, Mary!

Allez!
I'm going to take a sip of water every time Tsonga holds serve.

Nice approaches from Tsonga in that game. Fed getting too many returns back in play for my liking.

Fed tries the old "bring him in on the short slice" trick but the lob was easily dealt with by Tsonga. 2-1, on serve.

The Fed still bringing Tsonga to net, Tsonga dealing with it very very well, still hasn't lost a point...hmmm seems to me the strategy is to bring him to net, isn't Tsonga very good around the net?!

And Kim breaks Dina?
Kim 3-1

Come on, Dina, break back.
Break-fest? ....

Beckham,

I heard the commentators say that Roger likes to play to the strength of the other guy sometimes to break his confidence

Anyone got a Fed stream that's not buffering all the time?

Jo clubbing the FH, and this time Federer is slow to recover to his FH side. Serve seems good so far. 2-2.

Tsonga trying to poach his BH return. Fed hits two aces on the T in ad court. Solid hold from him.

Kim is 4-1 up...

OK, time for that extra Valium, Aussiemarg...
Dinara is in trouble in the second set, 1-4

Oh Safina! This is why I don't put my hopes up until the very last ball is played. C'mon fight back

And it's all tied in the battle of the soft curls and the tight curls

Very good service game from Tsonga. Love hold for 3-2.

hiya folks
great match-ups today...Tsonga seems to be playing well...hope he can keep it up for the whole match

That's better Jo. First serve on his bh...he can't do anything. Don't even bother disguising it.

ok so far fed serving really well ..77 %º1st , and just one missed point so good signs
but how hes playing oo the ground
SBing sucks when your faves are playin

Hell her game has gone ***************************************

tsonga can be very good at net.

i guess i still don't see why people say fed will roll through him. its not like he's some hack.

hiya fuzzy. welcome back.
what do you think so far?

Both players holding with ease...this has TB written all over it, if the Fed doesn't go on a Mirkaland or is it now TMBland trip?!

ladyjulia: true he does, but I thought we'd moved past that considering he's "old", a half a step slower, and well his FH is not as ferocious as it used to be, no?! lol

Pspace: are you like totalling rooting against the Fed?!

One of the Fed's 50 second hold games...;)

"Both players holding with ease...this has TB written all over it"

Yup... neither guy making headway on the return games.

lionheart, there haven't been many lengthy GS exchanges so far. Both guys aren't the best return players. So, it'll come down to those one or two games per set. Fed looks ok off the ground. He's made his approach shot winners, as usual.

whoa. an actual bh winner.

Pspace and beckham thanks a lot for the updates .:))
keep on guys :)))

Pspace, you should be supporting Federer. Don't you want the easier match for your beloved Lestat? ;-)

Thanks guys from my end too...for all the updates..

wohooo, our very first BH shank of the day!!!

And Dinara breaks...looks like Dinara will straight set Kim

Safina breaks back, now hold!!!

Not the most exciting match between Tsonga and Fed. More like serving practice for both.

Can't wait for Federer Murray tomorrow. If Federer loses, the h2h will start to look very ugly.

Pspace

Traitor.

:-)

Wow, that girl in the Mitsubishi ad is hot....

I hate SBing...
a minute ago it was 40-0 Kim serving and I was all dissapointed that Dina can't break back and then it changes to 3-4 and Dina is back on serve... what happened in between? Glad to see her fighting... Hold here, Dina, please! Davai!

VC, I prolly root for Jo marginally more than Lestat. It's just that he's been so crappy this year (not so much result-wise, but play-wise) that it's been hard to get behind him. This is the best he's played all year, imv.

Well, i dn't know what will be more painful...The Fed losing today or tomorrow...

WOW this guys's serving games are fast just loaded the page and there are already 4-3!!!

i thought jo serve will hepl fed if he wins for tomorrow match agaist muzz but given the circuntances seems that him is no givin any rythm so no good preparation for tomorrow

pspace thanks alot again :)

greenhopper
Roger is just doing his thing, serving well, calmly handling everything Zonger is throwing at him...a walk in the park.he just has to wait for the game when Jo misses a few first serves
Tsonga has been in a sort of 'sophomore slump' and no one on tour seems to be intimidated by his glamorous game anymore.....Tsonga has been officially 'de-flaired'
or defanged...the bite is gone from last years great form, winning in Paris and the AO showing

Ah, ok Pspace. :-)

"Well, i dn't know what will be more painful...The Fed losing today or tomorrow"

How about neither, it would be nice if he won, anyhoo looks like he's going to get broken in this service game, so it might be today...

Ah, a JacketGate discussion by the commies.

Grr.. he looks so sluggish running around the BH and ends up hitting an underprepared weak FH.. Deuce now... :-(

whooh, Dina holds for 4-4
This would be a great time to break, Dinara!

DF? Roger???

greenhopper
o and thanx, glad to be back.....

Are they REALLY going on about the jacket AGAIN? yeeeesh.

Pspace See Roger dosent Muck around,takes control of the shot and puts it away for the winner

No mucking around for Roger.