Roland Garros: Quarterfinal Preview

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擷取俄娃的部份~(也就是四取三 = =+) PARIS - The world's Top 2 players, Lindsay Davenport and Maria Sharapova, will be put to the test by two former champions while Russians Nadia Petrova and Elena Likhovsteva will be challenged by up-and-coming teenagers, as the stars of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour take to the court on Tuesday for the 2005 French Open quarterfinals. The following is a match-by-match preview of the day's action. (2) Maria Sharapova (RUS) vs. (10) Justine Henin-Hardenne (BEL) - Tied 1-1 Second-ranked Sharapova began her French Open campaign with a tough three-set win over 41st-ranked Evgenia Linetskaya, but has dropped just 15 games in her three matches since, most recently a 62 63 win over 46th-ranked Nuria Llagostera Vives in a rain-delayed fourth round match that was started on Sunday but finished on Monday. The Russian teenager has won nine of 11 matches on clay so far in 2005, including her very first clay court semifinal appearance in Rome two weeks ago. She is also making her second straight quarterfinal appearance at Roland Garros. 2003 champion Henin-Hardenne has had a more complicated path to the quarterfinals, including three-set battles with 45th-ranked Conchita Martinez and 34th-ranked Anabel Medina Garrigues, and most recently overcoming a 5-3 third set deficit and two match points to defeat reigning US Open champion Svetlana Kuznetsova in the fourth round. Her troubles come in stark contrast to her results prior to Roland Garros, which include consecutive titles at Charleston, Warsaw and Berlin, and what is now a 21-match win streak heading into the quarterfinals. The pair has split their two prior meetings. Sharapova stopped Henin-Hardenne in the Belgian's season debut on the hard courts at Miami, squandering match points in the second set but closing it out 61 67(6) 62 in the quarterfinals. Henin-Hardenne gained revenge on red clay in the quarterfinals of Berlin, where she dispatched the Russian 62 64 en route to her third title at the event. (7) Nadia Petrova (RUS) vs. (29) Ana Ivanovic (SCG) - Ivanovic leads 1-0 2003 semifinalist Petrova has had impressive results on clay in 2005, winning 14 of 17 matches heading into the quarterfinals here, a record that includes a runner-up finish in Berlin and a semifinal finish at Amelia Island. After dropping just 14 games in her first three rounds here, she was put to the test in the fourth round on Sunday by 12th-seeded Elena Bovina, overcoming her compatriot 75 36 64 in almost two and a half hours. She will face stiff competition again in her next match against rising Serbian star Ana Ivanovic, who has torn up the field in just her first trip to Roland Garros. After not losing a set en route to the third round, she stunned No.3 seed Amelie Mauresmo 64 36 64 to become just the fifth Grand Slam debutante in the Open Era to defeat a Top Three player. She followed up that win with a 64 67(3) 63 fourth round victory over No.22 seed Francesca Schiavone. It should come as no surprise that Ivanovic has made it so far here. She is in the midst of a breakthrough season, highlighted by her first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title at Canberra, her first three Top 10 match victories, and her first Tier II semifinal appearance at Warsaw. In their only prior meeting, Ivanovic defeated the Russian 64 75 in the second round at Miami earlier this year, which at the time was the 17-year-old's first Top 20 win. (16) Elena Likhovtseva (RUS) vs. Sesil Karatantcheva (BUL) - Karatantcheva leads 1-0 29-year-old veteran Likhovtseva is making her first quarterfinal appearance in her 11th trip to Roland Garros. The Russian has not had an easy route to her career-third Grand Slam quarterfinal. She began with a 26 64 64 win over 76th-ranked Yuliana Fedak, and after a routine win over 73rd-ranked Mariana Diaz-Oliva in the second round, she defeated No.18 seed Silvia Farina Elia for the first time in over 10 years by a score of 75 76(2) to reach the round of 16 here for the first time. There, she upset 2004 runner-up and No.4 seed Elena Dementieva 76(3) 57 75 in just under three hours. She will next face 2004 junior Roland Garros champion Sesil Karatantcheva. The 98th-ranked Karatantcheva has made her biggest career breakthrough here, in just her career-third Grand Slam main draw appearance. Just two days after notching her then-biggest career win over No.19 seed Shinobu Asagoe here in the second round, she defeated No.11 seed Venus Williams in three sets in the third round, following that up with a 75 63 win in the fourth round over 105th-ranked Emanuelle Gagliardi to reach her third career quarterfinal. Including her junior title run here last year, the 15-year-old Bulgarian has now won 10 matches in a row at Roland Garros. She will look to keep that streak going on Tuesday against Likhovtseva. In their only previous encounter, Karatantcheva outlasted Likhovtseva 62 06 76(3) in the second round at the Gold Coast event in January. http://www.wtatour.com/newsroom/stories/NewsArticle_7288_rx.asp 三個對戰組合的樣本數都挺少的 (￣▽￣＃)﹏﹏大家加油~ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.119.141.211