The situation in Montreal is looking bad: right on the heels of Amelie Mauresmo's (shoulder) and Venus Williams' (wrist) withdrawals yesterday, Justine Henin-Hardenne (knee) and Patty Schnyder also pulled out.
If Sharapova does well this week, she could pull out of the Rogers Cup after such a great 2 week run-- which would leave Clijsters, Hingis and Pierce as the big draws--and Pierce and Clijsters are at not 100% right now.
Here's Matt Cronin on this summer's and last summer's problems with pullouts.
Matt Cronin says in his artcile that Serena's not scheduled to play Montreal? I didn't think she would either since she clearly doesn't want to play two weeks in a row.
I'm still sad about Amelie though. :(
Posted by: Momofan | August 11, 2006 at 11:38 AM
hmm, my bad, momofan. I think I was hoping she woud take a wildcard or something in the back of my mind to get a couple of more matches under her belt for the Open.
Posted by: federated | August 11, 2006 at 11:57 AM
I hate to be like this, but all that needs to happen is one player playing the match of their life and Sharpie to not be on her game and then there is the chance of the upset. I have a question though, on the Rogers Cup webiste, the players list says that Dinara Safina has a protected ranking, why? Shes playing this week so its not like she has it for injury, mistake or no?
Posted by: Kelly | August 11, 2006 at 11:59 AM