Well, Martina Hingis is through to the 3rd round. She was playing very well very relaxed, won the first set easily 6/1. It was a perfect set with something like over 40 winners.
It was great to see. But I think maybe she relaxed a little too much in the second set and allowed her opponent to get back into the match. But she held her serve and managed to close it out at 6/3.
She had a much better service game today she served at over 80% which is ten times better then her first match. So far she really hasn't had a challenge, I don't think she feels all that threatened yet.
But things will get very interesting next week, because it's looking more and more likely that she will play Kim Clijsters in her quarter final match on Tuesday. And if it happens that will certainly be a challenge for Hingis.
I expect her to get through her next 2 matches without a problem, and I really think playing mixed doubles is helping her, keeping her sharp and giving her confidence as illustrated in today's match.
After a day of rain this is what I like to see, great woman's matches one after the other. Kim Clijsters is moving on, Venus Williams still hanging around surprisingly. And if she hangs around then the other quarter final will be quite interesting as well. It might be Venus and Mauresmo.
Now if I had to pick I would rather Martina play Venus in the Semi's especially since she already has a win over Venus this year in Rome. Next week is going to be just chuck full of excitement.
Above pics taken from the Martina Hingis Message board already linked on this blog.
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