Once again I was not able to watch the match (I hate the fact that they showed the men's Madrid matches but not the women's). I was forced to follow the match on the Sony Ericsson scoreboard. The match started out well with both of them holding their serve but in the third game Justine broke Martina and surged ahead to a 5/1 lead. Martina was able to get one game back before Justine closed the set out at 6/2 .
In the second it was the same scenario with Justine leading 5/2 but Martina fought back and brought the set into a tie break winning it 7/6. In the 3rd set she was completely dominated by Justine who won it 6/1. But for those who have been complaining that Hingis should have done better I think this is a huge accomplishment she was actually able to take a set from Justine. Which hasn't happened in any of their previous meetings this year. So a huge improvement in my opinion, and she did fight really hard in the 2nd set.
I actually didn't know that you can continue to play after loosing in Madrid, I usually only follow the grand slams so I had no idea how this tournament worked. After doing some research I found out that Madrid works on a round robin effect. Meaning the top eight singles players are divided into two teams of four. The two groups play in a round robin format, each player meets one another in their group.
The best two performed players of each group go on to the final phase that takes place during the weekend. In the semi-finals the first-placed woman from one group meets with the second-placed woman from the other, with the winners advancing to the final. So, today Hingis will play Nadia Petrova could be another tough one since Petrova is having a really good year.
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