Ana Ivanovic arrives at Crandon, Park, March 22, 2011. Photo: JD Blom
Ivanovic in practice yesterday. Photo: Forty Deuce
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When you're trying to grow your sport, improve your brand, especially if you're the WTA, or more specifically, the sponsor of both the women's tour and the best event in North America, as far as I'm concerned, you would probably go through hell and high water to get a camera on a non-television court to bring viewers what could easily be the best WTA match of the year to date. But no. All we got to see was match point. If we weren't still in Miami, or in Miami at all, we had to watch the entire drama unfold via the scoreboard read the courtside updates of FortyDeuceTwits on her timeline. Such a drama it was, what with Ana Ivanovic losing a 5-1 final-set lead, as well as 5 match points, to fell to defending champion and world No. 2 Kim Clijsters, that Ana and Andrea Petkovic, author of her own upset over No. 7 seed Jelena Jankovic, withdrew from doubles. Ana was reportedly "inconsolable", according to FortyDeuceTwits, so much so that she pulled out of Marbella earlier today citing sore abdominals.
Kim Clijsters' hands in her interview roundtable, March 22, 2011. Photo: JD Blom
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Later today, Houdini Clijsters, will take the court against Victoria Azarenka, who survived a dogfight of her own to get here.
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Sony Ericsson, please get with the program. Literally. I want to be more excited about women's tennis but I need to be able to watch the exciting matches. Thank you.
ORDER OF PLAY - WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 2011
STADIUM start 11:00 am
J Erlich (ISR) / A Ram (ISR) vs [4] J Melzer (AUT) / P Petzschner (GER)
Not Before 1:00 PM
[9] A Radwanska (POL) vs [3] V Zvonareva (RUS)
Not Before 3:00 PM
[6] D Ferrer (ESP) vs [14] M Fish (USA)
Not Before 7:00 PM
[8] V Azarenka (BLR) vs [2] K Clijsters (BEL)
Not Before 9:00 PM
K Anderson (RSA) vs [2] N Djokovic (SRB)
COURT 2 start 12:00 noon
[3] L Huber (USA) / N Petrova (RUS) vs [WC] S Stephens (USA) / Y Wickmayer (BEL)
[3] M Bhupathi (IND) / L Paes (IND) vs [6] M Llodra (FRA) / N Zimonjic (SRB)
Not Before 3:00 PM
O Marach (AUT) / J Tipsarevic (SRB) vs [7] R Bopanna (IND) / A Qureshi (PAK)
Not Before 4:30 PM
[8] R Lindstedt (SWE) / H Tecau (ROU) vs [2] M Mirnyi (BLR) / D Nestor (CAN)
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