As far as her loss in Warsaw, I think way too much has been made of it. So she lowt to a qualifer who was playing her 4th match at the tourney and was acclimated to the clay. I can’t imagine Kim spent a lot of time practicing on the dirt for one tournament. She only lost by a break of serve, and from the stats simply looks like she couldn’t get a groove on her serve. I’m not all that surprised she lost to Julia. I don’t think it’s an indication she should have skipped this tournament, any more than Nadia losing to Mara means Nadia should have quit tennis earler.

As far as Wimbledon, there reallly aren’t a lot of warm up tournaments or preparations for it anyway. It’s not a surface you necessarily practice to. I see no reason why depending on her draw, she can’t get to at least the SF’s again. As far as skipping clay to concentrate on grass, well she’s in fine company there because numerous players including Lendl, Navratilova, etc have done so.

As far as skipping the USO, sure I’m disappointed. OTOH, she’s not Justine, I don’t think she would spend most of her honeymoon practicing, so the odds of her “defending” her 2005 cup are low. I can see why she would want her last memories of Flushing Meadows to be her championship. And I can’t imagine she feels the need to show to the USO to make her good-byes that she feels for the smaller, friendlier and cozier tournaments.

I think she would have retired if she had won the Antwerp final. No more Slams, no nothing. Alas.