The draw for the 2007 Sony Ericsson Championships in Madrid has been announced, with world number one Justine Henin leading the yellow group and Svetlana Kuznetsova leading the red group.
The season-ending Championships features a round-robin format during the first four days of the tournament, followed by traditional semifinals and final.
Yellow Group
Justine Henin
Jelena Jankovic
Serena Williams
Anna Chakvetadze
Red Group
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Ana Ivanovic
Daniela Hantuchova
Maria Sharapova
Check back at On the Baseline later this weekend for an in-depth look at the singles draw.
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Once again screachapova has a cakewalk of a draw and Henin has a tough one.
screachapova? LOL
Henin is the #1, It’s only sensible that she have a tougher field than the #6 player. And that tougher is only if Serena is on her game and feeling healthy.
I don’t think Screachapova will make it to the final. But she always seems to get an easy draw no matter if she’s number 6 or number 1.
Just like at the US Open, the draw is extremely top heavy. Sharapova did get a good draw, but we said the same thing during Flushing Meadows and look what happened there.
Name-calling is fun once. Keeping it going is a little juvenile. Unless of course you’d like to see the same sort of treatment applied to the players that you favor. And Sharapova doesn’t always get an easy draw. As a matter of fact this is not an easy draw. It is *easier* but it is based on ranking – check 2006, 2005, 2004 for yourself.
BTW [Serena Williams was playfully teased with repeated recordings of her on-court grunt (she registers almost 90db)]
But y’know I’m not going there.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4118708.stm