
Dinara Safina finished her campaign. I saw her match against Schnyder, she looked rock solid in all her movements. She's got the timing, she always had the shots. Now she has the patience and reduced unforced errors, I would bet a lot on her winning that hard court swing US Open series and eventually do well at the US Open itself. But that's another story on another piece of paper.
Her toughest match came in the quarters against Sveta, but Dinara survived. She also overcame a second set collaps in her semifinal against Victoria Azarenka. Finally, unseed Dominika Cibulkova appeared to be overwhelmed by playing her first Tier I final and after taking out Dementieva, Petrova, Jankovic and Bartoli, she must've been all pleased. Engine off...
Congratulations to Dinara for this victory, she's making her way up in the circle of the top players this season.

On the ITF curcuit german Anna-Lena Grönefeld continued her comeback run with just another ITF-Title run, this time at the 75.000 $ event in Rimini/Italy. She outlasted no other than Spaniard Lourdes Domingues-Lino in the final easily with 6:1 6:2. Grönefeld didn't drop a set throughout the tournament and will move up in the rankings again. Since her return to professional tennis in May this year she has now won five ITF-Titles. I doubted it before, but it looks as if we will be seeing more of her in the future.
Austrian Patricia Mayr won the other ITF tournament this week in the Ukraine also in fine fashion without dropping a set. She is currently ranked 170 in the world but will move higher due to that victory.
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