Welcome to Sydney, the Anti-Hobart. Where seeds do what they're supposed to do and high level competition is aplenty. That being said it was a pretty ho-hum day, though Sveta had to battle back to beat Kaia Kanepi in a third set tiebreaker.
Speaking of which, check it out. Sveta's got a belly tat:
Although now that I wrote that I remember the Inside the WTA bit where Nads talks about wanting a tattoo and Sveta said she'd go with her because she already had one. I'm just rambling. Anyway, here are your scores:
(1) Serena Williams (USA) d. Sara Errani (ITA) 61 62
(2) Dinara Safina (RUS) d. (Q) Vera Dushevina (RUS) 63 60
(3) Elena Dementieva (RUS) d. (WC) Jarmila Gajdosova (SVK) 62 64
(5) Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) d. Kaia Kanepi (EST) 62 26 76(3)
(6) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d. Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) 63 75
(8) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d. (Q) Melanie South (GBR) 62 60
Alizé Cornet (FRA) d. Alisa Kleybanova (RUS) 76(5) 61
Ai Sugiyama (JPN) d. Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) 26 61 62
A nice win by Reeshie over Dima. Here's hoping he mixes things up in
Melbourne. The kid is just too good to be the #3 Frenchie. Tipsy over
the Sockless Wonder and check this out: Gooch beat Big Byrd. That's a
bit of a shocker, no?
And of course, the hometown boy won. He came back to beat Apricot Bars in three sets.
[WC] C Guccione (AUS) d [6] T Berdych (CZE) 63 64
J Tipsarevic (SRB) d [8] M Fish (USA) 64 36 64
P Mathieu (FRA) d A Seppi (ITA) 62 26 63
[WC] L Hewitt (AUS) d J Benneteau (FRA) 57 62 64
[Q] J Chardy (FRA) d R Stepanek (CZE) 64 30 ret. - illness
R Gasquet (FRA) d D Tursunov (RUS) 76(4) 64
