Thursday at the Australian Open in Melbourne was a pretty bad day to be a promising, young player on the WTA Tour. Sania Mirza(32), Ana Ivanovic(21), Anna-Lena Groenefeld(22) and Dinara Safina(19) all lost second round matches. However, Nicole Vaidisova(16), Michaella Krajicek and Iveta Benesova all won. The latter producing the upset of the tournament so far by defeating Mary Pierce(5) in straight sets 6-3,7-5. Pierce had 3 set points at 5-3 in the second set but had 41 unforced errors, three of which happened on those all important points to even the match.
In other news, Martina Hingis easily won her second round match 6-1, 6-1 and will now play Benesova instead of Pierce in the next round. That section of the draw contains a Kim Clijsters(2) playing at "forty percent," Amèlie Mauresmo, Patty Schnyder(7) and Anastasia Myskina(12). Myskina struggled past African-American Jamea Jackson 7-6(4), 0-6, 6-3 in an ugly slugfest occurring in dangerously hot temperatures which led to both players being treated on court and afterwards for heat exhaustion.
Tomorrow's featured matches are Serena Williams(13) versus Daniela Hantuchova(17), Lindsay Davenport(1) versus Maria Kirilenko(25) and Benesova versus Hingis. I also suspect Clijsters versus Roberta Vinci could be close.
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