WTA YECs - final
Have to pick Pierce, I think, against Mauresmo in the final. Hopefully will be a good match with no injury dramas or choking.
More shame for the WTA: utter failure to promote the doubles, which features some terrific players. Raymond/Stosur invisibly beat Martinez/Ruano Pascual last night, and Black/Stubbs beat Likhovtseva/Zvonareva. (Black actually qualified with two partners, an achievement which has been utterly ignored; Huber, with whom she won Wimbledon, got injured, and she's played with Stubbs ever since). The number one ranking is up for grabs between, I think, Black and Samantha Stosur, and these four players will wind up the top four, but I'm not sure in what order. Great drama -- and should be a great match -- if the WTA cared to exploit it. Why not sell doubles by offering it to broadcasters free? Why don't broadcasters show it to fill in time instead of reruns of the match you just saw? Shame rating: 5.
Eurosport went on last night to blot its copybook further by not going back to show Pierce/Davenport after Mauresmo/Sharapova were finished. Shame rating: 3.
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