congrats to elena..2008 is a good year(hope i don't jinxed her)

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There's not much in the general course of career turns that could spoil the year of Olympic Gold. Besides, the YEC pays $100,000 and 105 points if you even just make the cut and show up! lol!

Y'know, since Vera Z goes on court like she came from jogging, you forget she can be really hot!

If Maria didn't withdraw would she have qualified???

I mean $100,000 and 105 points isn't exactly loose change. At least someone who doesn't earn 24 mil per year see's it that way.

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I think so. Masha is #9 in the race as of Nov 3 but, as of Oct 27 (which is what they used), I think she was still in the eight.

Yeah, $100K is worth a lot more to Verochka--and she generaly has to work harder for a hundred points, too.

That's Vera, right?

She definitely deseves to be there. I think everyone deserves to be there but some more so than others. 

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Ilnur from Kazan says, "Vera-Verochka or Verunchik; Dinara- dinarka or dinarochka hehehe".

Agreed. I'm sure Vera appreciates it, too.

  Great dress! See the video:

                                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrYkHXFtoIM

Good luck to Elena in her first match in Doha! I guess she will play today? Hopefuly i can se her match.

Yes. First Ana vs Vera in about 45 min, then Elena will play Venus. (About 15:30-16:00 GMT)

http://www.justin.tv/siki_sport is already streaming (replay from yesterday right now, before today's play)

just not her day with the Williams sis!!!1 she gave her many easy shots cost her the match and she didn't take her apportunities when she broke V serve. hope she will do better against the young sis8-)]

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Agreed--keeping in mind her head to head vs Venus was 2-6 and is, I think, 2-8 against Serena. Still, those two are their last two meetings...

Still, she looks great in her red dress! And in good spirits--boyfriend Maxim Afinogenov was sitting up there with her mom, so Lenochka is being well taken care of...

 

paul_pipkin:

Yes. First Ana vs Vera in about 45 min, then Elena will play Venus. (About 15:30-16:00 GMT)

http://www.justin.tv/siki_sport is already streaming (replay from yesterday right now, before today's play)

Hey thx for the info and link

They are showing the matches here live on TV -i did get to see just the 2nd part of the match and it seemed it just wasn't Elena's day

Better luck vs Serena.

And i think she looks rly gr8 in red to

                                                              

Doha, Qatar (November 6): Elena Dementieva of Russia won her second match in Round Robin competition against fellow Russian Dinara Safina.

Correction: I'd earlier written that Lena's sometime-boyfriend, Maxim Afinogenov, was seated in the tribune with mum Vera. Then I saw that guy was older and, honestly, better looking than Maxim. Tracy Austin named him and I started searching & learned he is Elena's new coach!

Froma a few weeks back: New Coach for Elena Dementieva: Andrei Olhovskiy

"...working with her in CSKA club at Moscow and now he is going with her, He was in Luxembourg alongside mommy Vera and his wife and he will fly with her to Doha.

"from Wikipedia:

"Andrei Olhovskiy (born April 15, 1966 in Moscow) is a former tennis player from Russia, who turned professional in 1989. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he reached the quarter finales on a wild card before falling to Brazil's Fernando Meligeni. The righthander won 2 career titles in singles (Copenhagen, 1993 and Shanghai, 1996)and 20 titles in doubles, French Open (1993) and Australian Open (1994) champion in mixed doubles. Olhovskiy reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on June 14, 1993, when he became the number 49 of the world and his highest doubles ranking 6 (July 31,1995), played for the Russian Davis Cup team 1983–2001."

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