TENNIS in DEPTH.

Day 7 at the 2010 Aussie Open might be remembered as the day of upsets that became the defining moment for many players.  There are 8 matches scheduled to be played, and none of them are easily predictable. Perhaps the easiest to predict will be the meeting between Ukranian Alona Bondarenko and Jie Zheng. I happen to believe that from her performance in winning last week in Hobart and the devastating way in which she destroyed Jankovic, Bondarenko is the best player in the tournament, and the probable finalist from the bottom half of the draw!

The other 3 Women’s matches are too close to call. I won’t be surprised if Wickmayer outlasts Henin, or if Petrova upsets fellow Russian Kuznetsova. but I think Safina may prove to be too experienced for Maria Kirilenko.

On the men’s side Nadal will have to find a way to break the serve of Karlovic or else he will be sitting on the sidelines, the same goes for Andy Murray against Isner, but Murray is a better returner of the ball than Nadal and should contain the big American. Andy Roddick will have to elevate his game to defeat Gonzalez, if this one goes to five sets then Fernando could be the eventual winner. The two big young guns, Cilic and Del Potro is a toss up. On paper Del Potro looks like an easy winner, but unless he shows more than he has in earlier matches he could easily go down to defeat.

All in all Sunday might be the most interesting day so far!

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