A Losing Day and Elena To Return...

From supersport.com, Reuters.

Elena Dementieva, who missed Wimbledon with an injury, returns to action as one of the top seeds at a tournament in Stanford where she will look to tune up her game ahead of the US Open.

Dementieva, the second seed at this week's tournament, has a first-round bye and will face the winner of the match between fellow Russian Dinara Safina and Japan's Kimiko Date Krumm.

The 28-year-old Dementieva suffered a calf injury at the French Open that forced her to pull out of a semifinal match against eventual champion Francesca Schiavone and take four weeks off to recover.

Dementieva, who has yet to win a grand slam title, said she understands injuries are part of the game but could not follow a Wimbledon that she was not competing in.

"I didn't watch because I was too disappointed I wasn't there," she told reporters. "I didn't want to know who won."

Despite playing a grinding schedule for the past 11 years, the 28-year-old Dementieva had not missed a grand slam she had qualified for until this year.

Considered by some the best women's player not to have won a grand slam, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist said that despite her age she remains just as competitive as when she advanced to her first grand slam semifinal as a teenager in 2000.

"It's never easy to lose," said Dementieva. "I love to play and win and it's always disappointing to lose. Maybe I'm taking a little easier now, but it doesn't mean that I don't care."

Dementieva is hoping to regain her form in time for the US Open, which starts August 30. She reached the US Open final in 2004 but lost to compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova.

While the calf injury disrupted Dementieva's rhythm, she believes that it also had a positive side.

"It was a good time to get a break and get ready for hard court season," she said. "In the end, I really needed some time off to get hungry for the competition."


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A losing day for the system but no worries as in the early days of using this there were often losing days early in the week and it would generally catch up and head into profit by the end of the week...most weeks.

It was only a small loss, a shock result was Ivanovic dispatching Kleybanova in straight sets and people will probably be asking if squeaky will start to climb now but she seems to have real problems maintaining any little bit of form she seems to find.