World number three Svetlana Kuznetsova will start her 2010 season and the Australian Open campaign at the Medibank International Sydney.
The Russian is the fifth Top 10 player to join the Sydney field after No.1 Serena Williams, No.5 and defending champion Elena Dementieva, No.4 Caroline Wozniacki and No.7 Victoria Azarenka.
It will be Kuznetsova’s fifth straight participation at the event. In 2008 she was runner-up to then world No.1 Justine Henin. (source: Medibank International Sydney, photo by our reader Jacob)
hi mairja, i found some photos of future outfits. caroline and ana and of course maria. here is ana’s (caroline is acutally wearing her outfits.)
do you want others, just in case?
here is ana
http://tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=395605&page=18
Jacob, Ana will wear yellow? Interesting. I actually like the dress.
Do send the other if you have.
Too bad, that confirms my decision not to re-attend Medibank:
1. No Dina
2. No Justine
3. N
Too bad, that confirms my decision not to re-attend Medibank:
1. No Dina
2. No Justine
3. No majority of top ten women’s or men who are worthy or slightly interesting to watch
4. Kuzy Williams Dementieva Woz= 2008/2009 bland
4. The same ridiculous expected heatwave to ensure we return home as burnt toast
5. I’m getting a 42inch LCD or plasma or whatever those techies have manage to invent these days
Why do they all have to head towards Brisbane? It’s a relatively new tourney and there’s no prestige or history associated. Just because there’s incidentally a better ‘competition field’. But I suppose that’s appropriate, five weeks free from any distraction for the ultimate exams of my life.
http://tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=395605&page=23
here is maria sharapova’s dress, its bad quality, but probably the 2nd best dress on her. (my favourite was 2008 aussie open!) and also dinara (purple/pink – yay!) and ana. That orange makes me want to vomit. i think it’ll look nice on the courts though 🙂
here is jj’s anta outfit;
http://tennisforum.com/showthread.php?t=395605&page=12
oh yeah, and here is carolines;
http://carowozniacki.blogspot.com/2009/10/caroline-wozniackis-stella-mccartney.html
Well it would be nice to see Kuzy win this one as a warm-up it’d give her confidence she needs for the Aussie Open. I enjoyed seeing her as a surprise winner of French Open. It would be cool if she pulled off another surprise like that. Although against Justine, hmmm….we’ll don’t give that much chance.
Well, I have seen Adidas collection and I’m not too impressed. Even McCarthy’s stuff is rather boring. I think they need to get more inventive.
haha zuleika what are you talking about? 4 out of the to 5 girls are playing, are you crazy?
Let me ask you a question, did you want to watch Dina when she was ‘top, top’, like actually get toasted on the surface on the sun, to watch her run around for two hours? As I said earlier, there are no majority of top ten women’s or men who are slightly interesting to watch, for me.
Kuzy Williams Dementieva Woz= 2008/2009 boring. The same thing, same winner, same technique over and over again. I would only watch live, for my favourite players, even if they were significantly lower ranked. Now if the competition field, were, say including that of the Brissie Int, that would be a different story.
I suppose the tourney is still credible; the whole 4 out of 5 top players blah, but is inferior, this year compared to the drama and excitement expected in Brissie with the ‘new’ generation (ironically comeback) players.
still two months for them to confirm they are coming though 🙂
Yeah but doesn’t Brissie directly suceed Medibank?
Two months, but I doubt my favourite players are coming. So 🙁
i think they’re is two day gap. i know marion bartoli and azarenka went to both (they retired in sydney though) 🙁
is azarenka playing brisbane? i dont think she will defend her title sucessfully
Azarenka’s still not in the field for Brisbane. :/