WTA: June 18-24 2008 Hastings Direct Int'l Eastbourne, GBR Tier II $600,000 outdoor: grass - 28 players Live Scores - in popup window WTA .pdf: draws & OOP - notes pics: Yahoo! US - UK - WTA Eastbourne: radar - forecast - map # , # # , # Ordina Open 's-Hertogenbosch, NED with ATP Tier III $175,000 outdoor: grass - 30 players Live Scores - in popup window WTA .pdf: draws & OOP - .html pics: tourney - Yahoo! - WTA videos in Dutch Dutch radar - forecast - map # , # # , #

Tourney pages: Eastbourne-'s-Hertogenbosch: 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 previous other tourney pages next Eastbourne 2007: #1 Justine Henin 5' 5¾" 126 lb, RH, 1H-BH 's-Hertogenbosch 2007: #8 Anna Chakvetadze 5' 7" 128 lb, RH, 2H-BH

    The Eastbourne & 's-Hertogenbosch draws are not yet available as of this writing (qualifying draws are usually up on the Friday before the tourney begins, main draws on Saturday, sometimes later). The links are above for your convenience when the draws become available.

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Eastbourne 2007:
    On Saturday in Eastbourne, England, in the final of the Hastings Direct International, the 2006 tourney champ (and 2003, '05, '06 & '07 French Open champ), 25 year old top-seeded # 1 Justine Henin of Belgium (residence: Monte Carlo, Monaco), narrowly defeated the 2006 Wimbledon champ, 27 year old 2nd seeded # 4 Amelie Mauresmo of France (residence: Geneva, Switzerland), 7-5, 6(4)-7, 7-6(2) (photo shown).

    Strong winds affected the nearly 3-hour match. Justine said: "It's been tough, it's been the biggest opponent for both of us. I'm a little bit tired because of the wind, not because of the tough match...
    "Amelie is one of the best players on grass and she proved it last year in Wimbledon. It's tough for me to play against her on this surface and I won, so that's pretty good before Wimbledon." AP story

    Amelie put only 52% of her 1st serves in the box, winning 63% of those points (Justine: 64% and 71%). Amelie said: ""The serve let me down a little bit. Not enough first serves in, definitely, and a few volleys here and there that I had the occasion to put away and I didn't. And in these kind of matches it's just one point here and there and it goes so fast after that. Plus [Justine] played well in the key moments."

    Justine now leads Amelie 8-6 in career matches, and has won the last three times they have met. Amelie won in their only previous meeting on a chlorophyll court, last year's Wimbledon final, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.
    Justine is now 34-16 in career WTA singles finals, and has a 33-3 WTA match record in 2007. Amelie, who is now 24-23 in finals, is 22-9 for the year so far.

's-Hertogenbosch 2007:
    Meanwhile at Autotron Rosmalen near 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, in the rain-interrupted final of the Ordina Open, 20 year old 3rd seeded # 8 Anna Chakvetadze from Moscow, Russia, narrowly defeated 22 year old top seeded # 3 Jelena Jankovic of Serbia (residence: Bradenton, Florida, home of the Bollettieri Academy), 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-3 (photo shown).

    Anna, who leads Jelena 5-2 in career matches, is now 4-0 in WTA singles finals (she also won the title this year in Hobart) and is 34-9 for the year so far.
    All-Terrain Jelena, who is 5-6 in career WTA singles finals, won four of her five titles this year, at Birmingham (grass), Rome (red clay), Charleston (green clay), and Auckland (rebound ace hardcourt), and has a 52-12 WTA match record in 2007.
's-Hertogenbosch players blog by Michaella Krajicek

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WTA SCOREBOARD: Eastbourne & 's-Hertogenbosch s=seed, #=rank, *=upset, LL=lucky loser ranks are for the previous week How do players get into the "draw"? Hastings Direct International,  Eastbourne, England   tourney time:        = GMT +1 hours        = US EDT +5 hours        = US PDT +8 hours England News - UK News Weather Forecast | Weather Maps | Weather Radar     Eastbourne: The main draw for Eastbourne has 8 seeds, with 4 1st-round byes. There are 4 qualifiers in the main draw. Qualifying finals are on Monday.   click for broader view   Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, England Latitude: 50.763621 Longitude: 0.283821 goto link for World Wind Hastings Direct Int'l venue address: International Lawn Tennis Centre, Devonshire Park, College Rd, Eastbourne, Sussex, BN21 4JJ United Kingdom how to get there 2007: On Monday, June 18 at Eastbourne, high seeds Elena Dementieva, Nadia Petrova, and Justine Henin were photographed by a Sergio Leone wannabe while entertaining the press at the media All-Access Hour

Eastbourne, 1st Rd, Mon-Tue 11:30am losers' prize: $4,175 US; points: 1

Eastbourne, 2nd Rd, Wed 11:30am losers' prize: $7,820 US; points: 35

Eastbourne, QFs, Thurs 11:30am losers' prize: $14,600 US; points: 70

Eastbourne, SFs, Fri 11:30am losers' prize: $27,300 US; points: 125

Eastbourne, Final, Sat 1pm loser's prize: $51,000 US; points: 190 winner's prize: $95,500 US; points: 275

Eastbourne, Doubles Final, Sat losers' prize: $16,120 US winners' prize: $30,000 US Eastbourne, Qual Finals, Mon Jun 18 11:30am losers' prizes: q1 $640 1pt; q2 $1,195 3pts; q3 $2,230 10pts; qualifier 15 points Eastbourne, Withdrawals

Ordina Open,  's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands   tourney time:        = GMT +2 hours        = US EDT +6 hours        = US PDT +9 hours Netherlands News Weather Forecast | Weather Maps | Weather Radar     's-Hertogenbosch: The main draw for 's-Hertogenbosch has 8 seeds, with 2 1st-round byes. Once there were no qualifying rounds; but in 2006 4 qualifiers were added to the main draw.   click for broader view   Autotron Rosmalen Latitude: 51.70962 Longitude: 5.420122 goto link for World Wind Ordina Open venue address: Autotron Rosmalen, Graafsebaan 133 5248 's Hertogenbosch, Netherlands 2007: On Tuesday, June 19, Jelena Jankovic took a boat ride (they do have water in The Netherlands), and performed her impromptu version of Wuthering Heights in semaphore (minus flags). Jelena was going to do Julius Caesar, but they didn't have an aldis lamp. Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights: script - video

's-Hertogenbosch, 1st Rd, Sun-Tue noon losers' prize: $1,400 US; points: 1

's-Hertogenbosch, 2nd Rd, Tue-Wed noon losers' prize: $2,525 US; points: 20

's-Hertogenbosch, QFs, Thu noon losers' prize: $4,550 US; points: 35

's-Hertogenbosch, SFs, Fri noon losers' prize: $8,250 US; points: 65

's-Hertogenbosch, Final, Sat loser's prize: $14,750 US; points: 100 winner's prize: $28,000 US; points: 140

's-Hertogenbosch, Doubles Final, Fri c1 noon losers' prize: $4,450 US winners' prize: $8,250 US 's-Hertogenbosch, Qual Finals, Sun Jun 17 losers' prizes: q1 $200 1pt; q2 $350 3pts qualifier 4 points

from Hard Courts by John Feinstein (page 297):     The women have played a Wimbledon warm-up tournament at Eastbourne since the nineteenth century, after all these years still playing at the same site, Devonshire Park.     Eastbourne is two hours southeast of London, an easy train ride or a harrowing drive along narrow country roads. It sits on the English Channel and is the English version of St. Petersburg [Florida], a small resort town where a substantial part of the population is over the age of seventy.     Devonshire Park is a two-hundred-yard walk from the beach, a veritable melting pot of the tennis world. The old is very much in evidence: the north stand, which was built in 1881, is often filled with septuagenarians who have been coming here for as long as anyone can remember. Towering oak trees rise up behind the north stand and sea gulls often swoop by noisily, distracting the players.     Two things make Eastbourne different than other tournaments. First, it is a six-day tournament, ending Saturday...     The second thing that makes Eastbourne unique is the player party. Every tennis tournament in the world has a player party. On the women's tour, WTA public relations and marketing people as well as their counterparts at Kraft and Virginia Slims usually spend the first few days at each tournament trying to round up players to come to the party. For the players, one more party with one more group of sponsors telling them how wonderful they are is boring, a time-waster. They understand they have to do their share to keep these people happy, but they don't enjoy it very much.     Eastbourne is different because of the talent show. The players--even Navratilova--show up because they expect the show to be funny. The person most responsible for making it funny every year is Elsie Burgin, director, writer, and star.     This year's [1990's] show was built around a mock game show...     ...Most of this was very inside humor. If you weren't part of the women's tour in some way, the jokes meant little. [Sophie] Amiach broke the crowd up with her Stefano Capriati imitation: "I deserve the credit," she said. "I produce the child. I teach the child. I coach the child. I am the star." To his credit, Stefano Capriati laughed as hard as anyone...

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