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| Glad you finally return here wingster.  I was worried that you wouldn`t be back. I`m sure you`re going to be following Ana closely on how she does in Rome.
Hey Chris lets not pencil in Domi in the second round yet. Like i`ve said eariler, she has a tough match in the first round against Gisela Dulko. Hopefully Domi can get it back going in that match.
There`s some change in the draw as Amelie Mauresmo pulled out of the tournament due to her rib injury. So that means Makiri will have a rematch against Nadia Petrova in her first round match. Hopefully she can play as well as she did in their previous meeting.
Meanwhile the final round of qualifying were today. Elena, Iveta and Alize all won their matches, which means that they will be in the tournament. Great job by those three of making the show.  Hopefully with the right place in the draw, they can get a win or two.
Also the draw for doubles was released eariler today and here it is:
(1) Black/Huber ZIM/USA vs. Bye
Craybas/Kudryavtseva USA/RUS vs. Poutchek/Rodionova BLR/RUS
Peng/Sun CHN vs. Amanmuradova/Vesnina UZB/RUS
Navratilova/Rosolska CZE/POL vs. (7) Bondarenko/Bondarenko UKR
(3) Peschke/Stubbs CZE/AUS vs. Bye
Hradecka/Krajicek CZE/NED vs. Petrova/Shvedova RUS
Dushevina/Likhovtseva RUS vs. Garbin/Vinci ITA
Koryttseva/Uhlirova UKR/CZE vs. (5) Chan/Chuang TPE
(6) Raymond/Stosur USA/AUS vs. Ji/Sun CHN
Benesova/Husarova CZE/SVK vs. Kleybanova/Voskoboeva RUS
(WC) Errani/Knapp ITA vs. Kirilenko/Radwanska RUS/POL
(4) Molik/Santangelo AUS/ITA vs. Bye
(8) Safina/Szavay RUS/HUN vs. (WC) Dentoni/Wozniacki ITA/DEN
Medina Garrigues/Ruano Pascual ESP vs. Camerin/Dulko ITA/ARG
Yan/Zheng CHN vs. (WC) Chakvetadze/Vaidisova RUS/CZE
(2) Srebotnik/Sugiyama SLO/JPN vs. Bye
First of all i have to say that the Bondarenko sisters got a tough draw. With the tough team of Peng and Sun likely looming in the second round. If even they win that match, then they`ll likely face the top ranked team of Cara Black and Liesel Huber. Still i`m holding out a glimmer of hope that Alona and Kat can make a nice run. Also i see that Anna and Nikki will be teaming up. They obviously make for a very hot team, but at the same time i think that they would be entertaining to watch, given how hot tempered they both are. I hope that they`ll play hard, have some fun and try not to have a major meltdown during their match. In fact i hope some of our favorite ladies that will be playing doubles will play hard and do well this week in Rome.
Anyway here are some pics of Masha practicing in Rome.
It`s great to see Masha back on the court. 
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