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Sharapova, V. Williams make easy through to quarters
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-09-23 09:15
Talking about her sister Serena's exit in the second round, she said, "What I
can say to her is that you win some and you lose some."
Chinese Zheng Jie, whose current world rank is 50, couldn't go a step further
in the second round, falling to Poland's Marta Domachowska 6-3, 6-1, here on
Thursday.
Zheng, the Chinese wildcard, ranked 50th in the world, easily dropped her
first game in Set One within two minutes but managed to level the score 1-1.
Trailing at 3-2, Zheng equalized at 3-3 but lost in three straight games. The
first Chinese woman to reach a Grand Slam fourth round at Roland Carros in 2004
was broken in the first game in the second set, and came to trail at 3-0. The
WTA tour titlist at Hobart in 2005 only won one game back and gave in 6-1.
With this victory, Domachowska, finalist at 2005 Strasbourg Open, cruised to
the quarters, her third time in WTA tours.
In other two singles matches to decide the last two berths for the quarters,
Maria Kirilenko of Russia and Shinobu Asagoe of Japan, separately defeated Aiko
Nakamura of Japan 6-1, 7-6 (3) and Jill Craybas of the United States 6-2, 6-4.
The remaining three tickets for the quarters went to Sun Tian, Peng Shuai and
Anna-Lena Groenefeld on Wednesday.
Zheng Jie turned up on Thursday's doubles court, pairing Yan Zi, beat the duo
of Liga Dekmeijere of Latvia and Martina Muller of Germany 7-5, 6-2. While
another Chinese pair Li Na/Peng Shuai were stumbled by Corina Morariu of the
United States and Italy's Flavia Pennetta 6-4, 6-3.
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