Warsaw Preview

The singles main draw has been released for this week’s J&S Cup from Warsaw, Poland. Elena Dementieva, due to her ranking, was awarded the number three seed position and therefore a first round bye.
But this is a tough tournament just to start and round two will already provide Elena a tough match-up. Technically she is meant to meet Daniela Hantuchova, who is playing a qualifier in the first round. In the head-to-head Dementieva leads the series 6-3 but the last meeting was clamed by the Slovakian who won a semi-final clash in Los Angeles last year in straight sets.
Should Dementieva advance she is likely to get old rival Anastasia Myskina. Myskina leads the head-to-head record by 9-6 but the last meeting was claimed by the blonde this year in the semi-finals of Tokyo by the score of 6-4; 3-6; 6-4.
Looking a bit deeper in the draw and world number two, Kim Clijsters, looms ahead for a possible semi-final showdown. After dropping seven of the first eight meetings with Clijsters, Dementieva has proved to be a thorn on the Belgian’s side claming two of the last four meetings, including a Fed Cup rubber last weekend in straight sets, and taking the Belgian to three sets in Antwerp earlier this year. The series stand at 9-3 in favour to Clijsters with the last meeting being claimed by the Russian.
In case of downing the number one seed and world’s number two, Dementieva may face one of the following players: Venus Williams, Martina Hingis, Svetlana Kuznetsova or Patty Schnyder the number two seed this week.  For more information on the results from Warsaw please visit www.dementieva.lawntennisnews.com or head to www.lawntennisnews.com