Dear Phinong Laotian,
I wish her good luck for he match. This is one thing to
let people around the world know her root from Laos.
Shall be call self-promotion???
Hakepheng John,
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LONDON (AFP) — Four-time champion Venus Williams cruised into the last
32 of Wimbledon on Thursday but fellow former winner Lindsay Davenport
limped away from the All England Club, probably never to return.
Defending champion Williams ended British hopes in the women's singles
with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Anne Keothavong while Davenport never even
made it on to court.
The 32-year-old American, the champion in 1999 and runner-up on her
last appearance in 2005, handed scheduled opponent Gisela Dulko a
walkover after failing to recover from a knee injury which bothered
her in the first round.
Despite the disappointing end to her 13th Wimbledon, Davenport is
confident of playing at the Beijing Olympics and at the US Open later
this year.
"There's two events that I've been wanting to play since I've been
back," said Davenport who took a break from the tour to have her first
child last year.
"The Olympics were number one. That's on the forefront of my mind. To
play in New York another time. After that, I have no plans."
Dulko, the world 39, goes on to face either Russian fifth seed Elena
Dementieva or Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland while Williams will
tackle Spain's Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez who put out Indian 32nd
seed Sania Mirza 6-0, 4-6, 9-7.
Mirza lost the first eight games of the second round tie but recovered
well enough to earn four match points in the final set before handing
the advantage back to the 25-year-old Spaniard.
Asian honour was rescued by 31-year-old Thai Tamarine Tanasugarn who
produced her best Grand Slam performance for three years as she
stunned Vera Zvonareva, the Russian 13th seed.
Tamarine, ranked 60th in the world, hadn't reached the last 32 at a
major since Wimbledon in 2006, but she was able to end that barren run
with a 7-6 (12/10), 4-6, 6-3 victory.
Tamarine, who went through qualifying to win the 's-Hertogenbosch
grasscourt event in Holland last week, next faces New Zealand's Marina
Erakovic for a place in the last 16.
Later Thursday, world number two Rafael Nadal, bidding to become only
the third man to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same season,
takes on promising Latvian teenager Ernests Gulbis.
Women's third seed Maria Sharapova, the 2004 champion, takes on fellow
Russian Alla Kudryavtseva.
