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19/12/'04 2004 season, review - In
January withdrew from Australian Open due to a back injury. She came back at Dubai tournament, world No. 5,
No. 3 seed and with a 1r bye, lost opening match in straight sets to WC Daniilidou.
As world No. 5, and No. 2 seed with a 1r bye, lost Doha SF 6-2, 6-2 to defending and eventual champion Myskina;
withdrew from Indian Wells due to a continuing back injury; at Miami, as world No. 7 and No. 4 seed with a 1r bye,
defeated No. 91 Koukalova before being upset in 3r by Daniilidou.
In ninth appearance at Charleston (first since 2001), and as world No. 8 and No. 7 seed (with a 1r bye), was upset
in 3r 7-6(3), 3-6, 7-5 by Mandula.
At Berlin, as world No. 8 and No. 6 seed with a 1r bye, defeated No. 5
Myskina for first Top 10 win of 2004 and a spot in SF (first Tier I of season) vs. Mauresmo (No. 2 seed and
eventual champion by walkover), lost in straight sets; in SF at Rome, as world No. 9 and No. 5 seed, eliminated
top-seed and fellow former world No 1 S. Williams (using a SR of No. 2), ending an eight-match losing streak to
Williams (last d. her in 2001 Wimbledon QF), lost career-first Rome final (11th appearance) to No. 3 Mauresmo 3-6,
6-3, 7-6(6) in 2 hours, 30 minutes; at Roland Garros, as world No. 6, No. 7 seed and 2001 champion, overcame a
thigh strain in 4r vs. Schiavone, lost SF to No. 5 first-time Grand Slam champion Myskina.
At 11th Wimbledon, ranked and seeded No. 7, lost 6-1, 6-1 QF to fellow former No. 1 S. Williams.
Withdrew from Los Angeles, San Diego and Olympics due to a hamstring injury.
At Montreal [Canadian Open], as world No. 7 and No. 5 seed, was upset in straight-set QF by unseeded Likhovtseva;
at New Haven, as world No. 8 and seeded No. 3 seed with a 1r bye, defeated Golovin in opening match before lost QF
to Dechy; at US Open, ranked and seeded No. 8, reached SF before lost a third-set tie-break to Dementieva.
Withdrew from Filderstadt due to influenza.
At Philadelphia, as world No. 9 and No. 4 seed, lost QF by Zvonareva and didn't qualify for the WTA Tour Championships.
18/12/'04 Tampa, exibition event - Unfortunately,
Jennifer dropped out of the exhibition charity match against Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova
because of a right shoulder injury. She is scheduled to play at the Sydney International, from the 10th of January.
05/11/'04 Philadelphia, quarterfinal: Zvonareva D Capriati - Unfortunately,
Jennifer has lost against Vera Zvonareva in Philadelphia quarterfinals, so she hasn't qualified for
the Wta Tour Championships. Jennifer hasn't played today: she lost 0-6, 1-6. In first set, every games were close,
but Jennifer failed all the decisive points. In second set, she lost immediately the serve and went down 0-2; she
won the third game, but she wasn't able to recovered the match. Vera Zvonareva played very well but, probably,
Jennifer didn't play an official event since too much time (her last match was the US Open semifinal).
So, her 2004 season is over and she will probably drop out of the top 10 in the rankings for the first time since
early 2001, because she made the semis in last year's YEC, losing to eventual champion Kim Clijsters.
03/11/'04 Philadelphia, 2nd round: Capriati D Shaughnessy - About
two months after the last official match (the semifinal at the US Open), Jennifer has won over Meghann
Shaughnessy in her first match at the Advanta Championships. Jennifer was able to prevail in a dour match: she
lost the first set 4-6, but recovered won the other two for 6-3, 6-4. With this important success, she accedes at
the quarterfinal, where she faces the winner between the Russian Vera Zvonareva and the French Nathalie Dechy.
Jennifer has won the only previous match against Zvonareva (last year at Indian Wells event) and she leads 5-1
against the French, but she has lost the last match (this year at New Haven tournament). If Jennifer will play
against Zvonareva, the loser of this match, can't qualify for the WTA Tour Championships.
30/10/'04 Philadelphia, preview - On
Monday, the 1st, it starts the indoor Advanta Championships in Philadelphia. Jennifer didn't play it
last year. This will be a crucial tournament, because Jennifer needs many points to qualify for the WTA Tour
Championships (which starts on November, the 11th). At the moment, Venus Williams has 32 points more than Jennifer
and 64 more than Vera Zvonareva. The others top-seeded players are: Amelie Mauresmo (1, top part), Anastasia
Myskina (2, bottom part), Maria Sharapova (3, top part), Venus Williams (5, top part), Vera Zvonareva (6, bottom
part). Jennifer has got a BYE in first-round, so she should play on Wednesday against the winner between Meghann
Shaughnessy and Kelly Mc Cain. In previous matches against Shaughnessy, Jennifer leads 6-0, but the last match
(played in 2003 at Miami tournament) was very close and Jennifer won it 6-4 at the third set.
The Advanta Championships will be broadcast on Eurosport, from Thursday afternoon.
02/10/'04 Jennifer pulls out of Filderstadt event - Unfortunately,
world number nine Capriati has withdrawn from next week Porsche Grand Prix. Jennifer says
she is suffering from flu, so she pulls out of the $650,000 indoor tournament.
Now, she is scheduled to play in
Philadelphia event, from the 1st of November, but I don't know if she will decide to play another tournament
before that (Zurich or Linz).
17/09/'04 Richmond, exibition event: S. Williams D Capriati - Jennifer
played an exibition match against Serena Williams in Richmond. This charity event, was benefiting the
VCU's Massey Cancer Center to support the fight against cancer. Serena won in three sets: 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-3.
From Monday, the 4th of October, Jennifer is going to play the Filderstadt indoor tournament.
10/09/'04 US Open, semifinal: Dementieva D Capriati - After
a very exciting and uncertain match, Jennifer loses the possibility to reach her first US Open final. She
was defeated by the russian Elena Dementieva in the final set tie-break. Jennifer wasn't on the court in first set.
Dementieva played a very good tennis and won it for 6-0 in only 16 minutes. In second set, Jennifer came into the
match and, from 2-1 Dementieva, she took two breaks and won it 6-2. Final set was too incredible: the first 4 games
were breaks. On 5-4 Dementieva, Jennifer went to serve to remain into the match and won the game. In eleventh game,
Jennifer took a break, but lost the next game with the first double-fault of her match. In the tie-break,
Dementieva went up 5-2, Jennifer made two points (5-4), but Dementieva has two consecutively match-points on 6-4.
Jennifer cancelled the first, but Dementieva closed the match with a winner.
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07/09/'04 US Open, quarterfinal: Capriati D S. Williams - Playing
a great match, Jennifer has defeated, for the third time in this season, Serena Williams reaching the
semifinal at the US Open. Serena played a wonderful first set and won it, while Jennifer maked many errors.
Jennifer was able to remain into the match and started aggressively the second set. She took immediately a break
and, also with her slice-backhand, defended it, winning the set. In final set, Jennifer took again the break in
first game, but lost immediately the serve. But she was able to took another break and to defend it, defeating Serena.
Now, in the semifinal, she faces the Russian Elena Dementieva, who has defeated Amelie Mauresmo. In previous
matches, Jennifer leads 3-0; the last one was played in 2003 US Open fourth-round and Jennifer won 6-2, 7-5.
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05/09/'04 US Open, 4th round: Capriati D Sugiyama - Jennifer
has defeated the japanese Ai Sugiyama in two sets, reaching the quarterfinals of the US Open. Sugiyama
went to serve for first set on 3-5, but Jennifer was able to recovered the break; she saved a set-point on 4-5 and
won it for 7 games to 5. In second set, Jennifer took a first break in third game and another one in seventh game
and won the match.
On Tuesday, in quarterfinals, she faces for the fourth time in the year, Serena Williams. In previous matches,
Serena leads 10-6; this year, Jennifer has won in Rome and in Paris, but she has lost the last match 6-1, 6-1 in
Wimbledon quarterfinals.
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03/09/'04 US Open, 3rd round: Capriati D Douchevina - Jennifer
has won her third round match against the russian Vera Douchevina. Jennifer won easily the first set 6-0
in only 18 minutes. In second set, the russian started to play and went up 3-1. Jennifer recovered, but lost again
the serve and went down 3-5. She was able to reached the tie-break, but lost it 7 points to 4. In final set,
Douchevina went up 1-0 with a break, but Jennifer recovered immediately. On 3-2, Jennifer played a great game and
took a break (went up 4-2) and she closed the match on 6-3.
In fourth round, she faces the Japanese Ai Sugiyama. They have played 7 times before: Jennifer leads 4-3 and she
has won the last match, at the 2003 WTA Tour Championships.
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01/09/'04 US Open, 2nd round: Capriati D Serna - Jennifer
has won today her second round match against the spanish Magui Serna. She won easily, in two sets (6-0,
6-2 the final score), in only 52 minutes. Jennifer played well, but Serna made too many errors and wasn't able to
oppose at Jennifer's power.
On Friday in third round, Jennifer faces the Russian Vera Douchevina. Jennifer has never played before against her.
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30/08/'04 US Open, 1st round: Capriati D Chladkova - Jennifer
ha won today a hard first round match against Denisa Chladkova. Jennifer won in three sets, losing 2-6 the
first one. In first set, Chladkova played well, but Jennifer was too nervous. Fortunately, Jennifer got into the
match and won quite easily the second and the third set, reaching the second round.
In second round match, she will face the Spanish Magui Serna. There's only a previous match between them; it was
played in 2000 at Birmingham tournament and Jennifer won it due to the retire of the spanish on 4-3 of third set.
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28/08/'04 US Open, preview - On
next Monday, it starts the last Grand Slam event of the season: the US Open in New York. On last year,
Jennifer reached the semifinals, where she lost in a thrilling match against the world n.1, Justine Henin-Hardenne.
This year, she is scheduled as 8 and she is in the bottom part of the draw, in the same quarter of Serena Williams.
The others top-seeded players are: Justine Henin-Hardenne (1, top part), Amelie Mauresmo (2, bottom part), Serena
Williams (3, bottom part), Anastasia Myskina (4, top part), Lindsay Davenport (5, top part), Elena Dementieva (6,
bottom part), Maria Sharapova (7, top part). Jennifer should play on Tuesday or Wednesday against Denisa Chladkova of
Czech Republic. There are two previous matches: Jennifer won in both them in two sets. The last one was played the
last year at Indian Wells and Jennifer won 6-2, 6-2.
The US Open will be broadcast on Eurosport and on SkySport, many hours a day.
27/08/'04 New Haven, quarterfinal: Dechy D Capriati - Unfortunately,
Jennifer has lost yesterday against Nathalie Dechy in New Haven quarterfinals. She has lost in two sets,
6-4 7-5 the final score. So she can't defend her New Haven title.
Now, she is scheduled to play at the US Open, from Monday the 30th, where she is seeded as 8.
25/08/'04 New Haven, 2nd round: Capriati D Golovin - Jennifer
has beaten Tatiana Golovin, yesterday, in her second round match. This match wasn't too hard and Jennifer won
it in only two sets, 6-3, 6-2 the final score. Tomorrow, in the quarterfinals, she will face the winner of the match
between the Japanase Akiko Morigami and the French Nathalie Dechy. Jennifer has won all the previous matches against
them: she leads 5-0 against Dechy and 1-0 against Morigami.
21/08/'04 New Haven, preview - On
Monday, the 23rd, it starts the Pilot Pen Tennis in New Haven. Jennifer won this TierII event on the last
year, defeating Lindsay Davenport in the final and this year she will try to defend her title. She is scheduled as 3
and she is in the top part of the draw. The others top-seeded players are: Lindsay Davenport (1, top part), Elena
Dementieva (2, bottom part), Maria Sharapova (4, bottom part), Nadia Petrova (5, top part). Jennifer, who has got a
BYE in first round, should play on Tuesday or Wednesday against the winner of the match between the young French
Tatiana Golovin and the American Shenay Perry. Jennifer has never played before against them.
Only the final of this tournament will be broadcast on Eurosport, due to the Olympic Games. This is the timetable:
Sunday 29: final 00.15-01.30
13/08/'04 Jennifer is going to play to defend her New Haven title - Pilot
Pen defending champ Jennifer Capriati is going to defend her title. Capriati committed today to join the New
Haven tennis tournament. She was scheduled to play in the Olympics starting next week, but a hamstring injury
forced her to withdraw. The Pilot Pen starts a week later, giving the California native more time to rest. Capriati
beat Lindsay Davenport last year to win the Pilot Pen. Davenport and Wimbledon winner Maria Sharapova also are
playing in the tournament, which begins with qualifying rounds August 20th.
10/08/'04 Jennifer pulls out of the Olympic Games - Jennifer
Capriati withdrew from the U.S. Olympic tennis team in Athens, a team spokesman said Tuesday. The spokesman
said Capriati decided to withdraw because of a hamstring injury that has been plaguing her since July. She notified
the team's coach, Zina Garrison, on Sunday. Capriati will have missed three straight Olympics.
06/08/'04 Montreal, quarterfinal: Likhovtseva D Capriati - Unfortunately,
Jennifer has lost her quarterfinals match against the russian Elena Likhovtseva. Jennifer played
badly the first set, losing 6-2. In second set, she went down 1-4. She saved a match point on 3-5 and recovered the
break (5-5). On 5-6, she went to serve to remain in the match, but lost again the serve and the russian reached the semifinal.
Now Jennifer should play at Athens Olympics from the 16th of August.
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05/08/'04 Montreal, 3rd round: Capriati D Pierce - With
the winner over the french Mary Pierce, Jennifer has reached the Montreal quarterfinals. She needed only an
hour to close her third round match against Pierce (6-2, 6-4 the final score).
Now, in the quarterfinals, she will faced the Russian Elena Likhovtseva. Jennifer leads 4-2 in previous matches.
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03/08/'04 Montreal, 2nd round: Capriati D Jidkova - Jennifer
has won today her first match in Canada event against the russian Alina Jidkova. She won the match in two
sets, winning the first one 7-3 at the tie-break.
On Thursday, she will face the French Mary Pierce in third round. In previous matches, Jennifer leads 3-1, but she has
lost the last meeting, in 2003 at Filderstadt indoor tournament.
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31/07/'04 Montreal, preview - On
next Monday, it starts Jennifer's first american hardcourt summer event, the Rogers AT&T Cup in Montreal.
In this TierI tournament, Jennifer is scheduled as 5 and she is in the top part of the draw. The others top-seeded
players are: Serena Williams (1, top part), Amelie Mauresmo (2, bottom part), Anastasia Myskina (3, top part), Elena
Dementieva (4, bottom part), Maria Sharapova (6, bottom part). Jennifer, who has got a BYE in firts round, should play
on Wednesday against the winner of the match between Jelena Jankovic (SCG) and Saori Obata (JPN); there aren't previous
matches between Jennifer and them.
The Canadian event will be broadcast on Eurosport; this is the timetable:
Tuesday 3: 17.00-19.15
Wednesday 4: 13.00-15.30 and live 17.00-20.30
Thursday 5: 13.30-16.00 and 18.00-19.15
Friday 6: 13.45-15.15 and live 17.00-22.00
Saturday 7: 12.30-14.00 and semifinal 20.00-21.00
Sunday 8: 11.30-13.00 and live final 20.00-21.30
24/07/'04 Jenny withdraws also from San Diego tournament - Unfortunately,
Jennifer has withdrawn from next week's TierI WTA hardcourt event
here because of a nagging right hamstring injury that forced her out of this
week's event in Los Angeles. Now she is scheduled to play the Rogers AT&T
Cup in Montreal, another TierI WTA event, from the 2nd of August.
17/07/'04 Jennifer withdraws from Los Angeles event - Unfortunately,
Jennifer Capriati has withdrawn from next week's JPMorgan Chase Open, citing a hamstring injury.
"I really love that tournament, but I'm just not ready to play because of my
hamstring," she said in a statement Thursday. "I'm going to continue to
work hard and get ready to play again. I'm really looking forward to competing
this summer, especially in the Olympics and the U.S. Open."
Jennifer
plans to rejoin the WTA Tour for the Acura Classic in San Diego on July 26.
30/06/'04 Wimbledon, quarterfinal: S. Williams D Capriati - Jennifer
has lost today against Serena Williams in the match which was considered the most high-quality one of
the female tournament. Jennifer hasn't played her best tennis; instead, Serena
has played very well: she has realized many aces and she has played an
aggressive tennis. Jennifer was under her pression and she wasn't able to come
out from it. In first set, Jennifer lost the serve in a very long game and went
down 1-3. She served badly and Serena took another break and went up 5-1.
Jennifer went to serve to remain in the set, but lost for the third time the
serve and Serena won the first set for 6-1, in only 23 minutes. Jennifer lost
the serve immediately in second set and went down 0-2. But, also thanks to two
Serena's double-faults, she recovered the break. Unfortunately, she lost again
the serve and Serena went on 4-1. Jennifer lost again the serve and the Williams
went to serve for the match; in final game, Jennifer had two consecutive
break-points, but failed both and Serena came into semifinal.
The next
tournament in which Jennifer will play is the one of Los Angeles, from July, the 17th.
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29/06/'04 Wimbledon, 4th round: Capriati D Petrova - Jennifer
has won a good match, today, against the russian Nadia Patrova. She has played quite well and
she has shown an aggressive tennis, expecially on Petrova's second serves. In
first set, Jennifer took a break in fifth game and went up 4-2. But the russian
recovered immediately the break and went on 4-4. In next game, Jennifer took
again a break, with two passing winners, and went to serve for the first set.
Jennifer made two double-faults, but won the game and went up 1 set to 0.
Jennifer took a break also at the beginning of second set and went up 2-0. In
sixth game, Jennifer saved a break-point with a wonderful forehand winner and
went on 4-2. On 5-4, Jennifer went to serve for the match and won it, reaching
the quarterfinals.
Tomorrow, she will face again Serena Williams. Jennifer has won the last two matches, but Serena plays very well
on grass; so it will be a very hard match for Jennifer.
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28/06/'04 Wimbledon, 2nd round mixed-doubles: Hanley/Sugiyama d. Humphries/Capriati - Today,
Jennifer and Scott Humphries have played their second round match, against the team Hanley/Sugiyama.
Unfortunately, they have lost in two sets, 6-4, 6-2 the final score.
27/06/'04 Wimbledon, 3rd round: Capriati D Dechy - Jennifer
has played a good match, today, against the french Nathalie Dechy and has reached the fourth round.
Jennifer won the first set, taking a break when she was leading 6-5. In second set, she took immediately a break
in the second game and went up 3-0. On 4-1, Jennifer took another break and went to serve for the match. She won
the final game and acceded at fourth round.
It will be played on Tuesday the 29th and Jennifer will face the Russian Nadia Petrova, who is seeded as 10. In
previous matches, Jennifer leads 2-1, but she has lost the last one, at 2003 fourth round of Roland Garros.
Today, Jennifer has also played the first round of mixed-doubles, with the american Scott Humphries; they have
defeated the team Pala/Tatarkova and tomorrow they will face Paul Hanley (AUS) and Ai Sugiyama (JPN), who are
seeded as 5.
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25/06/'04 Wimbledon, 2nd round: Capriati D Baltacha - Jennifer
started well: with three winners, she took a
break in first game and went up 1-0, but she lost the serve in next game and
Baltacha reached her on 1-1. With the third break in three games, Jennifer went
up again (3-1 the score). In fifth game, Jenny took another break and went on
5-1. On 5-2, Jennifer went to serve for first set, but lost the serve and
Baltacha recovered on 4-5. Jennifer went to serve again for first set and won
it. In second set, Jennifer took a break in third game and went up 3-1; in sixth
game, Jennifer saved a break-point and closed the game with an ace (4-2
leading). On 5-4, she went to serve for the match, and won it.
Tomorrow, she will play the third-round match against the French Nathalie Dechy; there are 4
previous matches between them and Jennifer has always won (the last meeting has
been played last year on Eastbourne grass).
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24/06/'04 Wimbledon, 1st round: Capriati D Schaul - With
two days of late, due to the rain, (she should played on Tuesday), Jennifer has won
agains Claudine Schaul 6-2, 6-2, in 55 minutes. Jennifer won easily the first
set for 6-2 in also 27 minutes. In second set, she went up 3-0, with a break; in
fifth game, she saved a break-point and went on 4-1. She closed the match again on 6-2.
In second round, which will be tommorrow, she will face the English
Wild Card, Elena Baltacha. They had never played against before.
Jennifer is also scheduled to play the mixed-doubles, with Scott Humphries; in first round,
they will face Petr Pala (CZE) and Elena Tatarkova (UKR).
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17/06/'04 Wimbledon, preview - On
Monday the 21st it will start the third Grand Slam
event of the year: Wimbledon, in London. Jennifer is scheduled as 7 and
she is in the top part of the draw. The others top seeded players are: Serena
Williams (1, top part), Anastasia Myskina (2, bottom part), Venus
Williams (3, bottom part), Amelie Mauresmo (4, top part), Lindsay Davenport (5,
bottom part), Elena Dementieva (6, bottom part). Jennifer should play on Monday,
against Claudine Schaul (LUX); they has never played before.
The Championships will be broadcast on Sky Sport, many hours a day.
03/06/'04 Roland Garros, semifinal: Myskina D Capriati - Unfortunately,
Jennifer has lost in Paris semifinal by Myskina. The russian has played well and aggressive, on
the contrary, Jennifer hasn't played. Probably, she was too nervous because she
was the media's favourite for the victory, and she wasn't able to come into the
match. Jennifer started badly: she lost her first serve and went down 0-3, with
too many errors. In fourth game, Jennifer went down 0-40, but she was able to
win it and, in next game, she recovered the break. Unfortunately, she lost again
the serve for two times and lost the first set 2-6. In second set, Jennifer lost
the serve in sixth game and went down 2-5. In eight game, she went to serve to
remain into the match; but Myskina played an aggressive game and came into her
first Grand Slam final.
Next Jennifer's tournament will be Wimbledon, the third Grand Slam event of the year, from the 21st of June.
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01/06/'04 Roland Garros, quarterfinal: Capriati D S. Williams - Jennifer
has beaten Serena Williams, reaching the semifinal in Paris. The match started one hour
late, due to the rain. In second gameof first set, Jennifer saved three
break-points and took a break in next game (went up 3-1). Unfortunately, in
sixth game, Jennifer lost the serve and Serena went on 3-3. In next game,
Jennifer took another break and went up 4-3. But the match was immediately
suspended for 5 minutes, due to the rain. In nineth game, Jennifer took another
break with two backhand winners and won the set. In first game of second set,
Williams took a break and went up 2-0. In third game, Jennifer lost again the
serve and went down 0-4. On 5-1 Williams, the match was suspended again, due to
the rain. About 40 minutes late, the match resumed; Jennifer went on 2-5, but
Serena won the set. In final set, Jennifer took a break in fourth game and went
up 3-1. But Williams recovered immediately the break and went on 3-3. In eight
game, Jennifer took a break for the second time in set and went to serve for the
match. She was able to remain calm when the line judge made a mistake on her
first match-point, and won the match, with a forehand error by Serena.
On Friday, in the semifinal, she will face the Russian Anastasia Myskina, who has
defeated Venus Williams. In previous matches, Jennifer leads 5-1 and she has won
the last meeting, this year in Berlin quarters.
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30/05/'04 Roland Garros, 4th round: Capriati D Schiavone - Jennifer
has defeated the Italian Francesca Schiavone, reaching the quarterfinals. In fifth game of
first set, Jennifer had three break-points, but failed them and lost the next
serve (went down 2-4). In next game, she recovered immediately the break (4-4).
In tenth game, Jennifer took a break again and won the first set 7-5. In second
set, Jennifer took immediately a break and went up 2-0. On 2-1, she called the
trainer for a problem in right leg, but took another break and went up 5-1. In
seventh game, Schiavone went to serve to remain in the match, but Jennifer
played an aggressive tennis and won the match 6-1.
In quarterfinals, Jennifer will face Serena Williams. Serena leads 9-5 in previous matches, but Jennifer
has won the last one, about three weeks ago in Rome tournament.
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29/05/'04 Roland Garros, 3rd round: Capriati D Bovina - After
a hard match, Jennifer has beaten Elena Bovina, reaching fourth round. In first set, Jennifer took
immeditely a break and went up 2-0. Bovina recovered the break in third game, also due to two Jennifer's
double-faults (2-1). Jennifer took immediately another break and went up 4-2. In
seventh game, Jennifer took another break and went to serve, on 5-2, for the
first set. Saving a break-point by a forehand winner, Jennifer won the first
set. In second set, Bovina went up 5-0, with two breaks. In seventh game,
Jennifer recovered one of the two breaks and went on 3-5. Bovina went to serve
again for second set and won it. In final set, Bovina took a break, but Jennifer
recovered immediately (1-1). On 2-1, Jennifer took a break and went up 3-1;
Bovina recovered immediately the break and went on 3-3. In eight game, Jennifer
took again a break and went up 5-3. The russian recovered and went on 5-4, but
Jennifer (with another break) closed the match.
On Monday the 31st, Jennifer will face the Italian Francesca Schiavone. In previous matches Jenny leads
3-0, but Schiavone is playing well.
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27/05/'04 Roland Garros, 2nd round: Capriati D Peschke - Jennifer
has won today, against Kveta Peschke in two
sets, reaching third round. Jennifer hasn't played her best tennis: she has
entered a bit late into the match, but she has showed good services and, of
course, her fighting spirit (recovering from 2-4 down, in first set). In fifth
game of first set, Jennifer lost the serve and went down 2-4. In seventh game,
Jennifer saved another break-points and won the serve. On 5-3, Peschke went to
serve for first set, but Jennifer played an aggressive game and won it. Jennifer
went up 6-5, by great services in eleventh game and won the first set 7-5, with
another break. In second set, Jennifer took immediately a break, winning her six
consecutive game, and went up 2-0. But Peschke recovered the break in third
game, converting the fifth break-point. On 4-3, Jennifer took another break and
went to serve for the match, that won.
In third round, she will face the Russian Elena Bovina.
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25/05/'04 Roland Garros, 1st round: Capriati D Beygelzimer - Jennifer
has defeated Yulia Beygelzimer, today, in a very hard first round
match. She won easily the first set for 6-2 and went up 3-0 also in second set.
But the match wasn't finished: Beygelzimer recovered and won 6-4 the second set.
In final set, Jennifer went down 0-3, with a break. It was a desperate
situation. But Jennifer was able to react, using hers fighting spirit: she
recovered and won the match, after 2 hours of fight.
In second round, which will be on Thursday the 27th, she will face Kveta Peschke from Czech Republic.
They had never played against before.
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21/05/'04 Roland Garros, preview - On
Monday the 24th it will start the second Grand Slam
event of the year: the Roland Garros, in Paris. Jennifer is scheduled as
7 and she is in the bottom part of the draw. The others top seeded players are:
Justine Henin-Hardenne (1, top part), Serena Williams (2, bottom
part), Amelie Mauresmo (3, top part), Venus Williams (4, bottom part), Lindsay
Davenport (5, top part), Anastasia Myskina (6, bottom part). Jennifer should
play on Tuesday or Wednesday against Yulia Beygelzimer (UKR). She had never
played before against her.
Roland Garros will be broadcast on Eurosport and on Sky, many hours a day.
17/05/'04 Mauresmo defeats Jennifer in Rome final - Unfortunately
Jennifer has lost the final in Rome. But she has played a
wonderful tennis during all the tournament. She has served well and she has
realized many aces, and she has showed a good shape.
2nd ROUND - Capriati D Vento Kabchi 6-2, 6-1. In her opening match, Jennifer has defeated Maria
Vento-Kabchi from Venezuela in only 45 minutes. Jennifer played well and Vento
was forced to move around the court.
3rd ROUND - Capriati D [12] Suarez 6-2, 6-2. In third round, Jennifer has defeated Paola Suarez (#1 in doubles
rankings) in a quite easy match. The Argentine player is stronger enough on clay, so the
match was more equilibrate than the first one, but Jennifer was able to win all
the important points.
QUARTERFINAL - Capriati D [16] Smashnova-Pistolesi 6-3, 6-3. The match has started 2 hours late, at about 22.30,
due to the rain. Jennifer needed two games to come into the match: she lost immediately the serve
and Smashnova went up 2-0 in first set. But Jennifer was able to entry into the
match: she recovered immediately and and won the first set. Jennifer, with power
shots, moved Pistolesi around the court and made a lot of winners. She won 6-3
also the second set and reaches the semifinal.
SEMIFINAL - Capriati D [1] S. Williams 6-4, 6-4. After has lost the last 8 times, Jennifer has defeated Serena
Williams, reaching her first final of the year. In first set, on 4-4, Jennifer
took a break and won the set. In final set, Jennifer went up 5-2 with two
breaks; in eight game she had a match point, but failed it with a double-fault.
Serena won 6 consecutive points and went on 4-5; Jennifer went to serve again
for the match and won it.
FINAL - [2] Mauresmo D Capriati 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(6). Unfortunately, Jennifer has lost her first final in Rome,
against Amelie Mauresmo, after 2 hours and 43 minutes of great battle. Jenny has lost, but she
has played well and the crowd has supported her for all the match. The first two
sets were decided only by a break: Jennifer won the first and Mauresmo won the
second one. Third set was very exciting: on 5-4 Jennifer had a match point, but
failed it with a shot in the net. In the tie-break, Mauresmo had a match point
on 6-5, but Jenny saved it with a wonderful shot. On 7-6, Mauresmo had another
match point and won the title.
09/05/'04 Rome, preview - From
tomorrow, Jennifer will be in Rome, to play at the
Telecom Italia Masters, a TierI event on red clay. She is scheduled as 5
and she is in the top part of the draw. The others top seeded players are:
Serena Williams (1, top part), Amelie Mauresmo (2, bottom part),
Anastasia Myskina (3, bottom part), Nadia Petrova (4, top part). Jennifer, who
has got a BYE in first round, should play on Wednesday, the 12th against the
winner of the first round match between Maria Vento-Kabchi and a qualified
player. Jennifer has played 4 times before against Vento-Kabchi and has always
won; the last match was played last year at Stanford tournament.
The Rome
event will be broadcast on Eurosport, on Sky and on Italia1 (an Italian channel).
On next week I'm going to Rome to see Jennifer, so I can't date
this site: to view Jennifer's results, go to Rome tournament official site or to WTA one.
08/05/'04 Berlin, semifinal: Mauresmo D Capriati - In
sixth game, Mauresmo is the first to take a break and went up 5-2. In eight
game, Jennifer lost the serve for the second time and Mauresmo won first set. In
second set, Jennifer lost immediately the serve and went down 0-3. Mauresmo
played well, but Jennifer was too nervous: lost again the serve and went down
0-5. Unfortunately, she lost another time the serve and lost the match.
The next event in which we will see Jennifer is Rome Telecom Italia Masters, from
monday, the 10th.
07/05/'04 Berlin, quarterfinal: Capriati D Myskina - Jennifer
has won today, against Anastasia Myskina and reaches the semifinal in Berlin. The match started
late, due to the rain. After a long first game, Jennifer lost the service, but
recovered immediately in second game (1-1). But it started to rain again and the
match was suspended. After the break, Jennifer lost the service and went down
1-2, but she recovered in fourth game and went up 3-2, saving for the first time
her serve. On 4-3, Jennifer took another break and went up 5-3. Saviing two
break points and serving well, Jennifer won first set for 6-3. Jennifer took
immediately two breaks in second set and went up 4-0. Myskina was too nervous
and lost another game: Jennifer went up 5-0 and went to serve for the semifinal.
The russian recovered one break (5-2), but Jennifer was able to be patient and
closed the match on 6-2.
Tomorrow, Jennifer wiil face the world n°3, Amelie Mauresmo.
06/05/'04 Berlin, 3rd roud: Capriati D Sharapova - After
an hard and wonderful match, Jennifer defeated the youngest Russian Maria Sharapova and
reached the quarterfinal at Berlin event. Jennifer started well in first set,
with a break; but the russian recovered immediately and went up 2-1. In fourth
game, Jennifer saved 3 consecutively break-points and reached the russian on
2-2. In fifth game, Jennifer took another break and went up 3-2, but Sharapova
recovered again (3-3). On tenth game, Jennifer saved a set-point and reached the
russian on 5-5. On 6-5 Sharapova, Jennifer gave two break-point and the russian
won the first set. In second set there were 4 breaks in first 4 games; in
seventh game, Jennifer took a break and went up 4-3, but russian recovered again
(4-4). Another break in nineth game and Jennifer went to serve for second set
and won it 6-4. Final set was very short: Jennifer went up 5-0, with three
breaks and won the match (6-1).
Tomorrow, she will face another russian: Anastasia Myskina. Jenny leads 4-1 in previous matches, but
Myskina won the last meeting (2-6, 2-6), this year at Doha event.
04/05/'04 Berlin, 2nd roud: Capriati D Schruff - With
the victory over the Wild Card Julia Schruff, Jennifer reached the third round in Berlin TierI
event and she will face now the winner between Maria Sharapova (RUS) and Petra
Mandula (HUN). Second round match was easy for Jen: she played well and the
german couldn't be aggressive; but the next match will be more difficult for
her: infact, Sharapova and Mandula are strongest than Schruff. Jennifer has
never played before against the russian; she lost the only match against
Mandula, this year in Charleston. Jennifer should play on Thursday, the 6th.
01/05/'04 Berlin, preview - On
next week, Jennifer will be in Berlin, to play at
the Ladies German Open, where she got into semifinal on last year. She is
scheduled as 6 and she is in the bottom part of the draw. The others top seeded
players are: Kim Clijsters (1, top part), Amelie Mauresmo (2,
bottom part), Venus Williams (3, top part), Anastasia Myskina (4, bottom part),
Nadia Petrova (5, top part). Jennifer should play on Wednesday, the 5th against
the winner of the first round match between German Julia Schruff and a qualified player.
Jennifer has never played against the German.
The Berlin event will be broadcast on Eurosport:
Tuesday 4: live 12.00-15.00
Wednesday 5: live 12.00-16.30
Thursday 6: live 12.00-16.30
Friday 7: live 12.00-16.30
Saturday 8: live semifinal 14.00-15.45
Sunday 9: live final 13.30-15.00
15/04/'04 Charleston, 3rd round: Mandula D Capriati - Unfortunately,
Jennifer has lost today in third round, against Petra Mandula,
after a very long and hard match, in three sets. Jennifer started badly: she
went down 1-0 with a break. In second game, she recovered the break, but lost
again the serve on next game. But she was able to recover it in fourth game and
went up 3-2. But Mandula took another break and went up 5-3. Jennifer was able
to recover the break (saving 5 set-balls) and went up 6-5. Mandula reached the
tie-break and won it 7-3. In second set, Jennifer went up 1-0, with a break.
Mandula recovered (1-1), but lost again the serve in third game. Jennifer lost
her serve too and Mandula went up 3-2. On 3-3, Jennifer took another break and
went up 5-3. On nineth game, Jennifer (with important shots) took another break
and won the set for 6-3. In final set, Mandula took a break in fifth game and
went up 3-2 but Jennifer was able to recover immediately (3-3). On 5-5, in
eleventh game, Jennifer was very unlucky and lost the serve (due to the net
which stopped a Mandula shot) and she couldn't recover, so she lost the match.
[match statistics]
14/04/'04 Charleston, 2nd round: Capriati D Krasnoroutskaya - Jennifer
has won today in second round, agaist
Lina Krasnoroutskaya and has reached the third round. Jen started well, with a
break in third game and went up 3-1. At seventh game, she took another break and
went to serve for the first set on 5-2; but lost her first serve of the match
and Krasnoroutskaya went to serve to remaining in first set (5-3). Jennifer was
able to take her third break, in the longest game of the match and won the first
set for 6-3. In second set, she started well again: went up 3-0 with another
break and took another one in fourth game (4-0). Russian recovered one of the
two breaks in fifth game (4-1), but lost it immediately and Jen went to serve
for the match on 5-1 and closed it on 6-1. After the winner, she said: "I was
just pretty aggressive and pretty focused the whole match and really played
well. Even when she was running me around, I was able to get back her shots and
then took the opportunity, so overall I think it went really well. Not only just
drilling but played a lot of points and just to really get into that mind-set so
I wouldn't feel like I really haven't played or don't have the feel of playing points."
Tomorrow, she will face Yelena Dokic or Petra Mandula in third
round match. Jennifer leads 5-1 agaist Dokic (their last meeting was in 2002)
and she never playes before against Mandula.
[match statistics]
10/04/'04 Charleston, preview - Jennifer
will play at The Family Circle Cup of Charleston, a TierI outdoor event, which will start on
Monday, the 12th. She is scheduled as 7, she is in the top part of the draw, and
she has got a BYE at the first round. The others top seeded players are: Justine Henin-Hardenne (1, top part),
Serena Williams (2, bottom part), Amelie Mauresmo (3, bottom part), Venus Williams (4, top part), Lindsay
Davenport (5, top part), Elena Dementieva (6, bottom part). Jennifer should play
on Wednesday, the 14th against the winner of the first round match between
Russian Lina Krasnoroutskaya and German Anca Barna. Jennifer has played only one
time against Krasnoroutskaya, at Zurich event, in 2000 and won in three sets;
while, she has never faced the German.
The Charleston event will be broadcast on Eurosport:
Wednesday 15: live 17.45-19.15
Thursday 16: 12.30-13.30 and 23.45-00.45
Friday 17: semifinal 00.00-01.00
Saturday 18: final 00.45-02.00
28/03/'04 Miami, 3rd round: Daniilidou D Capriati - Unfortunately,
Jennifer was beated by Eleni Daniilidou in third round of Miami event. This is a very bad
news, also because tomorrow is Jennifer's birthday. In first set, Jennifer
started well and went 2-0; but Daniilidou recovered and won 6 consecutively
games and captured first set. The second set started badly for Jennifer: she
lost her first two serving games and went down 0-3. She recovered one of the two
breaks (2-3); on 3-4, Jennifer had two opportunities to recover the last break,
but failed both and went down 3-5. Daniilidou won 6-4 and reaches the fourth round.
The next event for Jennifer probably will be the Family Circle Cup of
Charleston, from the 12th of April.
[match statistics]
26/03/'04 Miami, 2nd round: Capriati D Koukalova - In
second round of Miami event, Jennifer defeated Klara Koukalova 6-0, 6-1. In last
days, she declared: "Last year was a struggle with injuries, I was
feeling fatigued. Now, I'm feeling good, maybe even better than before. I am
very aware of my body, what I can and can't do. I missed playing Australia, but
it was a smart decision for me."
Now, in third round match, Jen will face the Greek Eleni Daniilidou, which defeated her this year at Dubai tournament.
[match statistics]
23/03/'04 Miami, preview - Jennifer
is going to play the Nasdaq-100 Open in
Miami, which is going to start on tomorrow morning. The last year, she lost in
the final against Serena Williams, who will come back to play here, after many
months (her last match was the Wimbledon final of last year). Jennifer is
scheduled as 4 and she is in the top part of the draw. The others top seeded
players are: Serena Williams (1, top part), Venus Williams (2, bottom),
Anastasia Myskina (3, bottom), Elena Dementieva (5, bottom), Ai Sugiyama (6,
top). Jen has got a BYE for the first round, so she will play, probably on
Friday the 26th against the winner between Stevenson and Koukalova. Jennifer
lost 3 of the 5 previous matches against the american Stevenson (the last
meeting was in 2002, at Linz event), while she has never played before against Koukalova.
05/03/'04 Doha, semifinal: Myskina D Capriati - Unfortunately,
Jen has been defeated by Anastasia
Myskina in the semifinal match at Doha event. She lost 6-2, 6-2 and missed the
chance to face Svetlana Kuznetsova (which has defeated world number 1, Justine
Henin-Hardenne) in the final. So, we'll see Jennifer again the next week at the Indian Wells tournament.
04/03/'04 Doha, quarterfinal: Capriati D Farina-Elia - Jennifer
has just defeated Silvia Farina-Elia,
reaching the semifinal at Doha event. Like in previous match, Silvia Farina held
out only one set: 7-6, 6-1 the final score. Tomorrow, in semifinals, Jen is
going to face the russian Anastasia Myskina (n° 7 of the rankings); probably, it
will be much difficult than quartefinal one. The semifinal will be on central court.
03/03/'04 Doha, 2nd round: Capriati D Li - This
evening Jennifer has won her first match of the year,
against the chinese Ting Li at the 2nd round of Doha event. The Chinese held out
only one set: 7-6, 6-1 the final score. Tomorrow, in the quarterfinal, Jen is
going to face the Italian Silvia Farina-Elia. She is a very good player, so this
match will non easy, also because Jen has played only two times before. Jen has
already played three times against Farina-Elia and has always won. The
quarterfinal match is going to be tomorrow on central court at about 15.30
(second match of the day).
29/02/'04 Doha, preview - Jennifer
has decided to play also the Qatar Total
FinaElf Open in Doha, a TierII event. Jennifer is scheduled as 2 and she is
in the bottom part of the draw. The others top seeded players are:
Henin-Hardenne (1, top part), Myskina (3, bottom), Sugiyama (4, top). Jen has
got a BYE for the first round, so she is going to play on Wednesday the 3rd
agaist Belgian Els Callens or a qualified player.
25/02/'04 Dubai, 2nd round: Daniilidou D Capriati - Today
Jen has played in Dubai her first match of the
season: she lost in two sets (6-4, 7-6 the final score) against Daniilidou. In
this match, Jen showed that she isn't at top yet and, probably, she has paid her
back pain injury, that has afflicted her for many months; in fact, at the end of
the match, she has declared: "I was a little rusty, movementwise, I was
fairly fatigued at the end. A third set would have been too much for me."
Now, she has about two weeks to get ready for the Indian Wells event, which is
going to start on the 8th of March.
22/02/'04 Dubai, preview - This
week, Jennifer is going to play her first 2004
event: the Duty Free Women's Open in Dubai (UAE). She entered there by a
wild card and she is seed as 3, in bottom part of the draw. The others top
seeded players are: Henin-Hardenne (1, top part), V. Williams (2, bottom) and
Myskina (4, top). Jennifer has got a BYE for first round; so she will probably
play on Wednesday, against the winner of the match between Tina Pisnik (SLO) and
Eleni Daniilidou (GRE). Jennifer has already faced both and won always: against
Daniilidou, she played three times (the last one, in 2002 at Wimbledon) and
against Pisnik played only one time before (in 2001 at Scottsdale tournament).
The Dubai event will be broadcast on Eurosport.
Wednesday 25: live 11.00-14.00 and 16.00-19.00
Thursday 26: live 11.00-14.00 and 17.00-19.00
Friday 27: semifinal 23.45-00.45
Saturday 28: final 16.45-18.00
02/02/'04 Jennifer retired also from Tokyo - Jennifer
was forced again to withdraw from Toray Pan
Pacific Open, due to the back pain. This is the 3rd time in one month that she
can't play. At the moment, I don't know when she will come back, because she
isn't listed in the next tournaments. You will find more news soon.
16/01/'04 Jen will not play Melbourne - Unfortunately,
due to the back pain, that afflicts
Jennifer from some weeks, she was forced to withdraw from the Australian Open,
which will start on Monday the 19th. After the retires of Serena Williams,
Monica Seles, Mary Pierce and, probably, Kim Clijsters, this Slam loses another
protagonist, maybe, the most love from people.
So, her first 2004 tournament will be the Tokyo Toray Pan Pacific Open, a Tier I indoor
event, which will start on February, the 2nd.
02/01/'04 Jenny withdraws from Hong Kong - Unfortunately,
Jennifer announced she would not be playing in Hong Kong because of back pains.
So, we will see her probably only at the Australian Open, from the 19 of January.
31/12/'03 Hong Kong exibition event, preview - On
the 8th of January will start in Hong Kong the
Watsons Water Challenge; the players which will meet there, are: Roger Federer,
Juan Carlos Ferrero, Max Mirnyi, Martin Verkerk, Venus Williams, Jennifer
Capriati, Elena Dementieva and Maria Sharapova.
Jennifer is going to play on first day: she will start (at 20.00 local time) with the mixed-doubles
(with Federer), against Ferrero-Sharapova; after that, in the same day, she will play her semifinal
single match, aginst Elena Dementieva. Single final will be on Sunday the 10th at 14.30, while the 3°/4°
place final will be the same day at 10.00 o'clock. Mixed-double final will be at 17.30.
22/12/'03 2004 season will start soon - Jennifer
will be playing the Hong Kong exhibition at the start of January, she is set to face
Elena Dementieva in her first match on Friday January 9th, the winner will face Maria Sharapova or
Venus Williams. And in mixed doubles, Jennifer will play with Roger Federer as they face Juan
Carlos Ferrero and Maria Sharapova.
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