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Roddick searching for answers after Open upset
(China Daily)
Updated: 2006-01-23 09:00
With Roddick's demise she is now the only American left in the draw, but
ensured the Stars and Stripes kept fluttering with an easy win over 2004 US Open
champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.
She said though that a left ankle injury picked up in the third round was
hampering her, and she needed treatment for it in the second set.
"You know, train really hard, try to get everything that I normally injure
better, and then I trip - something happens like that on the court," she said of
the injury after beating the Russian 14th seed 6-2, 6-4.
"It's a little frustrating ... it's just one of those things where you shake
your head about it in disbelief."
Her match was played with the roof closed on Rod Laver Arena with
temperatures hitting 43 Celsius (109 Fahrenheit), forcing play on outside courts
to be suspended for the third straight day.
Fourth seed Sharapova also pushed on, dispatching Serena Williams' conqueror
Daniela Hantuchova of the Slovak Republic in a workman-like 6-4, 6-4.
The Russian, who almost skipped the tournament because of a rib injury, said
she felt like she was approaching peak form.
"Little by little I am," she said. "It was good today, I kept my composure
when I was down at the beginning of both of the sets.
"I just kept calm and tried to break her and get the momentum back and it
went my way in the end."
A confident Petrova, seeded six, continued her low-key assault on the title
in an all-Russian affair against Elena Vesnina, winning 6-3, 6-1 to set up a
quarter-final against Sharapova.
(China Daily 01/23/2006 page6)
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