Happy Birthday Tati!
25th January 2008
Today our Tati is not a teen-ager anymore since she's turning 20!Happy birthday, Tati!
Tati won't play Fed Cup
23rd January 2008
Tati has not been selected by Georges Goven for Fed Cup first round match against China.
Tati has a problem with her back that it seems more serious than what everyone thought according to this decision.
I guess we'll have to wait again at least until Friday :-(
Tati is in doubt for the Fed Cup 1st round
17th January 2008
Well apparently Tati is injuried again, I still don't know how bady this is but it's connected with her back;
Tati will fly back to France to make more exams and then we will know if she will skip the
Fed Cup or not. Hope everything will be ok, be strong Tati!
Tati is out of the Australian Open
16th January 2008
Tati lost to Aravane Rezai 3-6 6-3 3-6 and even this year is an early exit at the Australian Open;
I don't know what comes between Tati and this Slam but she don't seem able to play well for a couple of
rounds in a row. I'm very disappointed, I was hoping for something more :-( Now her next committment
will be FedCup 1st round on January 28th, hope Tati will recover from this loss very soon!
Thanks to Nouf who's currently uploading the match we can see this night encounter against Rezai
so the ones who would like to watch can download it from these links below ;-)
Golovin vs Rezai - 2R Aus Open 2008 - Set 1
Golovin vs Rezai - 2R Aus Open 2008 - Set 2
Golovin vs Rezai - 2R Aus Open 2008 - Set 3
Tati is gonna play tomorrow
15th January 2008
Tati is gonna play tomorrow her 2nd round match against Aravane Rezai; their encounter is scheduled
to be the fourth one on Court 3 with play starting at 11:00 am local time, good luck Tati!
Tati is in the 2nd Round!
14th January 2008
Tati has beaten Stephanie Cohen-Aloro 6-1 4-6 6-3 to reach 2nd round at the Australian Open
where she will play Aravane Rezai. Unfortunately Eurosport didn't show the match and statistics are
no more available on the site so we cannot tell how Tati played; she must have lose some concentration
to lose the 2nd set I think. Tati will definitely need to play more focused in the next round
cause Rezai is such a solid and powerful player!Tati has never played with her before so she really need to
stay concentrated; the match will probably be on Wednesday, good luck and congratulations Tati!
Tati's gonna play on Monday
12nd January 2008
Tati's gonna play on Monday the 2nd match on Court 18, play starts at 11:00 local time...
good luck Tati!
Australian Open Draws Announced
11st January 2008
Well Australian Open draw has just been announced and I have to say that it's a pretty tough one!
Tati is in the top part of draw (the one with Justine Henin and Maria Sharapova) and in the first
round she will have to face Stephanie Cohen-Aloro from France. Tati has nevery played against her
before but I think it should be a pretty easy first round; then if she will pass this first test she will find
Rezai or Bondarenko in the 2nd round, Bammer in the third and Justine Henin in the quarters:
the 2nd round will already be difficult since these are such solid players!I guess we'll have to take round
by round and not make predictions...good luck Tati!
Click here to watch the entire draw.
Australian Open Seeds Announced
10th January 2008
Australian Open seeds has just been announced and Tati is the number 13rd. Women top seed
is Justine Henin followed by Svetlana Kuznetsova and Jelena Jankovic. Tomorrow will be announced
draws, hope Tati will be lucky!
Tati is out of Medibank International
8th January 2008
Tati lost to Jelena Jankovic 6-1 2-6 6-3 and so she's out of Medibank International :-( Watching
the statistics it must have been a pretty close match, maybe Jelena did better on her serve: she made
five aces and Tati 0 and she had a better 1st and 2nd serve percentage. Too bad that Tati lost
but seeing the thing in a positive way she has more time to rest and get ready for the Australian Open!
The draw of the Australian Open will be available on Friday, hope it will be good!
Tati's gonna play tomorrow
7th January 2008
Tati's gonna play tomorrow her 2nd round match in Sydney against Jelena Jankovic; their
encounter is scheduled to be the fifth one on Centre Court (play starts at 11:00 am), good
luck Tati!
Tati won the 1st real match of the year
7th January 2008
The match between Tati and Nathalie was cancelled and Nathalie was replaced by Obziler. Tati
won the match easily 6-2 6-3. Now the things start to get complicated since in the 2nd round
Tati will have to play Jelena Jankovic. Tati has played her three times before and the tie is set to
2-1 for Jelena; last time they met it was last year in Toronto and Jankovic won 5-7 6-3 6-2 but
every match they played it was really close. I think that tomorrow Tati has a lot of chances to reach
the quarters since Jelena is coming from an injury (Tati has to play against her at the Hopman Cup
but Jelena retired after only one game) and maybe she's not able to run all over the court like she normally
does ;-) ...good luck Tati!
Order of Play
6th January 2008
So Tati's gonna play her first round match tomorrow against Nathalie Dechy
on court 3 after two ATP matches (play starts at 11:00 am local time). Tati has played
against Nathalie only once before back in 2005 at the US Open and she lost 7-5 2-6 6-2. Today
I think it will be a different story cause Tati has improved a lot and Nathalie is playing worst;
in any case it's gonna be a tough match since the two are friends and sometimes they also have
played doubles together :-) good luck Tati!
Site Update
6th January 2008
While I was waiting for new Tati's matches to upload, I've added to the site two match
from the latest Hong Kong Exhibition. One is Sharapova-Wozniacki and you can download it
here and the other one is Ana Ivanovic/Shuai Peng vs Elena Dementieva/Michelle Larcher de Brito and you
can download it
here...hope you enjoy them!
Sydney draw released
5th January 2008
Sydney draw has just been released and in the first round Tati will have to play a qualifier;
Tati is unseeded and she's in the bottom part of the draw: the first seed she can meet is Jelena
Jankovic in the second round. It's a pretty difficult and unlucky draw but do your best Tati!
To see the entire draw, simply click
here.
France is out of the Hopman Cup
3rd January 2008
Even if today France has beaten Chinese Taipei 3-0, Serbia won against Argentina and so the final
will be Serbia-USA. I'm very happy about Tati's performance at this year Hopman Cup, she won basically
every match she played (too bad for the Jankovic match) ;-)
Now Tati's next tournament will be Sydney starting next monday, so stay tuned for draw and order of play!
In the meantime you can watch the latest Hopman Cup pictures by clicking
here.
France lost to Serbia
2nd January 2008
France lost to Serbia and so they probably won't go to the final :-( Tati won her match since
Jelena retired when Tati was leading 1-0, 30-0 then Arnaud lost his match to Novak and in the doubles match
Tati and Arnaud lost 5-7 6-4 7-6(10/4). I read that Arnaud didn't play that well while Tati played pretty good.
Now the last encounter will be tomorrow against Chinese Taipei, here's the full order of play:
France [4] vs Chinese Taipei [8]
Play starts at 6:00 pm (local time)
Tatiana Golovin v Su-Wei Hsieh
Arnaud Clement v Yen-Hsun Lu
Golovin/Clement v Wei Hsieh/Hsun Lu
Happy new year!
1st January 2008
...so happy new year everyone!This 2008 starts fine since Nouf has uploaded the doubles match
against Chela and Dulko :-) Tati has also a new haircut and last night she attended the
New Year's Eve Ball in Perth: you can watch some pictures
here
and
here.
Next match will be tonight (GMT time) against Serbia, here the full order of play and the links
in order to download the previous match :-)
Golovin/Clement vs Dulko/Chela - Hopman Cup 2008 - Part 1 of 6
Golovin/Clement vs Dulko/Chela - Hopman Cup 2008 - Part 2 of 6
Golovin/Clement vs Dulko/Chela - Hopman Cup 2008 - Part 3 of 6
Golovin/Clement vs Dulko/Chela - Hopman Cup 2008 - Part 4 of 6
Golovin/Clement vs Dulko/Chela - Hopman Cup 2008 - Part 5 of 6
Golovin/Clement vs Dulko/Chela - Hopman Cup 2008 - Part 6 of 6
...and here's the order of play:
Serbia [1] vs France [4]
Play starts at 10:30 am local time
Jelena Jankovic v Tatiana Golovin
Novak Djokovic v Arnaud Clement
Jankovic/Djokovic v Golovin/Clement