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Dokic ambushes Clijsters to reach Swisscom Challenge final
Jelena Dokic caused the biggest shock of the 2003 Swisscom Challenge, beating
the world No 1 Kim Clijsters in a rapid but engrossing semi-final. The 20-year-
old Serb, who until this week had not won three consecutive matches since March,
recovered from a nightmare 17-minute first set to beat Clijsters 1-6 6-3 6-4,
and thereby reach her second Zurich final. She was runner-up to Lindsay
Davenport two years ago.
"Hopefully this is where I start again," a delighted Dokic said, "I definitely
needed a tournament like this, and especially a win like this."
The 25th-ranked Dokic began to turn the match around early in the second set.
She broke to lead 4-2, and when Clijsters failed to convert three break-back
points in the next game, Dokic grew visibly in confidence. She only broke
Clijsters twice in the whole match, but she was serving well enough that once
she took the Belgian?s serve in the fifth game of the final set, she looked
good enough to win, and sealed her victory in an hour and 19 minutes.
Dokic's victory scuppered what looked a certainty: a seventh all-Belgian final
of the year. But to win the title she will have to beat the other Belgian,
Justine Henin-Hardenne, who will be playing for the world No 1 ranking, even
though she says this isn't a priority for her this week. The world No 2, who
has talked of suffering from end-of-year tiredness all week, played the first
set of her semi-final against Nadia Petrova with a protective tendon strapping
over her right knee, the result of a mild inflammation, but it didn't hamper
her enough for the 22-year-old Russian to take advantage.
In a slightly disappointing match, Petrova certainly had her chances. She came
back from 0-2 in the first set to have points for 3-2, but made too many errors
. She narrowed the Belgian's lead from 5-2 to 5-4, but again the mistakes came
back to give Henin-Hardenne the first set. Petrova led 2-0 in the second, only
to see her opponent bounce back, and the break of serve for 5-4 in the second
proved decisive, Henin-Hardenne winning in 81 minutes.
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也恭喜Dokic:) 希望她能藉此重頭開始，雖然沒有能拿下冠軍，但是能打敗前No.1
Kim，也是一大鼓勵，她仍然有本錢在現今WTA來競爭，加油！^^
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