All the top seeds in the women’s draw should romp home in the opening round of the US Open today unless they too have found the extraordinary volume of competitive tennis due to the Bejing Olympics has sapped some of their energy, verve and fervour!

Ivanovic should go through without too much Ado!
French Open champion and top seed for the tournament, Ana Ivanovic starts her campaign against relative no-name, Vera Dushevina, who is unseeded for the event and currently ranked 57th on the WTA rankings. The young Russian is yet to claim a singles title on the tour and her best results at the US Open have been third round departures in 2004 and 2007. The two have met on court five times but the only time Dushevina has managed to silence the fiery Serb was way back in 2005 in Dubai, since then it has been the Ivanovic Show!

Williams’ Sisters could be too Powerful
Fourth seed, and double US Open champion, Serena Williams should be able to crush her opponent, Kateryna Bondarenko, without too much fuss. The young woman from the Ukraine is unseeded in New York and is currently ranked 46th. Sister, Venus, who confounded her critics by claiming Wimbledon this year and is seeded 7th, should have no problem with Australia’s Samantha Stosur.

Leading UK bookmaker, William Hill, is offering the following odds on the first round of the US Open - Ivanovic 1/9 versus Dushevina 5/1; Serena 1/20 versus Bondarenko 8/1; Venus 1/16 versus Stosur 7/1.

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With the surprise closure of the Henin era at the beginning of the season and the news Russian ‘Wondergirl’, Maria Sharapova, will not be contesting the final grand slam of the year in New York due to a recurring shoulder injury, pundits will have to gaze hard into the crystal ball to find a hint of who may claim the crown at Flushing Meadows!

Three Different Grand Slam Winners Already!
This year’s grand slam results have been a real mixed bag of tricks - for the first time in a quite a while there is no one dominant player ruthlessly claiming all the WTA and grand slam titles with gay abandon. Already, this year, we have seen three different grand slam champions - Sharapova in Melbourne, Ivanovic in Paris and veteran, Venus, in London.

The defending champion of the US Open, Justine Henin, has quit the professional game and none of the top ranked ladies have really put their hands up and grabbed the top spot by the jugular.

Ana Hanging on to Top Spot by Default
Serbia’s Ana Ivanovic is currently at the top of the ranking table but mainly by default - since her brilliance in the French, Ana has failed to impress. She crashed out of Wimbledon and the Canada Masters in the third round and has not played since, citing a thumb injury. She was propelled back to the top spot mainly because her nearest rival and the current number two and second seed for the US Open, Jelena Jankovic, has had a number of poor results!

International bookmaker, PartyBets, is offering the following odds on the outright winner of the final slam of the year - Ana Ivanovic 4/1; Jelena Jankovic 9/1; Serena Williams 11/4 and Venus Williams 16/5!
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The grass courts of the All England Club will witness the beginnings of a ‘majors’ onslaught this week by the top women in international tennis - the incumbent number 1 and French Open champion, Ana Ivanovic and her Russian counterpart, Maria Sharapova, currently ranked number 2 in the world.

Neither woman has had the opportunity of testing her grass skills out prior to the start of the Wimbledon Championship today, as both opted to recover fully from slight injuries picked up during their campaign for the French Open title in Paris.

It is not only the race for the most celebrated title in world tennis that is going to be fascinating watching, but it will be the ‘gloves-off’ battle for the number 1 position as well that will keep the pundits firmly in their seats. There are only 482 points separating the two women and Sharapova, for one, has made no bones of the fact that she wants to be back on top as soon as possible.

Although Ivanovic’s self confidence must be soaring right now, Sharapova does have the added advantage of having clinched the title in 2004 and has an impressive 23/4 career record at Wimbledon. Ivanovic, on the other hand, has never won a title on grass and she has lost three of the five matches contested against the Russian number 2.

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