So it makes me feel really good especially going into Roland Garros
Posted in General on 19. Oct, 2010
“So it makes me feel really good, especially going into Roland Garros.”It was Williams third time playing here, having advanced only to the quarterfinals in her two previous attempts.”Rome is in my heart,” she said in Italian to a round of applause from the crowd, before accepting the winner’s check for $182,000.Williams overcame a twisted ankle suffered in the first set, and overpowered her opponent the rest of the way “Serena was too strong today,” Henin said. “She was really aggressive and she didn’t make a lot of mistakes. Today she was simply better than me.”Both players held serve throughout the first set. After missing out on three set points on Henin’s serve at 5–4, Williams finally closed out the 1 hour, 10 minute set in the tiebreaker on her sixth set point.The match began on time after a rainy start to the day. Both players could have used a delay to gain some more rest for their sore bodies.Henin wore a bandage around her left thigh and the fourth–seeded Williams had her right thigh and both of her ankles wrapped up.Henin, playing this event for the first time, defeated fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters in straight sets in Saturday’s first semifinal, while Williams needed more than two hours to get past second–seeded Jennifer Capriati, winning the third set 7–5.”I’m too young to be tired,” Williams said of the quick turnaround after such a tough match. “The adrenaline of being in the final again and being so close last week, it didn’t bother me at all.”Her ankle twist was “identical” to the injury that made her miss the Australian Open, Williams said “It was a good twist. It’s going to be really sore tomorrow.”Williams won titles earlier this year in Scottsdale, Arizona and Miami.
Her latest victory gave her a career–high ranking of No. 3.She now trails only her sister, Venus Williams, and Capriati at the top of the rankings Capriati gained back the No. 1 spot this week when Venus Williams withdrew with a wrist injury and she reached the semifinals.The fifth–seeded Henin had not lost a set in her four previous matches here. She moved up to No 5 in the rankings to be released next week and received the runner–up check for $92,000.Virginia Ruano Pascual and Paola Suarez won the doubles event, beating Conchita Martinez and Patricia Tarabini 6–3, 6–4.. A new treatment for breast cancer has proved to be more effective and safer than the commonly used drug tamoxifen, doctors will announce today. London
In Hertford, Hereford or Hampshire – as Professor Higgins has it – hurricanes hardly happen.
But a minor one hit Hampstead and Highgate this week in the form of the twin suburbs’ intriguing and adventurous music festival.Barry Millington’s programming is fresh and original and, frankly, a gift for BBC audiences. So where was Radio 3 for some of the funkier events on offer: a frolicsome satirical op? bouffe premiere, London, Here I Come!; the Andrusier Ensemble premiering young Hans Rott, much admired by Mahler; or Moonlight Revels, a Shakespearean tryst for trumpet, saxophone and orchestra that would be a surefire hit at the Last Night of the Proms?Take the first, a rarely heard gem by Jean Fran?x, brilliantly updated and Londonised by John Sidgwick, delivered with aplomb and polished verve by Huw Rhys-Evans (as the Paris Jedermann, updated to Dave, a Harry Enfield Essex lad), Thomas Guthrie, a terrific baritone (as the toff who treats Dave as his own Eliza Doolittle) and the superb Gillian Keith, backed by the punchy Vasari Singers under Jeremy Backhouse. It too is a causerie, a stand-up row and reconciliation between Oberon and Titania. Dove’s music mimics Bartok and apes Adams, and at times the sax sounds more like Puck or Bottom At the Sunrise, fuzzy strings just outweighed the soloists.
But what a joyous showpiece! The Calland sisters, Deborah (trumpet) and Beverley (saxophone), are stunning performers The piece lifts off like a James MacMillan potboiler. You won’t get much better TV viewing than two feisty women battling it out on male-aura instruments. Some smart advertising exec should snap it up quickly.Continues to 25 May (020-8423 4121; ). The Electric Soft Parade are a preposterously young band from Brighton, led by two brothers, the singer Alex White, 19, and the drummer Tom White, 17. In short, they’ve done their homework – their ability to combine the sounds of the past four decades is impressive; so is their ear for a melody.Live, however, they just don’t cut it. That is largely down to Alex, a sad-eyed individual who looks as if he’d rather have his toenails pulled out than play in front of a crowd It’s hard to tell if he’s shy or just moody. “This is our single,” he says blankly before “There’s a Silence”.