女單排名82選手晉級準決賽，盧彥勳排名也是82，希望能與 Pironkova 相呼應，一樣晉級。
昨天 "Manic Monday" 瘋狂星期一，男女單打前16強選手一齊出賽，產生前八前選手。有許多精彩的比賽，但最令人意外的是：盧彥勳擊敗美國名將羅迪克 (Andy RODDICK)，今天登場的是女單的八強賽 (Quarter-final)，產生四位準決賽的選手(如下表所示)。與盧彥勳同樣世界排名82的保加利亞女子選手琵隆柯娃 (Tsvetana Pironkova) 及敗大會第二種子美國名將大威廉斯 (Venus Williams)。而明天 13:00 (TW time: 20:00, Jun 30, 2010) 要在出戰大會第三種子賽爾維亞的喬柯維奇 (Novak Djokovic)，希望他能順利過關。
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Venus honest about failings after defeat
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Tsvetana Pironkova plays a powerful forehander during her surprise quarter-final upset of Venus Williams.
Venus Williams stretches to power a forehand in her quarter-final match with Tsvetana Pironkova.
Having suffered her worst setback at Wimbledon since losing in the third round of the 2006 Championships, Venus Williams was brutally honest about the reason for her straight-sets loss to Tsvetana Pironkova. It was, she said, because she played so poorly.
"I just didn't get enough balls in today," she admitted. "I had a lot of opportunities and a lot of short balls but I just seemed to hit each one out. Obviously she played well but I don't think I did anything right today."
Venus committed a horrendous 29 unforced errors and perpetrated five double-faults, statistics which she felt were a big help to Pironkova. "She played solid but if I hadn't contributed to her effort I'm not sure it would have gone so well. I definitely made too many contributions to her. I missed all the shots today; forehand, volley, backhand. If there was a shot to miss, I missed it."
Since Wimbledon is the focus of her playing year after eight appearances in the final since the Millennium she was understandably disappointed. "Not to be able to bring my best tennis and to make that many errors is disappointing. I wasn't overpowered or hit off the court or anything, I just kind of let myself exit. Obviously I'm not pleased but I have to move on. What else can I do? Unless I have a time machine, which I don't.
"I expect a lot from myself, especially at this tournament. When I missed a few shots I was maybe a little too hard on myself. I got too caught up in the mistakes I was making instead of just letting it go and move on."
Venus refuted any suggestions that, at the age of 30, it might be time for her consider whether to give up the sport. "Why wouldn't I want to pursue [tennis]" she asked. "I'm pretty good at it most days.
refute /rɪ'fjut/ verb 1. to prove that something is wrong 駁斥；批駁VNformal 2. to say that something is not true or fair deny 反駁；否認VNformal
"I'll give it up when I'm just terrible. It would take more than just a few bad days in a year to make me quit tennis. So that's not even in the equation."
Tsvetana Pironkova salutes the crowd after her unexpected quarter-final knockout of Venus Williams.http://www.wimbledon.org/en_GB/news/articles/2010-06-29/201006291277829182545.html
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