Third Quarter: Azarenka-Radwanska No.8 seed Azarenka is coming in with a question mark floating abover her head, the two-time semi-finalist here having been out since March with an ankle injury. She lost her first comeback match in Eastbourne earlier this week, and will have to deal with the always-unpredictable Mirjana Lucic-Baroni to start, a 1999 semi-finalist at Wimbledon who is now 32. Should Azarenka make her way through her first two matches, she could face Roland Garros upstart Garbine Muguruza, the Spaniard who shocked Serena Williams en route to a quarter-final appearance in Paris, in the third round. Lucie Safarova and Dominika Cibulkova loom as fourth-round opponents, seeded Nos. 23 and 10, respectively. It could be a last-eight battle for Azarenka and Radwanska, the 2012 finalist here, who have had a topsy-turvy rivalry and off-court friendship over the years. The Belarusian leads that head-to-head 12-4, though the crafty Radwanska ran away with their last meeting, which happened earlier this year at the Australian Open. They’ve met twice on grass, splitting the two matches in 2006 (Wimbledon) and 2010 (Eastbourne). #imi
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:18:03 +0000
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