well it looks like it will be serena VS maria in the gold medal match. maria though better be prepared to love silver because unfortunately for her she hasn't beaten serena in almost 8 years....a few of those at serena's worst form.....i can't imagine her doing anything spectacular against the form she has at the moment.
the most intriguing will probably be the bronze match....kirilenko against likely azarenka. intriguing in the sense that they haven't faced one another in two years and as we all can tell,both women since that year are very different players....for the better,of course. kirilenko is a much stronger competitor than she was then,so i say it's up in the air. could be a total surprise.
this year's olympics,to sort of touch on the event overall for the women,generally has been pretty predictable compared with years past,apart the early loss from radwanska and kvitova going down to kirilenko yesterday. i think 2008 was a bit more surprising in that we didn't expect dementieva to bring her absolute best that year,especially with serena,venus,kuznetsova and an in-form jankovic in tow....never mind the russian contingent sweeping the singles competition altogether. athens was a bit more in line with the standings given that serena and kim weren't involved....most surprising that time was myskina losing out on bronze to molik,imo.
