Anna vs Paszek
September 2, 2007
Anna faces world No.43 Tamira Paszek in the fourth round of the UStoday.
The match is scheduled as the first match of the night session Arture Ashe Stadion, and will begin at 7pm local time.
Anna has never played against 16-year old Austrian, who beat No. 11 seed Patty Schnyder 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 in their third round match.
The winner of the match meets the winner of the Agnieszka Radwanska-Shahar Peer tie in the quarter-finals.
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Here is what Matt Cronin thinks about the match:
When the 20-year-old Chakvetadze can be called the veteran in match, you know that the tour is going to the greenhorns. The super-talented Austrian Paszek is only 16 years old, and already owns the guts and know-how to be able to best seeds at the Slams, having taken down Patty Schnyder in a third-set tiebreaker in the previous round. She has a rock solid build and blinding groundstrokes and never seems to get nervous. Lock her into the top 10 some time during the next two years.
But with Maria Sharapova gone out of the bottom half of the draw Chakvetadze is now the favorite to reach her first Slam final, because she's the smartest, quickest, most deceptively lethal player on tour. The Cincy and Stanford champ a wisp of a woman, but counterpunches with direction and force and has few weaknesses save for an occasional emotional walkabout. She rarely hits the ball the same way and Paszek will be confused about what her strategy should be. The Russian will yank the Austrian teen around in a straight set win.