Tamarine Tanasugarn.

[Mossfinn]

Tamarine

Tanasugarn beats 2nd seed Jankovich.

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Moss

[onethailand]

It is good to see Tammy making a comeback... she was basically done for and suddenly hits a huge purple patch, winning a warm up tourney, then going to Wimbledon and knocking off the 14th and then the 2nd seeds... go Tammy!

Still remember when she and Paradorn nearly stole the Hopman Cup in 2000 from South Africa...

[sbk]

Go Tammie! That is great. She is the oldest player left in the women's field at 31 years old. And the only Thai player to have made it into a Grand Slam quarter-final.

However, she faces Venus Williams in the quarters. Tough opponent.

[onethailand]

Well done on making it to the semi-finals, Tammy - and for putting up a good fight against Venus Williams. You should be proud of your performance.

[onethailand]

Apologies... quarter-finals

[sbk]

Pity, she lost but it sounds like she went down fighting:

Nonetheless, until further notice, Venus Williams remains the defending champion here. On Tuesday, despite sometimes fierce resistance from counterpunching Thai veteran Tamarine Tanasugarn, Venus was able to finish off a 6-4, 6-3 victory .

NY Times

Venus sees off game Thai's challenge to reach familiar territory

Linda Pearce and agencies

July 2, 2008

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VENUS Williams reached her seventh Wimbledon semi-final in nine years on Tuesday, but not with quite the ease that had been expected.

Thai veteran Tamarine Tanasugarn stretched the defending champion for 95 minutes, and the 6-4, 6-3 scoreline was no measure of the closeness of the match.

Tanasugarn appears not to boast any comparable weapons, and certainly lacks experience in the latter stages of grand slams. Williams is seeded only seventh, but is the title favourite, understandably, as she already has won four crowns here.

Yet Tanasugarn held her own for large stretches of the biggest match of her career, after needing to qualify at the Australian Open just six months ago.

At 31, Tanasugarn was the oldest of the eight women's quarter-finalists, and her "wow, wow, wow" reaction to upsetting second seed Jelena Jankovic captured her elation at finally reaching the last eight at a major after eight previous attempts had ended in the round-of-16.

Williams had won all six previous matches between the pair without dropping a set, but Tanasugarn won the lead-up tournament at 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, and was neither overwhelmed by the occasion nor overpowered by Williams, who suffered from a tight hamstring that she was nevertheless confident would not restrict her semi-final against either Elena Dementieva or Nadia Petrova.

Source: Sydney Morning Herald

[dougieboy]

Tamarine

Tanasugarn beats 2nd seed Jankovich.

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Moss

Fantastic wasn't it? me and the missus watched all we could

[dougieboy]

Apologies... quarter-finals

And how dissapointing for Noppawan Lertcheewakarn drowned out by the sound of Laura Robsons media circus, hardly a mention for her major acheivment, c'mon Noppawan!!!!