“If I would know the answer, I guess I would do different things,” said a despondent Safina after consuming the double bagel. “I don’t know. I didn’t know how to win a point. Basically came to this thing. I didn’t know. I was sitting in the changeover and I was like, ‘Okay, at least how can I get a chance to hurt her?’ There was nothing that I could hurt her. Embarrassing…It’s really to scratch the head and to think what the hell I’m doing. It’s not that I don’t want. I want. There’s no doubt about. I want to come back and I want to play better. But now to find answers how I can come back…First to find the reason what’s going on, what are the mistakes, and then to work on them. Not to go blindly on the court and killing your ass for like five hours. Sometimes it makes no sense.”

After a poor start to 2010, Ana Ivanovic has refound her game and her outfits after today’s Bali win.

Former No. 1 Ana Ivanovic ended the year on a high note, three weeks ago winning her first title of the year in Linz, and Sunday winning the ‘Loser Bowl,’ otherwise known as the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali, featuring the top eight players (and random wildcards) who did not make the year-end WTA Championships field.

Notes: (1) Dementieva opens against Peng, and (3) Wickmayer against the Osaka finalist Schnyder; wildcards went to Dementieva, Russian Yulia Putintseva, Luxembourg’s Mandy Minella, and France’s Virginie Razzano; in last year’s final Francesca Schiavone defeated Olga Govortsova.

Earlier in the week the Serb was forced to rush off the court during a match, receiving a game penalty for a gastric bathroom explosion she blamed on eating yogurt before the match.

A big day in men’s tennis is on tap for Friday.

Juan Martin Del Potro is still winless in his comeback. Rafael Nadal leads five of the top 6 in action today.

Great matchups litter the Sunday US Open schedule.

“I was checked by the medical team before I went on court and they were courtside for monitoring,” Azarenka said. “I felt worse as the match went on, having a headache and feeling dizzy.”

Sharapova under stress in the third set lost her trademark “Byouooooooooo! Byouooooooooo!” shrieks when hitting the ball, looking for Clijsters to put her out of her misery, and graciously shaking hands and offering congratulations at the net.