Day 4 - Thursday 22nd Jan

Was a good day for tennis watching. Not too hot, abit of a breeze and some cloud cover. The first game on Hisense Arena (formally Vodafone Arena) was Iveta Benesova against Elena Dementieva where Elena took it out.

Next up was Gisela Dulko who was up against the numer 2 seed Serena Williams. This game went the full three sets with Serena taking it out in the end.

Then came Gael Monfils from France up against the Austrian Stefan Koubek with the Frenchman winning that encounter.

Then came the last match of the day and quite possibly on of the better matches that I've seen so far. It was between last year's Australian Open finalist Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (France) and Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia). The was pretty much anybody's match as it went to four sets. The first three sets were tie-breakers with Ivan winning the first set and Jo-Wilfried winning the next three sets.

Another long day at the tennis.