Duan set for Venus duel
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CHINA’S Duan Yingying yesterday said she’d never seen Venus Williams play and will be relying heavily on her coach’s guidance ahead of their third-round clash at the Australian Open.
Despite the seven-time grand slam winner being one of the game’s most prominent players over the past two decades, Duan, 27, insisted she knew next to nothing about the American great. “I don’t know anything about Venus’s play. I’ve never seen her play,” said Duan, who beat another American Varvara Lepchenko 6-1, 3-6, 10-8 in the second round in Melbourne.
“I don’t really watch that much tennis so I think my coach will do the job to try to tell me what to do on the court. So I’ll take one day off tomorrow and let the coach do the job.”
It doesn’t augur well for Duan, the Chinese No. 5 who is the last player from her country standing after two days of carnage for her teammates.
Yesterday Zhang Shuai, who turned heads with her run to last year’s quarterfinals, went out to American Alison Riske, and Canadian Eugenie Bouchard dispatched former US Open semifinalist Peng Shuai.
Han Xinyun, Wang Qiang, Zheng Saisai and Zhu Lin all fell in the first round on Tuesday.
More positively for Tianjin-based Duan, Williams also said she knows nothing about her opponent — and had no plans to find out ahead of their match tomorrow. “I don’t know anything about her. I have never seen her play. Zero, like zero,” said Williams, 36. “So I’m going to have to see how it goes.”
Duan added that she did have some idea of how Williams plays. But she said she didn’t intend to change her preparations before facing the former world No. 1. “I don’t think I will change anything because you have to bring your own game. I’ll just focus on my own game.”
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