Wimbledon - Getting high on grass

Tamarine TanasugarnThe Thai veteran may probably be playing at Wimbledon for the last time this year. The 36 year old has been to the second week of a Slam nine times in her career, seven of those coming at Wimbledon. Tanasugarn reached the last 16 for six of seven years between 1998 and 2004 and then reached her only Slam quarter-final here in 2008. Since then, Tanasugarn has found that her experience is not enough to compete with the younger girls, winning just one round in the last four years. Tanasugarn has been limited to playing only three events till May this year, but she says she is looking forward to playing on grass. “”I will play singles only at big tournaments and on my favourite surfaces. Luckily, I don’t have a lot of points to defend this year, and I hope I can reach the later stages of the two events on grass I will enter. The deeper the better.”

It’s a pity Tanasugran will likely not be around in 2015 when Wimbledon will be moved one week back to create a three week gap between itself and the French Open. For Riske, Paszek and Pironkova, that means one more week of getting high on grass.