| This highly-talented player is repeatedly let down by one facet of her game - the serve. When it cracks, Dementieva serves double fault after double fault. Bizarrely it rarely seems to affect the rest of her game, but the serving problems look set to deny her the opportunity of becoming one of the world's true elite. Reached the quarter-finals here for the first time last year, before losing to Maria Sharapova. Won the Istanbul Cup last month, her first title of the year, so should arrive with some confidence. |
