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The tournament serves us a warm up for the female players prior to the Aussie Open.. Maria Sharapova-the current title holder of the Australian Open Women’s Singles crown. She startedon a high note by beating then world no. Justine Henin,in the women’s quarterfinals. She then followed it up by winning the semi-final tennis match against Jelena Jankovic in two sets,and eventually beating Ana Ivanovic adidas arkyn in the final,. So impressive was the form she displayed in disposing of Henin that tennis buffs concluded thatmight be her break out year for her to rule women’s tennis. But a chronic shoulder injury prevented her from achieving such a goal and sidelined her participation in the Beijing Olympics and the U. S. Open. She announced her withdrawal from the tournament adidas night joggers recently.

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Once qualifying concludes and sets the stage for the Decemberdrawceremony in Cape Town, theWorld Cup participants will be placedinto eight groups of four teams. Each team in a group plays every otherteam in its group and the top two teams ( total) advance to theknockout stage, which will take place between June,and June. Round-robin group play will be held from Juneto June. In the first round of the knockout stage, the eight group winners playthe eight group runner-ups. From there, the remainder of the tournamentis single elimination. The losers of the semifinals, however, willsquare off in a third-place match held on Julyin Port Elizabeth. Italy is the defending champion, having defeated France in penaltykicks in thetitle match.

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