Serena needed to call out the trainer against Pavs in the second set due to her fear of screaming out and transforming into the Hulk. Luckily, it calmed her down, and she took the third set easily. The placebo effect is a glorious thing! She gets the winner of this ridiculous Mono/Shahar match.

The men’s top American was blown off the court by qualifier Gabashvili, who played aggressively, hit tons of winners (and more aces?!) to control play and beat Dick easily. I’m guessing the rain didn’t exactly help Dick, slowing down play and taking any sting out of that serve.

Kind of love how the talk of the Americans was Sam/Tree and maybe how far Dick could get, and it’s turned into a story of the underdog, outside guys like Ginepri, Dent, etc. Pretty awesome.