Feeling Lucky?

This lady is Naomi Cavaday, ranked 204 by the WTA, which makes her Britain's number 5 woman player.

Obviously she's unlikely to make much impact in the latter stages of the upcoming Australian Open but, like a few hundred other lower ranking players, she was no doubt aiming to reach the first round proper of the competition by winning three qualifying matches. Everything started well, with a three set win over the world number 142, Alexandra Panova of Russia. So who's next? Number 160? 110? 95?

Er, no, number 16. Yep, Belgium's number 2 ( for the moment! ), last year's US Open semi-finalist, Yanina Wickmayer. WTF.

An unfortunate overflow from the Flemish anti-doping tribunal over-reaction involving Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse during October was that Yanina was serving a ban ( subsequently overturned ) at the point of entries for the Aussie Open. She was later given a wildcard into the qualifying tournament.

So, for Naomi, there's always Wimbledon. Oh well.