"It was an absolute masterclass in top notch defending.
She also lost three times in the final to her younger sister Serena, who will go into this year's tournament as the top seed, defending champion, and prohibitive favorite.
The evening raid on a television station and newspaper printing plant in Nairobi on Thursday appeared to divide the government, with some top officials defending the operation but others condemning it as illegal and unwise.
He spoke in a room of 100 top CEOs, defending their interests.
Parker's co-producer Jane Lipsitz, a veteran of "Runway" as well as "Top Chef" and "Top Design," defended the show's viability to Variety with the chilling, albeit very Warholian observation that art is "something we consume every day…whether it's your favorite coffee mug, an ad in a magazine or a mural you drive by on the way to work".
The top-seeded defending champions, a group including three world titlists, crashed to defeat by a margin of 114 imps.
A final tally of 37 tries, an all-time low since the competition expanded to six countries, spoke a little about top-quality defending — and far more about long periods of tediousness.
Soderling lost last year's final to Federer, but returned this year as a powerful No. 5 seed to knock out Federer, the top-seeded defending champion, in Tuesday's quarterfinals.
In other second-round matches, Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia topped the defending champion Nicolas Kiefer of Germany by 6-4, 6-2; eighth-seeded Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic beat Axel Pretzsch of Germany by 7-5, 6-1; and Fabrice Santoro of France upset his fourth-seeded countryman Sébastien Grosjean, 6-2, 7-5.
They needed a wild card to get into the mixed doubles draw, then upset the top-seeded defending champs Bob Bryan and Liezel Huber in the second round.
