http://www.justine-henin.be/public/index.asp?lang=en US OPEN 07- Rhythm Bandits 28/08/2007: On a beautiful sunny New York day Justine defeated young German qualifier Julia Goerges 6-0 6-3 in 62 minutes. There was nothing particulary historic about this match for a chapter in Justine's book of tennis career lore, but it was memorable for the fans who were in Arthur Ashe for opening day. The dashing Belgian will next play Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova on Wednesday in the 2nd round. "It's a good feeling. I had a chance to practice yesterday with Jankovic on the stadium. It's different. It's big. It's huge. You need a little bit of time to get used to it. But it's a good feeling. It's a court that brings me a lot of good memories good and bad memories. But, not so different this Grand Slam from the others. I'm feeling good." -Justine on playing at Arthur Ashe's Room A very poised Justine entered Arthur Ashe stadium and played a young German qualifier named Julia Goerges (Wta #145) who is playing her first major. Goerges best and only result this year in a main draw WTA event was Doha (Tier II) in February where she was defeated by Svetlana Kuznetsova d 7-5 6-1. The German made the incorrect assumption of urban hardcourt legend - all you need to beat Justine is hit very hard at her. Goerges swatted, and smacked, but to no avail. Half the shots were in and the other half were out. The German's serves were void of rhythm, and contageous enough to be passed onto Justine, much to the Belgian's chagrin. "I don't have a lot of things to say about that match because there wasn't a lot of rhythm. She was serving pretty hard, pretty good, but did a lot of mistakes. I just did a good job. Generally it's been positive. I'm glad to win that way. Nothing special today." - Justine With the cool, and casualness of a musician in the recording studio, Justine looked up and made a Hawk-eye challenge call to deny Goerges of a game point to get on the scoreboard. There was only one artist in this match, and room. Justine won the first set 6-0 in 24 minutes. Goerges held serve in the first game, and longest in the second set making it fairly competative. There were rallies in this set to 3-3, but Justine's level didn't drop or go up another gear. The process of refining technique and fluency from Justine was the focal point for the rest of the set. Final Score 6-0 6-3 in 62 minutes *Web Team Editor's note. Justine played her next opponent Pironkova once before. They met at Indian Wells 2006 in the second round. JH won 6-2 6-2. --

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