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Mary Pierce is what you might call a slow starter. For the first set of her quarter-final against the twice champion Venus Williams, she moved around the court like an underwater diving bell. Not that fast, actually. Michelangelo’s David had more chance of returning Williams’s first serve and the result was a very reflective 6–0 to the American in 21 locomotive minutes . . . Jolted awake, perhaps by shame, Pierce stopped performing as though stuck in a pool of aspic and fought all the way to an entrancing 22-point tie-break . . . It was an inexplicably statuesque performance from Pierce, with the emphasis on statue . . . It would be unfair to call 30-year-old Pierce a basket case. She is too elegant for that. She is more like a Prada handbag case . . .

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