Ashley Harkleroad

Harkleroad was selected for the US team in the Hopman Cup after Venus Williams withdrew. She and partner Mardy Fish went 0–3 in the event. Harkleroad pushed Tatiana Golovin to three sets, before losing 3–6, 6–4, 3–6. Harkleroad lost 3–6, 0–6 to Nadia Petrova and 6–3, 4–6, 4–6 to Alicia Molik. Harkleroad started out the main WTA season in Hobart, Tasmania. She lost in the first round to Austrian Sybille Bammer, 7–6(2), 6–1. Bammer eventually defeated Serena Williams in the quarterfinals. She lost to Daniela Hantuchová in the third round of the Australian Open, 7–6(6), 5–7, 3–6. In the previous rounds, she beat Meng Yuan of China, 6–3, 6–0, and upset 17th seeded German Anna-Lena Grönefeld, 6–2, 6–2. Harkleroad struggled in the clay-court season and finished in the second round at Roland Garros, losing to Venus Williams, 1–6, 6–7(8–10). Harkleroad was down 1–6, 1–5, before rebounding and holding set points. During this match, Williams hit the fastest recorded women's main-draw serve, a record which Venus broke again in the U.S. Open on August 28, 2007. In the grass-court season, Harkleroad's worst, Harkleroad played the Liverpool International Tennis Tournament for the second straight year as her Wimbledon warm-up. Read Less

Harkleroad planned on originally coming back at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, California, but decided to wait for the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida. She used her special protection rank of 72 to enter the main draw. She played Alicia Molik in the first round. She lost, 1–6, 1–6, after only practicing like a player for a month. Read Less