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This all comes down to how ready Morita is for this match. She was Top 50 in her career, but her injury problems are big. During 2014 she played only 10 tournaments, in 2015 she played four tournaments, and last season only a single match, and she wasn't even able to finish that one. Everyone's clear that she can't be the most ready even if she wants to. behind her is a long break due to a wrist injury, and she provenly isn't ready. This is her statement from about ten days ago: "In the last two weeks I was in the National Training Center and I wasn't able to train. But, I've been training normally for the last couple of days and the situation seems good." So, she wasn't even able to train until a few days ago, there's not much to say about readiness, especially because she wrote on her blog yesterday that she just started training by playing matches during training: "The wrist situation and the body situation is okay, and I'm training by playing with games and points." Her lack of readiness is clear as day (plus months without a real, full competitive match which is bad in its own way). Schiavone is an older "lady", there's no doubt. Had Morita been playing against a younger, more "hungry" girl, this pair would be for 10/10 because it's clear that Morita can't be ready for this match. But, my impression is that Schiavone, even though older, has enough quality to smoothly deal with such Morita. She's been plagued more and more by the questions about ending her career, and she keeps responding that she's playing because she's enjoying it. The fact is that at the end of the season she didn't go after Top 100, and that shows the lack of ambition when it comes to results and places on the table, and also that she's really playing for the fun of it, which poses the question how smart is to invest into such a player. But, wherever she show us, the way she did here, is clear that she's playing with everything she has. Just for an example, during the whole last season she failed only twice: once against Razzano who is a former Top 20 player and without a dilemma a girl who can handle stronger players than Schiavone, and against Sakkari who is at this point among Top 100. Schiavone doesn't play as often as she did before, she's enjoying it, and even though that means her motivation regarding ranking isn't big, her motivation in the very match is as the top. Last season she beat names such as Cornet, Siegemund, Sevastove, Cirstee, and even though the results weren't great, especially considering the player she once was, it's clear that she's playing with everything she has. She has to try to use this one.