Trying to win the Sony Open must feel that way to Sharapova, a four-time runner-up.
Meanwhile, rookie Russel Henley took a two-shot lead at the halfway stage of the PGA Tour's Sony Open in Hawaii.
In 2004, she became the fourth, and youngest, female to play a PGA Tour event at the Sony Open in Hawaii.
That put Sharapova ahead to stay, and she beat fellow Russian Elena Vesnina on a muggy, 85-degree afternoon at the Sony Open, 6-4, 6-2.
Eight days shy of his 35th birthday, tour veteran Haas defeated three-time champion Novak Djokovic in the fourth round of the Sony Open, 6-2, 6-4.
The plan was to televise the final round at Kapalua, and go with a limited TV production for the opening round of the Sony Open.
The tour insists on a 54-hole tournament, no matter how complicated that will be with the next tournament, the Sony Open, starting on Thursday in Honolulu.
This was the earliest the pair had met in a regular tournament since 2004, when Nadal won their first meeting in the third round of the Sony Open Tennis in Miami.
Day, ranked 43rd, beat 2007 Masters winner Zach Johnson in his opening match and then disposed of American PGA Tour rookie Russell Henley -- who won the Sony Open in Hawaii last month.
Marino lost in a play-off at Colonial and was tied for the 36-hole lead with Tom Watson at the Open Championship, while Goydos's last win came at the Sony Open two years ago.
The former world number three, who won the tournament in 2005 and 2006, carried his new-found touch into the final round with a 68 for his best result since the Sony Open in January.
Petrova defeated her next opponent, Safina, two weeks ago at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami and she has no doubt she can repeat the result.
Anywho, he goes on to note that there's really no progress made on actually having those discussions towards creating a single format, but that Sony is open to doing so.
Wednesday's unexpected withdrawal follows that of second-ranked Azarenka, which ensured that Williams will hang on to top spot until the Sony Ericsson Open, which starts in Miami on March 18.
In Miami, where Mr. Murray is scheduled to play his first match of the Sony Ericsson Open Friday morning, the world No. 4 is still very much a man chasing starlight: Despite being stronger, faster, smarter, more versatile and more dedicated than ever, he seems to get no closer to the object of his desire.
Sony wants its doors open to all possibilities, for all consumers.
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Sony has also said it will adopt the open EPub format in a move that allows consumers to purchase or download books from the Sony store and read them on any EPub-compatible device.
Sony, being the quixotic, open-minded and self-confident company it is, claimed to have no trouble with that, and even gave Mr Nathan carte blanche to probe where he pleased.
In a rare display of openness about storage standards, Sony expressed yesterday that it is now completely open to discussions on creating a single next-generation DVD standard instead of barreling right along into the impending major format war between Blu-ray (which Sony currently backs) and HD-DVD.
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Not that we were ever that optimistic about peace breaking out in the war between HD-DVD and Blu-ray, the two rival high-def disc formats that are duking it out over which one is going to succeed the DVD, but you can forget about whatever Sony was saying in recent weeks about being open to burying the hatchet and working to develop a single standard.
Unlike Sony who hides their protocols, the WACI NX has an open protocol which you can access from just about any web programming language.
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"While we were expecting more domestically, we believe the film will perform strongly when we open overseas over the next few weeks, " a Sony spokesman said by email.
"We're getting the market open, " says Gregory Gudorf, senior vice president of Sony's Digital Platform division.
He added that the shift "allows Sony to make its e-book store compatible with multiple devices and its Reader devices open to multiple sources for content".
"From the beginning, we have said that an open format means more choice for consumers, " says Steve Haber, president of Sony's Digital Reading Business Division.
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