WIMBLEDON, England -- Big surprise today. It seems to me as if the Jennifer Capriati-Justine Henin match turned when the injury timeout happened.

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Henin has terrible blisters -- bigger than golf balls on the bottoms of her feet. She played exceptionally well after that timeout. She seemed to relax as if she needed those few minutes to settle in.

I was hoping that if Capriati lost during this Grand Slam run that she would do it at a high level. But today in the third set, she played the worst set I've seen her play all year. If you're going to go down, you really want to do it playing your best. Capriati got dejected and had nothing left. When she went to look in the gas tank, there was nothing there. She came up empty.

Give a lot of credit to Henin for playing such a brave match. Her backhand started working and she put it all together. So good for her.

Starting at the Australian Open, Capriati has been on the edge a lot of times and had pulled them all out. Once you get in the habit of pulling them all out, and until it stops, you think you're going to keep going.

The match the other day against Serena Williams, where Capriati was two points away from being defeated, siphoned off her reserves. Just this whole year and the increased focus were a drain, and we don't know if anything went on privately behind the scenes.

It appears that 19-year-old Henin learned a lot from that French Open semifinal match that she lost to fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters. She has gotten stronger and has more belief. It's like someone told her when she's in that position again to have some belief.

She has been in three three-set matches in the tournament so far, and she's growing in maturity every day. By the time you get to the final of a major, it's a step-by-step process of growth with each match. I think she'll handle it fairly well. The blisters shouldn't be a factor. They are very painful, but if you pad them right you can block it out and it's not the same as an orthopedic problem. She was moving well Thursday against Capriati, but don't expect her to have enough to stop Venus Williams.

Venus is playing as solid as I've seen her. She had a blip against Davenport in the second set to allow her back in the match. But her forehand held up and, again, is better than I've ever seen it. She had nine double-faults, but it was almost as if they were made in a constructive manner because she was going for more.

Unless Venus gets nervous playing someone she's expected to beat -- in her past two Grand Slam finals she played Davenport, which is a different kind of pressure from playing an underdog -- Venus will react like this is a great opportunity. She'll say: "I'm not playing Martina Hingis, Lindsay Davenport or my sister. I'm playing Justine Henin."

Henin did defeat Venus in a match on slow red clay in Berlin, and that will help her. Just the fact that she has beaten Venus. It doesn't matter what surface she was on.

Henin can roll for a couple of games. She might have some flashy games, but she won't be able to maintain it against Venus. She will in the future, but not on Sunday.