Wiksten who nobody seems to know does well deserve to be known. She's amongst the best ladies in practise in here. Landed lots of good triple lutz-double toe combos, all the triples generally (even the flip which she doesn't quite control yet but still manages to land a couple in every practise). She' s a very good skater and I hope she does as well as in Oberstdorf. Blues around the clock for SP and Basic Instict for the FP, as last year (both).

Hughes, big disappointment for me ! She hasn't improved her jumping at all. She still barely gets off the ground (it looks like she's going for a double but always does triple), the jumps are underrotated, so weak and low (really, comparing to her, Lipinski was Ito), they all look very ugly to me, and her triple loop-triple loop combo is terrible, the second jump is so underrotated, so just. She has a nice layback spin, she's very flexible and performs wonderful spirals and nice variations on the spin, but no, really, this won't do to me. She's slow, has no power at all, jumping is horrifying and she flutzes so much.

Volchkova still jumps so high, it's amazing the height she can get on the jumps. Her combo for the SP is triple lutz-triple toe ! ! ! I'm so happy as it's been ages I've been waiting for someone to perform it in a SP. Let's hope she lands it. It wasn't quite there in practise today, but I'm sure she has it generally. All the jumps went ok, even the salchow and the double axel she hates, she missed nothing. So, she's still a big threat to the veteran Russian ladies.

Fumie Suguri didn't seem very consistent, esp. on the toe and sal.

Von der Thusen should be last, she only has the toe and sal (and not always). She's working on the lutz but it's not there, she always lands on the left foot at 2 and a half rotations.

Poth is still training in swimming suit, of course, but this year, it's bright pink, she thinks perhaps she's not getting enough attention. Landed all the jumps but triple toe-triple toe is very just and short, she pulls up in the air and then waits for the jump to be finished. She fell sometimes on the second. Struggled on the loop, and her flutz is not consistent. Flip and sal ok, but she has no flow out of her jumps. Her new FP on latino musics is ok but her moves generally have nothing to do with it, don't all go along with the music.

Lautowa struggles with her jumps. Landed all the triples, but she's not consistent on them. Same FP as last year. Hair still short but lighter.

Brittney as usual fought on her flutzes a lot. She landed some triple flips, so she was happy. Other triples are ok.

Vorobieva has lost a lot of weight (and she needed it) but, unfortunately, jumps didn't come back. She landed nothing today, just one triple loop, and an underrotated and saved toe. Same FP as last year (Jewish).

Butyrskaya couldn't land her flip, as usual, it was either two footed, stepped out, or a fall. Lutz was good. Her new combo triple toe-half loop-triple salchow as always has a big step out of the salchow. Loop perfect, of course !

Robinson landed a clean triple lutz, a clean toe, clean salchows, and a triple loop with no speed (as usual). I didn't watch her much, sorry for her fans. Her new music is so much into her style, very pretentious and " I'm trying to be too elegant ". It's getting on my nerves, it's too slow !