New Haven Open ‏@newhavenopen 1h
TUES OOP NIGHT SESSION: Hantuchova/Hingis v Black/King at 7 pm followed by Lisicki v Pavlyuchenkova. Tickets: #nho13

Well that interview has made my day despite them forgetting she'd taken a set off Petkovic so wasn't two straight set losses..

Daniela clearly still has the passion and accepts that Halep played too good this time. Daniela seems to be enjoying just being out on the court and her charity is getting more awareness due to her doubles with Hingis.

Doubles:

1-0, Daniela & Martina break to 40, Black served 2 DFs.
2-0, Daniela & Martina hold to 15.
2-1, King holds to 15.
3-1, Daniela & Martina hold to 40, were 40-15 up.
3-2, Black holds to 30.
3-3, Daniela & Martina broken to 40, were 15-40 down.
3-4, King holds to 40.
3-5, Daniela & Martina broken to 0.
3-6, Black serves out to 0.

What a disastrous tournament..neither singles or doubles is functioning and Daniela will probably have zero confidence going into the US Open...sucks

New Haven Open ‏@newhavenopen 6m
#Hingis: Right now I take it one by one. We'll go forward and play the #usopen and the Asia tournaments #nho13

I don't think this pairing is going to last much longer.

Hingis-Hantuchova Lose In Doubles At New Haven Open

By LORI RILEY,
The Hartford Courant
10:57 p.m. EDT, August 20, 2013

NEW HAVEN — —
It seemed like a good idea to Martina Hingis back in July. She enjoyed playing World Team Tennis and exhibitions. Why not try another comeback, this time in doubles?

So Hingis, the former No. 1-ranked singles player in the world and a recent inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and Daniela Hantuchova partnered up and started back on the WTA Tour. They began in Carlsbad, Calif., in late July, then played in Toronto and Cincinnati. Their latest stop was New Haven on Tuesday night.

After a 3-6, 1-6 loss to Cara Black and Vania King, though, the thrill of being back on the tour was wearing a little thin on Hingis, although she retained a sense of humor about the situation.

"It's different when you're just there, practicing and playing, and you just watch the match as a coach," said Hingis, 32, who has coached several players this year. "It's different when you're out there week after week after week playing and training yourself."

She laughed.

"This week was pretty tough," she added. "I was home [earlier] and it was so nice. Being around the pool, in the Jacuzzi … but this is what I decided to do, so we'll see how it goes."

In the second night match, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova upset seventh-seeded Sabine Lisicki 7-5, 6-3, knocking the fourth of the top eight seeds out of the tournament.

Hingis, who was ranked No. 1 for 209 weeks and won five Grand Slams, including Wimbledon and the U.S. Open, retired in 2003 at age 22 because of foot and ankle injuries. She made a comeback in 2006, when she reached No. 6, but Hingis tested positive for traces of cocaine after Wimbledon and then retired again.

The last three years, she's played World Team Tennis for the Washington Kastles, which won the WTT title this summer, beating out Andy Roddick's Springfield Lasers.

Before this summer, she last played doubles with Hantuchova in 2007 at the U.S. Open, reaching the round of 16. The two will be back in New York next week.

Asked about the Open, Hingis laughed again.

"Well, right now, I take it one by one," she said. "After tonight's performance, it's like, 'Wow, did I really do that?' We will go forward and play the U.S. Open and take it from there."

Both Hingis — who won nine Grand Slam doubles titles in her heyday — and Hantuchova felt pretty good about how they were playing, up until Tuesday night. Actually, they felt pretty good leading 3-1 in the first set. Then things fell apart. Black and King, who had paired up right before the tournament and had never played together before, won the next 10 games.

"I think we can play much better than that," Hantuchova said. "We showed that in the last three tournaments."

"This one started out OK," Hingis said. "We played pretty solid. All those deuce points, one here and one there and all of a sudden instead of 5-2, it's 3-4 and it all turned around there."

They lost in the quarterfinals in Carlsbad and in the round of 16 in Toronto and Cincinnati. They beat Angelique Kerber, who was the No. 2 seed at New Haven (before losing Tuesday) and Petra Kvitova, New Haven's defending champion, in the first round in Toronto. Their last match was a 4-6, 4-6 loss to Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci — the top two doubles players in the world — in Cincinnati, but both players were happy with how they played.

"In Cincinnati, I've never seen Martina playing like that," Hantuchova said.

"I felt really good," Hingis said. "Coming here, I was so confident, maybe almost too like, 'It's all going to come by itself,' and it doesn't."

Asked if she was contemplating a return to singles play, Hingis snickered.

"Well, tonight is not the best night to ask," she said. "I always said, 'I don't want to play singles anymore, for sure,' and after tonight, it's definitely like 200 percent no way."

"You have to be so hungry. Sometimes I feel like my life has been so great. I'm very fortunate. You have to really want it. I think right now my life is so comfortable at home. Why would you want to suffer? Why would you want to put yourself into pain? In exhibitions, you prepare for one day, you arrive, you practice, you play and then you have one week to recover, where here, it's day in and day out. The grind of the tour, that's the difference. I probably underestimated that a little bit."

On Monday and Tuesday, we experienced some of the lowest lows as fans of Dani. But we have long since learned that you can't remain down with our gal for too long. She timed her announcement of the 2014 charity calendar just perfectly. Remembering who she really is and what she's really about has lifted my depressed spirits. Let us hope she can display the same sort of timing on court for the next week or two!