Dates: 2 -9 May 2015
Venue: Madrid, Spain
Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $4,185,405
Surface: Clay/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Manolo Santana

Official website: www.madrid-open.com


Last Appearance: 2014 1st round. Lost to Roberta Vinci 6-4 6-4

Singles:
1R: Elina Svitolina (UKR) bt Daniela Hantuchova 6-0 6-3

1st Round vs Svitolina
2nd Round Ivanovic
3rd Round Suarez-Williams-Navarro
QF Serena/Venus/Azarenka

Horrid draw but was going to be.

Good. I want to see Daniela open with a top opponent and be challenged. It will also make a loss easier to take. With the one exception of Fed Cup, it's been quite a while since she has played even decently. Facing someone strong and red hot might bring out Daniela's best.

Ivanovic beat Dulgheru by retirement after losing the first set and winning the second on a tiebreak so she's the second round opponent, although Daniela has to get past Svitolina first and she's playing very well right now.

Daniela's the third match on after two WTA matches with play starting at 11 am.

I really don't see Daniela beating Svitolina...she's super consistent and can run everything down and has weapons...

Daniela will have to get off to a good start and win the first set.

0-6 in 20 mins in the first set Svitolina only lost ONE point on serve. Clearly Daniela's returning has gone wayward.

0-2 This is embarrassing...

0-3

1-3

1-4

2-4

JUST FUCKING HOLD DANI

3-4 FINALLY

3-5 and fails to hold to stay in 3-6

0-6 3-6



Whose been helping Daniela with her tennis recently?

Carlos should have committed to Daniela properly...her tennis is ziltch right now...

Oh dear, that's a thrashing. Svitolina is one of the best young players while Daniela's recent form hadn't been good so Daniela was always the underdog but I thought that it would be more competitive than it was. I hoped that Svitolina would have a let down after Marrakech or that she might be tired but she kept her form going and she'd won all her matches fairly easily and Madrid is only a couple of hours flight from Marrakech.

Looking at the positives Daniela converted 100% of her break points opportunities, unfortunately she only had 2 while Svitolina was 7/10 on Bps and Svitolina was all over Daniela's serve. The fact that Daniela's serve was so vulnerable is a concern.

We'll just see what Daniela can do in Rome but it's tough to see a big improvement in just over a week.


Thanks for the live scoring, eddy.

That is just horrific. Less than an hour? 6 DF and no aces on a court where Elina and her popgun serve got 7 aces?

Something has gone seriously wrong somewhere. Carlos wasn't going to coach Daniela this year-he was fairly categorical in stating his role was to prepare Daniela for the season but afterwards he would be busy with the academy. John-Laffnie de Jager has been conspicuous in his absence since Miami-where was he this week?