honestly i am pretty happy with the draw
if will play with dementieva will be her second top-10 match
and against in a hot-form player.real and huge test matter what happens in the match
but first to win the first match

Could have been a better draw, but it's the draw Daniela's got, so she just has to get on with it and play as well as she can.

I'd favour Rybarikova to be the opponent as she's been having the far better results this year and Wickmayer's gone down to play ITF for her last couple of tournaments having done very little on the main tour.
Daniela's beaten Wickmayer in straight sets in their previous meetings and the last one was last month, so I'd be confident about Daniela beating Wickmayer.
Rybarikova's the more intriguing match-up with the added spice of it being an all Slovak match. Rybarikova's beaten Wozniacki and Pennetta this year although neither of them have been having great results this year and both have had quite a few upset losses. Nonetheless, Rybarikova beat them and has been steadily going up the rankings and getting wins, so she should have confidence facing Daniela. I think a lot will depend on how Rybarikova handles playing Daniela. She could see it as a great opportunity to make a name for herself and be inspired to get a big win - certainly it would be a big win in Slovakia - and there's the incentive for her to get to Slovak number 2. Alternately, she could be nervous and inhibited as Daniela's such an icon of Slovak tennis. But it's up to Daniela to be prepared for either opponent to bring their best game. As I've said before, if Daniela plays well she should beat either of them, but if they play well or Daniela plays badly, then it'll be a lot harder.

Dementieva will be a very tough opponent given her recent form and her record against Daniela and is probably the worst third round opponent.
Daniela's last win against Dementieva came in California and it's Indian Wells, so why not. If she can get through the first couple of matches, she can go deep in this tournament.

@ pmrd44 - I definately don't think Zheng is the weakest player in the top-twenty right now. She has been fairly consistent and when she's on form can challenge most of the top-ten players, and sometimes win. I would say Medina-Garrigues or Schnyder are the weakest players in the top-twenty right now.

I would tend to agree with that. But then again Schnyder has always been there or there-abouts, but for whatever reason i've never considered her a particularly formidable opponent.

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I agree that Dementieva is probably the worst opponent for Daniela to face, but at the end of the day i'm just looking forward to her playing a top ten player. But she has to get there first and if she's facing Rybarikova, the added pressure of playing a fellow slovak might play on her mind. I would imagine that it would be harder for Daniela to play Rybarikova than someone of a similar rank, who isn't slovakian, especially when holding onto being the number 2 slovakian player is at stake. But you never know, this might be tournament that we see Daniela rise to the occasion. It's happened before at IW, here's to hoping it happens again.

I also think that it's worth noting that Daniela's draw isn't all bad. If she can get through her 3rd round match, things could really open up. We might even see her defending her points from last year. But at the same time, she's still yet to win 3 matches consecutively in quite some time.

i found this pic from tennisforum,players practising in iw.
who is the guy?the same german coach(cant remember his name)?
does anyone knows her current coach-situation?

It appears that Daniela is continuing to work with Thomas Hogstedt. The coaching situation has certainly been intriguing over the past few months! Anyway I checked his history and he did a tremendous job with Tommy Haas from 2006-7-Tommy won 4 titles, made the SF of the AO and the QF of the US Open,beating Blake with an amazing clutch performance. Lets hope he can get similar results with Daniela.

@ BlueDragon - Wickmayer is no easy opponent either, and I think she has a very good chance against Rybarikova. I don't think we can presume it will be Daniela v Magdalena in the R64.

yeah, I was completely wrong, Wickmayer won 6-3 6-2