I beg danka, play MM tournaments!... please...

This is depressing. Daniela was playing so well in the first set to get up 5-2 and have set points but after that it was just dispiriting, especially how Daniela just fell away.

Dementieva is helping Daniela a lot and makes lots of stupid errors. Dani is playing very solid of course and hits some good winners, but I'm afraid if Dementieva reduces the number of errors and plays with more pressure (like she did in some points) Daniela will be in big trouble.

A brilliant summary of what happened and also a depressingly accurate prediction.

Dementieva won every single BP she had against Daniela. Daniela won only 3 out of 15 Bps for or against. You can say that was pretty much the match there. Plus, Daniela made a lot of errors and her serve just lacked the penetration it had early in the match while Dementieva played better, cut down on the errors and her groundstrokes were a lot more accurate so she could dictate play more. I just wonder about that stoppage when Daniela was serving for the set because Ashe was the only court where play got stopped and that really disrupted Daniela's rhythm and momentum because she had to consecutive double faults to finish the game and her game totally fell away while Dementieva's level went up.

Still, there is the doubles and hopefully Daniela can do well there.

"I had chances, but remained unused. They were two games in one," sighed the Daniela Hantuchova and continued: "By the state of 5:2, I played exactly what we identify with the trainer. Počínala I tactically correct, although the beginning I was a little slower and I played 0:2. Then I moved well and wisely played, but when I missed the setbaly, started to crumble. Such a player such as Jelena is now catching chances. The rest has been another match. By the score of 5:2 or 5:3, I was fine. Subsequently, however, has not it - certainly different than I was. What has? That's tennis ... It is enough things to do this I record and take work to do to them."

Hantuchova Commenting on this year's singles all his speeches in New York stated: "Definitely do not feel disappointed. When I saw the beginning of winning the tournament, which was really easy, I told you that mastered every game will be great. If I was a little fresher for today , maybe it looked different. For this, I really had enough. I am here for two months and I started to be felt. Less than a physical tired, but mentally. I look forward to a few days rest. I need to switch off and relax."
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"Today's match had two faces. The state of 5:2, I played great, I'm on the court did exactly what I had. I was active, I pushed her on the defensive, based on my almost everything. setbaloch After three unused but I withdrew Jelena odrzau assumed the initiative and it was a completely different game. I missed a lot brejkbalov what I vypomstilo. In the future, must not be allowed to match the one zvrtol ball, as happened today. The best player the world can spare chance to quickly forget and do not think at this time. I have to take the match in today's lesson," said Hantuchova, who with the overall performance in the singles at the U.S. Open has expressed satisfaction. "The draw was very difficult and when I saw him, I said to myself that I will not even think about the round forward. I went from game to game. If I had today was fresher and had more power, it could go differently, but for now that it is unnecessary to speculate. In some tournaments, the U.S. series I was very satisfied, especially with San Diego, where I got to the semifinals, came to me less certain. Overall, I rate it 50/50. I now look forward to the U.S. Open after a long overseas cord at least a few days to relax and I have option off. Asian series kicks off in Tokyo, then I was waiting for Beijing," said Hantuchova.

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seems like Daniela really wants to switch off

I think it's pretty clear where we are with Daniela at this point and today's match was a microcosm of that. When Elena was playing uncharacteristically poor early on, Daniela capitalized and did just fine. When Elena found her level, Daniela did basically nothing and was simply overpowered, outshot, outserved and outmoved. When you look at Daniela's career, she has spent a remarkable amount of time in the top thirty and top twenty (basically nine years in a row). Yet all she has are three titles to her name and but one final in the last three seasons. All of this is explained through today's match. Daniela does well enough to win when she is supposed to, but does not have the extra gear to be a good to great player when they are on. See Daniela's pathetic record against the elite players of her generation. She has one style of play which she never deviates from and frankly is remarkably consistent (at least compared to almost everyone else).

So, this is where we are. I expect Daniela to keep putting up enough solid results to be a more than respectable player for the next couple of years. But for a player of her caliber, there will be remarkably few highs (and few lows). It's hard to see how she does what comparable or even weaker players like Schiavone or Martinez Sanchez did this year, which is get ridiculously hot for a stretch, beat a couple of top players and win a big tournament. There's no reason to think that's happening. To her credit, there's also no reason to think that she's going away and wasting her talent either. And you can bet there's a couple of players in the top twenty who will do just that (see Cornet, Alize or Chakvetadze, Anna).

Is there anyway she can improve? I don't know. I'd like to see her try to play differently against top players; maybe try a more high risk, high-reward style of play (that's what NFL teams who are large underdogs often do, hope to catch lighting in a bottle). Of course, she also can improve her movement and second serve as well, but at this point you wonder if there's any more she can do physically. I suspect any chance she has to improve must come from the tactical side of the game.

I didn't see the match, but looks like a typical Daniela chokejob. I think we are used to that, aren't we?

I didn't see the match, but looks like a typical Daniela chokejob. I think we are used to that, aren't we?Long time no see. It may be expected for Daniela to choke,but that doesn't make it any easier to take.