Can't watch the match but seems like error fest from danka yet again..she's got to somehow get thru these tight matches. She rarely does that these days.

I can't watch the match and the SB is so damn slow I can't handle it. Wish the streams would work on my computer, but all I get is darkness. Hopefully she can stay calm and play smart tennis. I'm sure the crowd isn't helping things.

ah! the live stream just cut out!!

i am devastated,so sad for daniela

Schiavone takes the match, 7-5 in the third. Considering how much momentum Schiavone had going into the final set I’m quite surprised Daniela managed to hang in and take it to 5-5.

She didn't shake umpires hand? When was the last time that happened? Brisbane against Savay? I know she didn't shake the umps hand at New Haven in '07 when she lost to Savay.

Where will her ranking be? Any chance of a seed at Roland Garros? Is she playing Strasbourg?

It's really disappointing and frustrating that Daniela played well and fought hard against one of the top players and had a great chance to win but came up just short. A win against one of the top players would do so much for Daniela's confidence and belief because she's fit and playing well. This has to be so frustrating for her but hopefully she takes the positives from the past few weeks that she's beating the players that she should beat and she's competitive with the top players who she can beat. Playing in front of a partisan home crowd was a big boost for Schiavone and didn't help Daniela's cause too much.

The usual suspects are on their high horse.

Hantuchová was after losing to Schiavone disappointed. "Just play with the world's top five I am very sorry, because I was close to victory. I started off great in the first sete I played great and everything was based on me. In the second act I made ​​some chybičiek, as rival invariably used, not in vain is the fifth in the world. She started to play more aggressively, on the contrary I was too far behind the baseline. In the third set I struggled and I managed to turn around 4:3. Big shame for the state game of 5:5, when I'm at its administration resulted in 30:0, but alone I'm losing it. I missed a great chance," said Hantuchova, who had against him not only a strong rival, but also the turbulent Italian audience. "Especially in the third set it was from the home fans really brutal and in some moments and unfair. It is indeed normal, when the clay is one look where you're hitting the ball. I was already clear before the game that the Italians will do everything possible to Francesca went on, but I can not make excuses for it, the atmosphere was fantastic, the audience created a boiler and also to properly vyhecovalo me," said Hantuchova, who in Rome confirmed the increasing form before Roland Garros. "To the elite sixteen appreciate, but I regret that, as in Stuttgart against Samantha Stosur again I lost a close match. Neither lot to me too indirect, I hope that once it breaks. Before Paris, I would still have to start the tournament in Strasbourg, but still do not know if I go there. Even during today's duel has a pobolievali weaknesses. It is important that I was fresh at Roland Garros."
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"I started really cool, everything was based on me and showing off exactly like tennis, which I play on clay. With that introduction I'm very happy. I have shown a concentrated, I went for the ball ball. In the second set and lost a few chybičiek Francesca is caught . Of course, for something is in the top five rankings. pushed me, I played everything at baseline. In the third set I tried to play again a little more aggressive and sometimes I possibly could be a little more patient, but it's hard to say because she would about then used. Damage that conclusion, there I have to state for 5:5 when losing my serve alone. It's frustrating because I played well. I do not know when such a breakthrough has already lost close," sighed Daniela Hantuchova.
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She's playing well and I thought she will win against Fransexa...

Well atleast she is playing well...hope it will consistent....

will she play Strasbourg?