Best wishes to Daniela and her family during this tough period.

Daniela was training with Wozniacki and Azarenka.
"Spending time in Monaco has been great. I was actually able to train with two good friends of mine, Daniela Hantuchova and Vika Azarenka. Vika and I also went out for dinner to catch up and believe me, we did not talk tennis at all She's a great girl and I love spending time with her."

From massage to Cooking
Saturday, 22 October 2011

Daniela Hantuchova is quite consistent wrestle the world of tennis. Although the minimal achievements had approached her, the Slovakian is likely to rise from adversity and won the title of The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali from 3 to 6 November 2011.

Opportunities Hantuchova in Bali is not because her victory Pattaya Open title in February 2011. But, there is a secret weapon that the 28-year-old tennis player before set foot for the fifth time on the island. According Hantuchova, optimism can compete in the Tournament of The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions because maintaining a healthy lifestyle. She's eating protein foods, such as chicken, turkey, fish, and meat. She also revealed the secret, ie, eat 30 minutes after a workout.

She considered it as an asset routines can compete in Bali. She also has other activities which she considered to realize the ambition to get her first title to follow the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions. "The first thing I did was make sure I get the body clean and healthy food to help the recovery. Then, I will do the massage and stretching the body. I also drink lots of water, because it is so important for my skin is always exposed to the sun when playing and traveling, " said Hantuchova.

"Do not forget I also have enough sleep, because the activity is the best way of recovery. Not only for the body, but also for the mind. I also like doing other sports and yoga. But, most important thing is that you feel comfortable and like yourself, so feel no need to use a cosmetic product products, " she added. Another very important thing is not always think about tennis and do not let it haunt. Therefore, the activity is undertaken Hantuchova magazine photo shoot is very helpful.

Activity in the kitchen Hantuchova also be another way to relax. "I really like cooking. The longer in the kitchen, the more I like it. Therefore, it is very exciting to cook for the family and my friends, especially seeing how they enjoy my food after that, " she explained. 2008 Australian Open semi-finalist is indeed dissolve when undergoing cooking activity, although not the only cook who makes her feel comfortable. Hantuchova admitted traveling to other alternatives eliminate the fatigue to see the tight schedule of the tournament.

Because of this, came to the island of Bali became his priority. Moreover, when she first came to Bali in 2006, she suffered defeat in the early rounds. She also has not managed to conquer the same tournament one year later, having outclassed Lindsay Davenport in the final. In 2008, the performance is still unstable after the end shown Hantuchova in the semifinals. She had to leave after the surrender at the hands of Tamira Paszek. Hantuchova also failed to give an impressive performance last year.

This year the greatest chance of conquering Bali, let alone 25 WTA tennis rankings are so impressed with the life of the Balinese people. "It was fun, we had a very memorable experience in Bali. I can not believe how beautiful the place, especially people who are very friendly. I really enjoy every second of being there, " said Hantuchova.

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Hlavackova interviews Hantuchova: Men deserve more money

We see the courts, changing rooms, a restaurant in the hotel. And now another way: sometimes from colleagues surprise someone with a recorder in hand with the following questions. Like Daniela Hantuchova (28). Faster and more interesting conversation I have from her position of "playing reporter" still not done, Daniela goes on the court and off to the point.

24 October 2011

Which player / toys you'd like shipwrecked on a desert island? And with whom would you definitely not want to fail?
"I want to fail with Roger Federer. I took advantage of it and worn thin some of his techniques and skills on the court. I impressed by the personality and has respect for everyone else. In my eyes it is the champion on the court and outside court. And who would not want to fail ...? Nobody comes to mind. "

What you bought for the first decent prize money?
"That I can not remember, but I guess I did more joy to someone else because gifts to others far better than anything I have bought myself."

What do you say that in tournaments in Miami and Indian Wells winner earned more than men's singles champion?
"I did not perceive too, so you do not even think about. But in terms of prize money at Grand Slam, I am for the men had more money. For matches in three sets winning them deserves. "

What is your favorite tournament and why?
"Definitely Indian Wells. Twice I had won, there is great peace of mind, I can go play golf, relax and concentrate on tennis. "

Your worst game of life?
"Any such rapid discharge of the head." (Smiling)

You have a ritual or a talisman, without which neobejdeš?
"I'm not superstitious, so wear talismans with them. As for rituals, I hold the same warm-up before the game and listen to your favorite music. "

What do you think the on court coaching on WTA tournaments?
"I've always taken the view that man must help himself on the court and have their own head, but once in a hundred or a board game is fine. Coaches do just sees things that do not see the player on the court. "

Which sport prefer to watch as a spectator? Attracted to you, if you played tennis?
"I like to watch golf, hockey, basketball, figure skating. And if I did not play tennis, I think I skied. It is the only sport that I do more than tennis. I was born in the mountains, Ski three years. But lured by me and golf. "

Can you cook? And that you prepare your food the most?
"More baking than cooking, I enjoy it much more. When I'm home, I try to learn something from my mother, but after a day of training on my usually very little energy left. I learned parene cakes (fruit dumplings - ed.) And I'll have tiramisu. "

Do you have a dream?
"Very much. I think this is the life's nice when one can still dream about something. But nothing specific I do not want to mention, then I would not dream. "

Experience or a moment you will never forget?
"I remember when his brother finished high school, I was very much proud of him, it was during the French Open 2002 and I experienced a lot there. Never forget even for their first title in the finals at Indian Wells 2002 I beat Martina Hingis. "

Are you a fan of social networking?
"Absolutely not. I have a facebook, but de facto do not use it. I guess I'm from the older generation and this is not me too ... "

Do you like tattoos, piercings and other body beautification? Have you tried something like that?
"It depends what the tattoo and on whom. If it is not too strong, the men can be nice. There are times when I think about something similar, but when I introduce myself for thirty years, so I'm just over it. "(Smiles)

Your greatest passion, a hobby?
"All sports, be it golf, skiing or surfing, which fascinated me lately. When I first tried, sometimes I could hardly back to the courts. "

Daniela Hantuchova interviewed Andrea Hlavackova,
doubles winner at this year's French Open

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Daniela Hantuchova photo auctioned
Author: SITA today 18:14

Tennis player Daniela Hantuchova, whose foundation supports a project of Family House since 2009 and 35 orphans provides medical and social care, the photos auctioned worth € 400.

Tenistka Daniela Hantuchova.
Illustration photo: AP / Branislav Račko
BRATISLAVA 26th (AFP) - Slovak tennis player Daniela Hantuchova, together with his brother Igor and his partner Lucia Ševčíková participated on Tuesday in a charity auction of unique photos from the project of Family House, in which photos are fetched a total value of € 4250.

The authors are Mary Candráková shots and Tomas Halasz. The auction was organized by the civic association dichromatic world that all proceeds used to support HIV-positive orphans of the Family House project in Cambodia.

Hantuchova, whose foundation supports a project of Family House since 2009 and 35 orphans provides medical and social care, the auctioned at auction two pictures worth 400 euros.

"The children I have visited, but I will try hard, so I got to know them personally. For me it was, is and will be important to support these children, will be given. It should be weighed when one is healthy and lives in a little more luck . It should also be shared with those who most need our help," said D. Hantuchova in a press release provided by the SITA.

All proceeds from the auction are used in full support of the children of the project Family House. The exhibition, whose photographs have been provided on the opening day of the auction will take place in the exhibition hall in Bratislava Old Town Hall on 26 October - 4th December 2011.

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PLAYERS GET BUSY AT BALI

31 Oct 2011 | Road To Bali


When a tournament is held at a beautiful beach resort, what better way to celebrate than trying a little beach tennis. And that is what Daniela Hantuchova and Peng Shuai did at the Westin Resort, Nusa Dua in Bali, site of the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions.

They teamed up against Indonesia’s former Wimbledon and French Open junior champion and 2001 Bali winner Angelique Widjaja and Commonwealth Bank Deputy President Director for Indonesia Andriaan Laoh, with the pros speeding to a 21-4 victory.

Play at the $600,000 end-of-season event, featuring six players who have won at least one International series event plus two wild cards, begins on Thursday with defending champion Ana Ivanovic, former finalist Marion Bartoli, Sabine Lisicki, Roberta Vinci, Anabel Medina Garrigues and Nadia Petrova as well as Hantuchova and Peng Shuai taking part in a straight knockout format.

Bartoli has arrived from the WTA Championships in Istanbul, where she played one match as a replacement for the injured Maria Sharapova and defeated Victoria Azarenka. From Istanbul to Bali was a long trip to make, but definitely worthwhile for the French world number nine.

"I think it's nice to finish the season there," she said before leaving Turkey. "It really feels like paradise. You have the white sand beaches and very sunny. So it's a great place to be for the last tournament of the season."

While Daniela Hantuchova and Peng Shuai tried their hand at a different kind of tennis, Sabine Lisicki tackled something entirely different from tennis.

When she was in Bali two years ago Sabine enjoyed a visit to Jenggala, a company that produces ceramics and conducts classes where people can learn to make and paint pots and various other items. While she was there she produced a plate that was later sold by auction for $1000. The money went towards the tournament’s charity, the Smile Foundation, that finances surgery for children born with facial defects.

The German was looking forward to making a return visit and, like before, she was joined by her mother Elizabeth, who is in fact a ceramics artist. After moulding two pots, Sabine picked up the paintbrush and decorated a dish, while her mother sat beside her painting a horse.

"I don’t really get a chance to do it because we are never home," said Sabine, "but I really enjoy painting because it is so relaxing and a way to get away from the tennis for a while. After the season is over this week I will definitely spend some time painting."






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"Beach Tennis this morning was fun! Daniela Hantuchova and Peng Shuai won the game. Next, pottery and art activity!"

DANIELA HANTUCHOVA
22 Oct 2011 | English, Road To Bali

Coming to the paradise isle of Bali has long been a priority for Daniela Hantuchova. She first played here in 2006, and although she lost in the opening round that didn’t discourage her and when she returned in 2007 she went all the way to the final before falling to former world number one Lindsay Davenport. She enjoyed a successful campaign the next year too, reaching the semi-finals before losing out to Tamira Paszek.

Then the formula changed and players had to qualify to play the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions by winning an International Series event. Daniela fell short in 2009, but she came so close in 2010 by reaching the final in Monterrey that she was given a wild card and returned to Bali for the fourth time. This year, though, she left nothing to chance and quickly put her herself among the contenders by winning the title in Pattaya in February.

“It was wonderful. We had such a great time,” she said of that initial visit to Bali, even though it resulted in a frustrating first round defeat at the hands of Melinda Czink. “It was my first time there and I just couldn’t believe how wonderful the place is, and especially the people were incredibly friendly. I loved every second of it.”

Daniela has without doubt been one of the most popular and charismatic players of the WTA Tour over the past decade. Known as one of the friendliest players in the locker room, she is much more than ‘only’ a tennis player. She is in high demand for fashion shoots, including here in Bali, and she has appeared in numerous fashion magazines, including Vogue.

She was featured in the 2009 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition alongside Maria Kirilenko and Tatiana Golovin in a pictorial entitled Volley of the Dolls, and she is such a star that she has been included in video games on several occasions. She is featured in Top Spin for both the Xbox and Play Station 2, Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2, Roland Garros 2005 and Virtua Tennis 3. She is also a playable character in Virtua Tennis 2009.

So what keeps a player such as Daniela at the top of the game for so long? Some of the answers can be found in replies to questions posed to her on her website, danielahantuchova.com - one of the best player websites around.

“My diet is very important to me,” she says. “I do not take any special supplements, but I make sure I eat a clean healthy diet. I make sure I take in enough carbohydrates, protein and the right type of good fats to sustain my energy. Chicken, turkey, fish and other lean cuts of meat are good proteins to eat. One important thing to remember is that it is very important to eat within 30 minutes after a hard workout!

“To relax after a long tournament or a match, the first thing I do is make sure I feed my body with clean healthy food to recover. Then to relax, I will make sure I take care of my body with a massage and a stretch. I make sure I drink plenty of water and hydrate a lot because it's very important for the skin, since I'm always in the sun while playing and travelling so much.

“I also make sure I sleep a lot because it's the best way to recover, not only for body but mind as well. I like to do other sports too and yoga, but most importantly if you feel good about yourself and happy inside you don't need to use cosmetic products.”
It is also important to turn your mind off of tennis as much as possible, and not let your job consume your life. The fashion shoots help with that, but there are other ways that Daniela finds to relax. Like in the kitchen.

“I love cooking and I'm getting into it more and more,” she said. “It's really fun to do it for your friends and family and afterwards see how much they enjoy it. When I cook I get totally into it and forget everything else, so it's really becoming my hobby. Plus, because I've been travelling all the time since I was very young, it is nice to have home-made cooked meals and just stay in and enjoy it at home with everybody. Also I would love to have a restaurant one day but that's far ahead in the future.”

As well as a talent for tennis, Daniela excelled as a classical pianist when she was young and was good enough to perform in public. That was an intimidating experience, but it probably helped her in later years when she had to appear on Centre Court in front of thousands of spectators and millions more watching her every move on tv.

“I did some pretty big concerts, and I can tell you I’ve never, ever been so nervous in my life,” she said. “When I was about 13, 14, a couple of hundred at least would be watching, maybe a thousand. It was scary stuff, but it prepared me well for the tennis circuit so it was good.

“I really enjoyed playing. It was very difficult time-wise because I had my school in the morning, tennis practise, then piano, then tennis again and then study in the evening. So I was finishing my day at 11, 11.30. Every day was like that from eight o’clock in the morning, and I loved it because there wasn’t any one second I had some free time. I couldn’t understand the kids when they were saying they were so bored. I never knew anything like that.”

As well as being a talented pianist and an up-and-coming tennis star, Daniela was also a very bright student. She qualified for university, and had to make a decision about which path her life would take. A big responsibility, and not an easy one to make.

“Yes, it was a really tough one because after finishing high school I thought for sure I was going to continue, and I had some really good offers and studying always felt to me like it was part of my life. Especially for my parents it had been very important too, because with tennis you never know so you always have to have another option for if something happens to you. So it was kind of a tough one, but I knew if I wanted to do this (tennis) properly there wouldn’t be enough time for me to do both.”

She obviously made the right decision. She’s won four singles titles and nine in doubles, been ranked as high as five in the world in both disciplines, and she’s earned nearly $8 million in prize money. She’s been in the semi-finals of the Australian Open and the quarter-finals at both Wimbledon and the US Open. And when she won the mixed doubles title at Roland Garros in 2005 with Fabrice Santoro over opponents Martina Navratilova and Leander Paes she became only the fifth woman to win a mixed doubles title at all four Grand Slams.

Now she’s back at one of her favourite events to try and add to her glittering achievements.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: Won Pattaya in 2011, Indian Wells and Linz in 2007 and Indian Wells in 2002. Runner-up in Birmingham in 2011, Monterrey in 2010, Bali and Luxembourg in 2007, Zurich in 2006, Los Angeles in 2005, Eastbourne in 2004 and Filderstadt in 2002. Has nine doubles titles, and her runner-up finishes include the Australian Open in 2009 and 2002 and Roland Garros in 2006. Has won all four Grand Slams in mixed doubles.

2011 HIGHLIGHTS: Won Pattaya and was runner-up in Birmingham. Reached the semi-finals in Strasbourg and Eastbourne. In doubles, won Miami and reached the semi-finals at US Open.

Interview with Daniela Hantuchova.

Among the players who appeared for one on one interview session with the media, most stylish Daniela Hantuchova. Wearing a sexy blue dress, can detiksport chance conversation with the beautiful Slovakian origin.

After three years of fasting degree, Daniela Hantuchova in 2011 was returned to the trophy when appearing in the PTT Pattaya Open. The success that led him to qualify for Commonwelath Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali.

Hantuchova trip of the season is still far from stable. He managed to beat world number one tennis player Caroline Wozniacki at the French Open but had to settle for the runner-up status at the AEGON Classic, semifinalists Internationaux de Stratsbourg and AEGON International.

Here's an interview with Hantuchova detiksport at The Westin Resort:

detiksport (d): Hi, Daniela. How are your days in Bali? Still enjoying it?
Daniela Hantuchova (DH): Great. It's a beautiful place.

d: Create your, what makes tennis so interesting?
DH: This exercise you can do forever. Even people who are aged 80 years at the club could melalukannya the double game and if I do not play tennis I would dream of joining a club and continue playing. Tennis is a social sport, it's good exercise. Not because I am a tennis player, but I always thought that this is a fun sport.

d: Does that mean you will play tennis until old age?
DH: I'm not saying that. I probably will not keep playing tennis when it retires. But at age 50 or 60 you can re-take the racquet and start playing again.

d: When did you start playing tennis?
DH: When I was 5 years

d: What's your target in 2012?
DH: Of course back into the top 10. I think it's time I melaklukan it again.

d: Won the Grand Slam?
DH: Of course, but it's not the job can be done overnight. it's a long journey and it took hard work and I am ready to do what it takes to achieve it. Sometimes you also need a little luck, but sya think it comes along with the professionalism and coupled with providing the best in every game. After that we'll see what happens then.

d: Who tennis player who inspires you as a child?
DH: Miroslav Mecil. He is the origin of Czechoslovakia and Seoul gold medalist (1988 Olympics) to us. And that's the first time I saw tennis on television and it inspired me.

d: What is your favorite sport besides tennis?
DH: skiing, golf, walking

d: How often do you do these activities?
DH: Golf quite often, when I had a chance of course. But it must continue to move around (the world) makes me not have much time to do so. If you ski long enough I did not do it, but I love it. And if I do not play tennis I would definitely do it. it's a fun sport.

d: If you could switch places with another sports star, who would you choose?
DH: Roger Federer hahahahahaha .... you know he's won so many Grand Slam titles and world number one and nobody can do better than him. For that reason Federer at the top.
Personally he was also very down to earth, simple person and I really admire.

d: What about Novak Djokovic?
DH: He's great, people are funny. At monaco you could say our house next door. And we often meet there. And incredible what he achieved during the last 12 months. He deserved it all. The coach he is my close friend. I know he works very hard and because it deserved it.

d: Do you often watch a tennis match son?
DH: Of course. I very rarely even watch women's tennis ... hahahahaha I think the higher level and I can learn a lot from it. Especially if Roger, Rafa (Nadal) or Novak play. There are many games where we can learn a lot.

d: In addition to Roger Federer, who is your favorite male athlete?
DH: Besides Federer then he was Novak and Rafa.

d: Okay, Daniela. Thank you for the interview. Bebincang fun with you.
DH: Thank you, too. Fun to be here.

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