Confirmed Players

Ana Ivanovic 6
Eugenie Bouchard 7
Sara Errani 12
Jelena Jankovic 23
Caroline Garcia 30
Irina-Camelia Begu 33
Timea Bacsinszky 37
Roberta Vinci 38
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 40
Sloane Stephens 41
Alison Riske 43
Daniela Hantuchova 45
Magdalena Rybarikova 50
Monica Puig 51
Yaroslava Shvedova 52
Christina Mchale 53
Lauren Davis 55
Karin Knapp 57
Monica Niculescu 62
Zhang Shuai 66
Mirjana Lucic-Baroni 70
Jana Cepelova 71
Francesca Schiavone 72
Jovana Jaksic 131
Vera Zvonareva 160

Daniela's the 7th seed yet she's drawn Puig in the first round.

That's a nasty first rounder...hope she can get revenge from Rome last year..

Good luck Daniela!

Puig's definitely the toughest first rounder that Daniela could have gotten. She had good runs in Pattaya and Acapulco where she thrashed Errani so she'll be confident plus she beat Daniela last year in Rome so it won't be an easy match. Daniela's always gotten past the first round this year and she's had tougher openers against Errani and Diyas and she won them although Daniela wasn't seed at those tournaments. I can accept a tough draw for Daniela if she's unseeded but it's a little harder to accept when she's seeded. The draw's been made and as long as Daniela's fit then this is a match she can win and it'll be a good test ahead of Indian Wells.

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OK, after the previous six matches featured four 3-set, 2 hour plus irritations, Daniela's match begins at 11:20 PM Monterrey time. Rarely does this bode well, as we know. And away we go.
1st set
1-0 Daniela holds to 30.
1-1 Puig holds to 30.
2-1 Daniela holds to 30 after being down 0-30.
2-2 Puig holds to 0.
3-2 Daniela holds to 30. (Routine game. Up 30-0, Dani gets ace #1, followed by back-to-back double faults, then hangs on.)
3-3 Puig holds from deuce. Daniela had a BP.
4-3 Daniela holds to 15.
4-4 Puig holds to 15.
5-4 Daniela holds to 30.
5-5 Puig holds to 30.
6-5 Daniela holds to 0.
6-6 Puig holds from deuce. Daniela had one set point.
7-6 Daniela dominates the tiebreak, 7-1!
2nd set
0-1 Puig holds to 0.
0-2 Puig breaks from deuce, converting the first BP she's had.
1-2 Daniela breaks back to 15.
2-2 Daniela holds to 0.
2-3 Puig holds from deuce. Dani held off 3 game points.
3-3 Daniela holds to 30.
3-4 Puig holds from deuce. Daniela had a BP. Match is now over an hour and a half.
3-5 Puig breaks to 30. It's now 1:00 AM in Monterrey.
3-6 Puig holds to 15.
3rd set
0-1 Puig breaks to 30.
0-2 Puig holds to 30.
0-3 Puig breaks from deuce. Dani led 40-15. 2 DF'S, total of 9. She hasn't had an ad the entire night.
1-3 Daniela breaks from deuce. Finally had 3 ads. Puig saved one with her 6 this ace, then double faulted on the 3rd BP. Daniela was down 30-40.
2-3 Daniela holds to 15.
2-4 Puig holds to 0, finishing with her 7th ace.
3-4 Daniela holds to 0.
3-5 Puig holds from deuce. Dani had a BP, big chance missed.
4-5 Daniela holds to 30.
5-5 Daniela breaks at deuce. She saved 4 MP's! !
6-5 Daniela holds to 30. Is this really happening!?
7-5 OMG Daniela breaks from deuce on her 5th MP!!!!
This is the craziest party there could ever be ! How beyond amazing is our gal?

An absolutely amazing win by Daniela where she had to dig deep and come right back from the brink to win the match. This was all about fighting a refusing to lose and being able to shift the momentum from being a double break down in the 3rd set and then saving all these match points. It's pretty incredible to win from 40-0 down when the opponent' serving for it. Daniela's awesome.

What a match, what a woman!!!


Daniela's not playing today so she can get some rest and she'll really need some. She's playing Ursula Radwanska which will be tough as she's won the last three matches but Daniela's been getting revenge quite a lot over the past few months.


Thanks for the livescores, Alex.

I didn't see the match but what was Puig doing that was so bad, eddy?

Thanks for that, eddy. I've got to say that there are quite a few players that bother me more than Puig. I'm probably feeling a bit more generous towards her because Daniela beat her.

Daniela hit a great serve which Puig only got a frame to but was called out. Daniela challenged and was correct to challenge and the umpire gave point to Daniela. Puig went crazy saying the call came before she hit the ball

Seriously?

What a blockhead.

Did she argue with anyone after she double faulted her 3rd match point away?