Daniela's second serve was horrific today. And at this level you can't afford to give away breaks with DF's.

Still a great tournament this week.

It was a great missed chance. Final=Top20. Never mind. Next stop after Fed Cup is Stuttgart, facing Top players. She can enter Top 20 before Warsaw points off.

Having watched the highlights again,you could see how much her back was bothering her on her serve-she hit a first serve that didn't reach the net!

I'm watching a replay of the game now. It's early days but Stosur really came out of the blocks strong. I'm disappointed with the defeat, but i genuinely thought that Stosur would have too many weapons for Daniela on this surface especially given their respective paths to the semi final. Stosur's serve is really well suited to this surface because the green clay gives a lot jump, so i imagine this would have given Daniela a pretty big head ache.

Hopefully Daniela's back is hampering her serve because her second serve, judging by the statistics, really wasn't up to scratch today. My suspicion is that Stosur was all over it with her forehand.

All in all this is a very positive tournament for Daniela. She notched up a great win against a top ten player and performed well against someone who's just outside the top ten in Stosur (inside the top ten after this tournament i'm assuming) - both of whom have much better clay court pedigree than Daniela.

Still watching the game, and in typical Eurosport fashion, they've fast forwarded to Daniela being 5:2 up in the second. So i can't even comment on any of her good play - although, serving for it at 5:3 and unable to take it out
Ah well, again very encouraging tournament. Daniela has given us a lot to cheer about lately. Hopefully she'll take care of herself physically so we can see her play like this for the remainder of the season.

One annoyance i guess this week is Daniela's inability to serve out sets. She struggled in Melbourne against Li and she struggled against JJ and Stosur this tournament. It's that intangible nerve that Daniela has never had large amounts of that you gather are stopping her being solid in these moments, but at the same time her serve.... you feel like if she just gained 5% or even 1% then she'd really find that extra spark to see her return to the top ten.

Oh well, over and out for this tournament. Rest up, Daniela. Well played.

Well, on a positive note, she lost to a higher-ranked player, who's much better on clay than she is. Stosur made in the semis at Roland Garros last year after all. The one thing that keeps lingering is Daniela's continued difficulties to close out sets, or even worse, matches. Hopefully Darren Cahill or her new coach will be able to do something about that. It would make all the difference.

Dani Falls To Sam in SFs

2010-04-17
Playing in the semifinals of the Family Circle Cup for the first time in her career, Daniela put up a valiant fight but ultimately fell to Samantha Stosur in a tight two-setter, 63 76(2). After losing the first set, Daniela held a 5-2 lead in the second set with two set points at 5-4; but Stosur served her way out of trouble and ended up closing her out.

"I thought Sam played a really great match today. She was serving unbelievably and she's in such good form," Daniela said. "I had a great week in Charleston. I gave my best. I had some tough physical matches but kept fighting until the end."

"I can take a lot of positives from this whole trip - I played well in Mexico, Miami too... Now I'm just going to recover, maybe sleep a lot for a week I'll get some treatment the next few days too."

Daniela said she is looking forward to the European clay court season more than usual this year: "It's probably my toughest surface to play on but I'm really excited about it, probably more excited than ever before... Fingers crossed I can get back to Europe soon... the situation isn't looking very good!"



Hantuchova wants to quickly home to načerpala forces in Fed Cup

CHARLESTON - The situation prior to next week's meeting, Belgrade, Serbia - Slovakia to participate in the first World Group 2011 Fed Cup tennis women's representative teams are increasingly thickened. Home number two Ana Ivanović earlier announced its long-term decline for lack of form. Second singlistka hostiek Dominika Cibulkova the last week in Ponte Vedra Beach weaknesses and wounding at least until Tuesday to be treated.

Unit selection Balkan Jelena Jankovic after losing in the quarterfinals Friday in Charleston delegated to playing with a sore left hand. Srbkina premožiteľka and team leader of Slovakia Daniela Hantuchova after Saturday's semi-final reverse against Australian Samantha Stosur said: "Today my decision a little tired. Doľahla to me when I was certain the ball late. Moreover, I had back problems in addition to the arm, I administered so to seventy percent. I woke up and I barely raised his hand. Physiotherapists, although trying to do what is possible, but I felt awful. "hurt you back in mid-March in Indian Wells, California, it rang again on Thursday Nemko duel with Angelique Kerber."
Jankovic paralyzed for air transport under the influence of volcanic activity in Iceland have already thought of a joke - Bradentone stuck in Florida - the submarine. Hantuchova has also Transportation problem: "It is shortly after the match, so I have not had time to establish something, but it does not look too pink, rather dosť wrong. I hope to get home as quickly as possible, where I was almost two months. Tie was very long and I definitely go for my doctor, because the spine is not in the best condition and are now being added to the shoulder. I need to put together healthy, well relax and get power, that I was as fresh as possible for the Fed Cup matches. While it is somehow the main transported to Europe at all."
@ google translation.

This back problem of Daniela's is really doing my head in Why is it whenever she starts to play well her body starts failing on her?