Fingers crossed she's ok for Roland Garros. Her serve wasn't strong throughout yesterdays match. In fact the 3rd set she served slightly faster tbh and had a ace on the 2nd serve.

I repeat:

I don't know who is advising her to shoot TV programs in the build up to a Grand Slam,but they need to be fired pronto.

To be fair, this must be giving her more money than all of those 1st round losses.

I do not think she was ever poor. Doesn't she come from a well-off family? Both of her parents having a university degree. Besides, she was a classical trained pianist, which is not usual for poor children.

And in all fairness, I do not think Daniela's out of court endeavours have ever affected her tennis focus, ever. I think she knows how to plan herself (her tournament scheduling is appalling, though). Why not take extra money and fun when tennis isn't going great? It's good to keep herself balanced.

I think to a big extent this tournament was the preparation and warm-up for Roland Garros. Daniela spent a week preparing for the Fed Cup in Moscow which was incredibly important to her, she was preparing in Madrid for a week beforehand and she was training hard in Rome so if she takes a couple of days off for a photoshoot and to do a TV show then she has earned the right to do so. The TV show was recorded on Friday which was three days before she played and she was practising in Strasbourg on Sunday. I'm sure that Daniela will be preparing well for Roland Garros.

Daniela spent more than a week in Queensland preparing before the season started in Australia and she beat Errani in Brisbane, she spent a week in Las Vegas at the adidas camp before Indian Wells and she was in Madrid for a week preparing before the tournament started where she got a top 20 & a top 10 win, so she's been very diligent in her build up to the big tournaments this year and generally that preparation has paid off in her biggest wins this year. Daniela's had disappointing losses this year but generally they've been in tournaments like Marrakech and Strasbourg that aren't that important relatively speaking.

By Czechoslovakian standards, Daniela's family would have been middle, if not upper-middle, class. Her father was a professor and her mother was a toxicologist which are high status professions in any society. Her living standards will have improved a bit since then.