Daniela faces lucky loser Lesia Tsuernko in the first round with Stephanie Voegele or qualifier Yulia Putintseva awaiting in round two should she progress. Daniela is drawn to meet number one seed Roberta Vinci in the quarter finals but should be full of confidence after her week in Birmingham.

Incidentally, the last time Daniela met Tsuernko was as a lucky loser in the Brisbane quarter finals earlier this year, with Tsuernko winning in straight sets. Their head to head currently stands at 1-1 with Daniela beating Tsurenko at the 2012 Australian Open in three sets.

In the doubles draw, Daniela is partnered by the Czech, Andrea Hlavackova and the pair are the number one seeds, receiving a first round bye. They will face an all Spanish pairing of Dominquez Lino/Muruguza or Soler-Espinosa/Suarez Navarro in the second round.

We all know that Daniela hasn't won back-to-back tourneys, so that would be astounding, but I'm not ready to start dissing any of her potential opponents. That's a hard learned lesson from many years ago. Gotta say that I'm still glowing inside over the win. That brought her career total, singles, doubles and mixed, to 19 titles. 20 would be a nice, round number. Maybe this week, Dani can actually complete the doubles portion of a tournament, and with Hlavackova, maybe she gets to the 20 mark that way. Hey, after last week, we are allowed to dream again!
My darling daughters bought me a Kindle for Father's Day. I'm going to figure out how it can get live scores straight from the WTA site. I have appreciated Livescorehunter on my crummy phone, but it did some frustrating things last week. Like having another match in progress at centre court just when Dani was ready to face Schaivone, leading to minutes of anxiety that she had withdrawn or something before they fixed it. Then yesterday, they had Vekic up 6-5 in the tiebreak, which never happened, but it led to more anxious moments. I'll be happy to not have to deal with that hardly ever again.
Just wondering...do any of you guys do totally senseless things in the superstitious hope that it somehow will help Daniela? I read yours, monmon. My computer would crash if I listed everything this Maniac does, but here's two that I do believe helped Dani's cause greatly in Birmingham. First, I adjusted how often scores were updated...every 6 minutes at :06 seconds, for the obvious reason. Then, there's a folder I keep with clippings and Internet stories about our gal's successes. It had been in the basement. At the start of last week, it was brought upstairs and placed atop the computer tower. Voila! What are some of yours?

I love it, eddy! We are kindred spirits! I use the walk out of the room as well, only after a set is lost. Give it 15 minute time out! And, even if I'm watching a replay of a match I know Daniela's won, I fast-forward through lost games. There's too many more to count!

Daniela's the first match on Court 1 tomorrow, 11 am start.

Thanks for saving me some time, Chungwit. I was going to check on Daniela's longest win streak.
According to the schedule I just saw on the WTA site, Dani's match is 2nd up after one between guys named Llodra and Paire. I'll stand corrected if that's incorrect.

Very sad. I assume it's the ankle she injured against Schiavone?

Me thinks she might just be exhausted, that score line seemed more like a resulto of lack of stamina. I bet she hand't withdrawn before because she had a WC.

Hope she rests and is healthy for Wimbledon.