Daniela trying to be solid but not executing...Doi has all the answers particularly on her forehand...

Daniela needs to hit more to the Doi backhand come to the net and serve alot better...

That was a really poor showing from Daniela. Doi was very solid but didn't need to play exceptionally as most of the points would end in a Daniela error.

A lot of her natural power has gone...I don't really know where Daniela can go from here...especially if she ends the year as badly as this...her current coach isn't helping as she is now playing too passive.

She looked very deflated and it was especially frustrating as she got off to a great start in the match only to be pegged back.

The same happened in the 2nd set where she had two break points in the 2nd game where she could have gone 2-0 up and momentum would have switched.

Daniela is better than this but maybe is the time to think about the future and having a family, working for charity...especially if she isn't able to end this year well.

The time to get really worried, eddy, is if Daniela gets an air rifle and goes shooting dogs with Ewan McGregor.

Two slightly good things. First, the match was over in time for me to turn my full attention across the Flushing Meadow parking lots to Citi Field and those first place New York Mets!
Second, Daniela won more games today than in her last two matches combined.

I was going to wait until tomorrow about this, but you guys beat me to it, so here goes. Keeping sentiment aside, here are some cold facts. In the last 59 days since being eliminated at Wimbledon, Dani has played four singles matches. Two, of course, were on consecutive days at Istanbul, where she last won, so it's actually 3 in 58 days. All were straight set losses, by a combined score of 36-11. I have no idea when she'll next play, so it's going to be something like 3 in 80 days. That's a lot of time off. Daniela has spent some of that time in Monte Carlo. It's one thing to miss a lot of time injured 5-10 years ago. Today, Daniela is a 32 year old, mature woman with a plethora of life after tennis options. She's won 20 combined titles, made $10 million, beaten all kinds of exceptional opponents. 3 matches in about 80 days is akin to semi-retirement. Dani is getting a good idea of what post-tennis life is like. She keeps getting hurt. She skipped doubles in a major. She is posting some deep, psychological stuff on Twitter and Facebook. Her ranking is headed below 100.
We don't need to speculate on this, guys. Daniela is already slowly fading out of the sport. A full retirement is hardly imminent. She will continue to play here and there, with Rio in her hopes. But the end game is well underway. Savor every last moment, fellow Daniela rooters.

Bench just beat Doi last night after saving 3 MPs. Daniela's loss doesn't feel so bad because Doi's played well this tournament rather than Daniela losing to whoever was on the other side of the net. Bencic-Doi was the most entertaining and dramatic match of the tournament as both players played well, there were so many switches of momentum.
Doi actually hit more winners than Bencic and she played really well for a lot of the match although she did freeze when she had the MPs and during the tiebreak. Mind you, Bencic went into meltdown in the second set after being 5-2 up but errors, Doi's good play and some contentious decisions from the umpire contributed to it but she regrouped just in time, helped by Doi blinking because Doi made errors on the match points.

Watson gave Serena Williams a hell of a match at Wimbledon, Tsurenko went on to win Istanbul, Mladenovic just lost to Halep in Cincinnati and Doi really should have beaten Bencic so the players that have beaten Daniela recently have all been playing very well that tournament and at least gave top players really tough battles in their next match.

Bencic was absolutely horrid in that match with Doi. An absolute embarrasment to women's tennis with her childish behaviour-she deserved to lose and would have done if Doi hadn't started spraying errors like confetti from MP up.

A Family Court Judge that I appeared in front of many times used to tell troubled youth that they need to make better choices who they hang with, and often said: "If you lie in bed with a baby, you'll probably wake up wet!" I guess Daniela needs to dry off and choose her hitting partners with care.

That last game by Vinci was so ridiculously good. Those half-volleys!