Well, she has played maybe two top 50 players since then, so she hasn't had many opportunities to beat them. Which is understandable as not many higher ranked players participate on the ITF circuit. And there her results have been very good (she's been sweeping her opposition lately), besides I saw her in Budapest playing Cornet not so long ago and she was scary at times hitting winners at will from any position on the court. Cornet grind out a win thanks to her superb defensive play (and accurate fh topspin - it was played on clay), which is something Daniela can't rely on.
The reason why the German is ranked so low was a difficult relationship with her former coach, but that is behind her and now she is playing much better. She is a former top 20 and a GS quarterfinalist, and once again tennis is mainly about match ups and Groenefeld isn't a good one for Daniela. It will be tough given Daniela's current form. I will be stunned if she drops less than 11 games and then will claim that I know nothing about tennis.

I'll hold you to that.
ALG won five games v. Cornet, so how good could she have played? You saw the match, but the scoreline is one-sided. 30-4 sounds impressive until you realize all but one of those tournaments are on clay. And only two of those wins came over players ranked higher than 112. Daniela (or any other top player) would have awesome results against scrub opposition on their favorite surface. For one, Daniela is 17-2 in matches versus players outside the top 100 the last two years (not counting the loss to Davenport who was 294 at the time). The losses were to Sprem (injured and on clay) and to Vinci (no excuses there). In the 17 wins, Daniela lost a total of one set (to Cibulkova).

Doubles Draw (Dankas half)

Victoria Azarenka/Shahar Peer [6] vs. Nadia Petrova/Francesca Schiavone
Anna-Lena Groenefeld/Patty Schnyder vs. Vania King/Alla Kudryavtseva
Timea Bacsinszky/Alize Cornet vs. Dominika Cibulkova/Virginie Razzano
Petra Kvitova/Gabriela Navratilova vs. Iveta Benesova/Galina Voskoboeva [12]

Elena Vesnina/Vera Zvonareva [13] vs. Jill Craybas/Olga Govortsova
Mariya Koryttseva/Tatiana Perebiynis vs. Lindsay Davenport/Daniela Hantuchova
Sabine Lisicki/Aravane Rezai vs. Magdalena Rybarikova/Ipek Senoglu
Sara Errani/Karin Knapp vs. Katarina Srebotnik/Ai Sugiyama [4]

Alona Bondarenko/Kateryna Bondarenko [7] vs. Akgul Amanmuradova/Darya Kustova
Natalie Grandin/Aleksandra Wozniak vs. Alisa Kleybanova/Ekaterina Makarova
Vera Dushevina/Ekaterina Dzehalevich vs. Eleni Daniilidou/Jasmine Woehr
Emilie Loit/Pauline Parmentier vs. Lisa Raymond/Samantha Stosur [10]

Nuria Llagostera Vives/Maria Jose Martínez Sánchez [14] vs. Gail Brodsky/Mallory Cecil
Tatiana Poutchek/Anastasia Poutchek vs. Barbora Strycova/Klara Zakopalova
Maria Elena Camerin/Gisela Dulko vs. Jamie Hampton/Coco Vandeweghe
Marina Erakovic/Jelena Kostanic Tosic vs. Kveta Peschke/Rennae Stubbs [2]

That's what I mean, everything is possible with Daniela.
Who among us expected Daniela lost in the first round last year to someone who kept playing like craps before. And then all of sudden, her opponent played so well and Daniela just kept going downhill throughout the match.
I just hope Daniela gets a good preparation this time and plays consistently the whole match. For me, I don't look further than one match at a time with her situation right now.

Anna Chakvetadze lost in the first round today and lost 448 ranking points with it. (She's my fourth fave).

On the plus side, Daniela is guaranteed to move in front of her in the rankings.

On the plus side, I'll be watching.

there is live stream?

livestream anyone?

4-4 no breaks and then she lose her serve
4-5*

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4-6