I hope Dani have her own collection...right guys?...but her yellow outfit really fits her well

Petkovic has also the same outfit, yeasterday in Paris she had some problems with the top, when she got sweat it became to be slippery or something like that... dont hear everything she said about that... But today she wears some white top, she said she will have to change the top because it was very annoying for her.

Also I think Petkovic suits that quick kind of courts. She has beaten Daniela recently - in Brisbane, when Daniela had to play on some side court which was incredibly quick and the balls were just flying away... not at the Arena she got used to... and Petkovic had played couple of matches on that quick court before.... So Petkovic stopped the rot of Danis win in Brisbane after the really good win against Szavay.

But what I want to say is that its better that Daniela isnt playing in Paris now... There is a very quick court, too there. And now Petkovic is giving some hard time to Dementieva in Paris...

So indeed i think it is better for Dani shes not playing there and she will have more time to focus on practising for Dubai, more time to aclimate etc...

Its because they all are "dark types". But I like Daniela in that yellow outfit much more than the blue one she had last season. But Daniela would look in the red one even better cos shes blond and she would be much more expressive in contrast to red...

Daniela is back in doubles womens !
She will play with Elena Vesnina this week !


Doubles Draw

Black/Huber vs Bye
Senoglu/Shvedova vs Azarenka/Kuznetsova
Groenefeld/Schyder vs Dekmeijere/Garbin
Dzehalevich/Kudryatseva vs Makarova/Yan

Raymond/Stubbs vs Bye
Borwell/KopsJones vs Peschke/Srebotnik
Cirstia/Pavlyuchenkova vs Molik/Sfar
Chan/Zheng vs Mirza/Ruano Pascual

Kleybanova/Schiavone vs Grandin/Tu
Medina Garrigues/Wozniacki vs Peer/Voskoboeva
Hantuchova/Vesnina vs Bondarenko x2
Petrova/Stosur vs Bye

Kirilenko/Radwanska vs Amanmuradova/Kustova
Chuang/Govortsova vs Jans/Rosolska
Benesova/Pennetta vs Dushevina/Rodionova
Llagosrea Vives/Martinez Sanchez vs Bye

Well, Dementieva in 2nd round :/
yeah, 3rd round will be hard to reach
Bondarenko x2



I'm curious how well Daniela is going to play with Vesnina.

Daniela's got Vesna Manasieva of Russia in the first round. She beat Llagostera Vives in qualifying. Manasieva beat Medina Garrigues in Portoroz last year and she gave Bacsinszky a tough match at Wimbledon losing 8-6 in the third set. Most of the time she's been on the ITF circuit.
Read all about her:

Daniela should win easily enough.

Dementieva will be a very difficult match in the second round, but Daniela's beaten her in the past and played well against her in Sydney - Daniela was the only player to take a set off her - and Dementieva's had some tough matches in Paris so could be tired or have a letdown in Dubai. The way to look at it is as a great chance for Daniela to get a big win which would give her a lot of confidence and give her a great chance of a run here. Daniela's got nothing to lose against Dementieva although she has to get past Manasieva first.

It feels like forever since Daniela has played a meaningful match (the Fed Cup match was such a breeze, I almost don't count it). I'm looking forward to tomorrow.

Daniela wins first set in Dubai 6 - 4 against Vesna Manaseva.

Anybody found a livestream today??