Daniela and Sabine might well make a good pairing, if only now and again when their more regular partners are absent. They don’t have the easiest draw this week though, with a potential second round match with Toronto champions Huber/Raymond.

Elsewhere, Radwanska’s shoulder injury has got worse and she has withdrawn from the singles in Cincinnati. As a result, Jankovic moves to Radwanska’s former spot in the draw, and will play Benesova. Wickmayer becomes number 17 seed and moves to Jankovic’s old spot, and will play qualifier Jovanovski (relief for Jankovic there I’d imagine). Finally, Wickmayer’s former place in the draw is filled by lucky loser Jill Craybas, which will certainly please Kuznetsova.

i'm sure that daniela and sabine will be a good team!

i just follow lisicki vs. peer at eurosport. so can we also see daniela's match later?

didn't mean ES with broadcasting daniela's match. maybe another channel? mh we will see...

Won by retirement...


Great, hope we will be able to watch her next match live.

A good quick win by Daniela, her stats were good and she dominated the match. It's always nice to have a quick match early on in a tournament.

The Spanish reports were that Dominguez Lino had a right foot injury.

2R Daniela vs Pennetta...

Pennetta had a good start to the year and had a good run to the semi in Dubai but she didn't win a match from the Indian Wells 2nd round until Rosmalen. She gave Bartoli a very tough match at Wimbledon and she's been winning matches at her recent tournaments although she's been beaten by players like Zahlalova Strycova and Brianti. Pennetta beat Kirilenko last week before losing to Voskoboeva who had a great run and Pavlyuchenkova here although I don't know if Kirilenko was fully fit and Pavlyuchenkova hasn't been playing that well recently and it seems like Pavlyuchenkova fell away in the third set judging by the stats.

Pennetta's won the last two matches against Daniela but Pennetta's form then was better than now, but she's still a good player and has to be respected. A win for Daniela would keep her momentum going and a good run here will give her a good seeding for the US Open. I'd have prefered Daniela to have had an earlier doubles match to give her a wee bit more time to rest so hopefully the doubles will be a quick win to keep Daniela and Sabine involved and having fun.

Having not seen the match it's difficult to say who played well and who didn't, but Sabine played some pretty awful tennis yesterday against Peer so perhaps she wasn't much better today.