Wozniaki is a frustrating player. She's a pusher with little to no shot making. I saw her play in New Haven last year in the final and she was the most boring player to watch. She's attractive but her tennis game is a snoozefest. I could easily see her style frustrating Daniela.

It's disappointing to see the end the result, but i'm pretty happy with Daniela's performance this tournament (first time in a while). I can't speak much for the end of the second set (because i left the score board), but the games were going so quickly. Even when Daniela was being broken, the games never went to deuce in the first set. I imagine that Daniela couldn't find a whole lot of rhythm, to sustain any type of good play. But by all accounts you'd suspect that Daniela would be making the plays as opposed to feeling rushed with the plays that Woz was playing, but in any case it seemed that Daniela wasn't given much of a chance to settle into this match.

I haven't seen any unforced errors / winners statistics but i suspect that Daniela didn't play poorly, seen as how i can remember her first serve percentage being pretty healthy during the first set, despite being broken. Usually the state of Daniela's (anyone's game really) game can be judged from how well she's serving. I'm not sure if Wozniacki is a player that Daniela is ever going to be able to beat on clay, especially not without a struggle so from that stand point i'm not really bothered by the result either.

Onto the next tournament. Anyone know what kind of a boost this will give to Daniela's ranking? Btw, i'm really hoping she keeps playing some smaller tournaments.

From the Caro subforum on tennisforum. We have an eye-witness:

Caro looked good in the Hantuchova match. Her first serve has become quite a weapon. She also, while still mixing it up, is hitting her groundstrokes with considerably more power than a year ago. She also knocked off some nice vollies. Her game is really progressing and she is obviously enjoying herself on court. Of course as we all know, Dani hasn`t had her best form in quite some time and she was missing a lot of backhand down the line attempts. But this takes nothing from Caro who is playing well here.

Daniela said something in lines that she should have been more agressive, that her play wasn't good, but it was a better match than the Olympics one. She's looking forward to playing on the red clay in Europe (Fed Cup, Stuttgart, Rome, Madrid).

It's a little disappointing that Daniela wasn't a bit more competitive against Wozniacki but Wozniacki played very well and that's the level Daniela has to get to to be a top player again. She's not there yet but I feel that she is getting there and she had some wins this week that will help her and give her confidence.

There are a lot of points for Daniela to gain over the next few months, she can take positives from this tournament as she beat a top 40 player for the first time this year and she played well in doing so. There are still improvements to be made and Daniela isn't at her best, but she's not complacent about that. As long as Daniela keeps working and stays positive she'll do well.