Oh daniela, how many losses in row to end the year?

Hope she realizes she did very good for some time. I think she needs to reduce her tourney count, and maybe play a few key MM. Injuries took her form away this year.

Rest up, danka!

Darn it I missed this bonus match! What a bizarre situation. By agreeing to play does that mean daniela gets 4th place points? If she had won would she have gotten 3rd place points?!

How confusing!


I would imagine Lisicki will still get her fourth place points. Daniela probably just stepped in to get another match and to please the crowds.

This match against Petrova shows how much Daniela's injuries have affected her level. She bear Petrova pretty easily in Strasbourg in May and in Miami last year and you also look at Daniela's matches against Pennetta this year. As it was an exhibition with nothing really at stake I'm not really sure how motivated Daniela was for this match and I don't think she wanted to risk further injury or really play through pain in an essentially meaningless match.

I wonder how good this year could have been for Daniela if she'd been healthy the entire year because she had that heel injury in Australia, she was playing great on grass but had injuries and she's been blighted by injury ever since Cincinnati. Daniela's had some great wins and performances and if she has a good offseason and gets healthy then she can have a good 2012.


And finally, Daniela Hantuchova, who has enjoyed coming to Bali for many years.

"I think everybody’s going to miss it. It’s very sad," she said. "It’s unfortunate because I think everybody that has ever been here enjoys coming back. It’s such a wonderful place to play a tournament.

"It makes you so relaxed and I think makes you play so much better because there’s just no distractions and we’re enjoying every minute of it. I think we’re all going to miss it. You don’t get a feeling like this anywhere else." @