Daniela starts with Olga Puchkova who she beat in three sets in Pattaya. Assuming the Fed Cup didn't take too much out of her Daniela should win this. The second round would be against Oprandi, who's the eighth seed, or Soler-Espinosa. This tournament is a good opportunity for Daniela to go on a run but we've got to take it one match at a time.

Daniela & Medina Garrigues are top seeds in the doubles and they start with Dabrowski & Kudryavtseva.


Singles draw:

Doubles draw:

Daniela's the first match on centre court starting at 11am.

Her doubles math is last on Court 2 after a couple of singles matches.

Is all going wrong here.

Got it back to 5-5 but then got broken again..urgh 5-6, this could be another heartbreaker..

Lost 63 67 57 I dont how this keeps happening. Fought for over 3 hours. Such a good draw too but maybe should have withdrawn like cibulkova did.

Excruciating, agonizing. How long we have waited for this clay season and Dani making up points. Please don't tell me this is going to be the way it is the whole time. Worse, this was her last chance to realistically get to 500 before Sharapova. Anyone know some curse words in Slovakian?

This is really disappointing. I suppose all the tough matches in Moscow plus the travelling took a lot out of Daniela. It has to be absolutely gutting to her to fight for 3 hours and come up short, especially after the weekend. Bloody Russians.
Daniela lost another tiebreaker and she hasn't won a tiebreaker since she beat Zheng in Cincinnati. Her tiebreak record has been terrible and it's cost her so many matches.

Daniela's a strong and resilient woman and she's always bounced back in the past. We'll see if she plays in Estoril next week and with a bit of rest she can hopefully go on a run there. She doesn't have any points to defend until Eastbourne and there are so many tournaments where she can go on a run and get her ranking back up.

Guys, what are we to make of our gal that we love? I'm certain that Daniela had more than one chance to win over Puchkova, and would be the first to heap criticism on herself for it. But, my goodness, after that agonizing, 3 hr+ match (in what I'm sure were not nice and cool conditions) on the heels of the gut-wrenching Sunday, she drags herself to the doubles court with a mere little over 2 hrs. rest and gets it done the Daniela-bel way! How many of her peers would have begged out with an exaggerated or non-existant injury? How many more ways are there for her to show us her huge heart and her professionalism? Dani must have, after 3 straight crushing defeats, enjoyed facing people she could crush like a grape! (I could add that she probably liked playing with a doubles partner she could count on, but I would never ever say anything in the Forum that could get things stirred up! Cross my heart!) Let's see if Daniela can take a good run at doubles title #10.
Did you know that had Dani won both singles and doubles here, she would have, on the same day, gained win #500, singles title #6, doubles title #10, and career title total, countng mixed, #20!? (Hmmmmm, now my cover's blown. The Styx hit song "Too Much Time On My Hands" was written about me )

Seems a bit moot now,but for the record Dani/AMG lost to Scheepers/Savchuk 4-6 3-6. According to Mladenovic's WTA blog,conditions were atrocious yesterday-blistering heat allied with strong swirling winds,so maybe that explains another troubling defeat.