The depressing thing about this is that I'm not really surprised by the result. I thought it would be difficult when Daniela was drawn against Keys as Keys is one of the best young players and she's only a few places below Daniela in the rankings so I knew it would be a tough match and it was. Keys' serve was much better than Daniela's and was able to gain control of rallies from that. By all accounts Keys played very well today.
Hopefully Daniela can do something in doubles. A positive right now is that she only has Madrid & Birmingham to defend until the US Open and as long as she can get healthy again then she should start playing well again sometime.

OK, guys, here goes nothing……which I hope ends up something!

Set 1
1-0 Daniela/Arantxa break at deciding point from 15-40 down.
1-1 Jurak Lucic break at deciding point after leading 40-0.
1-2 Jurak/Lucic hold to 30.
2-2 Daniela/Arantxa hold to 15.
2-3 Jurak/Lucic hold to 15.
3-3 Daniela/Arantxa hold at love.
3-4 Jurak/Lucic hold to 30.
4-4 Daniela/Arantxa hold to 30.
4-5 Jurak/Lucic hold to 30.
4-6 Jurak/Lucic break to 15.

Set 2
1-0 Daniela/Arantxa break to 15.
1-1 Jurak/Lucic break on deciding point after being up 40-0.
1-2 Jurak/Lucic hold to 30.
2-2 Daniela/Arantxa hold on deciding point, saving 2 break points.
2-3 Jurak/Lucic hold to 30.
3-3 Daniela/Arantxa hold at love.
3-4 Jurak/Lucic hold to 15.
(This is an nearly exact duplicate of the first, and I can't much see anything but the same result.)
3-5 Daniela/Arantxa broken on deciding point.
4-5 Semi-miracle: Daniela/Arantxa break at deciding point, saving 3 match points.
4-6 Daniela/Arantxa broken on deciding point, dropping 3 game points.

I miss Daniela. A lot. I don't know who has been going out there for awhile, but it ain't her.

I wonder if Daniela would probably have been better off skipping doubles in Miami & Indian Wells when she's coming back from injury. Having said that, she lost her singles matches before she played doubles both times and I think she just wants to have some time on court and to play. I hope that Daniela can recuperate over the next week and that she can do something in Charleston.

I wonder if Daniela came back too soon. She's done that before. If she needs more time, I wish she would take it. We all will gladly wait until she is fully healed and can resemble herself out there.

This is year is horrible so far. I hope she can keep her head up high and continue.

I think she needed to take some more off time for that injury.

I'm definitely a bit on the pessimistic bandwagon as of late with Daniela, but her recent Facebook message is very heartwarming,

"Hey everyone,I know my results haven't been what I wished for the last couple of weeks and there is no excuse for that but I'm doing all I can to come back better then before.Tennis and sport in general is sometimes very hard to understand when u know u putting all the hard work in but you don't see any results.And the only way about it is to keep working hard.Found a nice sentence this morning to share with you,let me know what you think:)!hughs dani"



I'm happy she still wants to keep going.

Cibulkova should thank Daniela for getting rid of Liptak. Daniela was playing so well under him but she got injured at the end of 2011 and then replaced him. She compounded it by hiring Pistolesi, who's basically the David Moyes of tennis, well Moyes was good at Everton, Pistolesi has never been good. She suffered the double whammy of the stress fracture two years ago and she's never been the same since. Daniela's played an awful lot of tennis over the years, she's had the most three setters of any active player and she's played a lot of doubles as well. Her career path follows the traditional pattern of playing her best from her teens to her mid 20s and things are getting tougher as she approaches 31. At the same time the current top 2 are in their 30s, I wonder how they do it.

Daniela hasn't lost to a really bad player since the Australian Open. She lost to Serena Williams, Shazza, Kerber and Ivanovic before her knee injury and while Lepchenko isn't that good she did beat Jankovic here so she's in decent form, while Keys is one of the best young players. As long as Daniela can get healthy and can get some decent draws she can build some momentum and form and Lundgren is a good coach. Daniela will stay strong and stay positive and she'll be able to turn this around.

You and me both, eddy.

Hingis doubled faulted away the match in the US Open which of course was Daniela's fault. Hingis's serve was terrible when she played doubles with Daniela and a lot of the time she was really average.

Lisicki withdrew from the singles but she's healthy enough for doubles. They saved 7 MPs in the quarter final. I honestly couldn't be arsed with Hingis winning this tournament so she will.

Daniela won the doubles here in 2011. Daniela never had the chance to play with a really good doubles last year as she withdrew before she played with Hradecka & Hlavackova, she played only one match with Hsieh and had to withdraw when she played with Vesnina and they all won Slams last year. Playing with them would have given a much better indication of Daniela's level in doubles is than playing with Hingis.

The thing about Cibulkova's success is that she's doing it with Daniela's old coach.

Well, it's daniela's fault for being so quickly to jump coaches, I thought Litapk was very good for her.

And Hingis won doubles... ha.

I hope she can turn her year around at some point.