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Author:  chungwit [ 14. August 2015 23:34 ]
Post subject:  Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Dates: 17 - 23 August 2015 image
Venue: Cincinnati, USA
Tier: Premier
Prize Money: $2,400,490
Surface: Hard/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Vince Cicero

Official website: www.wsopen.com


Last Appearance: 2014 1st round. Lost to Ekaterina Makarova 6-2 6-2

Singles:
1R: Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) bt Daniela Hantuchova 6-2 6-1
Author:  chungwit [ 14. August 2015 23:43 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
2015 Player Entry list

Serena Williams USA 1
Petra Kvitova CZE 2
Simona Halep ROU 3
Maria Sharapova RUS 4
Caroline Wozniacki DEN 5
Lucie Safarova CZE 6
Ana Ivanovic SRB 7
Ekaterina Makarova RUS 8
Carla Suarez Navarro ESP 9
Angelique Kerber GER 10
Karolina Pliskova CZE 11
Eugenie Bouchard CAN 12
Agnieszka Radwanska POL 13
Andrea Petkovic GER 14
Timea Bacsinszky SUI 15
Venus Williams USA 16
Elina Svitolina UKR 17
Sabine Lisicki GER 18
Sara Errani ITA 19
Garbiñe Muguruza ESP 20
Madison Keys USA 21
Belinda Bencic SUI 22
Samantha Stosur AUS 23
Victoria Azarenka BLR 24
Svetlana Kuznetsova RUS 25
Flavia Penneta ITA 26
Alize Cornet FRA 27
Barboa Strycova CZE 29
Jelena Jankovic SRB 30
Irina-Camelia Begu ROU 31
Camila Giorgi ITA 32
Caroline Garcia FRA 33
Zarina Diyas KAZ 34
Roberta Vinci ITA 35
Madison Brengle USA 36
Sloane Stephens USA 37
Kristina Mladenovic FRA 38
Daria Gavrilova RUS 39
Dominika Cibulkova SVK 45

WTA Main Draw Wild Cards
CoCo Vandeweghe
Ali Riske
Daniela Hantuchova

Note: Rankings are as of the entry deadline, July 6. Commitment list does not include all wild cards and qualifiers.
Author:  chungwit [ 14. August 2015 23:56 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
We'll just see how Daniela does here. Daniela missed the last two weeks ill which really derailed the momentum she'd built during the grass season and we don't know how healthy or fit she is and she was sluggish in Istanbul as well. She'd be the underdog against most of the other players. Getting into the main draw is great but Daniela would be more likely to get wins in qualifying than the main draw but she's in the main draw and you never know what can happen and what Daniela can make happen. The good thing is that she doesn't have any points to defend here so any run will boost her ranking. Hopefully she's rested and refreshed and able to play well.
Author:  Alex Isabel [ 15. August 2015 03:53 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
At the beginning of the year, one of the things I wanted to see Daniela do was reach 550 career wins. So while it's terrific she got a wild card here, I get what you're saying, Chungwit. A couple of wins in qualifying would have got her closer to the 550 mark and given her a handful of points. With the wild card, watch her draw Serena first. (The way Wozniacki and Bouchard are going, it would be neat to catch either of them in the first round.) Yet being granted the wild card shows that Dani clearly remains a player of stature in the sport, and that tourney organizers still see her as one who will put fannies in the seats. I'm very cool with that.
Author:  eddy [ 15. August 2015 15:27 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Daniela's got Mladenovic first round which I don't think we can complain too much about considering the field and the fact Daniela should really be playing qualifiers. Halep awaits in 2nd so Cincinatti will probably be a short visit however you never know with Daniela she can always surprise us all.
Author:  chungwit [ 15. August 2015 15:33 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Daniela's got Kristina Mladenovic in the first round and the winner of the play 3rd seed Halep in the second round. Mladenovic is a decent enough first round although she's 25th in the race and she's beaten Muguruza and Halep this year so it won't be easy. Daniela had an epic win against Mladenovic when she won Birmingham in 2013 and put Mladenovic into a slump for about a year so that could give Daniela a psychological advantage but Mladenovic has been playing well this year and she'll be confident. It's winnable but it won't be easy.

Haley would be a very tough opponent in the second round but Daniela has to take things one match at a time here.
Author:  chungwit [ 16. August 2015 16:08 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Daniela's practising with Karin Knapp on Court 14 at 6pm. Whether that means they're playing doubles together again or they're just practising together we'll find out when the doubles draw comes out. They got on well and were a decent team but Daniela and Sam Stosur were good as well, especially at Roland Garros, so we'll see what Daniela does in doubles, if she plays. It wouldn't shock me if Daniela played with someone else entirely.
Author:  chungwit [ 16. August 2015 18:01 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Doubles draw is out and Daniela's not playing. If she's coming back from illness she probably wants to concentrate on singles and give herself as much time for rest and recovery as possible. Knapp's still with Vinci but Stosur isn't playing.
Author:  Alex Isabel [ 16. August 2015 22:59 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Belinda Bencic won in Toronto when, after splitting 2 tiebreaker sets and 2 1/2 hours, Halep withdrew due to heat exhaustion. It will be interesting to see how many days off Cincinnati gives her. If we go by what we always suspect ( :D ), it will be one if Mladenovic wins, two if Daniela does!
Author:  chungwit [ 17. August 2015 01:34 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Daniela's not playing tomorrow so she's got an extra day to prepare. She's been practising so she's over her illness but we want her to be as fit and healthy as possible.
Author:  Alex Isabel [ 18. August 2015 02:24 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Daniela is on Court 10, first match, shortly after 11AM Cincinnati time. I would've liked to have posted this hours ago, but they didn't release the schedule until a few minutes ago.
Author:  chungwit [ 18. August 2015 14:52 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Daniela practised on Court 10 at 9am for half an hour, so she's had a chance to get used to the court. Mladenovic followed her at 9:30.
Author:  chungwit [ 18. August 2015 16:53 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
It's not looking too good for Daniela at the moment, she's just been broken in her first service game of the second set after having three GPS. 6-2 2-0 to Mladenovic.

3-0, Mladenovic holds to 0. Daniela has to hold next game as she's made no impression on Mladenovic's serve. A double break is too just big a deficit.
4-0, Mladenovic breaks to 0.
5-0, Mladenovic holds to 30. This is going to be one of the greatest ever comebacks for Daniela to win from here.
5-1, Daniela holds from 0-40 winning 5 straight points.
6-1, Mladenovic serves out to 15.
Author:  eddy [ 18. August 2015 17:00 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
This is a complete thrashing.

I guess Daniela needed another week to practice...Daniela's serving and returning stats are abysmal...and Kiki's serve is on fire...
Author:  chungwit [ 18. August 2015 17:24 ]
Post subject:  Re: Western & Southern Open, Cincinnati
Ouch, that was absolute slaughter today. The serve was a huge difference today as Mladenovic won 76% of her service points ( 75% 1st, 78% second) while Daniela won only 48% of her service points. In the first set Daniela's first serve was really good as she was 9/11 (81%) won but she only got 52% in andshe was 3/10 on her second serve. In the games she held in the first set she got lots of first serves in, but in the games she was broken she didn't get first serves in and her second serve was punished. In the second set she looks like she took a little off the first serve to get more in as she got 79% in but only won 42% while she was 2/5 on second serve, Mladenovic was 8/8 2nd serve points won in the second set.

I wonder if Daniela's still sick because she's only won 5 games in her last two matches and while Tsurenko and Mladenovic are good players, she shouldn't beat Daniela that easily. I relied on the live scores so I don't know if Mladenovic was amazing or Daniela was bad or if it was a combination of the two. The only part of Daniela's game that was good was her first serve in the first set, in everything else Mladenovic was an awful lot better. I hope it was because Mladenovic was incredibly good today.
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