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| Author: | chungwit [ 26. February 2017 18:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Dates: 27 February - 4 March 2017  Venue: Acapulco, Mexico Tier: International Prize Money: $226,750 Surface: Hard/Outdoors Tournament Director: Raul Zurutuza Official website: www.abiertomexicanodetenis First Appearance Singles: 1R: [WC] Daniela Hantuchova bt Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) 4-6 6-3 6-2 2R: [4] Monica Puig (PUR) bt [WC] Daniela Hantuchova 6-4 6-4 |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 26. February 2017 18:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
PLAYERS AMT2017 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 22 | Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Age: 24 Country: Rusia Monica Nicolescu 35 | Monica Niculescu Age: 29 Country: Rumania Jelena Ostapenko 33 | Jelena Ostapenko Age: 19 Country: Letonia Christina McHale 42 | Christina McHale Age: 24 Country: USA Monica Puig 46 | Monica Puig Age: 23 Country: Puerto Rico Kristina Mladenovic 51 | Kristina Mladenovic Age: 23 Country: Francia Eugenie Bouchard 44 | Eugenie Bouchard Age: 22 Country: Canada Sara Errani 49 | Sara Errani Age: 29 Country: Italy Andrea Petkovic 51 | Andrea Petkovic Age: 29 Country: Germany Shelby Rogers 53 | Shelby Rogers Age: 24 Country: USA Lesia Tsurenko 54 | Lesia Tsurenko Age: 27 Country: Ukraine Annika Beck 68 | Annika Beck Age: 27 Country: Germany Julia Goerges 57 | Julia Goerges Age: 28 Country: Germany Belinda Bencic 129 | Belinda Bencic Age: 19 Country: Switzerland Yanina Wickmayer 63 | Yanina Wickmayer Age: 27 Country: Belgium Victorija Golubic 62 | Victorija Golubic Age: 24 Country: Switzerland Louisa Chirijo 67 | Louisa Chirijo Age: 20 Country: USA Katerina Bondarenko 80 | Katerina Bondarenko Age: 30 Country: Ukraine |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 26. February 2017 18:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
I've got to admit I'm a bit surprised that Daniela in here as her ranking is so low but I'm not complaining. She'd be the underdog against pretty much anyone she'd play but she's in and there's no pressure or expectation. We'll see what the draw is. |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 26. February 2017 22:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Daniela plays Yanina Wickmayer in the first round. The winner plays either Puig or Schiavone.C5n2gIPUsAADKaL.jpg-large.jpeg |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 27. February 2017 17:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Daniela's not playing today. Daniela's 6-0 against Wickmayer but they've only played once since 2010 at Stanford in 2013. Wickmayer won Washington last July but had a long losing streak afterwards although she had a couple of wins at the end of the year. Her best win this year was beating no. 50 Larsson in Auckland, she also beat CIrstea in the Fed Cup and got to the quarter-final in Budapest. She lost after having about nine MPs to Safarova at the Australian Open. The advantage Daniela has is that she's always beaten Wickmayer. |
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| Author: | Alex Isabel [ 28. February 2017 01:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
One thing that never is surprising about Daniela is that she never stops surprising us. In returning to a main draw after a long time has gone by, I suppose if we were allowed to hand pick her first opponent, it would be Wickmayer. I shall be rooting hard! |
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| Author: | Alex Isabel [ 28. February 2017 06:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Dani plays the first match on what they call Cancha 4, shortly after 4 PM Acapulco time. |
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| Author: | Peter007 [ 1. March 2017 01:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Great come back, great technique, great détermination !!  Very happy to have seen this match from begining to end.. Other good matches will come certainly.. 
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| Author: | Alex Isabel [ 1. March 2017 04:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Missed the match, just saw the score  I note 5 aces for Daniela and 75% on first serve in. This is consistent with her double bagel last week and the Fed Cup win. Can you, Peter007 or anyone else who saw the match tell me if these numbers mean that all of a sudden Dani has regained some oomph on her serve? If so....Wow! Is the portion of the brick wall Wickmayer must have smashed her head against after the match up for bid yet on eBay? |
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| Author: | Alex Isabel [ 1. March 2017 05:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Daniela faces Puig on the center court's first match, again shortly after 4 PM. |
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| Author: | eddy [ 1. March 2017 08:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Wow! Did not expect Daniela to defeat Wickmayer again!! What a boost!! Puig will be a completely different task...who knows..! |
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| Author: | Peter007 [ 1. March 2017 11:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Yes the serve was good. Especially those near the T, and when Daniela was on the left side, the sequence kick serve + cross forehand works well and avoid long and exhausting rallies.. But the returns were good too, with a lot of them long and near the baseline.. Oh and I have also to mentionned the many excellent and successfull drop shots !! |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 1. March 2017 14:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
 An absolutely fantastic win by Daniela, especially after coming from a set down. It's her first main draw win since last June so this will be a huge boost to her ranking and confidence. Going by the stats Daniela's first serve was great as she got 66% in and won 75% for the match and that was really the foundation for her win. She only won 37% of 2nd serve points and was 3/6 on BPs she faced. Daniela won 5/13 of the BPs she had although Daniela was 3/5 in the third set while Wickmayer was 1/3. Daniela just got better as the match went on. It would be great if Daniela could play Wickmayer every week but this is still such a good win. The highest ranked player Daniela beat last year was Falconi at 76, Daniela's already beaten two players ranked higher than that this year. Daniela beat Puig the last time they played in Mexico up in Monterey but Puig's been doing well since so it will be a tough match. Apparently Antonio van Grichen is Daniela's coach. He used to coach Azarenka and Zvonareva. It's a good sign that Daniela's working with a good coach and even better that a good coach wants to work with her. |
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| Author: | chungwit [ 2. March 2017 01:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Daniela lost to Puig 6-4 6-4. It took Puig SIX match points before she was able to put Daniela away and Daniela played great tennis to save the MPs. She had a BP in the last game after she'd saved 4 MPs and if she'd broken than she'd have had so much momentum for the rest of the match as Puig was getting angry and frustrated and would probably have exploded but Puig held on. BOOO! Daniela had a loose game in the seventh game of the first set to drop serve and that was the only break in the first set. Daniela had a couple of BPs when Puig was serving for the set at 4-5 but couldn't convert and Puig was able to win the set. Daniela had a bad start to the second set as she lost her first three service games to gone down 1-4 and she was making errors while Puig was playing solidly and dictating a lot of rallies and Daniela was struggling when she was forced wide. From 1-4 down Daniela started playing a lot better and her groundstrokes had more depth and accuracy and she was able to dictate more rallies while making fewer errors so that was putting more pressure on Puig whose level dropped a bit. It's disappointing to lose as Daniela was a bit below her best of periods of the match where she made a lot of errors, but there were times when she played some great stuff and she showed her fighting spirit at the end of the second set and who knows what would have happened if she could have levelled that set. Daniela had a good win here in the first round and competed well against someone 200 places above her. I think we can feel a little bit of optimism |
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| Author: | Peter007 [ 2. March 2017 01:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Abierto Mexicano Telcel, Acapulco |
Indeed it was a good match, Daniela shows great skills again today, and raises good enthusiasm among the crowd.. ☺️ |
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