The second set was disappointing as Daniela was down after losing the first and that showed in her play early on in it with some bad errors while Jankovic stepped up the pressure with more winners and Daniela had to keep on playing more shots in the rally and she made some bad errors at crucial times, there were a couple of shots in the second that all she had to do ws get the ball in court and she'd win the point but she put it out. Daniela got it together near the end of the set but Jankovic was just too good in the second. Daniela was a bit unlucky in the last game when an ace at 15 all was overturned by hawkeye and then Jankovic won the point with an amazing drop volley.
I think Daniela can get a lot of positives from this tournament and also from this match. Her groundstrokes were very good, she was hitting winners, moving Jankovic around, dictating play and constructing points while she was also moving well and getting a lot of balls back. She was at least as good as Jankovic for most of the first set, which shows that her level is getting better, and she was playing some great tennis, but she couldn't take her chances. The set points were both winnable but on the first Daniela sprayed a groundstroke long when it didn't seem she was going for a winner and on the second she tried a dropshot when Jankovic was in a good position to get to it so she got it back and Daniela tried a lob but didn't get it high enough and Jankovic smashed it away. Maybe Daniela should have tried a passing shot but it's easy to be an armchair coach. Daniela's level dropped at the start of the second and you really felt that it would be difficult for her to win without winning the first and so it proved, even more so as Daniela had the disappointment of losing the set when she had the chances to win it. Her level dropped and Jankovic took her chances and punished Daniela's drop in play.
This reminded me of the match against Hingis in Montreal 2006 when Daniela hadn't been playing well in the previous tournaments and was playing a top player for the first time for a while and played really well in the first set, had set points but couldn't convert and slumped at the start of the second.
This match shows that Daniela's getting close to her best form, so I think we can be confident she'll have a good indoor season. She can take a lot from this and she knows that she's close to matching the top players but she has to raise and sustain her level to beat them.
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Oh my god u suck. Danka played much better than in the SF of Bali. I finally saw something which made me believe our 07 Danka will come back. It's a first step. Of course it would have been great if she would have won, but the opponent was Jankovic, World Nr. 2. Danka played good overall.