Well, dont think serena is looking for danka, she's just smashing the ball away. Please daniela hold to at least have a 6-4 second set

I'm not saying that Serena is making on purpose but normally players raise their hands in a way to "apologize"
Oh , it was an easy match for the WS .. Ai's serve got broken 4 times in 4 turns of serve .
Well , nr26 in doubles isn't so bad after all , and winning to the nr 1 in doubles can give her confidence to singles
Congratulations Hantuyama for reaching this far when no one was expecting
Yes, youre right. But serena is "rude" in that way. Im glad they made it this far

Yes, youre right. But serena is "rude" in that way. Im glad they made it this far

Oh , I just hate the Williams ! I want them to die
Daniela was SOOOOOOOO cute in that short statement .. The way she spoked about Sugiyama was just so , i don't know .. true ? I really think that Ai it's a great influence on Daniela , and I love it .

Yes, danka was kinda pissed. Maybe at herself for some silly mistakes, and at Serena for using her as target practice But she really seems to care about Ai, "sugi" she called her. Hope they keep playing like this and win several titles this year

Good effort by Daniela and Ai, but the power of the Williams' prevailed, especially on serve, where Ai's was just getting picked off. But Daniela can take a lot from this run and it has to give her a lot of confidence for singles and Hantuyama can look forward to doing very well this year.

God, what a boorish yob Serena is: constantly blasted the ball at Daniela (and sometimes Ai) when she has the entire court to aim for. Of course Serena's not sorry, if she didn't want to do it, she wouldn't. And what was that "the opponents" in the speech afterwards.

Daniela, as always, was charming and gracious in her speech and showed what a great person she is.

they were just too powerful, Daniela and Ai played well but it just wasn't meant to be, still a great tournament though
one thing that annoyed me were the damn channel 7 commentators, i dont get why they only love the William's sisters, especially Serena, they hardly even talked about Daniela and Ai, it was just frustrating, i mean it not even like Serena or Venus are aussie so why be so one sided in the commentary? haha thats my bit

great speech by Daniela as well, really nice words about Ai

one thing that annoyed me were the damn channel 7 commentators, i dont get why they only love the William's sisters, especially Serena, they hardly even talked about Daniela and Ai, it was just frustrating, i mean it not even like Serena or Venus are aussie so why be so one sided in the commentary? haha thats my bit

great speech by Daniela as well, really nice words about Ai

Don't get me started on channel 7 commentators. They have this commentator called Sandy Roberts and he's just some cookie cutter sport reporter. He adds absolutely nothing to the commentary and usually just ends up re-reading the scores or some irrelevant statistic. What's more annoying is when he feeds off of the other commentator he's in the booth with. Like the other night, when Safina was playing Dokic. He made some comment about Safina's serve - how she hits the ball when it's on the way down from the toss as opposed to having a smaller ball toss and hitting it on the way up. He literally just re-worded what Tracey Austin said about 5 minutes before that -- Infuriating!!

As for the favouritism in the commentary. Tracey Austin who commentated for what i think was all of the doubles match today is American, right? So that kinda explains it.

I've complained about the Williams sisters before, so obviously i'm not a huge fan... but i don't think they can be criticised for going for the net player. It's a play that frequently comes into use in doubles.

As for how Daniela played. For the most part it was kinda disappointing. She had her moments but i just felt she could be more aggressive, not just at the net but from the baseline. I don't think i saw her fire a single shot down the line despite the Williams sisters pretty consistently poaching the net.

Oh well, onto the next tournament. Hopefully her doubles results this week will translate into some good singles play.

Did anyone notice that Daniela paused during her speech? She sorta looked a bit stunned when she did it. Just wondering if anyone knows why.

Uggh. Don't get me started on that a-hole Todd Woodbridge. All he does is criticise Daniela and basically blames her everytime for Ai losing her service game. Even when he does the commentary for Bali, he always rips into Daniela's game and criticises it.


I actually don't mind Todd Woodbridge. I think some of his criticisms were justified.