in my opinion she should play a few "little" tournaments ,so that she can get a little bit more match experience and confidence.
If she only plays the "big" tournaments it makes no sense in my opinion if she looses always in the first or second round.
And only with more practise sessions you can't get more match experience...
So before charleston she could play ponte vedra beach or marbella

Poor , poor performance :/
But as a fan we need to support her even if she loses 6-0 6-0 with a top 500 .
she'll find her rythm for sure and she'll be back to the top of her game , just like in 2007 , i trully believe in that

You are thinking of Kolkata,BMC.

Well safina, jankovic and ivanovic are all out in either 2nd or 3rd rounds - so all the top players are struggling at the moment. Bring on the clay season - anything can happen.

As for Azarenka - i think Daniela would have put up more of a fight than Chakvetadze mayeb losing 46 57, but Daniela lost to Chak, so we'll never know. but if Daniela had won in the 2nd round I think that the confidence would have rubbed off against Azarenka and it would have been a close one.

Well it was terrible overall anyway lol...

So many delightful upsets today, especially Safina and Zvonareva. Even the worst player in the top 20 Zheng won, schooling Alize Cornet in some fashion.

So many delightful upsets today, especially Safina and Zvonareva. Even the worst player in the top 20 Zheng won, schooling Alize Cornet in some fashion.

Someone else who considers Zheng to be the worst player in the top-twenty!
She's certianly better than Kanepi in my oppinion, and Medina-Garrigues (who was in the top-twenty a couple of weeks ago). And Going on the past twelve months Zheng is a better player than Schnyder too.
The Chinese players seem to be consistently under-rated for no other reason than that they are Chinese.
Who beat Vera Zvonareva?... Li Na.

I can't speak for Martin, but the reason I say Zheng is the worst player in the top twenty (which of course means she is still very good) is twofold:
1) A disproportionately high % of her points come from Grand Slams. For this reason, I'd say Carla Suarez is the most over- ranked player in the top 100. In recent past, players like Peer and Vaidisova have gotten artificial rankings boosts like this and we saw what happened to them.
2) She had a huge improvement in performance at an age where we don't expect to see huge improvements.
3) It has absolutely nothing to do with her ethnicity. I think Na Li is underrated because the rankings do a poor job of adjusting for players with injuries (that is, they do nothing at all to account for that).

That being said, you certainly could argue Schnyder because her age suggests she is due to slip. You have to give her credit for aging better than most, though? How many players were as good at 29 as they were at 24?