This is so disappointing that Daniela lost after playing so well and being in a good position to win. At the same time, Safina played a lot better in the second and third sets and at least Daniela kept fighting and was competitive although she fell away in the last couple of games of the match,but Safina raised her game then after a brief lapse. Early on Daniela won a lot of points from Safina's errors as well as her own winners but as the match went on Daniela had to win points by hitting winners and she hit some good ones as Safina was making very few errors compared to early in the match, except for the seventh game of the third, and she was pounding away with her groundstrokes.

Safina getting her coach on at 2-1 in the second set really turned the match around because her level went way up afterwards. In the first set Safina was making a lot of errors, she wasn't getting too many first serves in and her groundstrokes lacked depth and power. Daniela was playing well, dictating points and she was getting Safina out wide a lot and either getting an error or putting a winner into the open court. After the pep talk from the coach, Safina's groundstrokes had much more power and were peppering the baseline, plus she was getting more first serves in and was dictating the points from the middle of the court and Daniela was doing the retrieving. In the first set Daniela served out wide a bit and had success doing that but as the match went on she served up the middle more and that didn't trouble Safina as much.

Daniela never seems that happy when Passos comes out for a talk.

It sucks that Daniela lost this, but she played well and was competitive against the world no. 1 and she can take confidence and momentum from this tournament and hopefully she gets a decent draw at Wimbledon.

Hmm... I wished danka got the same energy from her coach But everyone points out that they dont seem to be getting along.

I'm just so sick of Daniela's mental frailty.

I thought she was ok today. It was really the change in Safina's mentality that cost Daniela the match. Daniela put in a few poor games here and there, but overall I thought it was a good performance mentally and physically from her.

Too bad Daniela lost the match after a great start in the first set.
At least we can say that Daniela is in a good form and competitive for Wimbledon.

I'm really looking forward to next week. Hope for a good draw and great run. Would be really important to gain some points for the ranking.

Just too bad that Daniela left out a great chance of winning another tournament. If she had won today, I think the draw would have been wide open.