She did great for herself, no question about it. The first round draw is pretty much all you can hope for and she's away from a legit top player until round four. Zheng reached the semis here last year, but she's done nothing since to suggest that wasn't a fluke. She's a legit top 25/30 type player, but nothing more than that as her ranking is inflated by that result from last year. A match with Daniela is a 50/50 proposition and there are a lot of draws that would have seen Daniela a strong underdog in a potential round two. Should it get as far as Schnyder, that's a favorable third round matchup all things considered. Here's hoping the match with Robson is similar to match she had with a not-ready-for-primetime Pavluychenkova a couple of years back: Daniela won losing 1 game and I think something like 25 points total. As an aside, both L. Jon Wertheim and the hapless Peter Bodo picked her to lose that match.

Jie Zheng CHN (16) v. Kristina Barrois GER
Daniela Hantuchova SVK v. Laura Robson GBR

Tamarine Tanasugarn THA v. Arantxa Parra Santonja ESP
Ai Sugiyama JPN v. Patty Schnyder SUI (21)


Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova RUS (31) v. Petra Cetkovska CZE
Roberta Vinci ITA v. Magdalena Rybarikova SVK

Lucie Safarova CZE v. Jarmila Groth AUS
Neuza Silva POR v. Serena Williams USA (2)

Well, all in all, this draw is terrible! Laura Robson is definately a potential banana skin, and could send Daniela crashing out of a grand slam in the first round for the second straight time. If Daniela overcomes Robson (which she should), she will most likely play last years semi-finalist Zheng Jie, seeded 16th this year. This, in my oppinion, is a very tough second round match since Zheng is a good grass court player and seems to compete well when up against the top players on the tour. I don't think there is much point in looking beyond the first two rounds since Daniela will have her work cut out just to get into round 3 this year.

I don't see how you can ask for a better opponent than Robson in round one. She's 15 and ranked #484 and the list of 15 year-olds who have won at Grand Slams before is really small. Pavlyuchekova was a better junior than Laura and Daniela destroyed her at the same age.
As for Zheng, if the rankings system weighted more recent stuff more heavily than stuff a year ago, which of course it should, she would be outside the top 25. A match against Zheng won't be easy, but Daniela could have drawn any seeded player and I don't see that are too many seeded players who would be easier than Zheng. Prior to last year, Zheng was only 2-2 at Wimbledon and her run last year was aided by good fortune (drawing Vaidisova in the QF, Szavay in the round of 16) though she did beat Ivanovic easy.

Great draw, two seeds you would like to play, Zheng ain't in good form which is illustrated by her loss to Rybarikova and Patty who hates grass and is prone to tanking Wimbledon. Tanasugarn and Sugiyama seem to be the more tricky opponents in this section. Robson is a promising player, but still very young and not experienced with playing at this level, Daniela should be able to deal with her.

Considering Daniela's not seeded this is a pretty decent draw. Robson is a tricky first round opponent as she's the junior champion, she'll have home support and she did fairly well when she entered Luxembourg. It's one of these matches where Daniela is expected to win and has a lot to lose. It's similar to the Dell'acqua or Oudin matches where Daniela plays a tricky underdog with home support.
Daniela should have too much experience and as long as she plays well she should win.

Zheng's a decent seed to play in the second round as her recent form hasn't been exceptional. Zheng's mostly lost to good players, but she hasn't beaten a really good player except perhaps Cornet in Miami. It's a test of Daniela's level as their form has been pretty similar this year and if Daniela plays well she's got a good chance. Zheng's 20 points ahead of Daniela in the race so a win there boosts Daniela's ranking and damages Zheng's. Daniela had a good win in their only previous match at Indian Wells last year.

Third round would be pretty decent as well as Schnyder, who's the seed, has a losing record at Wimbledon and Daniela's has a great record against Ai outside of North America, plus neither of them are in top form. Probably the most likely third round opponent would be Tanasugarn who beat Safina at Rosmalen and Zvonareva and Jankovic at Wimbledon last year.

However, it is one match at a time and Daniela has to beat Robson first.

Doubles draw, Danielas quarter

(6) Hantuchova/Sugiyama (SVK/JPN) - Paszek/Savchuk (AUT/UKR)
Kleybanova/Makarova (RUS) - Cibulkova/Husarova (SVK)
Hrdinova/Vaidisova (CZE) - Ditty/Dzehalevich (USA/BLR)
A. Radwanska/U. Radwanska (POL) - (10) Mattek Sands/Petrova (USA/RUS)

(15) Chuang/Mirza (TPE/IND) - Craybas/Gullickson (USA)
Dominguez Lino/Parra Santonja (ESP) - Kudriavceva/Niculescu (RUS/ROU)
Rodionova/Voskoboeva (RUS/KAZ) - Safarova/ Uhlirova (CZE)
Hlavackova/ Hradecka (CZE) - (2) Medina Garrigues/Ruano Pascual (ESP)

You can't compare Wimbledon 07 vs. Pavlyuchenkova and Wimbledon 09 vs. Robson. Danka was very confident then and had some great results in that year. Pavlyuchenkova struggled in 2007 even on ITF. Robson has the support of the crowd and won the junior event with 14 years. Danka has never played her before and I think that young girl would like to show that she can score a good win, especially because British Womens Tennis (apart from Keothavong in 09) is horrible. That could be a tricky match, but I can see Danka getting trough this one.

So Daniela drew an Australian in Melbourne,a French girl at Roland Garros and now a Brit at Wimbledon. Maybe she will complete the grand slam and draw an American at Flushing Meadows!(it's fine with me unless the surname is Williams )

You can't compare Wimbledon 07 vs. Pavlyuchenkova and Wimbledon 09 vs. Robson. Danka was very confident then and had some great results in that year. Pavlyuchenkova struggled in 2007 even on ITF. Robson has the support of the crowd and won the junior event with 14 years. Danka has never played her before and I think that young girl would like to show that she can score a good win, especially because British Womens Tennis (apart from Keothavong in 09) is horrible. That could be a tricky match, but I can see Danka getting trough this one.This is all true but Laura has hardly played this year,and Daniela should have too much veteran savvy for her. Crowd pressure works both ways.