She breaks to love... 3-4 hold now!
from having 2 game points to broken 3-5. Agnieska serving for the match
Well, there it goes... inconsistent as always...

Are they still in for doubles?

Many things I could say,but I'll leave it with the question Larri posed Daniela during the coaching break.

"Daniela,why are you fighting yourself so much?"

I've been asking that question for 6 years now. And 51 UE isn't going to cut it at this level. No wonder Larri looks so old these days.

I can only say how frustrating and disappointing this is. Credit to Radwanska because she played well and made some nice shots, but Daniela's best play was much better than Radwanska's but it was Daniela's inconsistency that decided the match. Radwanska won pretty much all of the crucial points, she won every BP she had while Daniela only won 6/14. If she'd won a few more and been able to save even just a couple of the BPs she faced then Daniela would have won. Would have, could have, should have, it has to be so frustrating for Daniela.
She hit some beautiful winners but she also made a lot of errors and on quite a few of them she tried to force low percentage shots that had too acute an angle or was too close to the line and she could have won the point from the shot just by giving herself more margin of error.

She had five BPs early in the first set and while Radwanska saved a couple with some quality play at the net and Radwanska's volleying was good throughout and her net approaches frustrated Daniela while Daniela missed quite a few shots at the net.

This is one that got away as it was a winnable match and the draw was pretty open afterwards. Daniela was up a break at the start of the third and had all the momentum but she had a bad service game and she didn't get too many first serves in in the third set, plus she made some errors. She dropped serve from 40-15 at 4-3 in the third when she had momentum. Her serving stats weren't good in the third set at all.

Still, there's still the doubles and hopefully Daniela gives Ai a good send off.

This is the story of Daniela's career up until now, and after 10 years on the tour, it's not going to change anymore. She went from Nigel Sears to the Sanchez academy, and it didn't help, and now Larry is not helping her either. Her mental and emotional problems run too deep, and she seems to be a VERY slow learner when it comes to tennis. She keeps making the same mistakes time and time again. I just wish she would start playing the way she did in 2002 again. There is a video on Youtube of the her match against Justine Henin at Indian Wells in 2002. It's amazing, she's hitting as hard as Davenport, serving as big as Sharapova used to. I don't understand why she's taken so much pace of her shots and her serve. She gone from being a power-player to being a......well, I woudn't know how to classify her anymore, and she doesn't seem to know herself either.

Didn't see the match and so I can't say anything about the performance itselfe, but when looking at the draw now, it is another missed opportunity to make a good run.

Hantuyama won the first set 7-6, after 5-4 up and 40-40,then 5-6 down

nice words from ai's mom after the set break

ai holds serve, 2-1 now

couldn't realize the break,2-2

daniela serves, 15-40 , 40-40 break

after 2-4, ai keep it up to 3-4

mhh 3-5, hope daniela can hold her service game now, come on!!

oh no!! after 40-40 daniela makes the fault... so they lost the second set 3-6 now champions tb...