So much for Daniela being a totally different player this year. Embarrassing performance, winning only six games.

Fuck ...very deifferent level from yesterday...wanna scold her...i dont mean it but i'm just frustrated

What a disappointing result!

She was destroyed with the second serve. Daniela must do sth about that. But this is still the first tournament and Daniela is not the type of player who gets "hot" quickly, so let's wait and see.

This sucks.

It's difficult to say what happened without seeing the match and whether Daniela played poorly, Petkovic played well or it was a combination of the two. Statistics can only tell you so much but Daniela's service stats, especially on second serve, don't make for good reading and she didn't make much of an inroad into Petkovic's serve. Her serve deteriorated in the second set, or Petkovic's returns got better. Whether Daniela's serve got worse, got more predictable or Petkovic was in a great grove returning, or a combination, I'm not sure. Daniela's second serve was punished at times against Szavay and it was her achilles heel today, especially in the second set. If the second serve was short, it would have been returned with interest and the kick serve won't be effective against a tall player like Petkovic as it would sit up in her hitting zone a lot of the time. But that happens a lot with the second serve. Daniela really needs to get the first serve in. Still, Daniela has a top coach to help her out.

I don't know if the match being played on court 1 made a difference as Petkovic had played all her matches there, would be used to the conditions and would be a lot more comfortable playing there than on Rafter while Daniela would have been a lot more comfortable playing on Rafter. Still, the court shouldn't have made that much difference to what happened.

Pretty much every time that Daniela lost to a lower-ranked player last year that player had their best tournament against Daniela and didn't do much the rest of the year and what do you bet this happens again.

Oh well, on to Sydney.

Thanks so much for the interview. It's always nice to hear her reaction win or lose. So the change of court really screwed Daniela up. Daniela always gets screwed by schedulers. Her match was the only singles quarter-final not on the Pat Rafter arena. Daniela went from court 1 to centre to court 1 whereas petkovic only played on court 1. Even if Daniela had won this match she would then be back on Centre again so it would have been court 1, centre, court 1, centre! I know it's part of the game but at least it serves as a sort of excuse for the scoreline.

Ovbiously Petkovic played well but I can imagine that due to the faster court Daniela's timing was off...

Really disappointing result today. I expected a win in straight sets.

I think Daniela will have to take the positive aspects of the tournament. QF in the first tournament of the year isn't too bad, although the SF was really near.