Daniela beat Lilya Hadab, a young Morrocan player, 6-1 6-0 in 54 minutes. It seems like it was a really easy win for Daniela with minimal problems as she just had too much class. She was untroubled on serve and was all over Hadab's serve, converting 6/11 BPs. A minor quibble is that Daniela served 4 DFs but she was probably experimenting a little. Regardless of the quality of the opponent, it's a good quick win.

Daniela will play the winner of Olga Savchuk or Quinine Lemoine.

Edit: Lemoine beat Savchuk 6-2 6-3 so she's next for Daniela. Lemoine's ranked 167 and she mostly plays ITFs. Her best results have generally come indoors or on hardcourt. This is her first tournament since a $25,000 ITF in Moscow in February.

Well, this caught me off guard, but I like it! Had no idea Dani was playing this tourney. One question: on the home page here she is listed with 565 wins. Did the 3 she got a few weeks ago when she got to a semifinal in Italy not count for some reason? I would like to think she got #569 today.

Daniela's the second match on Court 3, play starts at 12 noon

This is disappointing. The first set was similar to yesterday with lots of breaks and Daniela losing a tiebreak. Unlike yesterday, she wasn't able to launch a comeback and she lost in straight sets.

Daniela had two set points in the tiebreak: at 6-5 on her own serve and again and 7-6 on Dabrowski's serve but she couldn't convert. The first set was crucial and I'm sure if Daniela had won it then she'd have had a great chance of winning the match. Daniela was 4-0 down in the first set but she fought back to 4-4 levelling after a long game where Dabrowski had 5 GPs before Daniela broke. Daniela was then broken to go 5-4 down before she broke back when Dabrowski served for the set. She saved at couple of BPs before going 6-5 up before Dabrowski held to love to go into a tiebreak. Dabrowski was 5-3 up in that before Daniela won the next three points to go 6-5 up but she couldn't take her set points. Given what a rollercoaster the first set was with such wild changes in momentum and with both Daniela and Dabrowski having chances it win the set, it was always going to be a big boost to whoever won it, unfortunately it was Dabrowski.

Having said that Daniela was actually up 2-1 with a break in the second set but she was broken right back. Daniela had 2 BPs in the seventh game but couldn't convert and she was then broken in the next game before Dabrowski served it out.

I wonder how much yesterday's long match took out of Daniela because she had a slow start and seemed to fade a wee bit in the second set. At the same time, if she'd been able to win the first set then would likely have been a crushing blow to Dabrowski and given Daniela so much momentum for the rest of the match.

Daniela's second serve was vulnerable through the match as she won only 11/33 points on it (6/18 in the first set, 5/15 in the second) and doing better on the serve or getting more first serves in. Daniela did slightly better than Dabrowski on first serve winning 60% to 58%, but Dabrowski got more in: 82% to 62% and won 50% of her 2nd serve points.

Still, Daniela did a round better here than she did last year but this was a good chance for her to get into the main draw.

Dabrowski tore Qoztel apart, love & 1. She now plays Schiavone, who we know Daniela can beat. Becoming frustrating as all get out.

Updating: Schiavone won 6-4 6-4. End of my lamenting.