I think this is a great draw. If she uses her weapons well she can get past peer for sure. I'd expect kirilenko to be waiting. All the best daniela.

The draw could have been easier. That's the sort of thing that can happen when Daniela's unseed as she could have gotten someone that's ranked quite low but instead she gets a seed in the first round. Peer's been playing pretty well this year and she beat Daniela the last time they played in Luxembourg, although I'm not sure how fit Daniela was as she withdrew from Linz the week before and withdrew from Bali a couple of weeks later. Hopefully, Daniela's fit and able to play well. Daniela's fitness will be important for this tournament and the hardcourt season.

Daniela can get to the semi-final as she can beat Peer, Kirilenko and Radwanska who are likely to be the subsequent opponents. She's got a winning record against Peer and Kirilenko and she beat Radwanska here last year but they've all won the last time Daniela played them. They're all a similar type of player and they've all had good results this year. If Daniela plays like she did in Miami or Charleston, then she can do well, but none of her likely opponents will be easy and we've got to take this tournament one match at a time.

I will say that the last time Daniela played Peer in California she won the tournament.

I think that if Daniela had won that tiebreak in Luxembourg, she'd have had a great chance of winning as she'd have gone into the third with the momentum, but that's speculation. Peer hadn't done much for most of last year but she won a couple of tournaments in Asia after the US Open and that boosted her ranking and gave her confidence which she's taken into this season. Daniela beat Malek at Luxembourg although Malek was awful and Hradecka had her chances in the second round. Daniela wasn't at her best in Luxembourg and I think she was hampered by her back at the time which is why she didn't play Linz or Bali. Daniela's fitness will be so important this time - it is anytime, really - but Peer will be tough anyway.

Peer had been playing very well up to Roland Garros where she got to the fourth round and she'd had quite a few good runs and good wins at big tournaments, notably the semis in Dubai and Madrid. She lost to Zheng in the first round at Eastbourne and Kerber in the second round at Wimbledon, so she didn't have a great grass season but grass is her weakest surface so it's difficult to say what her form is.

All the previous matches Daniela's had with Peer have been close, so chances are this one will be too.

Daniela's also entered the doubles with Yanina Wickmayer.
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Order of Play, Monday, July 26thStadium (from 10.00hrs)

1. Jamie Hampton vs. Christina McHale (Singles Q Final)
2. Chang Kai-Chen vs. Mashona Washington (Singles Q Final)
3. Chanelle Scheepers vs. Agnieszka Radwanska (NB 13.00hrs)
4. Dominika Cibulkova vs. Hilary Barte
5. Daniela Hantuchova/Yanina Wickmayer vs. Azarenka/Kirilenko
6. Alisa Kleybanova vs. Ana Ivanovic (NB 19.00hrs)
7. Kimiko Date Krumm vs. Dinara Safina

I've got to admit I'm a little surprised Daniela's playing doubles as I thought she'd want to focus on singles given her fitness and her upcoming schedule. I'm guessing that she wants to get some match practice on hardcourt and get used to the court.

In theory, Daniela is better than Peer. In practice, Peer gets more chances as she has been playing quite good this year. Daniela's form is no where near the word "consistency". Daniela can only win this match if and only if she plays good and consistent throughout the match. Otherwise, I am afraid we will have to see an early-round exit.

I will ask again. Does anybody know if those streams will be working this year, too?



I don't think so, because usually the streams have been available all year and not only during the tournament.
Currently they are down and I don't think they're going to be reanimated in the next days.

Despite that, I never liked the streams, cos they were more than two minutes behind the scoreboard, had no sound, no scores, and ugly colors

Apparently, Wickmayer had originally entered the doubles with Shazza but they weren't allowed to enter the doubles as neither had a high enough doubles ranking, so Daniela replaced Shazza as her doubles ranking was high enough to form a team with Wickmayer.






I tried the stream and it wasn't working either. Also, none of the streaming sites are showing Stanford and when the stream was working, like it was last year, they showed it. Tennis coverage in the US is normally terrible for the early rounds and they generally only show tournaments from the quarter-finals.

well, out of doubles