I'm just despondent really

There appears to be no end in sight

Miami

just continue to support Daniela regardless of her results and hope she will turn this bad patch of her career around, nothing more you can do.

Not everyone will be in the top 10, as a matter of fact I think only 10 can be in the top ten at once.

are you sure? Serena said earlier this week that there's 12 russians in the top10. I know for a fact that's there's 2 American's as well, so the top 10 seems really packed

just continue to support Daniela regardless of her results and hope she will turn this bad patch of her career around, nothing more you can do.

true. Also when players go through rough times, they need their support camp the most. In times like these, there's no band-wagon jumpers or new fans. Just the core base

Sail8 wrote:
Not everyone will be in the top 10, as a matter of fact I think only 10 can be in the top ten at once.

Chrisina wrote:
are you sure? Serena said earlier this week that there's 12 russians in the top10. I know for a fact that's there's 2 American's as well, so the top 10 seems really packed

I stand corrected. If a Williams sister counts 12 in the Top 10 then that must be the way it is!

God, this hurts. This is a result I just did not envisage at all and it's kind of shocking and numbing. It was a match that I was really hoping she'd win as it would give her confidence to beat someone ranked higher than her and she could take decent runs from Indian Wells and Miami into the clay season. A loss like this has to hurt her and right now it's difficult to see her doing too much on clay, especially as she'll get tough draws with her ranking. Still, every win she gets over the next few months gains her points.

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like over the past year whenever Daniela's played someone in bad form they always seem to play their best for a long, long time against her: Sprem, Groenefeld, Errani, Bammer and now Chakvetadze.

It's Miami and Daniela's never done well there so this is the sort of thing that would happen.

I just wonder what effect the doubles loss yesterday had on Daniela because I feel if she'd won that she probably would have done better and she doesn't even have a run in the doubles to console her. I felt in January that doubles would help her with singles like it did in 05 and 06, but it seems the opposite is happening.

Like Martin and Christina say, we just have to support Daniela and hope she turns her form around. She's had bad crises and tough losses in the past and come through them. Daniela did get a win here and at least got some points and she only has Wimbledon 2nd round and New Haven to defend between now and the US Open and we know that she has to start playing well sometime. Daniela has too much talent, determination and ambition to be held down and she'll keep fighting and keep trying and she'll come through this. I don't know when but I know she will and we've got to be patient and do what we can to give her support and encouragement.

Oh well, always look on the bright side:

I'm gobsmacked with that result. I didn't think Daniela was playing THAT bad to lose to Chakvetadze with that score. Who knows though? Maybe Anna decided to pick up her play now. Aside from her losses to Cornet, I agree with Chungwit in that all of Daniela's losses this year seems to be against an average player who ends up having a good run in the tournament - Errani (SF Brisbane); Razzano (F Dubai); Bammer (QF IW), etc.

Just cos she hasn't been winning much, Daniela should certainly NOT even consider retirement. Daniela's not a quitter! She's got too much game and class to fizzle out! And she can achieve sooo much more still.

This rough patch though seems to keep extending. Hopefully things turn around now that she has virtually NO POINTS to defend for quite a few months!

Also, when we are talking about fans, I think Daniela going to lost some of the SWING fans.

But, WE, the loyal fans will stick with her despite all of her disappointing result.

Anyway, I'm not agree at all for Daniela to retire. She can make money with this so she better goes on until she feel boring with tennis.

i admit my comments about daniela having a break from tennis was in response to watching the scoreboard-hey at least i watched the scoreboard, but it was an initial reaction so i apologise. But i think she should not play a tourney until charleston.