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Golden Slam
 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 5. August 2009 23:17 
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Daniela's broken in the first game, not the best of starts.
0-2.
0-3. Broken after being 30-0 up. So far, Daniela's got 83% of first serves in but won 3/10. I don't know if Safina's returning especially well or if Daniela's just rolling serves in, but she has to do more with her first serve.
1-3. Daniela gets a break back.
2-3. Daniela holds serve. She's 5/14 1st serve, 3/4 2nd serve.
2-4. First serve is the difference so far, Safina's 11/16.
2-5. Daniela's getting killed on 1st serve at 6/18.
2-6. Daniela had 2bps, Safina won the set on her fourth set point.

Daniela's serving first in the second, she has to hold serve and put a bit of pressure on Safina. Daniela came from a set down to beat Safina in Sydney.

Daniela holds to 30, 1-0. 3/4 on 1st serve.
1-1. Safina held to love.
2-1. That was a tight game, Daniela was 40-0, before having to save 2 bps and then she clinched the game on her fourth game point. Games like these can be pivotal in the momentum of a match so it was a good one for Daniela to win. Come On!
2-2. Daniela got a point against Safina's serve.
2-3. Broken to 15. Daniela's 9/12 on 1st serve, 3/11 on second serve this set.
3-3. Great stuff, Daniela's still in business.
3-4. Shit.
3-5. Daniela has to hold next game and hope that Safina's gets tight serving for the match.
4-5. Daniela does the first part and holds to love, put some pressure on Safina now.
4-6.



Daniela Hantuchova is right about everything.


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 5. August 2009 23:25 
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AHH She never starts well 0-3 in 10 mins


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:02 
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Daniela 1-0 in 2nd set...
Dani please break her!



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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:05 
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I just want Daniela to keep holding serve...that's all she has to do...

Well done saving all the those break points...2-6 2-1 dinara serving

Unfortunately Safina breaks 2-6 2-3

FIGHT :evil:


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:13 
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I just want Daniela to keep holding serve...that's all she has to do...

you're right and break Safina even just one break..



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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:20 
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She's in trouble now. Down a break and she's only won 36% of points on Dinara's serve.

Edit: Well, she got the break right back. ;)


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:29 
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3 - 3 in the second. she is fighting against #1. 1:15 into the match and still very alive.


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:32 
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...and broken again, 3-4 :(
Daniela needs to break again now...


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:37 
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Knew that would happen...and now Daniela holds easily when she's a break down ARGH really frustrating...this match is exactly like Stuttgart, Rome, Madrid, Stanford etc.....urgh i hate this.....15-0 FIGHT 15-15

Losing 3 times to the same person 3 times in a row in one year is really tough.....comon Daniela don't let it happen.....30-30 at least have a break point.....match point........it's over.......ah well at least it took 1hr 30mins

Safina always wins on her 1st match point :( :( :( :( :? :? :x :x :x :oops: :oops: :roll: :roll:

Here are a list of the matches this year that Daniela has lost in the same fashion as this one...

SYDNEY RADWANSKA 6-3 7-5
STUTTGART SAFINA 6-4 6-2
ROME KUZNETSOVA 6-3 6-3
MADRID JANKOVIC 7-5 6-2
FRENCH OPEN RAZZANO 6-3 6-3
STANFORD DEMENTIEVA 6-2 6-4
LOS ANGELES SAFINA 6-2 6-4

This sucks...


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:38 
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That will teach me to look away.. what did Daniela do, like 4 aces


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 00:57 
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The serve was decisive in this match. It seemed that in the first set Daniela was probably taking a bit of pavce of her first serve to make sure that she got it in and protect her second serve, but all that seemed to do was set up Safina for a big return and although Daniela got 78% of first serves in she won only 6/18 but she was 3/5 on second serve. It looked like she started putting more power into her second serve and she wasn't as accurate at 58% in but she won 13/19 of her first serve points. But this exposed the second serve and she was only 5/14 on second serve in the second set. Safina's first serve was strong throughout the match with 75% winning 71% of them, so she was generally comfortable on serve. Safina would have put in a lot of powerful serves and dictated the point from then on. Daniela was successful against her second serve as Saina was only 6/16 on her second serve in the match and that got Daniela bps. Daniela was 2/7 on bps, while Safina was 5/7. Safina always seemed to get in a first serve when Daniela had a bp.

Daniela's leg was still strapped so I wonder how much fitness was a factor in this match.

In her last four tournaments, Daniela's lost to the no1, the no2, the no4 and now the no1 again.



Daniela Hantuchova is right about everything.


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 02:57 
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"Dinara Safina started her bid for a second straight Los Angeles Women's Tennis Championships title with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Daniela Hantuchova on Wednesday.

Safina, 23, who used last year's championship as a springboard that took her to No. 1 on April 20, grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first set, got another service break to go up 5-2, and won it on her third set point after going to deuce five times.

In the second set, Safina got the last of her five service breaks to take a 4-3 lead and finished the 89-minute match in routine fashion. It was Safina's fifth win in eight matches against Hantuchova and her third win without a loss this year.

"It was a good match," Safina said after the win that earned her a spot in the season-ending championships in Qatar. "I feel I can improve. It was a solid match. I didn't do anything spectacular. We play the same way, so it depends on who's going to take charge of the points, and I think at the crucial times I was more aggressive today."

@ Associated Press


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 09:28 
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lets hope for a better draw in cincy


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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 6. August 2009 18:22 
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In her last four tournaments, Daniela's lost to the no1, the no2, the no4 and now the no1 again.

At the moment Daniela doesn't play consistant enough to beat the really top players, but at least she is now able to make good performances against top 20 players and also wins a couple of these matches, which wasn't the case some weeks ago.

So hope for a good draw next time and good luck for the doubles.



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 Post subject: Re: LA Womens Tennis Championships presented by Herbalife
PostPosted: 7. August 2009 06:58 
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Chuang / Yan def Hantuyama 1-6 6-3 10-7 :(

Oh, by the way Zheng also def Safina 7-5 4-6 6-4 :dunno:


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