Woeful.Simply woeful-I'm not surprised she tried to break her racket. Get your act together Daniela!

Next round will be very tough. Kanepi has a big serve. Daniela will find it hard to read. I hope daniela can squeeze thru somehow. Quarter final will be against king. So draw has really opened up.

Oreder of Play Thursday, March 4, 2010

Center Court (from 15.00hrs)
1. Agnes Szavay vs. Anna-Lena Groenefeld
2. Sara Errani vs. Dominika Cibulkova (NB 17.00hrs)
3. Daniela Hantuchova vs. Kaia Kanepi
4. Errani/Vinci vs. Craybas/Goerges (NB 20.00hrs)

This is a match that I wasn't concerned about when the draw was made as Kanepi's form was terrible for most of last year. However, she did beat Li Na in Auckland and she's had some wins this year, albeit largely against fairly average players. The thing that concerns me is the problem Daniela had in closing out the match yesterday and how poorly she played at the end of the second set when she made a lot of errors. I just hope that the second set isn't a red flag and that Daniela's able to pick her level up and maintain a good level throughout the match. Kanepi could play a great match but I think Daniela's level will determine the match.

"The conditions here are not easy because of the altitude so it takes some time to get used to. That's why I'm glad we came early to prepare!" Hantuchova said after the match. "I'm very happy to be through to the next round." @ wta website.

Daniela Hantuchova got through the first round in straight sets, beating the Spanish Lourdes Dominguez Lino 6-3, 7-6 (8-6).
Although he had to go to a closed sudden death in the second set, the tournament seeded number two, Daniela Hantuchova, got past the first round in straight sets, beating the Spanish Lourdes Dominguez 6-3 7-6 (8 -- 6) in Monterrey Open tennis tournament which takes place at the Tennis Club Sierra Madre.

Although in the first set was imposed without problems, the latter lost five games in a row that took the game to sudden death, on what the final meeting with the media, Hantuchova said:

"Well, that's tennis, you have good times, bad times, I just had to know how to handle it, turn it, win the tiebreak in the second set, especially she started to play better and I only had to take it in stride," said the Slovakian player is now the favorite of the tournament.

In the first set was Dominguez who stood for a powerful serve, but sometimes was giving him control problems, while Hantuchova took advantage of short returns to leave without the opportunity to Dominguez.

Thus the advantage of Hantuchova went up 5-2, but Dominguez was able to sustain a throw to base of great courage to improve to 5-3, while Daniela Hantuchova finally kept himself to win the set 6-3.

For the start of the second set, Dominguez retained his first serve and henceforth Hantuchova took hold of the situation since his return failed Dominguez Hantuchova won five straight games in a row he did see that the party would lead quickly to reach 5-1.

However, things changed since then, Dominguez raised the height of your returns as Hantuchova got in trouble, initially because he found ways to adapt and Lourdes Dominguez was playing a flawless tennis, who won five straight games to be set up on the scoreboard 6-5.

Finally after asking to see his coach, Hantuchova was applied to the return lines that gave trouble to the Spanish and thus won his kick tied the score at six, forcing the tiebreaker, in which things were most couples.

Hantuchova lowered the level of their returns and returned to the short part of the court which in the end gave him the lead despite draw to reach six points, pushing the Spanish network straight to close it returns brought victory.
@ google translation.

I don't know what bothers me more, that Daniela has these bad patches in her matches, or that she is so casual and cavalier about it afterwards. Against a higher ranked player she would have ended up losing this match, but maybe she just doesn't care so much. I mean the appearance fee she's getting to play here is probably more than she'll make if she wins the whole tournament.

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