Daniela's quarter of the draw:
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It's reasonable enough draw. Safina's results in Australia weren't good at all but she's still got talent and she did play fairly well in Kuala Lumpur. It looks like she might be getting back into form so this could be a tough match. It's one of these tricky matches where a player is a lot better than their ranking but you don't really know what their current level is.
Parra Santonja's a clay courter and she got to the final in Acapulco so she'll have a bit of confidence but she hasn't done much on hard courts recently.

Stosur's the likely third round opponent and she hasn't had that great a start to the year but she's got a good record against Daniela. Their matches last year in Charleston and Eastbourne were competitive.

Hopefully Daniela can come into Indian Wells rested and fully fit and she can maintain her form from Pattaya and Doha. Daniela doesn't have any points to defend here so a good run here would be a nice boost to her ranking because she has quite a lot of points to defend in Miami and Charleston. Plus, it's always good when Daniela wins. We'll see what happens and who she's got in her first match.

Oh no...

Safina will be very tough like you said she gained some confidence and starting to play better. In addition Safina will also have one match under her belt, cos Daniela has a BYE in R1.

I don't know, but I really want Daniela to succeed here. If she is able to win over Safina, then Daniela can beat Stosur, too... I think. We will see what happens. Sharapova isnt playing her best right now, but still very tricky opponent for Daniela.


Good Luck Daniela!

Show them this is your tournament!

Daniela's playing doubles with Agnieszka Radwanska. They play Shahar Peer and Peng Shuai in the first round.
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daniela has a reasonable draw versing all out of form players! for instance dinara safina who was no.1 is now 113 must go deep here!

Hantuchova Arad down 2-1 and a break

daniela has a reasonable draw versing all out of form players! for instance dinara safina who was no.1 is now 113 must go deep here!

Hantuchova Arad down 2-1 and a break

You can't look at her rank like that. She had some downs, but she is still very dangerous player! Especially now, when she's starting to get back to her top play according to her recent success on the last tournaments.

Safina will be tough, especially as she seems to be getting back into form and she's a much better player than her ranking. Safina's one of the most dangerous floaters in the draw so of course Daniela gets her in her first match.

Parra Santonja is a clay courter with a very modest hardcourt record, so Safina really would have problems if she'd lost that match, but Safina did what she had to do fairly routinely.

It's a match that's a lot harder than you'd want, but Daniela's been playing really good tennis recently winning a tournament and having two top ten wins in the last month so she'll be confident and she'll be rested. Daniela will need to play well to win this.

Daniela and Agnieszka had a good win in the doubles so it gets her used to the court and conditons.

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