Order Of Play Thursday, April 7, 2011

Stadium (from 11.00hrs)
1. Anna Tatishvili vs. Yanina Wickmayer
2. Caroline Wozniacki vs. Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (NB 13.00hrs)
3. Elena Vesnina vs. Samantha Stosur
4. Sania Mirza vs. [Sabine Lisicki or Marion Bartoli]
5. Jelena Jankovic vs. Chanelle Scheepers (NB 19.00hrs)
6. Mattek-Sands/Shaughnessy vs. Hantuchova/Kirilenko

Althea Gibson (from 11.00hrs)
1. Shahar Peer vs. Julia Goerges
2. Nadia Petrova vs. Peng Shuai (NB 12.30hrs)
3. Daniela Hantuchova vs. Christina McHale
4. Peschke/Srebotnik vs. Goerges/Petrova

So no stream again :/

Petrova/Peng is in the 3rd set. Getting to be a long wait to see Daniela again. ESPN 2 is carrying Wozniacki/Strycov. Strcov is making Wozniacki work for it. First set was over and hour and went to tie break before Woz got it. Now 2nd set is 4 - 3 Strycov, still on serve

Im feeling a bit nervous about this match..shit 4-1 to 4-4..held for 5-4 saved a bp on the way comon daniela break now for set..

Come on, Daniela has been doing pretty good in come backs especially if it goes to 3 which this one will have to if she is going to pull it out. Wish we could be watching. Their stats are pretty close. So hopefully Daniela can take it up a notch.

7 BP's wasted. Jesus H. Christ!

Ok, maybe I am wrong....

This is a very disappointing result. Admitedly McHale is in good form at the moment and she beat Kuznetsova at Indian Wells and thrashed Kleybanova here but McHale is someone that Daniela should beat, especially as she was ahead in the first set and had all these break points. The first set was vital, if Daniela had won it she'd have had a great chance to win the match as she have had the momentum and it would probably have broken McHale's confidence. Instead, McHale had momentum, seemed to grow in confidence and would have had the crowd behind her while Daniela's level went down - her serve stats were a lot worse in the second set. Ultimately, Daniela didn't take her chances and if she had, she'd almost certainly won.
I wonder how much the doubles took out of Daniela last night and it looks like a mistake in hindsight to play a scratch doubles partnership at a tournament where she had a lot of singles points to defend.

There's been a lot of shocks at this tournament and this is another.

Daniela will lose points from last year but she can only gain points between now and Roland Garros and I've got to believe that she'll be able to put a good run together at at least one of the clay court tournaments.