im just speechless....

Good news! Dani will play in mixed doubles with Mark Knowles from Bahamas

didnt see this coming.. I thought she was in form and could blast Parmentier away, maybe she was nervous...we dont know

Mixed Doubles draw, top half:

Liezel Huber USA (1)
Bob Bryan USA (1)
v
Anastasia Rodionova AUS
Christopher Kas GER

Melanie Oudin USA
Jack Sock USA
v
Vladimira Uhlirova CZE
Filip Polasek SVK



Daniela Hantuchova SVK
Mark Knowles BAH
v
Christina Fusano USA
David Martin USA

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova CZE
Philipp Petzschner GER
v
Vania King USA (5)
Rohan Bopanna IND (5)



Yaroslava Shvedova KAZ (3)
Max Mirnyi BLR (3)
v
Olga Govortsova BLR
Marcin Matkowski POL

Natalie Grandin RSA
Jean-Julien Rojer AHO
v
Taylor Townsend USA
Donald Young USA



Yung-Jan Chan TPE
Mariusz Fyrstenberg POL
v
Ana Ivanovic SRB
Nenad Zimonjic SRB

Nadia Petrova RUS
Jamie Murray GBR
v
Elena Vesnina RUS (7)
Leander Paes IND (7)

Hi, I'm Pat, I'm usually a lurker, but I was actually at the match today (which alone made the result inevitable), and this is what I saw:

First, Parmentier was on. Her serve worked, she got to a ton of balls, and she didn't miss. Right off the bat, Daniela hit two great winners in the first game, but she still got broken because anything less than great came back at her. Whether it was because of just this or other things, Daniela was visibly frustrated for most of the match. She shrugged her shoulders at her traveling party at least thrice. She missed a number of shots by thatmuch and was very unhappy with a number of the resulting line calls, and talked to the umpire about it multiple times in the 2nd set. She actually did finally get an overturn out of her in the final game. She also asked the umpire something early in the 1st set, but I don't know if that was over a call or not.

I didn't see any actual crying, but there was one time in the 2nd set she came back over to the side I was on, and it did kinda look like she might have been during the changeover. I also didn't see any signs of an injury - no grimacing, limping, or anything like that - but something was definitely off all day long.

And to note, the match before hers was a men's match where one guy was up 2 sets to none and up a break late in the 3rd, and it ended up going all the way to a 5th set tiebreaker. Just something else that could have added to her frustration before she even got out there.

I was also at the match and totally agree with this assessment. Dani dind't seem into the match after getting broken in the first game. She hit some great shots, but Parametier got everything back. Line calls were horrid though, many of Parametier's 1st serves were way out but called good. When Dani was serving to stay in the match, she was up 40-30, Parametier hit a ball that was at least six inches long. Dani protested with the chair at this point (who overturned another horrid call that went against Dani earlier in the set), but to no avail. Its a shame as this would have made it 5-4 and it would have been a totally different match. I think the line judges were exhausted and overheated from the match before that. I didn't notice any crying, but she was definitely aggitated out there. Too bad as she's better than this, but life goes on and I'm sure she'll be able to pick up the pieces and move on. I saw the Kvitova match and I will say that Dani played much much better than she did.

Thanks mhs139. It's good to hear from those who witnesseetie match. It seems that parmentier played very well adding with bad line calls. A lot of daniela's bad losses come when she's on small courts so maybe that is a factor. Eg. Martinez sanchez petkovic last year..

She should have been on the new court (17) as this would have suited her popularity. Still no excuse though, she did hit some beautiful shots. There were moments of brillance. Her forehand was on and powerfull her backhand was her downfall.

Thanx to all for the summary...


Although it's a damn pitty Daniela had one of her bad days right now... It was really a good chance here with that draw... Nevermind, we still love you Dani. Hope she will enjoy her doubles

I guess one positive is that this is daniela's first opening round lost since indian wells so I guess that's pretty good. It's just a bit scary how she was able to lose that match so quickly after beating the likes of bartoli pennetta recently. She was barely on court for an hour. Really hope daniela can salvage the rest of the season. But this time last year her results were poor so I won't get my hopes up. I wish we could have a few lines from daniela. She must know how disappointed her fans are too so it would be nice for her give us her views on the match. We'll have to wait and see.

On a side note some of the outside courts can feel very boxed in and parmentier is used to playing on outside courts so maybe just felt more comfortable.