Every court at Indian Wells has Hawkeye, so I don't see why the US Open can't have that, that's another disadvantage about an outside court, plus the line judges and umpire won't be top notch. With Hawkeye, Daniela would have had the chance to challenge dodgy calls and get them overturned or at least not had any sense of injustice or doubt about contentious calls. Parmentier played well and credit to her but it's easier to play well when you've got an extra six inches to hit into. Maybe this is handicap tennis with the underdog having a bigger court to hit into, I must have missed that rule change. The more I hear about this match the more it reminds me about the match at the Australian Open with Daniela not being fully fit and lots of line calls going against her. Yesterday Daniela had a bit of an off day, her opponent's inspired and she has no luck with line calls.

I'm just interested, did Daniela have any shots wrongly called out or was it mainly Parmentier errors being called in?

Daniela had one shot called out that was a clear winner, the chair overruled and they had to replay the point. I wasn't sure why, b/c Parametier had no shot at returning the ball. For the most part the bad calls were on the serve, I counted at least 6 first serves of Parametier that were long but called good. Many people around me were also commenting that many of PP's serves were out but being called in. The incorrect call on the baseline on a deep shot from Parametier was the only baseline calling error I saw, but it was so blantantly out the line judge shouldn't even be allowed to cross the street unassisted. Again we can't blame the loss on this b/c based on her on court behavior (again I didn't see any tears) something was definitely off yesterday.

Do you think she still enjoys tennis? I read somewhere that she started taking university management classes.

Schedule of Play Thursday, September 1

Court 14

11:00
Men's Doubles - 1st Round
Sergiy Stakhovsky(UKR) / Mikhail Youzhny(RUS) vs. Robin Haase(NED) / Victor Hanescu(ROU)

Women's Doubles - 1st Round
Eleni Daniilidou(GRE) / Polona Hercog(SLO) vs. Sabine Lisicki(GER) / Samantha Stosur(AUS)

Men's Doubles - 1st Round
Juan Ignacio Chela(ARG)[14] / Eduardo Schwank(ARG)[14] vs. Adil Shamasdin(CAN) / Igor Zelenay(SVK)

Women's Doubles - 1st Round
Shuai Peng(CHN)[7] / Jie Zheng(CHN)[7] vs. Daniela Hantuchova(SVK) / Agnieszka Radwanska(POL)

Peng is also still in singles.

Amanmuradova beat Parmentier 63 75

Daniela on course for the wooden spoon....

Still no words from Daniela...quite annoying actually...

Peng is also still in singles.
correct.

Who would have thought that of these four players that Jie Zheng would be the last one standing in singles?
she also lost today, so Peng is the only one remaining in the singles competition. But she'll exit tomorrow against Görges


Doubles match NB 05:00 pm.

Oops. I confused Na Li with Shuai Peng. You know, they all look the same . . Just kidding.

Schedule of Play Friday, September 2

Court 7

11:00 AM
Men's Doubles - 2nd Round
Martin Emmrich(GER) / Andreas Siljestrom(SWE) vs. Mark Knowles(BAH)[15] / Xavier Malisse(BEL)[15]

Men's Singles - 2nd Round
Ernests Gulbis(LAT) vs. Gilles Muller(LUX)

Men's Doubles - 2nd Round
Ivo Karlovic(CRO) / Frank Moser(GER) vs. Simone Bolelli(ITA) / Fabio Fognini(ITA)

Mixed Doubles - 1st Round
Daniela Hantuchova(SVK) / Mark Knowles(BAH) vs. Christina Fusano(USA) / David Martin(USA)

wow, very close in the end, but they came through
Whatever was wrong against Parmentier, it seems to have disappeared. Hopefully.


Oops. I confused Na Li with Shuai Peng. You know, they all look the same . . Just kidding.

Thanks for this.

Even though Daniela says that her injury didn't have anything to do with the loss, I do think it played a factor. She's being modest. Daniela has been having so many injures recently - they keep piling up...I hope in a way that if she goes deep in the doubles she withdraws from Quebec.