4-6 6-3 6-2

six games in a row in the third set. She kept calm and it seemed to work..

That was just a terrible match to watch. Daniela should thank her lucky stars that her opponent just completely imploded in that final set. Much improvement needed.

Maalox special? Oh, yeah. Deja vu? Thank heaven, no. Look, here in New York it is very rare that a 1st round match of Dani's is televised live and at a sensible hour, so given that chance tonight, why shouldn't I be treated to quintessential Daniela? Sometimes exceptional, sometimes like she was 5 years old and getting her 1st lesson from her grandmother! Let's consider all the adversity she faced in this match. The wind, the 2 ounce brain in the chair that gave her the time warning, the memory of last year's 1st round loss, and this nobody Lupchenko (who must be the only person that has moved INTO Allentown, Pa. in the last 40 years ) spending most of the match maintaining a 1st serve win percentage that only Martina or Billie Jean or Suzanne Lenglen would have. Yet she kept cool, perservered, and finally dominated. As much as she was tying knots in my stomach, at love-2 in the third, something told me that Dani would sweep the next 6 games. One tends to come up with crazy thoughts like that watching her over the years! And she goes out and actually does it! Let's all lift our Pepto Bismol bottles in a toast! Let's Go, Daniela!

Next up Tsurenko, never heard of her so don't know what to expect...

Same here, never heard of her, but she's ranked 111 and is quite a pretty little thing (not that that makes any difference, just pointing it out, and she's not exactly little at 5'9") and looking at her WTA bio she hasn't really done anything outside of the ITF circuit. This should be a straight forward match up for Daniela, but we all know how Daniela loves making us suffer

Scott

My bad. That's if people like Ivanovic and Georges DON'T go a long way!

And there's hawkeye

The weather is not looking good for tomo at all. As MCA doesn't have a roof there may waiting around which is bad for us Europeans as it'll definitely be a really late one!

I know that we have a topic for this but here's the rankings without the AusOpen'11 and with the points of 1rd added.

14 Sabine Lisicki +100 2963
15 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova +100 2735
16 Dominika Cibulkova +100 2635
17 Shuai Peng +100 2580
18 Svetlana Kuznetsova +100 2466
19 Daniela Hantuchova +100 2390
20 Ana Ivanovic +100 2355
21 Flavia Pennetta +5 2295
22 Roberta Vinci +100 2210
23 Julia Goerges +100 2165
24 Kaia Kanepi +100 2049
25 Anabel Medina Garrigues +100 2045

with Penneta already out, Daniela has now more 180 points than Vinci, 225 than Goerges and 341 than Kanepi, so, even with a loss at 3rd, top20 seems pretty possible.