Torro-Flor serving for the match.

Oh look, she decided to play tennis 2MP down.

PLEASE HOLD!

Serving to stay in the match

Another tie break lost... damn. That hurt.

I have always advocated Daniela playing in small tournaments, but if she is going to keep bombing out of them like this, then I do not know what is left to pick up ranking points.

Well Torro-Flor definitely wants this more, Daniela serving to stay in 5-6, and we all know if it get's to a tiebreak what Daniela's tiebreak record is...
Daniela was 3-2 up but only won another point and from 4-4 she made 2 errors to bring up match point for Torro-Flor. Torro-Flor made a great shot at 3-3 in the tiebreak after Daniela hit a drop shot to counter drop shot cross court which Daniela couldn't get back in court.

This is disappointing as Daniela was up a break twice in the third set and she dropped serve right away to get Torro-Flor back into the match and her terrible tiebreak record continues. Torro-Flor hit the ball well and her retrieving was good but Daniela was below par and her shots lacked penetration and she was on the defensive a lot. Her serve just wasn't good in the third set and she only won 47% of her service points.

Daniela's still played some great tennis this year as she's shown at Brisbane, the Fed Cup, the Middle East & Madrid. She's had 2 top ten wins this year and she's also beaten good players like Kirilenko, Stephens, Robson, Suarez Navarro & Jovanovski, so we know that Daniela's still capable of playing great tennis but she needs time to prepare for these matches.
I do wonder the extent to which injuries, age and general wear and tear have just worn her down and how much she can get motivated for smaller events against lowly ranked or average players as she's lost a lot of matches this year to players that she'd have beaten easily in the past. Torro-Flor will probably win this tournament now.

Hopefully, Daniela can do well at Roland Garros and the silver lining from this match is that she can have more time to prepare although so much will depend on her draw.

Daniela wasn't the only seed to lose today as Bartoli lost to Giorgi 6-3 6-2 and Paszek & McHale lost as well.

Polina Pekhova
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Well, guys, good news and not so good. We passed to the second round with Genie, but Hantuchova pulled out from doubles, sholder injury
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It is a worry that Daniela's shoulder is giving her problems, especially so close to Roland Garros. It would explain why Daniela's serve was so weak in the third set against Torro-Flor and she didn't serve that well against Halep in Rome either. If Daniela's serve had been anything like she's capable of, like in Madrid, she'd have won yesterday. I hope that Daniela can at least be fit enough to do herself justice at Roland Garros.

I know it was a long match yesterday but Pennetta beat Torro-Flor 6-2 6-3 today.

It would have been interesting to see how Daniela could have done with Hradecka as she's one of the top doubles players and they could have made a really good team, albeit for one week only, but Daniela's health is the most important thing.