Dates: May 26 - June 8, 2013
Venue: Paris, France
Tier: Grand Slam
Prize Money: $ 12,957,474
Surface: Clay/Outdoors
Tournament Director: Gilbert Ysern

Official Website: www.rolandgarros.com

2012 Performance: Did not play.
Last Appearance: 2011 4th round. Lost to Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-7 6-3 6-2

Singles:
1R: [18] Jelena Jankovic (SRB) bt Daniela Hantuchova 6-4 7-6(7)

Doubles:
1R: Jelena Jankovic/Mirjana Lucic-Baroni bt [16] Daniela Hantuchova/Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-4 3-6 6-2

Mixed Doubles:
1R: Daniela Hantuchova/Jean-Julian Rojer bt [2] Elena Vesnina/Max Mirnyi 0-6 6-0 10-6
2R: Lucie Hradecka/Frantisek Cermak bt Daniela Hantuchova/Jean-Julien Rojer 7-6(5) 6-2

If Daniela can get a lowish seed ideally in the 2nd round then she's got a real chance to make the 3rd round. I can't believe Daniela hasn't won a grand slam match since AO 2012. Crazy. Unfortunately as she's not seeded there are so many players Daniela needs to avoid in the 1st round. The conditions are going to be like Strasbourg I'm afraid, maybe not as bad. To be honest one win here would be most welcome. When's the draw happening today?

It's a tough draw as Jankovic seems to be coming into form as she had a good run in Rome beating Li Na before losing to Halep, she also beat Stosur in Stuttgart and she had a good run to the Miami semi-final. At the same time, she lost in the first round of Madrid to Scheepers and while she won Bogota and got to final of Charleston on clay the highest ranked player she beat at either event was Voegele at 63.

It is the sort of match that could be good for Daniela as it's going to be on one of the bigger courts and against someone that she's had success against in the past, although Jankovic has also had success against Daniela. Daniela will be the underdog but it's the sort of situation where she's played some of her best tennis this year.

If Daniela gets past Jankovic then she'd play Karolina Pliskova or Muguruza in the second round. Pliskova gave Daniela a hell of a battle in Dubai and Muguruza's had some very good wins this year. Daniela has to get past Jankovic first and that will be a tough match.

I just hope that Daniela's fit and able to do herself justice.

The first reaction is Oh, Lord. But I'm dutiful to numbers, and find that in actual 1st round matches this year, Daniela is 1-1 against top 20 players and 5-5 elsewise. Overall, she is 5-5 against top 30 (at the time the match was played) and 10-9 elsewise. Meaning, besides that this year's roller-coaster has more straight down drops and loop-de-loops than maybe ever, that there's no way to predict this one. Dani is 3-5 against Jankovic, who has won the last 2, including a straight set whipping in the French in 2010 and the horrifying 2011 Fed Cup match. That, plus the shoulder and the 3 match 1st round slam losing streak, seems quite gloomy. But, how do we know? How do we know? Fear the worst, hope for the best, the motto of all Daniela Maniacs!

Permit me to look far beyond Paris, guys. Stormy and I have finished booking for a trip to the West Coast, most of which will be spent in San Diego, everyone's health being good, I hope. It just so happens to be during the Carlsbad tourney. Look out, Daniela, the Maniac and his wife are coming to see you!!

Daniela beat Kuznetsova 6-2 in an exhibtion on Lenglen today, which is very encouraging and will give her confidence a boost. She was also practising with Anabel.

Have a great time in San Diego, Alex, and don't end up in New Mexico like Jovanovski did in 2011.


25th May 2013
Hantuchova defeated in training before sete RG Kuznetsova

Slovak tennis player Daniela Hantuchova is encouraging manner publicly rozcvičila prior to their entry into the second Grand Slam tournament of the season Roland Garros on clay in Paris. On Saturday ...

PARIS 25 (Reuters) - Slovak tennis player Daniela Hantuchova is encouraging manner publicly rozcvičila prior to their entry into the second Grand Slam tournament of the season Roland Garros on clay in Paris.

On Saturday she won in the training of local sete champion four seasons ago Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia's second most important villages Suzanne Lenglenovej convincingly 6-2.

Thirty Poprad native Hantuchova, who this week in Strasbourg doubles for not coming to problems with his right shoulder, will be 1 of international open championships of France in 2013 to face former leader of the world rankings Jelena Jankovic.

Serb on Saturday succumbed to an Italian Errani Sare, RG finalist in 2012, just 6:7 (6). Home Pauline Parmentier, who will infos, grueling, rekonvalescentku overcame Czech Petra Cetkovska 7:5.

Results of Saturday's public training sets in the afternoon promotional Benny Berthet Day before the second Grand Slam tennis tournament of the season Roland Garros in Paris:

MEN:

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) - Lucas Pouille (Fr.) 6:4
Richard Gasquet (Fra) - Tomas Berdych (CZE) 6:4
Kevin Anderson (South Africa) - Paul-Henri Mathieu (Fra) 7:5
Gilles Simon (Fra) - Lukas Rosol (CZE) 6:1
Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) - Benoit Paire (Fra) 6:3
Philipp Kohlschreiber (DEU) - Julien Benneteau (Fra) 6:3

WOMEN:

Daniela Hantuchova (Slovakia) - Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS) 6:2
Sara Errani (ITA) - Jelena Jankovic (SRB) 7-6 (6)
Niculescová Monica (ROU) - Caroline Garcia (Fr.) 6:4
Kristina Mladenovicová (Fr.) - Mallory Burdett (USA) 6:1
Pauline Parmentier (Fra) - Petra Cetkovska (CZE) 7:5
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Daniela's got Jankovic in the first round of the doubles as well. I bet they'll be playing against each other in the mixed doubles too. It's Daniela & Anabel, seeded 16, against Jankovic & Lucic-Baroni.

I will have to stay up very late tonight, Chungwit, to think of any reason to want to be in New Mexico!
I was referring to Jovanovski going to Carlsbad, New Mexico instead of Carlsbad, California thinking that's where the tournament was.
Having said that New Mexico does seem a fine place:

No weather problems today. Tomorrow is supposed to pretty decent. It's supposed to rain most of Tuesday. Guess who isn't scheduled until Tuesday?
What else is new?

Really don't want Daniela to play on wet,sluggish clay. Stupid organizers.

Daniela's the first match on Court 2 starting at 11am.