It's starting to be just embarrassing now !

This was terrible for Daniela in so many ways. She made a lot of errors while Cepelova played a great game, she came up with some great shots, she got a lot of balls back and played such a good game while Daniela made errors and was sloppy and frustrated. The third game turned out to be crucial as Daniela had 3 BPs and was playing better and was dictating play but Cepelova held on and she grew in confidence while Daniela got frustrated. Cepelova had an easy service game in the fifth game and then Daniela was broken to go 2-4 down after having a GP and then the momentum and the match totally slipped away from her and there were so many errors.

Daniela looks absolutely distraught, this must be devastating for her. I feel so sorry for her, I just want to give her a hug and a shoulder to cry on. She was very gracious at the hand shake at the end even though she must have been hurting so much. It's just so sad, I think there will be a lot of tears in the locker room

No problemo with this from my perspective, guys. If I was a Slovak and wasn't only rooting for Daniela, I'd be getting excited about Jana. She's got stones. She saved Slovakia in Fed Cup last year with an incredibly gutty win. What really impressed me was how she came out the day after beating Serena and won a very tough matched. It's hard for even veteran players to win the next match after knocking off the best player, and she's young and pulled it off. Then she runs roughshod over our gal when she was rolling. Gotta give it to Jana. Daniela being frustrated makes sense to me. I'm feeling that Lundgren is trying to work an extreme makeover, especially the net rushing, and the last 3 days were very encouraging to us and had to have Dani getting pumped. She'll bounce back. It's a work in process, and it's not yet that far into the process.

Disappointing match from Daniela last night,but thrilled with the week overall,just getting the back-to-back wins will do wonders for her confidence.

Hopefully the start of a fine clay-court season.

Chungwit, your posts here and on Daniela's FB page yesterday were very moving. No one can possibly a bigger fan of hers than you.

Daniela certainly has done many fantastic things without paying any attention to my sage advice. So I shall trust that she will be smart like always and do something like this: For the next 10 days or so, she might want to hop down to Bolliteri's, Lundgren in tow, and keep working on what they're trying. That way, she remains in America (I won't mind ) and can get to Canada without making any lengthy flights. After Fed Cup, I'd like to see Dani take the next week off, as there's nothing to defend, rather than cross 10 time zones and rush into Stuttgart or Marrakech. She is entered for Portugal the week after……restart then.

What a day of tennis! 2 ridiculously exciting matches,with the winner coming from a break down in the final set in each semi-final.

BTW Jana has done all this without her coach this week(he went back to Slovakia after Miami). I wish Daniela would try playing a tournament without a coach for once-she was hopeless once Lundgren came out yesterday

Thanks Chungwit, I read somewhere that Daniela is on the waiting list to get into Stuttgart (my favourite tournament), but maybe that's dodgy as it's straight after fed cup which I presume she's playing in.

Sometimes having a coach can just complicate things but I think Lungdren has done good work with Daniela this week.

Daniela's not on the entry list for Stuttgart at the moment although she could get a wild card. As she's skipping the Fed Cup she could also play qualifiers for Stuttgart. She's got a very busy schedule between the Oerias and the US Open so she may want a few weeks to recuperate and prepare for the rest of the year.