As always, I like to wait a day after a tough loss. Daniela's win with Sam was a good one. I'll take any victory she can achieve these days. And she had a lot of winners yesterday. But now another injury surfaces. I always give Dani credit for not using an injury as an excuse and not going public with them until weeks /months later. We can hope for better things on grass. Birmingham 2 years ago came completely out of nowhere. However, I have to say this. If we go back and look at the comments she has made that Chungwit so helpfully posts in the last 3 months (post-Pattaya post-Barthel in Dubai the next day), maybe it's just me, but there are all sorts of hints and between the lines stuff that lead me to believe that it may not be much longer until Chungwit is posting a retirement announcement.

You're always good at reassuring me, Chungwit. And even if she does retire soon, there's probably even more players that retired and came back than retired before the age of 32 and remained retired! As I have said before, Daniela could keep her hand in tennis with a combo of doubles, the Asian league and WTT. This present losing streak is so frustrating that it distorts perspective.

Bencic getting a bagel in R2... Daniela

Daniela's doubles match is last on Court 2 after two women's and a men's singles, play starts at 11 am.

A great win in doubles as Daniela & Sam beat the third seeds in straight sets. Easily Daniela's best doubles win for years and she's got a great chance of going on a run here. She played well and so did Stosur. It shows the difference a really good doubles partner makes.

Babos is a very loud woman.

I was watching on a live stream from 2-2 in the first set until the start of the second when I had some problems with my connection and the stream was down and I couldn't get anything until 5-2. Daniela & Sam were a break down at the start of the second 1-2 but then they won 4 games in a row to get to 5-2. Mladenovic & Babos saved a MP to hold for 5-3, then Sam was 40-15 up before being pegged back to deuce before winning the last two points.

This is Daniela's best win in years because this is the first time she's beaten a top team since she was with Radwanska. A lot of the time she's never had a consistent partner and promising partnerships have spluttered out. If Daniela & Sam stay together then they can be one of the top teams because they had a straight sets win against the third seeds who had the support of the crowd.

They just showed a stat during the Serena Vika match. Most wins at grand slams when dropping the first set. Daniela is tied with Sharapova with 20 wins behind Venus, Francesca, and Serena. Interesting stat.