Sveta 23 W 4 UE
Daniela 9 W 24 UE

It was as ghastly as those stats make out.

The end is nigh...Daniela sounds completely deflated...she shouldn't play Fed Cup, instead go an play some tournaments on the ITF circuit and build some confidence.

The end of the day she did beat 3 top 100 players in Sydney...we are just a million miles away from IW 2007 which is very sad to see...

Daniela doubles begin today on Court 7. A women's and men's doubles precede. Play starts a little after 11 AM Melbourne time.

Wolfe retires from singles so they may not even play...just great :s

An emotional Jarmila Wolfe was left to ponder “whether to cry or be angry” after she was forced to withdraw from her opening clash with Latvian qualifier Anastasija Sevastova, succumbing to a mystery back ailment that had her baffled and in tears.

The 28-year-old was finishing up her warm-up on Margaret Court Arena when she felt the shooting pain that eventually left her “barely able to move”.

She played on, losing the first set 6-0 and trailing 4-2 when she made the call to hit the sheds.

“I was fine this morning. I warmed up and my last two serves that I hit, something went through my back – a shooting pain,” Wolfe said.

“I don’t know where from, it just started and I had to stop my practice right there and then. I saw the physios, the doctors, and they tried …. I did whatever I could.

“It got to the point where it got hard for me to move. I don’t know if I should cry or be angry.”

Wolfe said she has never suffered a back injury of that nature before, saying usually when she injures herself, she does it with gusto.

“If I do something, I do it well, so usually I break an ankle or something,” she said.

“I practised yesterday and was fine.

“I was sad to retire. I just didn’t have it in me. It’s your home event, so it’s a bit sad.”

She was set to assess the injury before making a call on whether she will play doubles with close friend Daniela Hantuchova on Wednesday.




It doesn't look too good for Wolfe's chances of doing much in doubles but we'll just see what happens. Wolfe could be better with some treatment and the opponents aren't great but Wolfe is almost certainly going to be below 100%.

The mixed doubles draw is still to come out so Daniela can play in that. She'd be able to find a partner easily enough if she wants to play.

If I'd been before the tournament that Daniela would do as well as Nadal, Halep, Venus Williams and Wozniacki I'd have been quite happy

Wolfe withdrew injured so that ended Daniela's involvement in the doubles before it started. She hasn't entered the mixed doubles so that's her involvement in the tournament over. She may stick around for a bit as she did some media work two years ago so she might do that again.

I got the last couple of game of the Bondarenko-Kuznetsova match and Bondarenko played really well although Kuznetsova didn't play as well she did against Daniela or in Sydney.

Isn't there an ITF tournament Daniela could enter next week?

Seems like a good option to me...she will be out of top 100.

All right, guys. Which one of you is going to step up and claim responsibility for the curse, no matter how many years ago it was, that you placed on Mr. Sears which led to his sinking spell the other day?