Australian Open: Hantuchova of line qualification in Melbourne

yesterday | 13:50 MELBOURNE - Slovak tennis player Daniela Hantuchova, according to Live Tennis pushed over the line qualification of the women's singles at the opening Grand Slam of the season at the Australian Open in Melbourne hard surface (16 to 29 January).

Hantuchova a semifinalist in the 2008 edition has been added to countrywoman Rebecca ŠRÁMKOVÁ. The single straight in the main competition, the women from Slovakia will play Dominika Cibulkova, Kristina Kucova and Jana Cepelova.

Ticket trojkolovej qualifications the women's singles will be on Wednesday at 6:00 am GMT. Play starts on Thursday.

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It seems like Daniela will just get into qualifying. It's difficult to predict how Daniela will do here as she hasn't played since she retired injured in Taiwan and she didn't qualify for either Linz or Luxembourg although she beat Davis in Linz and Davis just won Auckland and Daniela also had a good win against Van Uytvanck in Luxembourg. Hopefully Daniela's fully fit and not too rusty and she's able to do herself justice. I don't know how many more chances Daniela will get to play in the Australian Open so it would be wonderful for her to do well here.

Daniela's the fourth match on Court 7 after three women's matches. Play starts at 10 am.

This was complete slaughter, Vihklyantseva had the advantage in pretty much every aspect of the game. Her serve was better, she hit more winners and her shots were more powerful. Vikhlyantseva's serves were about 20 kmh faster than Daniela's.

Daniela actually started that match pretty well as she broke in the first game but then Vikhlyantseva breezed through the rest of the set although Daniela had a BP in the fifth game. She never got past 30 on her own serve in the first set.

Daniela had chances at the start of the second set as she saved a BP to hold in the first game, she had 7 GPs in the third game but got broken and 3 BPs in the next game but couldn't break back. Daniela was 1-3 down when she could have been 3-1 up with momentum which would have challenged Vikhlyantseva. After that Vihklyantseva held both times to love so Daniela never had another chance to get back into the match The fifth game was another tough one for Daniela as she won it on her fifth GP although she held to love in the seventh game.

I just wonder how much longer Daniela will keep going because getting beaten like this must be very difficult for her. We'll see if she plays doubles or not, I think she might as well because she can play and win some matches and I don't know if she's going to get the chance to play here again.

Daniela is not in the doubles draw.