Husarova & Zakopalova have won by retirement.

I just hope that Daniela's okay because she was nursing an injury in Linz last week and she had a long tough match just a few hours ago. I hope that if it was Daniela retiring it's just a precaution because an injury would be too depressing to contemplate.

Daniela's the 4th match on Central Court tomorrow, not before 6:30pm

Silver lining: Daniela has pretty much broke even points-wise from Luxembourg last year. She should remain at #33, unless Bojanowski beats Caro tomorrow in Luxembourg. Somehow, I still think she'll get into Sofia. Always the chance that a couple of those ahead of her will come up lame and call it a year. (Of course I'm hoping Dani didn't come up lame tonight.)
As for tomorrow...hmmm...Grueling match today, retired from doubles, may well be hurting, hasn't ever beaten Anastasia Alphabet, scarring memory of the still inexplicible 2010 Monterrey final...playing in the opponent's home country....I can hardly wait to see the betting line. But this is why we stay loyal to this great gal. Logic says she has 2 chances: none and less. But logic and Daniela's results don't often coincide. Don't give up....Don't Ever give up!

I stand corrected……Daniela does have one win over Anastasia. 2 after tomorrow? Why not?

This is excruciating. Please don't let this be Daniela's first double bagel loss ever.
Hmmm, a break and her first hold. Hope.
eddy, does she look limited physically, or is this just a beat down?:
That's why we love her. Breaks at love when it looks hopeless. Go, Dani!
Wow, 8 straight points. Keep a go, young lady!
Aah, frig. Daniela, thanks for fighting back like that. A bit easier to take now.

I only got the last game which Pavlyuchenkova won to 0. Alex & eddy would be able to give a good analysis on the match but the first set seems depressing as hell. I don't know if Daniela was injured or impaired in any way but she fought hard in the second to make a fight of it. Who knows what could have happened if Daniela had been able to get the first point when Pavlyuchenkova was serving at 5-4 as she's won the previous two games to love and Pavlyuchenkova was bound to be tense but Daniela made some errors and Pavlyuchenkova won it. The commentators were saying that Pavlyuchenkova was dominant on her first serve but that Daniela was bossing things on Pavlyuchenkova's 2nd serve, unfortuantely Pavyluchenkova got 4 1st serves in in the final game. This is disappointing but considering that Daniela had lost in the first round in her previous three tournaments I'd have taken a quarter-final at the start of the tournament.

I'm honestly not bothered about Sofia, I think it would be a lot better for Daniela to rest and recover and be completely healthy for next year. She's 30 now and lingering injuries take so much longer to clear up and I don't think she's been fully fit since Birmingham. Daniela could do with recuperating and having a good offseason to train and build up her fitness and skills.

Daniela had some good wins in the first half of the year when she beat Errani, Robson twice, Suarez Navarro, Kirilenko, Stephens, Kvitova, Mladenovic and Schiavone but in the second half the highest ranked player she beat was Wickmayer. Daniela won a tournament and got to a slam quarter-final, but apart from that it was mostly disappointing and it must have been so frustrating for Daniela that she wasn't able to produce her best tennis anything like often enough. Her tiebreak record was pretty bad although she went 4-1 when she won Birmingham and won a third set tiebreak at the US Open. She would have had a better season with a better tiebreak record.
It would have been good to have had a better doubles partner as the Medina Garrigues partnership was pretty bad and Medina Garrigues has been terrible this year while the Hingis partnership fizzled out. Daniela did fairly well with Lisa Raymond and that could be a good partnership for next year. It would have been nice to see what Daniela could have done with a good partner as her brief pairings with Srebotnik & Vesnina were derailed by injury and she only played two matches with Hradecka, Hlavackova, Hsieh & Kirilenko.

Daniela won another tournament and got to her first slam quarter-final for 5 years so that's what I'll remember 2013 for.

Chungwit, Benji and eddy, exceptional posts. I'm still kind of a neophyte around here, and I have learned so much about Dani from you guys and the other regulars in the Forum. My thanks.
You have covered all the highlights/lowlights very well. So what I'll do is go through the things that made me happy and the biggest disappointments.
The bad stuff first. The biggest disappointment was the failure of the Hingis experiment. You were not the only one who thought this would be a great thing, Benji. I saw first hand the joy and excitement of the first night in Carlsbad, how Daniela jumped into Martina's arms after match point, how Dani flashed the Priceless Smile at me when I said to her how much fun she must have had. No one who was there that night thought this would fizzle out so quickly and amount to so little. The silver lining is that we were reminded of what a clodpole Hingis is. Daniela has no need for such drama. Otherwise, the first round losses which cost her glittering opportunities to raise her ranking, and the picture of her in tears after Slovakia blew the Fed Cup semi.
The good stuff: Daniela having a winning record, protecting her not ever having a losing mark in any of her full-time seasons. The 500th career win, which we knew was coming but was still neat. Birmingham, the run in New York and the win over Kvitova, none of which any of us saw coming. The 2nd straight Heart Award, lest we forget. The beyond incredible comeback wins over Schaivone in Birmingham, Glushko in New York, and Dolonc this week. And an amazing two nights in Carlsbad with a double bagel and a signed T-shirt.
As many things that did not go well, Daniela rose from #76 on May 1 to the top 30. May she rise even further in 2014!

I think the best thing at the moment, besides Daniela's amazing resilience, is that she is managing to win a title per year; something that was elusive to her.

If she just had a bit more consistency at Slams she would be easily top30.