Give Daniela our love from the Forum, Jean Raj.

My apologies for posting incorrect information. Daniela is up second on Court Central tomorrow, not third.

This is Dani's 7th singles match this year. By the time she played her 7th match in the last 3 years, she had already beaten #3 Zvonereva (good to see she's back, by the way) in '11, all-time great Clijsters ( by retirement, I know) in '12, and #6 Errani last year. I can't say that is as helpful to her chances tomorrow as a plastic Eiffel Tower, but it is encouraging. Hey, Daniela hasn't beaten Sharapova in 9 years.....Ooooooverdue!

I saw the last few games of the match. Ugh. In Shazza's last service game Daniela had three BPs but she had no chance to break as Shazza just served a bomb and either won it with the serve or was in complete control of the rally. It seemed that's what happened whenever Daniela had a BP. Daniela played some great tennis to get the BPs but it was nullified by the serve on the BP. Daniela had a really close line call go against in that game as well. It's astonishing that a Premier event doesn't have Hawkeye.

Credit to Shazza she played really well and came up with her best on the BPs, either to win them or save them. I don't know if Daniela won a point on her second serve but it seemed that Shazza was just teeing off on Daniela's second serve.

Personally, I think Shazza is a disgrace, she's encouraging obesity in the kids with those sweets of hers.

One silver lining: Daniela will be back in top 30, unless 6 other players win a tourney this week or Zakopalova gets to the Paris final, which she won't because Kerber just clocked her.

It's quite simple where Daniela went wrong in this match:From the first point Daniela should have been fist pumping going for her shots. Daniela has got to start her matches with the mindset as if she's serving or receiving to stay in the match. she needs to be intense from the first point to the last

This is an extremely interesting synopsis, eddy. It is so key in tennis to get off to a good start...I imagine she knows that. Have to say, however, that I have long since lost count of the times Dani has jumped out 3-0 or 4-1 and either lost the set or just barely hung on. (Of course, that works in favor of your analysis, because it can be said that the quick start to a set allows her a chance to still win it if her opponent storms back.)

[quote="eddy"]She is too nice [quote]

Of course she is! I know you're referring to on-court. But I don't need a degree from Oxford to know what would have happened if I had asked Shazza or Serena to stop and sign a shirt! I'm forever grateful how nice Daniela is!

Besides speaking of the importance of a quick start, Sharapova said this about Daniela: "I had a tough first opponent who can play extremely good tennis." Nice. I guess she isn't a jerk every waking moment. :

I think Daniela & Shazza get on fairly well, they practice together often enough and when Daniela was on CNN talking about Roland Garros 2012 she seemed to be rooting for Shazza to win. Shazza will have respect for Daniela as quite a few of the matches have been close plus bigging up Daniela after a win like that will make it seem better for Shazza. By praising Daniela she praises herself.

BTW, talking about dodgy line calls, I just saw Cornet get two very generous calls in her favour in the last game against Zahlavova Strycova. Is it just coincidence that the top seed, who is also one of the sponsors, and the French no. 1 get calls go in their favour when there's no way to challenge.

Hawkeye was first used in cricket and it's used in all Test (International) matches, except for matches involving India, who don't want it used. India are the richest board in cricket.

One thing about Hawkeye in tennis is that a player has three challenges a set plus one more in the tiebreak but on clay, a player essentially has unlimited challenges as he/she can ask the umpire to come down and check the spot of the play on any close call.

Talking about Hawkeye being on some courts but not on others, Alex, Daniela was absolutely screwed by that at the 2011 Australian Open. The umpire overruled about 10 calls and pretty much every single one was against Daniela. I'd never seen that umpire before and haven't seen him since but the level of bias or incompetence was astounding and no one can be that incompetent. The call that was particularly bad was when Daniela had a BP at 4-3 in the final set, the opponent put the ball wide by a few centimetres, the line judge called it out and Daniela and Kulikova were preparing for Daniela to serve for the match when the umpire overruled, said it was in and the score was deuce. That was one of the many times in that match that Daniela went apeshit at the umpire and rightly so. Kulikova held and Daniela eventually lost 9-7 but that match stunk, the level of bias and corruption was unbelievable. It wasn't just one call, but a series of decisions from that umpire, all at crucial points, that went against Daniela in that match, it was so dubious. Hawkeye would have given Daniela the ability to challenge and overturn those decisions and probably would have meant the umpire wouldn't have made these calls.