2014 Player Field

1 (1) Serena Williams USA
2 (5) Agnieszka Radwanska POL
3 (8) Angelique Kerber GER
4 (11) Ana Ivanovic SRB
5 (12) Dominika Cibulkova SVK
6 (16) Carla Suarez-Navarro ESP
7 (18) Andrea Petkovic GER
8 (19) Samantha Stosur AUS
9 (28) Garbine Muguruza ESP
10 (30) Sabine Lisicki GER
11 (31) Daniela Hantuchova SVK
12 (32) Shuai Zhang CHN
13 (41) Coco Vandeweghe USA
14 (44) Caroline Garcia FRA
15 (45) Karolina Pliskova CZE
16 (49) Varvara Lepchenko USA
17 (56) Ajla Tomljanovic CRO
18 (65) Yanika Wickmayer BEL
19 (69) Monica Puig PUR
20 (87) Kimiko Date-Krumm JPN
WC (10) Victoria Azarenka BLR
WC (25) Venus Williams USA
WC (858) Kristie Ahn USA

Thats a good first round draw. Will be interesting to see how Daniela plays.

Daniela's not playing tomorrow.

She's playing doubles with Arantxa Parra Santonja again and they start against Gavrilova & Xu.

Tuesday – Night Session

Not before 7:00 PM: Venus Williams vs. Paula Kania

Followed by: Daniela Hantuchova vs. Paula Ormaechea

With the cooperation of Venus, Daniela starts play before midnight in New York. She serves first. Here we go……
0-1 Oh, boy, Daniela broken at 30.
0-2 Paula holds to 15.
1-2 Daniela holds to 0.
2-2 Daniela breaks at deuce.
3-2 Daniela holds to 0.
(It is now past midnight here. This now becomes the 1 year anniversary of Daniela's only double bagel win at Carlsbad.)
3-3 Paula holds to 15.
4-3 Daniela holds to 15. (Won 11 straight points on serve up till 40-0 in this game.)
5-3 Daniela breaks at 30.
6-3 Oh, joy! Daniela holds to 15.
2nd set
1-0 Daniela breaks to 15.
2-0 Daniela holds to 15.
2-1 Paula holds to 30.
2-2 Daniela broken at 15.
2-3 Paula holds from deuce.
3-3 Daniela holds to 15.
3-4 Paula holds from deuce.
4-4 Daniela holds to 0.
5-4 Daniela breaks at 30. Serving for match.
6-4 Daniela holds to 0!
So my fears were, in the immortal words of the Clash, fundamentallytardaded!
This is career win #525 for Dani. Not easy, but she was clearly better, had some dominant moments (like winning the last 9 points on serve), and by my count was 4-4 on break points. She won 8 of her 10 service games, and in them, won 32-36 points, and the 4 points Paula got all came after Dani was up 40-love.
Daniela gets Muguruza next, as she took Domi the defender out in three sets. Dani and Arantxa are first up on Court 6 today, shortly after 1:30 Stanford time. (BTW, Lucic won today with Pliskova as her partner.)
Stats: Daniela was indeed 4-4 on break points. She was 31-47 1st serves in (66%), and won 25 of those points (81%). 10-16 2nd serve points won. 1 ace, 1 DF. Paula must be another young bomber. 6 aces, 5 DF's. Dani won 63 points, Paula 43.
Daniela defends her points from the double bagel (she dropped 45 points from Stanford last year, when it was played a week earlier, which is why she fell to #33 this week. Chance to gain points now.)
Good night, everybody!

eddy wrote:
Daniela wins 6-3 6-4 in 1hr 9 mins

Have to say Daniela played really well, moved well and served well.

Muguruza next...will be interesting...
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Alex wrote
So there was a stream. Thanks, eddy. That makes me feel even better about the win


There was stream makes me feel worse. I stayed up to watch Daniela on Tennis Channel becasue they were covering about 4 hours. what did they do.....Venus live then instantly a rerun of Venus's match WHILE Daniela match was live. ggrrrrr

A good win by Daniela. She was solid and raised her level at the end of each set. She served well at the end of each set and she broke Ormaechea in her last service game of each set and then served it out fairly easily in the next game. It does seem like getting a solid run of games in WTT has helped Daniela and she's built up a nice rhythm there, although Ormaechea is someone that Daniela should beat she's been upset quite a few times this season by players that she should have beaten so to get a solid straight sets against a potentially tricky opponent is good.

Daniela's the only Slovak to win as both Cibulkova & Rybarikova lost in the first round as defending champion, so she's flying the flag.

Thanks for the live report, Alex.

There was stream makes me feel worse. I stayed up to watch Daniela on Tennis Channel becasue they were covering about 4 hours. what did they do.....Venus live then instantly a rerun of Venus's match WHILE Daniela match was live. ggrrrrr

That's absurd. Anyone east of the Mississippi will have stayed up past midnight to watch so would want to watch another match rather than the match they've just seen. Are Americans that parochial or do American TV executives think Americans are that parochial?


Daniela's facebook:
Very happy to kick off my summer @usopenseries with a win tonight here in Stanford,I love being in my California#surfinsg#lifestyle#summeralways brings the best out of me and wonderfull memories from previous years,can't believe it is my 10th time coming to the @bankofthewestclassic

I am delighted to win tonight and a positive start to the summer long series of tournaments American, I love California and their overall life style. Always brings me memories of previous years, mainly victory tournament in Indian Wells, very happy to be always returns to this parts of the world, and even I can not believe that there at Stanford after 10kratdobruu I play all night and joins the beautiful West sunshine ‬ ‪ # westcoast # dani @ google translate