Oh Daniela!!! Had 40-0 to level it to 5-5 in the 3rd (was 2-5 down) but lost 5 points in a row to lose the match....

This year has just been awful...

Kind of glad she lost that-the performance simply didn't merit a win,so many stupid errors.

worst year for Dani since 2009...I was hoping she can win a tournament every year but no tournaments left which I think she can win
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when will she win 2 straight rounds???

TOKYO

VS GADJOSOVA

2-5 down, Jarmilla serving huge..Daniela double-faulted 5 times already. Both good off the ground, very short rallies, very fast service.

Jarmilla is playing amazing, massive winners..poor Daniela she hasn't the power or consistency for me to see her win this...Daniela gets her first break point but too good from Jarmilla 2-6...very bad matchup for Daniela...

Another heartbteakong loss...got it back 1-4 to 5-4 in the 3rd only to lose next 3 games...I really think she will retire end of this year. She looks so unhappy, gorgeous but unhappy.

I didn't see anything wrong with her physically, if anything she was moving better and anticipating quicker than I've seen for a while.

To be honest she played a good match in most parts...she started off slow and Gadjosova was brilliant but the 2nd set Daniela was much better. There were 3 games in the match where Daniela hit 3 double faults in each of them...I think she is just trying to go for more on her 2nd serve these days especially against power players so that's why there are more of them. The game Daniela should have won was when she had 3 break points albeit non consecutive in the 2nd game of the 3rd set. Daniela had momentum from the 2nd set and Gadjosova was spraying...but it just didn't happen for Daniela.

I wouldn't be concerned if she seemed like she was enjoying herself out there but she looks like a lost puppy dog and it simply can't be fun putting all that training and hard work in for very little reward. It must be exhausting travelling so much too, as she's such a journeywoman at the moment.

I think her new coach seems to be helping her to become more aggressive so maybe it will just take time and hopefully Wuhan will be better...I'm just so sad that this year has been such a disaster. You just feel that with Daniela she just needs one awesome tournament and everything will be ok. But we haven't had that this year at all.

Another day, another stomach turning defeat. Daniela needs the Good Lord to shine upon her. So frustrating that I don't have any more to say.

Two pretty depressing tournaments where Daniela gets beaten by very average players. She had the chance to win both of these matches deep in the third but just couldn't take them and these were the sort of matches she won in the past. Of course, most of the time in the past she'd have won these matches in straight sets.
I had a few things that came up that kept me away for a while so I'm sorry that I wasn't able to set up a Tokyo thread although it didn't really matter in the end. It would be fantastic if Daniela if Daniela could salvage something from this year and she's shown incredible resilience throughout her career but this year has mostly been one to forget.