I am extremely appreciative of the postings of interviews with Daniela, even if the translations are a bit funky. This has been the only way I have been able to see what she has to say. On her FB page, nothing has been posted under Daniela's name since Cincinnati. Some of the other Wall Writers on her page will actually put up things like "We want to hear from you, Dani, where have you been?" Makes me ! I joined Facebook and began to post on her page in March. It didn't take long to overcome naivety. The page appears to have been created in late '09 or early '10. If you read messages under Daniela's name in '10, then compare them to what gets posted under her name this year, it doesn't require a degree from Northwestern or Univerzita Komenskeho v Bratislave to see the difference. The '10 posts look like Dani wrote them herself. This year, and I don't really blame her for this, since she really put her all into making herself relevant on the court again and has succeeded, anything posted under her name are almost verebatim her quotes to the media or the WTA site, clearly re-written by someone connected to her with a "Hi, guys!" and a "Thanks for your support" with a thrown in to make it look personal. Ergo, since she got KOed in the 1st round in New York and the media hardly cares about doubles, Dani was a non-story for the New York and American media. So, no quotes for her people to tinker a bit with and put up on her FB page. So, my only source to see how she explained the loss to Parmetier or her success with Aga was through what you dug up (Gracias, Mr. Chungwit). Keep up the good work! With the blessings of the Good Lord, perhaps Dani can defend her #1 seed and put up title #5 in Quebec City. Let's Go, Daniela!

Huber and Raymond won the doubles, so Daniela and Agnieszka lost to the winners.

Sam Stosur played great and thoroughly deserved to win. Fantastic perfomance and it's always nice to see someone with a bit of class and dignity win.

Very happy for Samantha. Didn't really think she had a chance coming in, and then thought she was done for after Serena woke up after the argument and got the whole stadium rooting for her. Incredible that she could regain her focus and pull it out.

Kinda surprised to see Serena blow up again here, but I thought it was at least tamer this time, more aggravated ranting than anything threatening. Still not good, but progress anyway. And it really should be a let in that situation.

The scheduling is all about what CBS wants. For today, it's understandable: They clear out a block that would normally be a big NFL game for them and need something important. But forcing the women to go last yesterday, and putting one of the matches on Grandstand, that's just wrong. They just really don't care much about the women outside of the Williams sisters, or anything really that doesn't fit their desired storyline (see not letting del Potro speak in Spanish two years ago). Sam's semi-final actually only got about 90 seconds of total airtime here, and wasn't even mentioned until after the 1st game was completed, 6+ hours into coverage.

$2000 fine for Williams, that'll show her.

The final reminded me a bit of Safin beating Sampras in the 2000 men's final.

I think the 'difficulty' the USTA faced was that they didn't want to declare the incident as 'major' (like the outburst in 2009), because that would have probably affected Serena's tournament appearances for the rest of this year and next year since she was already on a probation. Had they declared it a major incident they would have probably also fined her more money, as they did in 2009 when she was fined around $10,000 (still not very much for her, but still...)