2010 Women's Field
Sony Ericsson WTA Tour:

Timea Bacsinszky
Marion Bartoli
Alona Bondarenko
Kateryna Bondarenko
Elena Dementieva
Alexandra Dulgheru
Sara Errani
Olga Govortsova
Daniela Hantuchova
Ana Ivanovic
Kaia Kanepi
Maria Kirilenko
Alisa Kleybanova
Petra Kvitova
Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez
Melanie Oudin
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Flavia Pennetta
Andrea Petkovic
Tsvetana Pironkova
Francesca Schiavone
Yanina Wickmayer
Caroline Wozniacki
Jie Zheng

I keep feeling that Daniela's due a good draw sometime but she always gets a tough first round. This is the toughest run of draws she's had in her career as everyone she's played in the US Open series has been in the top 30 and she had top 30 opponents in Rome and Madrid. Most years she's been seeded so got decent draws, although she actually had quite tough draws in the 2002 US Open series, but even in years that she wasn't she generally got decent openers. In 2004 she was ranked lower than she is now but the highest ranked player she played in a first round during the hardcourt was Loit at 36 and her opening rounds last year were fairly reasonable.

I don't think she'll be seeded and given the way that recent draws have gone I'm not going to get my hopes up. Regardless of who she gets Daniela will have to be up for the match and play well because there are a lot of good players in the field.

I don't know if it's just coincidence but last year Daniela skipped New Haven and got to the fourth round of the US Open while the previous couple of years she played here and went out in the first round at the US Open and the last year she had good runs at both New Haven and the US Open was 2005.

Still, Darren Cahill should be here so we'll see what he can do.

Its not an easier draw, but quite acceptable...for this tournament.. Kanepi is a ball buster :/ But shes not that consistent(Well Daniela is not, too), but I hope daniela will take her down!

But Schiavone will be a challenge :/ Oh, hope Daniela will do something....

She needs some wins before US Open!


Come on!

True. It will be tough. Kanepi had some good runs since then...

Serena Williams out of US open!

So hope Daniela will not get the other Williams in her draw instead

Good Luck Daniela. If you will play some nice tennis you can go far hopefully.

Serena is out of USO? wow, maybe will Daniela finally QF at USO.

We'll see how Daniela does at the US Open. A lot will depend on the draw and if she gets a decent draw then she can do well. You look at some recent slam semi-finalists and they mostly got lucky with the draw or got hot at the right time. Wickmayer was ranked in the 50s last year but the only seed she played until the semi was Razzano, the highest ranked player Zheng beat at the Australian Open was Bartoli and Kvitova and Pironkova both got to the Wimbledon semis.

It's also important that Daniela goes into the US Open with confidence and momentum so this is an important match for Daniela. A win and a good performance would do her so much good and also give her the chance to go on a run and get some points. We do have to take this one match at a time and she has to beat Kanepi. The US Open is the only tournament where Daniela has a lot of points to defend for the rest of this year so good runs in the other tournaments would boost her ranking.