Just wanted to say how absolutely gutted I was yesterday (and I was
only watching on TV!).


I really hope Daniela takes some time off now. Whether or not she has
weight problems, I don't know (any more than anybody else banging on
about that on here), but she certainly seemed to be in her own mental
hell out there.

The interview afterwards didn't convince me that she understands her
own problems at the moment, though, so I think somebody close to her
really needs to take her aside and talk her through it (I think that
somebody better be someone other than her coach, whose priorities
seem questionable, or her mother (did I really see her laughing while
her daughter was teetering on the edge of a breakdown ??)

As far as I can see , Daniela has reached a turning point here - is
her career really worth what she's going through?, cos I think in her
place I'd be looking long and hard at just packing it in altogether.

Gabriela Sabatini did it some years back, and she seems a picture of
happiness these days.


Whatever Daniela ultimately decides to do, I wish her the best of
luck with it ....




Matt W