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Women's Singles
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Second round revisited
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Amended result:
+ DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [20] d. Shahar Peer, 6-2 2-6 6-3

I watched the third set on video on Sunday. Daniela played a shaky
opening service-game, facing break-point at 30/40, but held after a
couple of UEs from Peer and an excellent one-two punch with a
forehand winner.

Daniela then broke Peer for 2-0, forcing errors from the Israeli
retriever with her flairsome power. The rest of the set went with
serve, Daniela closing it out comfortably with the help of a precise
down-the-line forehand winner.

Shahar Peer, the Australian Open 2004 Girls' Singles champion,
fought bravely throughout the match, and the way she was berating
herself after losing points suggested that she fancied her chances
of beating Daniela. But she wasn't strong enough to hit winners
except when Daniela gave her easy short balls, so it was really up
to Daniela whether to hit winners or errors.

Commentator Chris Bailey said that just as Goran Ivanisevic had a
Split personality (the Good Goran, the Bad Goran and the Emergency
Goran), so it was with Daniela in this match.

Commentator Virginia Wade said that Daniela was too self-conscious,
especially in the second set, and needed to be more spontaneous
rather than thinking about stuff like the exact number of steps she
walks between points. She repeated this comment after Daniela had
plenty of time to hit an easy short forehand, but put it long.

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Third round
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- DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [20] lt. VENUS WILLIAMS [14], 7-5 6-3

Daniela came out playing very well from the start, holding serve
reliably as she kept Williams at bay with powerful, flairsome
groundstrokes and her trademark down-the-line backhand.

Daniela looked wonderfully gorgeous, the skin of her now beautifully-
toned body radiating a healthy glow into one of the colder, darker
days of this year's Wimbledon. After looking so skinny at Wimbledon
2003, and too bulky at Wimbledon 2004, she now looks just about
perfect, her shoulders sexier than ever before. Daniela is for me
the most attractive player in tennis.

The match was going nicely until Daniela was serving at 5-5 40/0.
But when she threw in a double fault to make it 40/15, the bubble
suddenly burst. Daniela was broken, Williams served out the first
set, and Daniela quickly found herself 0-3 down with two breaks in
the second.

Freeview BBCi stopped showing the match at 0-3 in the second when
BBC 2 had to take a break to show the Glastonbury Festival.
Fortunately, Lindsay Davenport finished off Dinara Safina so quickly
that BBCi rejoined the match on one of the two Freeview Interactive
channels, by which time Daniela had fought back to 2-3.

Daniela broke back again to make it 3-3, but her serve faltered
under pressure again as Williams closed out the second set 6-3 with
two more breaks. Daniela certainly wasn't disgraced, but she looked
very disappointed at the end, knowing that she could have done much
more after 5-5 40/0, and BBC presenter Sue Barker said Daniela was
expected to give Williams a tougher test than she did.

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Women's Doubles
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Second round
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+ DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ/AI SUGIYAMA [7] d.
Nana Miyagi/Anastasia Myskina, 7-5 7-6 (7/5)


Third-round draw:

* DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ/AI SUGIYAMA [7] vs
ANABEL MEDINA GARRIGUES/DINARA SAFINA [9]

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Dr. Andrew Broad
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