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GENERALI LADIES LINZ (Linz, Austria; indoor hard; WTA Tier II)
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Photos
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On-court:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=hantuchova
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=200750
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=65349&page=41
http://nicolevaidisova.free.fr/forum/viewtopic.php?p=12

Nigel Lee's Daniela screen-caps:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/danifan/Dani_Linz.htm (1r)
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/danifan/Dani_Linz2.htm (2r)
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/danifan/Dani_Linz3.htm (qf)

If you want to see Daniela crying, search Getty Images
for "hantuchova"


Off-court:
http://www.wtatour.com/photogallery/ (select "Linz" and "Linz2")
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=65349&page=40

Winner of the "Daniela Hantuchová lookalike competition":
http://www.wtaworld.com/showpost.php?p=6522460

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First round
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+ DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [6] d. Klára Koukalová, 6-4 6-7 (4/7) 7-6 (11/9)

This was Daniela's first-ever match against Klára, the pretty Czech
girl who has won two WTA singles titles this year.

Teletext criticised Daniela's inconsistency, but I'm quite proud of
her for pulling this one out from 2-4* and *4-5 down in the third,
and holding her nerve in such a long tiebreak.

After all those match-points that she missed at Zurich last week,
it's poetic justice that she saved two in this match (in the third-
set tiebreak: Klára led *5/2 and had match-points at 7/6* and *8/7,
while Daniela's were at 6/5*, *9/8 and 10/9*).

Daniela was modest in victory: "It was an even game, and I was the
luckier of the two of us."

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Second round
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+ DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [6] d. Conchita Martínez,
2-6 6-0 *3-1 retired (right-wrist strain)

I'm sorry that Daniela's win had to be by retirement. The 33-year-
old Martínez, who won Wimbledon 1994, took an injury time-out at the
end of the second set, and continued until Daniela broke for 3-1.

www.wtatour.com: "Hantuchová reached the quarter-finals when veteran
Conchita Martínez retired in the middle of the third set. Martínez's
crafty play seemed to throw Hantuchová at the start, but the young
Slovak steadied in the second and began to connect better on her
fluid groundstrokes."

Yahoo! Sports: "Martínez, a 33-year-old Spaniard and 1994 Wimbledon
winner, won the first set with a good serve-and-volley game.
Hantuchová then began attacking Martínez's serves and evened the
match. In the third set, a weakened Martínez stopped after dropping
serve."


Daniela: "I was trying to do a bit too much in the first set. She
was making me play a lot of balls, but I started to calm down, told
myself not to rush. I'm glad the way I played in the second set and
at the beginning of the third. I think I was a little tired after my
match last night, at least at the start of the match; my reactions
were a little slow, but that changed and I played better as the
match went on.

"It is pretty unlucky she could not continue. Winning like this is
no fun."


Martínez: "My wrist and arm started to get worse throughout the
match, and in the third my Achilles heel that has been bugging me
since the summer was really bad, so there was no point in finishing.
I had some chances in the first two games of the second set, but I
didn't take them, and after that, things started to go downhill. It
hurt too much. There was no way I could play on."

Martínez may soon retire in another sense:
"I always said I would finish the year, and the year is not finished
yet. My main goal is to make the WTA Championships in doubles, and
obviously I'm going to take care of my injuries and that takes some
time. During that time I'm going to think of what I want to do, if I
want to continue or not. I still have some good tennis in me. It's
just a matter of being fit and being 100% all the time. It's tougher
to recover now, and when you carry injuries it's tough to play."

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Quarter-final
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- DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [6] lt. PATTY SCHNYDER [4], 6-2 6-1

A very disappointing loss for Daniela, especially as there was no
Kim Clijsters, Lindsay Davenport or Venus Williams to stop Daniela
winning this tournament.

Daniela went into this match with a 5-7 head-to-head against
Schnyder, but Daniela had won both their previous 2005-meetings.

According to www.wtatour.com, Schnyder "used her shot variety to
perfection and served impeccably to secure the victory".

Schnyder: "I think I played perfect tennis tonight. She stayed with
me early in the first set, but after that I stepped it up and had a
pretty comfortable win. I think you can see that we are both a
little tired; you could see that sometimes with her shots. But she's
a great champion and I needed to be careful today, especially since
I lost to her the two times I played her this year."

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Doubles
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DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ/AI SUGIYAMA [4]:
1r + Daniela Klemenschits/Sandra Klemenschits, 6-0 6-3
qf + Eva Birnerová/Andreea Vanc, 6-0 6-2
sf - Gisela Dulko/Kveta Peschke, 4-6 6-3 6-3

--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/
http://www.geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/hantu/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/danielahantuchova/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jeldani/