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PROXIMUS DIAMOND GAMES
(Antwerp, Belgium; indoor Decoturf; WTA Tier II)
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Photos
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First round: Search Getty Images for "hantuchova"

Second round:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=news_photos&p=hantuchova
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=210331&page=14

Off-court:
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=208809&page=6

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First round (Tuesday)
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+ DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [9] d. Zuzana Ondrášková [LL], 6-1 6-0

It took just 49 minutes.

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Second round (Thursday)
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+ DANIELA HANTUCHOVÁ [9] lt. Olga Savchuk [Q], 6-4 6-3

A shocking result, as I thought Daniela's passage to the quarter-
finals would be a formality against the world #115, especially with
the confidence Daniela is supposed to have derived from knocking
Serena Williams out of the Australian Open, and winning her first-
round match so easily.

Savchuk is an 18-year-old who reached her highest-ever ranking
(#115) this week, and has just reached her first-ever Tier II (or
higher) quarter-final (her only previous WTA Tour quarter-final was
at Tier IV Tashkent 2004). She had never beaten a current top-20
player until Daniela (#14), and I didn't even know what she looked
like until today.

The media just say things like Savchuk "completely outplayed"
Daniela, and "had too much" for her - despite Savchuk's first-round
match (a 2-6 7-5 7-5 win over Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro) only finishing
around 1am on Thursday morning!

From what I've read on General Messages at WTAworld.com, Daniela
just played a very bad match:
http://www.wtaworld.com/showthread.php?t=220620


Her next tournament will be Doha (week of 27th February).

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Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/tennis/hantu/ (added 2 external
links)

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