couldn't agree more with that she played pretty good apart from all the
unforced errors, but just silly errors and shot selection needs some work.
As much as i wanted her to win today after i watched her on thursday i
didn't give her much of a chance and i watched elena play aswell.
but to her credit the set and a half the showed on tv she played alot better
and is nearly getting back to her good form she had a couple of years ago.
good luck in the doubles tomorrow which i will be going to support her.


>From: "jliang1970" <jliang@...>
>Reply-To: danielahantuchova@yahoogroups.com
>To: danielahantuchova@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [danielahantuchova] Re: Daniela vs Elena
>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:48:59 -0000
>
>
>--- In danielahantuchova@yahoogroups.com, tenms1 <no_reply@y...>
>wrote:
> >
> > It's going to be very tough...Elena is a clear favorite, she is
>No.6
> > in the world, Daniela No. 31. Daniela is two years younger, 8
>kilos
> > lighter and 1cm taller. They met seven times and score is 5:2 for
> > teh Russian - Elena won their first three matches, Dani next two
>(on
> > hard and carpet) and Elena won their last two matches - both
> > quarterfinals - on carpet and clay. Their last match was in 2003
>in
> > Amelia Island on clay and Elena won 6:0, 6:1 - it was probably the
> > most humiliating defeat of Daniela in her career. But it's a long
> > time ago and so many things have happened since then.
> > Daniela played definitely her best match of the year in the
> > previous match against Barbara Schett - unfortunately, she is not
> > capable of playing such high level tennis constantly. It would be
> > great if she could repeat such a performance against Elena, but
>even
> > in that case, Elena is not Barbara and I don't think Elena would
> > lose all those deuce games as Barbara did - I would rather expect
> > opposite to happen. I guess there is always a chance to beat your
> > opponent. The main difference between them is in physical
>condition -
> > Elena has an unbelievable energy and she is one of the best on
>the
> > tour in this matter - she will not run out of steam, even if not
> > 100% fit. Her real weakeness is her serve, especially second serve
> > and I think here is the chance for Daniela - to attack it with
> > minimal amount of unforced errors. Otherwise, the match will last
> > less than an hour and the winner will be another Russian player.
> > Daniela for sure knows what to play and she knows that everybody
>is
> > beatable...Daniela GO GO GO !!! Pome!!!
>
>I have just watched this match, I must say Daniela has a lot of
>chances to really win this match, she was 4:2 ahead in the first
>set and a few point to streched her lead to 5:2. In the 2nd set
>Danila was behind 4:5 with Elena serving for the match she manage
>to win 3 game in a row to pull even at 1 set all. The final set
>Elena jump to a 4:1 lead with 2 breaks of serve, Daniela managed
>to pull one back and held her serve for 4:3 and then had a great
>chance to break and pull the match even but failed on a down the
>line forehand which caught the tape. It was a very close match
>that could have going for a long time and Daniela could have won it.
>My overall impression of Daniela's play is that although she is
>going for her shot quite a lot more than Elena, she lacks consistancy
>on her ground stroke in all she committed no less than 78 unforced
>errors which doubled Elena's number of unforced errors. She needs
>more net clearance and possibly more top spin on her shot And to me
>some of her shot selection is really questionable, she gave cheap
>points away to Elena with bad drop volleys and in several occassions
>she would play some low percentage drop shots in middle of a rally.
>For Daniela to improve she needs to learn how to play percentage
>tennis and learn to know when to execute a shot at a certain time.
>The gap between Daniela's ability and that of a top 10 player is not
>huge and in fact I think she is on her way up again but for her to
>regain her rightful place in the ranking, these are the little thing
>she needs to improve. namely her shot selection, a big more spin and
>clearance on her ground shots and also her physical condition which
>I know it is continue to improve. I still regard Dani as potentially
>better player than Elena but it will be a shame to waste that talent.
>
>
>