Very good start for Daniela, although it could be great if she would
beat Nicole Vaidisova - looks like Nicole is a similar player to
Daniela with one big difference - Nicole is a winning type...She won
three tournaments in a row last year and probably she is going to
continue in taking trophies this year as well. Daniela won several
matches she was not able last year, but still I don't like that she
refused to play for Slovakia in HOPMAN CUP as defending champions
together with Dominik Hrbaty - but she said her mixed doubles career
is over, she achieved everything she could, so in that sense it was
kind of OK...
Big difference in this year regarding Daniela are: MUSCLES. Our
newspaper compared Daniela's triceps in 2002 and 2005 - and the
difference is almost unbelievable!!! They even called her as Daniela
Williamsova - that she has got muscles like Serena...(she is still far
from it, but it looks like that to have big muscles is not everything,
isn't it, Serena?).
In any case, with a good draw Daniela has a chance to get far in AUS
OPEN this year, quarters or even better? She must not play several
players on her way up...probably Vaidisova is one of them (Clijsters,
Serena and Venus, Henin, Sharapova, and others...), hopefully she can
and she will beat at least one TOP 10 player - she has to if she wants
to play QF or better.
Bartoli now is a different player than Bartoli losing to Daniela back
in previous years when Daniela beat her badly..., so it is not sure
that daniela would beat her if playing the finals.