Yep. Eleni Daniilodou´s current ranking is #94, and this year´s matches are 2-1 when she lost Mona Barthel (#38) in Auckland and won Karolina Pliskova (#119) in Melbourne. She actually leads head-to-head matches against Vika 1-0, and their only previous match was played in Paris indoor tournament in 2008 when Eleni won 2-6, 6-2, 7-5. Now Vika can correct those old h2h statictics..... http://www.wtatennis.com/head2head/player1/2042/player2/11289
Seriously speaking a second round match should give Vika more match experience and further chance to improve her game. I think there was something missing in her first match, a certain edge when Vika plays on higher level. I mean something like Vika vs Aga in Indian Wells quarterfinals in 2012:
Eleni's game is old school, so while she lacks modern power she has the touch, speed, spin, and all-court game that could bother Vika. It's not as crazy as Monica's but still.
Vika needs to clean it up out there.
I did thoroughly enjoy Cliff Drysdale botching The Hotmess Express' name and "band name." He also does not approve of the Rainbow Peasant.
Eleni's game is old school, so while she lacks modern power she has the touch, speed, spin, and all-court game that could bother Vika. It's not as crazy as Monica's but still.
Vika needs to clean it up out there.
I did thoroughly enjoy Cliff Drysdale botching The Hotmess Express' name and "band name." He also does not approve of the Rainbow Peasant.
Mustsee Ana vs JJ, injuries or not. BTW heard Caro & Vika walked past each other on practice court, only short hello. Must see that 2 on mat cronin's twitter acount
Daniilidou is well past her prime and her fitness is suspect. I don't expect her to trouble Vika at this point. Gonna be a hot day in Melbourne, and even at 11 AM conditions are probably going to be pretty brutal.
Hmm.. the match begins at 1 a.m. and i must get up only at 9 a.m.
Sounds like the best opportunity this week to see a match live!
Good luck, Vika!! Make it, nevertheless, quick. :lol:
Most things improved from 1R, good to see. I tried to pay a bit more attention to her serving, and she seemed to be serving it a bit faster (?) than the last match.
I think the most important thing today was that she seemed to have done the right thing during the off season. I was a bit worried after the first match, but today she looked great again.
Btw, would be nice to see a Wozniacki vs Vika match later. I have not yet seen them play each other.
watched most of Hampton's match against U. Radwanska. She played well, heavy groundstrokes, good variety, likes to come to net. Should be more of a test for Vika than her last opponent.
Good luck Victoria, I'm kind of worried about her serve in the last match. I hope she can show much more aggressive serving against Hampton like she did against Sabine for example in Brisbane.
Hampton played the match of her life, and I didn't think she was as good as everyone was saying (ie. in GM, 'she might really trouble Azarenka' etc), but she was playing at a very high level. I think I remember seeing her playing Sharapova this time last year and she was nowhere near as good as today. Vika, from 5-1 onwards (the stretch between 2-1 to 5-1 was very good) was diabolically awful, embarrassing. So many errors, she was playing at a very low level for her standards. But as long as these sorts of matches don't become commonplace, then this is tolerable, I still think she would've won even if Hampton didn't get that injury, whatever it seemed to be.
Vika needs to stop fucking the Rainbow Peasant and get her ass on the practice court. Absolute shit today. No movement, not hitting through the ball at all, no game plan whatsoever, just hitting the ball into Jamie's strike zone.
As soon as she started double faulting the whole game fell apart. Unacceptable. The pressure of attempting to defend is getting to her.
Vika needs to stop fucking the Rainbow Peasant and get her ass on the practice court. Absolute shit today. No movement, not hitting through the ball at all, no game plan whatsoever, just hitting the ball into Jamie's strike zone.
As soon as she started double faulting the whole game fell apart. Unacceptable. The pressure of attempting to defend is getting to her.
It's only her first 'let's play as awful as possible and then win in the end' match for the year, going by that same description she had a similar one at RG. :lol:
Until she starts getting upset by players outside the top 10 regularly then it's not enough to warrant planting a bomb on the rails of the Hotmess Express yet.
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