 | Born: 19/9/82 Nationality: Greek Seeded: 27 World ranking: 28 French Open best:
3rd round (2003) Recent record:
2003: 3rd round
2002: 2nd round
2001: n/a |
The Greek number one opened the year in superb form with a third career title in Auckland. She went on to reach the semi-finals in Indian Wells, beating Jennifer Capriati for the second time this year along the way.
But Daniilidou's form has since dipped, with two wins and three losses so far in the clay-court season.
She had her breakthrough season in 2002 and built on that form in 2003.
A fourth-round defeat to Serena Williams at the Australian Open was no disgrace, nor was losing to the same player in the Paris semis the following week.
Ranked as high as 14 in the world during the first half of the year, Daniilidou found the transformation from outsider to leading name a difficult one.
She has only twice made the last 16 at a Grand Slam and has yet to get past the third round at the French Open.
MMIX
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