Hantuchova "so good"
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ByEurosport
Published 14/03/2007 at 14:43 GMT
Martina Hingis urged Daniela Hantuchova to make more of her skills after losing to the Slovakian star for the second successive match. Hantuchova beat Hingis 6-4, 6-3 in the fourth round of the Pacific Open on Tuesday in a rematch of their 2002 final, whe
TENNIS; Daniela Hantuchova; 2007
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Hingis said Hantuchova's lack of titles is puzzling, given her obvious talent.
"Geez, she's just so good, you know," Hingis said. "Sometimes I feel like what has she done all those years when she beat me here in the finals.
"She knows the game, like Jennifer Capriati, or Lindsay Davenport or the Williams sisters. I put her in that group in the past because she knows the game.
"It's just like so much mental with her. It's just amazing how much the mind can do to you."
Hantuchova agreed with Hingis' suggestion that her mental game could be holding her back.
"It's something I feel it's coming now," Hantuchova said. "You can't really force that. Unless you have the experiences of big matches, and I think by now I've been through them, and through a lot, and I have learned my lessons.
"So I think now I'm prepared to play the big matches as well."
Hantuchova knows she has a good chance of winning the Pacific Wells title for a second time following the exit of six of the top ten seeded players on Tuesday.
"I feel like I'm slowly getting that same feel," Hantuchova said. "It would be great to go as far as I did a couple years ago.
"But like I said, I have to make sure I'm ready and take it one match at a time."
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