Mess. My spidey sense was tingling when I saw the draw but thought she'd get one win.

Shame, opportunity squandered after playing well in Auckland.

 Sounds like she played extremely poorly.

Dust down, move on, and attack the next one. Looks like she is off to Maui, doesn't get much better than that!

Indeed, call it an excuse ( which I don't think would be unreasonable ) or whatever, it is pretty clear that the wind is likely to adversely effect Naomi's ( high ) serve concentrated game, and her serve stats suggest that it did, so unfortunate. Absolutely fair comments.

Unless Lim ( who I don't know ) is similar, the effect of the very windy conditions would not have been the same for both players.

I wouldn't call it a 'shot to nothing'.

I would say that Naomi's poor start to 2015 now gives her a really good shot to make significant rankings progress. I am confident that she will, and if she doesn't I am sure that she will be disappointed.

I think sometimes too much comparison is made against previous years, their 'defense', whereas simply the here and now and future prospects interests me more. As a statto, I admit is does interest me re the resulting ranking movements, and I do comment on them, but too much can be made of them. In this case little rankings movement over the coming months would be too little.

And to that extent I agree that last week she had a pretty good encouraging start to the year and, as I said, I do think she was unfortunate to hit such wind in her opening Aussie qualifying match.