whom she is now 0-5.I think its not getting over the hurdle, its being able to play well for 40 minutes and play our game, Allen said. Coach talked about being efficient offensively, and that was my fault, I think. I think we have to make sure that Im putting my teammates in a position where theyre go

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For the rest, I dont think this way. Its just a final, you know. My goal is to win aGrand Slam. Its just another step in the right direction.Radwansaka also has never won a Grand Slam, but is looking for her 19th WTA singles title. Fifteen of those have come on hard courts.She had never made it past the quarterfinals in New Haven, but had a relatively easy trip this year that included a first round bye and straight set wins over Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and lucky loser Kirsten Flipkins of BelgiumThe loss snapped an 11-match winning streak for Kvitova in New Haven, where the Olympic bronze medalist was looking to join Venus Williams and Caroline Wozniacki as four-time winners. She also won the tournament 2012.The two-time Wimbledon champion said she was fatigued, a bit ill and Radwanska just ran her off the court.Shes not playing very hard, but shes using her speed, shes putting everything in, Kvitova said. Even (when) you feel its winner there, she still can catch it and rallies continue.The first match began with three consecutive service breaks before the 21-year-old Svitolina found her touch and took control. The 10th seed broke Larsson at love in the fifth game of the second set and cruised from there.Svitolina said shes received a lot of congratulations since the Olympics, but she was disappointed because she did not medal and hopes for bigger things next week.I wouldnt dream if I didnt think I could achieve this, she said of a Grand Slam title. I think I need some time to adjust my game to try to compete against top players.Radwanska has a bit of an extra incentive on Saturday. A win would give her enough points to clinch the U.S. Open Series bonus challenge and a chance for up to an extra $1 million, depending on her finish at the U.S. Open.Definitely its worth the win, she said. 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Notre Dame has now lost six in a row.Worse, at least to hear McGraw tell it of a game that was entertaining to watch as a neutral, was how little chance the Fighting Irish gave themselves for the kind of performance that could end a rivals 82-game winning streak.The coach had barely taken a seat for her postgame news conference when she offered a few words of praise for the performance of freshman Jackie Young, a verbal nod to reserve Mychal Johnsons contributions and then spared few others.Just really, really disappointed in pretty much everything, McGraw said. Execution, inability to get the ball to [All-American Brianna Turner]. Just completely ineffective offensively.Heck, even the silver lining came with an ominous cloud attached after Young was helped from the floor having sustained an ankle injury that leaves the guard who showed off offensive and defensive skills doubtful for a trip to DePaul on Saturday.Every concern McGraw had about a team deep with talent but short on experience, especially in roles of accountability, came to light. Most notably and painfully in a sluggish first quarter that put the Irish behind by double digits and a disastrous third quarter that wiped out a comeback.I think we saw some of [the problems] coming, so its not a total surprise, McGraw said. But I dont think to that extent.The question for the country is: Did it expose what Notre Dame cannot be? Or just what it did not do Wednesday?Much of Notre Dames trouble had to do with talent -- not too little of it but too much.Only point guard Lindsay Allen and Turner are in the same roles as previous seasons. Marina Mabrey, Arike Ogunbowale and Kathryn Westbeld were around for the Connecticut game a season ago, but they had the luxury of supplementing Notre Dames core. Others, like Young and fellow freshman Erin Boley, werent around at all. So when Notre Dame struggled early, Ogunbowale took it upon herself to get the Irish back on solid ground. She didnt do poorly, either. Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma said the sophomores aggressiveness forced him to make defensive adjustments. He compared her to former NBA point producer Vinnie Johnson, nicknamed The Microwave for a penchant to get hot in a hurry.The one thing I see that they are doing is theyre playing a little more one-on-one, trying to take advantage of some of the talent they have, Auriemma said. Which I would, too, if I was them.Except that was Auriemma being diplomatic (yes, it happens). He knew in moments when it mattered in years past that he had Diana Taurasi or Maya Moore or Breanna Stewart to make points out of nothing. But there is a reason none of them ever led the nation in scoring..ddddddddddddEven with some of the sports iconic individual talents, Connecticut didnt rely on one-on-one sets.Neither did Notre Dame. Neither will Notre Dame, if McGraw is to be believed.Its not our intention to play one-on-one, McGraw said. That was our problem; we played one-on-one. Our intention was to share the ball and to move the ball. I think our frustration showed early and it turned into one-on-one with our wings. That was another source of disappointment.When Ogunbowale cooled, the offense was even more broken. That isnt to pick on her. She was doing what has worked for her throughout her entire basketball life. And the Fighting Irish would have been in even more trouble without her points. McGraws ire fell on everyone.Notre Dame entered averaging assists on 60 percent of its field goals, the same as a season ago. It had assists on barely half its field goals against the Huskies.But at the same time, Auriemma wasnt just being magnanimous in saying Notre Dame was a headache to defend at all five positions.Notre Dame is going to give away something inside to some of its peers this season, Connecticut and South Carolina most notably. But spread some mix of Ogunbowale, Young, Mabrey and Westbeld around Turner -- while remembering to get her the ball -- and let Allen run the show, and a great many defenses will bend well beyond the breaking point. Connecticut nearly did at times Wednesday, which ought to be proof enough.Among Top 25 teams, everyone talks in terms of actual victories and not moral victories when it comes to the four-time defending champions. None are as convincing about it as Notre Dame. Partly it is that run of success from the spring of 2011 to the spring of 2013. Partly it is the sheer familiarity that at least the coaching staffs still share from each programs days in the Big East.Mostly its because in a world without Connecticut, Notre Dame of the past decade would be Connecticut. Even if Allen, 114-2 against everyone else as a starter, wasnt willing to concede as much about an opponent against whom she is now 0-5.I think its not getting over the hurdle, its being able to play well for 40 minutes and play our game, Allen said. Coach talked about being efficient offensively, and that was my fault, I think. I think we have to make sure that Im putting my teammates in a position where theyre going to be successful. ... I think at times we were sped up because of their defense. And at times, when we were on defense we just werent sticking to our assignments.Notre Dame really does want the measuring stick to be itself, not that team from Storrs. That is why McGraw was so dispirited.I think the challenge for any coach, whether its Muffet or myself or anybody else, is how to take the team you have in front of you and try to make it work ... Auriemma said. I think there are some things they do a little bit differently, but they havent changed that much. Its just that this team as its constructed right now hasnt played together long enough. ...Look, were not the team we used to be, Auriemma said. Neither are they.Both have about four months to work on it. But on this night, yet again, Connecticut was better. ' ' '