Marion Bartoli Victoria Azarenka (1) v Dominika Cibulkova (16)Azarenka waltzed into the third round with another dominant display over the young Brit, Heather Watson. She will face Cibulkova who rather surprisingly swept past Zheng Jie, 6-2 6-0. Zheng won just nine points on her serve and was broken at every opportunity by the Slovakian. Azarenka…
Yanina Wickmayer Yanina Wickmayer needed a host of match points to finally defeat Kim Clijsters, 6-4 7-6 and advance to the 4th round. I must admit I did not see this coming and have had the first big scalp of my predictions this week! It sounds as if Clijsters was struggling with her movement and…
Zheng Jie Victoria Azarenka (1) v Heather Watson Like her first match in Indian Wells, Azarenka was forced to fight hard against an inspired opponent. She beat Michaella Krajicek, 6-3 7-5 winning three straight games and riding on her ever-growing mental toughness and her opponent’s shattering nerves. Her opponent in the third round will be…
Sam Stosur (6) v Chanelle Scheepers Serena Williams Both players scored bagels in their 2nd round matches; Stosur comfortably saw off Valeria Savinkyh, 6-4 6-0 meanwhile Scheepers had to fight back to beat Anabel Medina Garrigues in a lopsided 1-6 6-4 6-0 win. Scheepers is on good form at the moment having also reached the third…
Kim Clijsters Mona Barthel continued her incredible start to 2012 with a career-best win over the world number 15, Jelena Jankovic. The manner of the defeat was perhaps most surprising as Barthel routed Jankovic, 6-0 6-3 and lost just 10 points in a sensational first set. Jankovic also lost her first match at Indian Wells…
Alisa Kleybanova No win this year has made me more happy than Alisa Kleybanova’s 2-6 6-3 6-2 victory over Johanna Larsson in the first round of the Sony Ericsson Open. Kleybanova, who has fought of Hodgkins Lymphoma disease, won her first match since the Premier event in Madrid last May. Kleybanova demonstrated her fighting spirit in…
QUARTER 1 – Novak Djokovic (1) v David Ferrer (5) Juan Martin Del Potro Novak Djokovic was outplayed by John Isner in the Indian Wells semi-finals and looked to have lost the air of invincibility that he had for so much of last year. His route through the draw is likely to include Viktor Troicki…
My predictions for this week’s tournament in Miami can be found here. I will add my predictions for the remaining first round matches when the qualifiers have been added to the draw.
Where do I start? This week’s draw is the most exciting women’s draw for quite some time and I will try to summarise it without rambling 😉 QUARTER 1 – Victoria Azarenka (1) v Marion Bartoli (7) Alisa Kleybanova Victoria Azarenka continued her fairytale start to 2012 with another dominating victory over Maria Sharapova in…
Maria Sharapova The Indian Wells final will be contested between the world number one and world number two in a repeat of the Australian Open final. Victoria Azarenka has continued her superb start to 2012 with a series of comprehensive victories over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Julia Goerges, Agnieszka Radwanska and Angelique Kerber, who provided a stern…
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