Victoria Azarenka moved to 18-0 for the season, but overcame a huge fight from Mona Barthel in an extraordinary three hour marathon. Azarenka looked set for a routine victory as she led 6-4 5-1 when Barthel came alive to snatch the second set and race into a 4-1 lead in the third set. Barthel had…
Shahar Peer Tamira Paszek had a breakthrough year in 2011 reaching her first ever Grand Slam quarter-final at Wimbledon; however things have not gone well for her in 2012 so far as she went 0-5 through the first two months of the season. All that changed on Wednesday as Paszek finally won a match in…
You can now see my predictions for Indian Wells here… unfortunately I have not had time to do an ATP preview but I am expecting the top four in Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to make the semi-finals with Djokovic beating Federer in the final.
Classic…
Sorana Cirstea Sorana Cirstea has shown some promising form in 2012 and despite not playing at her best yesterday, she produced one of her most impressive displays of character to beat Iveta Benesova, 4-6 7-5 7-6 in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open. Benesova looked to have the match in the bag as she served…
I have updated the link to my Indian Wells predictions, which you can see here. It has been very difficult to try and upload it because it is such a large draw! I will post my ATP predictions tomorrow evening…
Let’s get straight down to business and have a look at the women’s draw for Indian Wells… note that all 32 seeds have a BYE in round one. QUARTER 1 – Victoria Azarenka (1) v Agnieszka Radwanska (5) Victoria Azarenka has a challenging draw to contend with if she is to maintain her unbeaten start…
The tennis community are all flocking to Indian Wells this week for the BNP Paribas Open as we have a fortnight of tantalising tennis to feast our eyes upon. The women will compete in the first of five Premier Mandatory events this year, meanwhile the men will play in the first of nine Masters 1000…
This week’s tournament in Kuala Lumpur was ravaged by the wet weather and a host of withdrawals. The number one seed, Agnieszka Radwanska and the number six seed, Ayumi Morita were both forced to pull out of their quarter-finals and then Petra Martic pulled out during the final handing Su-Wei Hsieh her first ever WTA…
Roger Federer produced an impressive performance to defeat Andy Murray in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Championships, 7-5 6-4. It was a good, but not great match and Murray had his chances, particularly in the first set; however Federer was better on the big points and produced the more attacking tennis as he…
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