Angelique Kerber Angelique Kerber‘s 2012 season just keeps getting better and better as she inflicted the first defeat on Serena Williams since the French Open with a 6-4 6-4 triumph in Cincinnati. Serena played a pretty horrendous match and was all over the place mentally, but I think Kerber deserves a lot of credit for…
Angelique Kerber Serena Williams v Angelique Kerber Serena Williams has looked far from her best in Cincinnati so far. She laboured to a 6-4 6-3 victory over Urszula Radwanska, recovering from deficits in both sets. It must have been so demoralising for Radwanska to see Serena playing miles below her best, but still comfortably winning. …
1. Milos Raonic vs. Tomas Berdych Milos Raonic has been knocking on the door for his big breakthrough for quite a while. I thought Wimbledon might be the time, but he suffered a disappointing Wimbledon and fell early at the Olympics despite a very solid effort in the second round going down to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 25-23 in the…
The first round of the womens and mens tournament will conclude in Cincy today. The highlights so far have seen Andy Roddick fall to Jeremy Chardy, Jelena Jankovic end up on the wrong side once again of a total epic as she wasted five match points against Peng Shuai, and Venus Williams edging Maria Kirilenko…
Cincinnati has taken a big hit this year with both Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova not participating. This gives the opportunity for Agnieszka Radwanska to headline her biggest event yet. Lets take a look at the draw, which looks rather bottom heavy to me… Agnieszka Radwanska QUARTER 1 – A. Radwanska v M.Bartoli Agnieszka Radwanska…
The second of the ATP Masters 1000 events for the summer hard court season takes place next week with Roger Federer returning to action. Lets take a look at the draw… Roger Federer PROJECTED QUARTER 1 – R.Federer v J.Monaco Roger Federer is the number one seed in Cincinnati and along with the top eight…
Petra Kvitova The final four in Montreal have guaranteed that we will see a first title for either Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki, Lucie Safarova or Li Na in 2012. Lets take a look at the semi-finals… Petra Kvitova vs. Caroline Wozniacki – Wozniacki and Kvitova topped the rankings at the end of 2011, but both…
Agnieszka Radwanska As to be expected, the big names are dropping like flies in Montreal with Victoria Azarenka joining Maria Sharapova in pulling out from the tournament. This now gives a prime opportunity for Agnieszka Radwanska to claim the number one spot if she can win the title. If she was to do this, I…
Sharapova is out of Montreal I may have had the worst day in my prediction history as I correctly predicted just one out of ten of the womens matches yesterday! Yesterday saw a few surprises but none more so than Sesil Karatantcheva‘s 6-0 6-0 demolition of Sorana Cirstea! It is also worth noting that Maria…
I have completely missed the ball this week with Toronto starting on the Monday (one day after the Olympic tennis event finished!) I promise to be on the ball for Cincinnati next week 🙂 Like the womens, I have gone for a number of surprises although I think Djokovic will be eager to defend his…
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