The Top 4 of 3rd Round Shanghai Matches Andy Murray 1. Andy Murray v Alexandr Dolgopolov Andy Murray received a walkover into the third round after Florian Mayer was forced to retire with a rib injury. This is unlikely to favour Murray who has yet to take to the fast hard courts of Shanghai. His…
Almagro is out of Shanghai I have updated my prediction chart for Shanghai where I have made a very solid start by correctly predicting 12 and 13 winners on the first two days of action. Today saw Tommy Haas caused the first minor upset with a come-from-behind victory to take out the number 9 seed…
Victoria Azarenka claimed her fifth title of the season and her first since winning Indian Wells with a 6-3 6-1 victory over Maria Sharapova. It was a pretty uninspiring match with both producing more unforced errors to winners; Sharapova hit 18 winners to 39 unforced errors and I think you would be hard pushed to…
Lets take a look at this week’s draw for the Masters 1000 draw in Shanghai where the top eight seeds all have byes… Roger Federer QUARTER 1 – R.Federer v J.Monaco Roger Federer returns to action in Shanghai for the first time since losing in the US Open quarter-finals to Tomas Berdych. Federer will play…
At the start of the week I would not have predicted Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka would be contesting the Beijing final! Maria Sharapova was not herself in Tokyo, eventually succumbing to a straight sets defeat to Sam Stosur in the quarter-finals, meanwhile Victoria Azarenka retired from her quarter-final match because of dizziness; both have…
Yesterday was a bad day at the prediction office… lets see if I can do any better for the semi-finals. Maria Sharapova v Li Na Maria Sharapova has hit a rich vein of form following a disappointing week in Tokyo. She was on fire in her quarter-final match with Angelique Kerber when the German player…
Maria Sharapova Angelique Kerber v Maria Sharapova The top billing for the quarter-finals in Beijing will see Angelique Kerber take on Maria Sharapova. Kerber improved her stunning record in three set matches this year to 20-2 with a 6-1 2-6 6-4 victory over Caroline Wozniacki in the third round. It was Kerber’s third win over…
Caroline Wozniacki Caroline Wozniacki v Angelique Kerber Caroline Wozniacki has had to fight for her life to make the third round having won two gruelling three setters against Chanelle Scheepers and Hsieh Su-Wei. Against Hsieh, she was a set and a double break down, but her fighting instincts came to the forefront as she came through,…
Julia Goerges I must firstly point out that I think the scheduling in Beijing has been shocking! I hate it when two different rounds are played on the same day; for example, tomorrow we have two second round matches being played and four third round matches. Victoria Azarenka is not scheduled for tomorrow, meanwhile the…
The Top 3 of 2nd round Beijing matches on Tuesday 1. Li Na v Nadia Petrova The toughest match of the day is the first match up on the top court between Li Na and the Tokyo Champion, Nadia Petrova. Li has been handed a tricky draw in Beijing and had to get past Francesca…
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