Today’s action saw two seeds falls at the first hurdle; Gilles Simon rather surprisingly fell to to Roberto Bautista-Agut who continued his great year to date with a 6-3 7-6(6) upset win. Andreas Seppi also lost, to Fabio Fognini having won the opening set, 3-6 6-4 6-4. Marin Cilic and Milos Raonic were two seeds…
Roberta Vinci won the WTA Katowice title with another stunning performance in the final, defeating Petra Kvitova, 7-6(2) 6-1. The first set was high quality stuff for a surprisingly full crowd in Katowice, but it was Vinci who edged a very tight set, raising her level in the tiebreak. Kvitova went wandering mentally in the…
The inaugural Katowice final will see the top two seeds, Petra Kvitova and Roberta Vinci go head-to-head in what should be a very interesting final. Kvitova has looked solid all week although she did have to overcame a late wobble to defeat Alexandra Cadantu, 6-0 6-4 in today’s semi-finals. Kvitova looked on course for a…
There is just one tennis tournament this week, but it happens to be one of the best stops of the year for the men with the third Masters 1000 event and the first on clay in Monte-Carlo. Lets take a look at the draw where the top eight seeds all receive byes into the second…
1. Roberta Vinci v Annika Beck Roberta Vinci For the second time this week, Roberta Vinci made mincemeat of my predictions as she produced an excellent display to crush Karolina Pliskova in the quarter-finals, 6-1 6-0. Vinci faces another up-and-comer in the semi-finals, Annika Beck. Beck produced a very impressive fightback from 1-5 down in…
It was a bad day at the office for my predictions and I am rapidly losing interest in Katowice as my focus begins to turn towards next week’s ATP 1000 event in Monte-Carlo. Anyway, here are my quarter-final predictions for Katowice tomorrow… Petra Kvitova 1. Petra Kvitova v Petra Martic Petra Kvitova should have a…
The pick of the matches come from Houston tonight with just two seeds remaining in a rather hilarious draw for the debut WTA event in Katowice. Roberta Vinci 1. Nicolas Almagro v Gael Monfils (Houston, R2) Houston hosts Wednesday’s match of the day between the number one seed Nicolas Almagro and Gael Monfils. Monfils came…
Katowice got underway yesterday with wins for Klara Zakopalova, Petra Martic and Lourdes Dominguez Lino; the latter defeated Laura Robson, 5-7 7-6(7) 6-1, saving one match point in the comeback win. Once again, Laura lost a tight match and the wheels seemed to come off in that final set. I think the young Brit is…
Serena Williams Serena Williams claimed her third title of the season with a hard fought 3-6 6-0 6-2 victory over Jelena Jankovic in an entertaining final to wrap up the tournament in Charleston. Jankovic played a sparkling first set, perhaps her best set of tennis since she reached the mighty heights of the womens game. …
Here is a quick round-up of the two ATP 250 draws this week in Houston, USA and Casablanca, Morocco. ATP Houston Nicolas Almagro and Tommy Haas headline the clay court event in Houston. Almagro, who receives a bye into the second round, faces a sticky opening match against either James Blake or Gael Monfils,…
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