1. Victoria Azarenka v Francesca Schiavone (Carlsbad, R2) Victoria Azarenka 2013 has been a bit of a rollercoaster year for Victoria Azarenka. The first few months could not have been much better for Vika as she claimed her second Australian Open title in January and earnt a win over the world number one, Serena Williams…
Washington is certainly the tournament to follow tonight with five courts offering up quality mens and womens singles matches. Where Carlsbad flourished last night with a string of compelling matches, today you would be pretty peeved if you had tickets for main stadium court with Laura Robson and Daniela Hantuchova the main highlights. Anyway, the…
The Citi Open in Washington D.C. is a joint event with interesting draws for both the ATP 500 and WTA International events. ATP Washington Juan Martin del Potro Juan Martin del Potro will make his first appearance after a sensational semi-final performance at Wimbledon where he pushed Novak Djokovic all the way in a classic. …
Ana Ivanovic Stanford has barely attracted my attention this week, but I am looking forward to next week’s star studded line-up in Carlsbad where Victoria Azarenka will make her return from injury following a turbulent Wimbledon where an injury in her first round match of Wimbledon against Maria Joao Koehler forced her to pull out…
One day after the news of Viktor Troicki hit the tennis headlines, there are rumours that Marin Cilic failed a doping test in Munich. A few sources from Croatia have reported this, but it has yet to be confirmed. Agnieszka Radwanska v Jamie Hampton Jamie Hampton After watching their most recent match-up live, I am…
Today was a pretty shocking day of predictions as what had been a really solid week in Gstaad, went down the pan with Stanislas Wawrinka retiring to Feliciano Lopez and my semi-final tip, Marcel Granollers falling in a tight three setter to Robin Haase. The big news yesterday was Victor Troicki, who strangely I had…
This week has felt pretty dead on the tennis tour and I am yet to sit down and watch any live tennis since Wimbledon. I believe there is a stream for Stanford online, but I find it hard to enjoy watching tennis when you can barely see the ball. The big news today was Roger…
1. Agnieszka Radwanska v Francesca Schiavone (Stanford, R2) Francesca Schiavone Stanford has just three singles matches today and I feeling a little flat with tennis proceedings this week. The match of the day (whilst I am fast asleep) will see 2013 Wimbledon semi-finalist, Agnieszka Radwanska take on Francesca Schiavone. This will be Aga’s first match…
1. Sam Stosur v Olga Govortsova (Stanford, R2) Sam Stosur The 1st round will conclude on Tuesday in Stanford along with the first second round match in the night session, which will see Sam Stosur makes her first appearance since Wimbledon against Olga Govortsova. The Belarusian defeated a heavily slumping Julia Goerges, 7-6(2) 6-2 in…
Jamie Hampton Stanford begins the hard court march to the US Open for the women with Agnieszka Radwanska and Sam Stosur heading up a depleted field. A few weeks ago, the line-up boasted all of the Wimbledon semi-finalists, but one-by-one, Marion Bartoli, Sabine Lisicki and Kirsten Flipkens along with the highest ranked player to originially…
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