The final of the BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games will feature Carla Suarez Navarro and Andrea Petkovic. Suarez Navarro progressed into her first ever Premier final with a commanding 6-2 6-2 victory over Karolina Pliskova in 61 minutes. This was an excellent performance from Suarez Navarro, her best of the week so far, as she…
Dubai and Doha have switched this year in the calendar and will continue to do so over the coming years with Dubai being upgraded to a Premier 5 tournament for 2015. Personally, I much prefer Dubai to Doha and the court surface is normally much faster. The draw was hit with two late withdrawals of Serena…
1. Karolina Pliskova v Carla Suarez Navarro In the all-Czech quarter-final, Karolina Pliskova edged out Lucie Safarova in two sets, 7-6(5) 6-3 in one hour and 27 minutes. I was disappointed for Lucie as it sounded like she was the better player in the first set. Lucie won three more points in the opener, but…
In Thursday’s final match of the day, Mona Barthel scored her first top ten win since beating Angelique Kerber in Doha two years ago, to take out the number one seed in Antwerp, Eugenie Bouchard. Mona won, 4-6 6-1 6-2 in one hour and 38 minutes, finishing with 19 winners to 17 unforced errors. This…
It’s quarter-finals day in Antwerp, but the next set of tournaments is already on the horizon. The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships will be the main focus of next week and the qualifying tournament begins tomorrow with the likes of Julia Goerges, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Ana Konjuh, Tereza Smitkova, Jarmila Gajdosova and Elena Vesnina all in…
Thursday’s schedule in Antwerp is excellent with seven of the eight second round matches still to be played. On Wednesday, Dominika Cibulkova opened her tournament campaign with a very convincing victory over Kateryna Bondarenko, 6-1 6-2. It’s always nice when your predicted champion isn’t ousted in the first round! Antwerp seems to be delivering both…
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova strolled to her eight victory of 2015 with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Yanina Wickmayer. This was the first match i’ve watched from Antwerp and as many others are commenting on Twitter, it’s awfully dark. There was a pretty sombre vibe coming from the centre court and it didn’t sound like there…
On the first day of the 2015 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Grigor Dimitrov saved two match points to defeat Paul-Henri Mathieu, 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2 to set up a second round tie with Gilles Muller. Dimitrov looked to be heading out of the tournament after a sloppy start to his first rounder. Mathieu…
The women are heading to Antwerp next week for the BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games in Belgium. The tournament originally ran between 2002 and 2009, but this feels like a new tournament to me as I wasn’t following tennis closely then. Kim Clijsters is the tournament director and the venue looks awesome. The line-up is…
I’m really enjoying the Racket Rally game although my complete inability to read the rules is already destroying me. After a dismal Australian Open, I went and made loads of changes. In the process, I used up my courtcoins and have just two left! I’m now realising I can’t make hundreds of changes every week……
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