This will be my last post for a few days as i’m busy this weekend… my brother is getting married! I’m going to be playing serious catch-up with Madrid as the main draw comes out on Friday with play starting on Saturday. I hate the overlap between tournaments and that will happen with the finals…
1. Karolina Pliskova v Denisa Allertova Pliskova has come from a set down to win both her matches this week. On Wednesday, she defeated Tsvetana Pironkova in a third set tiebreak, 3-6 6-3 7-6(1). By all accounts, Pliskova has been nowhere near her best, but she’s still in the quarters. This is a great attribute…
Prague’s schedule for Tuesday was affected by rain which means they are already playing catch-up as two first round matches are still yet to be finished. This means a couple of players will have to play two matches on Wednesday; one of them could be the number two seed Lucie Safarova who opens against Tereza…
Prague returns to the WTA calendar this year for the first time since 2011 having operated as an ITF for the last few years. It’s fully deserving of a place on the calendar with Czech women’s tennis absolutely booming right now with nine players in the world’s top 100. The only one of those not…
The clay court season kicks into full swing this week with two WTA tournaments including the Grand Prix de Sar La Princesse Lalla Meryem in Marrakech… that’s quite a mouthful. For an International event, it’s a reasonable draw and it should improve with the likes of Teliana Pereira, Urszula Radwanska and Alison Van Uytvanck still…
It’s been a while since i’ve had the opportunity to post some smiling Lucie pics so here’s a quick post to do just that. Lucie Safarova and Bethanie Mattek-Sands were playing just their THIRD tournament together but won their second title in Stuttgart to go along with their Australian Open triumph. The pair beat Katarina…
Have I mentioned that I love Stuttgart? I’m sorry for sounding like a broken record all week, but this tournament is just totally awesome. Angelique Kerber extended her winning streak to 11 matches, winning the last four games of the match to beat Caroline Wozniacki in a gripping finale, 3-6 6-1 7-5. Kerber was 5-3…
Another week passes by on Racket Rally and it was a much more successful one for moi. Nishikori’s win in Barcelona was most helpful. Garcia made the quarters of Stuttgart and Muguruza and Safarova both won a match. The star of this week though was zyxn52 who scored a whopping 9540 points which was double…
It’s been another great week in Stuttgart with plenty of high quality matches that will be remembered come the end of the season. There have been quite a few upsets, but the final promises to be a cracker. At not before 2.30pm local time, Angelique Kerber and Caroline Wozniacki will meet for the tenth time…
I wish every tennis week was held in Stuttgart. It’s not a coincidence that each year there are a handful of matches from this tournament that are in my top 20 countdown and there is no doubt that the first of the semi-finals between Caroline Wozniacki and Simona Halep will be featuring in 2015. In…
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