Another week and another Premier 5 tournament is set to start in Cincinnati on Monday. The draw is even stronger than that of Toronto with the return of Maria Sharapova, Madison Keys and Camila Giorgi. Once again, Serena Williams tops the draw in Mason, Ohio and comes into the tournament having reached the semi-finals in…
Well hello there… that was quite a result to wake up to this morning! Belinda Bencic upset Serena Williams in the second of the 2015 Rogers Cup semi-finals, 3-6 7-5 6-4. I wish I could watch back the whole match but time is against me today. Bencic twice failed to serve out the match but…
Belinda Bencic continued her superb recent run of form to reach the semi-finals of the 2015 Rogers Cup and set up a semi-final date with Serena Williams on Saturday night. Bencic backed up her wins over Eugenie Bouchard, Caroline Wozniacki and Sabine Lisicki to score her fourth top 25 win of the week with an…
The first match of quarter-finals day at the 2015 Rogers Cup featured a bagel-breadstick sandwich as Simona Halep started slowly but finished in style, defeating Agnieszka Radwanska, 0-6 6-3 6-1. It was a strange match with neither playing their best at the same time. Radwanska made the much brighter start in the first set as…
Oh my… Sara Errani upset Victoria Azarenka on Thursday with a 7-5 6-3 victory to set up an unlikely quarter-final against Lesia Tsurenko. It was a befuddling loss that i’m struggling to get my head around. Azarenka just had a really bad day at the office and couldn’t find any rhythm. I’m still cringing at…
This was a fun one… In a ding dong battle on Centre Court, Simona Halep edged Angelique Kerber in three gruelling sets, 6-3 5-7 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup. There were some brutal rallies in this match and both players were clearly struggling, especially Kerber. It had begun pretty routinely…
Wednesday at the Rogers Cup started with a flurry of upsets as Garbiñe Muguruza, Ekaterina Makarova and Lucie Safarova all exited. Muguruza lost to Lesia Tsurenko, 7-5 6-1 who has now won 15 of her last 16 matches on hard courts (heads up to @oceanside6 on Twitter for the stat). Garbi was madddddd in this…
After posting last week about some of my favourite WTA match-ups that i’m desperate to see, I didn’t expect that my number one match would happen in Toronto! On Wednesday at the Rogers Cup, Petra Kvitova will take on Victoria Azarenka… BRING IT ON! At the time of writing I am waiting to see the…
As tennis has been pretty quiet since Wimbledon, it has provided an opportunity to reflect on what’s happened so far in 2015. I was flicking through my screencaps and came across one which had the caption “Lucie Safarova – 2015 Roland Garros Finalist”… it still gives me goosebumps. 2015 has been such an eventful year…
After the rain on Monday, there has been plentyyy of tennis to get stuck into on Tuesday. In the first match on Centre Court, Jelena Jankovic defeated Caroline Garcia in straight sets, 7-6(4) 6-2. The first set didn’t feature a break point! After Garcia’s wayward loss to Nicole Gibbs in Stanford, this was an improved…
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