In yesterday’s Set Points, I wrote that it had been a pretty quiet start to the week in Rome… of course, that all changed on Wednesday! All the remaining top eight seeds were out in force and of the six that played, just one survived! The upset train was chuffing into action once more as…
There were a couple of entertaining matches on Tuesday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia but so far, there have been no major upsets and it’s been a pretty quiet start. Four seeds were in action on day two of main draw action in Rome and all four won in straight sets with the first of…
Pray for the tennis balls in Rome… Petra Kvitova and Madison Keys will meet for the fourth time on tour but the first time on clay in the last match up on Center Court in Rome on Wednesday night. Keys won her first round match against Andrea Petkovic, 6-4 6-1. It was a brutal draw,…
After their semi-final in Prague didn’t go ahead, the draw gods have got their wish… two of the WTA’s most accomplished clay courters, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Sam Stosur, will play third up on court 1 on Wednesday’s schedule of second round matches in Rome. Kuznetsova got off to a winning start in Rome, defeating Caroline…
Monday saw the first day of main draw action at the 2016 Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome… I love this tournament! Three seeds fell, numbers 14, 15 and 16, while the other three in action all won in straight sets. For a preview of the first round match set for Tuesday between Jelena Jankovic and Eugenie Bouchard, click…
Two players who have had their fair share of troubles in the last year, Jelena Jankovic and Eugenie Bouchard, will play each other in a star-studded first round match in Rome on Tuesday. Jankovic’s year grinded to a halt in March when a shoulder/neck injury forced her out of Miami and Charleston. Furthermore, she also had a…
In a repeat of their Indian Wells quarter-final earlier this year, Karolina Pliskova and Daria Kasatkina will resume their head-to-head on the clay courts of Rome. When the pair played in the desert in March, Pliskova produced arguably her best performance of the season so far, hitting a sensational 30 winners to 10 unforced errors…
Both ranked inside the world’s top 30, the opener between Andrea Petkovic and Madison Keys is a brutal draw befitting of the quality of first round matches in Rome. Last week in Madrid, Petkovic faced off in the first round against the Rabat champion, Timea Bacsinszky. While she put up an admirable fight, especially having been in tears in during a medical…
The women’s draw at the Mutua Madrid Open concluded on Saturday with Simona Halep defeating Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2 6-4 in the final to claim her 12th title and a first since Indian Wells. It’s now goodbye to Madrid and a hearty hello to Rome! The Internazionali BNL d’italia main draw begins on Monday with a…
Quarter-Finals day at the Mutua Madrid Open was a much calmer affair after the drama of Wednesday. It also ended at a reasonable hour so i’ve managed to finish Set Points tonight! While just one seed remains, there’s still plenty of intrigue in this semi-final line-up. This will likely be my last post from Madrid…
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