The 2017 Dubai Duty Free Championships began on Sunday with the number 15 seed, Caroline Garcia opening up proceedings on Centre Court against Johanna Larsson. It wasn’t an entertaining match but Garcia was good value for the win, 6-3 6-3. The Frenchwoman saved break points in three of her five service games in the first set and closed…
Doha was a big soggy mess but thankfully, the weather is set fair for the Dubai Duty Free Championships which is where the women are playing next week with main draw action starting on SUNDAY. Dubai is the Premier 5 event this year with a 56-player draw. There have been quite a few withdrawals including Simona Halep,…
The 2017 Qatar Total Open in Doha will be remembered as one of the wettest tournaments of the year… that’s not a sentence I expected to write at the start of the week considering Doha is in the desert! Despite all the stoppages, they did well to get the tournament finished on time. This post is…
After five damp days in Doha, the rain finally disappeared long enough for the semi-finals in both singles and doubles to be completed. It’s the first time all week that the tournament has been on schedule! It did require three of the four semi-finalists in singles to play two matches in a long, long day.…
Another day in Doha and another day of interruptions. There was less rain than previous days but it was that frustrating stop-start kind of rain, so much so I can’t even remember how many stoppages there were. They are still behind in the schedule but all the second round matches were completed which was a…
Wednesday was a busy day at the Qatar Total Open with first round matches all completed but only three second round matches in the books following another rainy day in Doha. Trying to keep up with today’s results was really challenging so just a quick summary of the first round results… Daria Kasatkina d. Irina-Camelia Begu, 3-6…
Tuesday’s order of play at the Qatar Total Open in Doha was decimated by rain… rain again! The first batch of matches suffered two rain delays; seven hours after play got underway, the first and only winner of the day was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. In a replica scoreline of their last meeting on tour in Moscow last…
2017 is continuing where 2016 left off from with rain managing to disrupt the tennis, even in the desert! The first main draw match of the 2017 Qatar Total Open was twice halted for the rain but eventually finished just before midnight in Doha. Sam Stosur found her serve and forehand, and held her nerve in…
After a weekend of Fed Cup, the WTA tour returns next week in Doha at the Qatar Total Open. Doha and Dubai switch their tournament statuses each year and in 2017, Doha is the lesser-Premier tournament with a 28-player draw. Still, it’s a cracking draw with the original main draw cut-off at #30 and five of…
Kristina Mladenovic survived a couple of wobbles to win her first WTA title in St. Petersburg and serve out the final at the third time of asking against Yulia Putintseva, 6-2 6-7(3) 6-4. And what a final it was! I haven’t been able to watch as much tennis as i’d like this year but this…
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