Elina Svitolina won two matches on Saturday to keep her dreams of completing the Premier 5 sweep in 2017 alive. The Ukrainian player has had a magnificent week, taking out Venus Williams, Garbiñe Muguruza and Simona Halep en route to the final. Firstly, Svitolina beat Muguruza, 4-6 6-4 6-3, in the quarter-finals. Muguruza had taken…
19 of the world’s top 20 are in Cincinnati for another star-studded line-up as the US Open looms on the horizon in just two weeks time. The Western & Southern Open has become one of the fan favourite stops on the tour and it is definitely a tournament i’d love to attend one day. I’ll…
There was no post on the blog yesterday as I had tickets for the World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in London. It was a good night and athletics is a lot of fun to watch live. The atmosphere was super and there was so much going – it was hard to keep up…
Second round concluded on a busy Wednesday at the 2017 Rogers Cup in Toronto. The first match of the day on Grandstand saw the biggest upset by ranking so far as CiCi Bellis continued her superb year with a second top ten win of her career over the number eight seed, Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-4 7-5.…
In a first ever encounter on hard courts, the number five seed, Elina Svitolina will take on the number nine seed, Venus Williams in a blockbuster third round encounter at the Rogers Cup on Thursday. Both are well in contention for the WTA Finals in Singapore and the winner of this match will advance to…
Before I dive into action on day 2 of the Rogers Cup in Toronto, a heads up for a new guest post on the blog! Many thanks to Ben who has written a great post about his week at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford with plenty of insight into the tournament where…
As an avid tennis fan and a student at Stanford University, the Bank of the West Classic is a dream come true. A rapid five-minute bike ride is all that separates my dormitory from one of the premier stops on the WTA tour. This year, I decided to compile some of my thoughts about the…
The fast-paced nature of the tennis season strikes again as less than a day after the tournaments in Stanford and Washington concluded, the next tournament is already underway. Monday saw the start of main draw action at the 2017 Rogers Cup in Toronto. The day started with four first round matches up on the schedule…
19 of the world’s top 20 are in action next week at the Rogers Cup. The tournament location in Canada switches every year and in 2017, we’re in Toronto. My aim for the week – to avoid confusing Toronto with Montreal! Stanford and Washington saw the return of several marquee names, yet next week they…
Saturday was semi-finals day at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford and the Citi Open in Washington. Keeping in trend with much of the week, the two matches in Stanford were both one-sided. In fact, the last 11 singles matches have all ended in straight sets! CoCo Vandeweghe booked her spot in a…
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