Bye bye Montreal, hello Cincinnati! The tour has moved on quickly to another Premier 5 stop on the calendar. Cincy has grown in stature year-by-year and I feel like most of my followers on Twitter are there! I’m really looking forward to this week of tennis and will have some photos to share with you…
Simona Halep beat Sloane Stephens, 7-6(6) 3-6 6-4 in two hours and 41 minutes of gripping tennis to win Montreal. This is Halep’s third title of 2018 and also her 10th consecutive win in Montreal having won the title back in 2016. You could write a book about this match! Read on for my jumbled…
Sunday’s final in Montreal will be a rematch of this year’s French Open final as the number one seed, Simona Halep will play the number three seed, Sloane Stephens. The final will be played at 1:30pm local time in Canada (6:30pm in the UK). This post recaps Saturday’s semi-final wins for Halep and Stephens and…
The semi-finals are set in Montreal with a very intriguing line-up. I was playing tennis on Thursday night and generally hitting the wall for the week so thankful for the weekend to recharge before what is set to be a busy week in Cincy. Read on for 10 stories with accounts of Friday’s quarter-finals, highlights from…
Wednesday’s schedule in Montreal was rather dazzling on the eye. Sadly there was a noteworthy sad story involving Mihaela Buzarnescu that rather tainted the day. There were a handful of matches that were exciting on paper but sadly didn’t deliver and then the rain came! Read on for my recap of the day with eight…
Tuesday was a busy day in Montreal with 16 first round matches and 3 second round matches on the schedule. The weather behaved and everything is on course for what should be another exciting day of WTA action on Wednesday. The standard of matches that I watched on Tuesday improved as the day wore on!…
Monday was the first day of the 2018 Rogers Cup in Montreal with the likes of Venus Williams and Karolina Pliskova in action. The day session was hot and toasty, while the night session was cut short due to rain. Monday’s Set Points post rounds up some of the highlights of the day, as well…
The WTA is rocking back into action with the finals of San Jose and Washington all set, and most players ready to go in Montreal for next week’s Premier 5 stop on the calendar. Washington has finally caught up with their schedule with the two finalists both having to play two matches on Saturday. Read…
Friday’s Set Points provides a round-up of quarter-finals day in San Jose and Washington. The semi-final line-up in San Jose is a surprising one considering the long list of star names that littered the draw at the start of the week. The four players left though have all had their moments in 2018. The women…
Thursday’s Set Points post is a round-up of second round action from San Jose and Washington across Wednesday and Thursday. The two tournaments have been experiencing contrasting fortunes with the weather as Washington has had rain every day this week and Thursday was the worst of the lot. The women are still on schedule though.…
