The first week of the 2021 season is in the books as the Abu Dhabi WTA Women’s Tennis Open concluded with a one-sided final and another dominant performance from Aryna Sabalenka. It’s been nice to have tennis as a distraction. There have been some great storylines from Australian Open qualifying in Dubai. The 20-year-old Brit,…

Monday’s quarter-finals (it’s weird to have quarters on a Monday) in Abu Dhabi all went three sets with the last match of the day between Elina Svitolina and Veronika Kudermetova being decided in a third set tiebreak. We’re guaranteed a new WTA finalist from the bottom half of the draw. One thing i’ve noticed this…

The final two matches on Sunday’s schedule in Abu Dhabi saw the top two seeds, Sofia Kenin and Elina Svitolina, save match points to advance to the quarter-finals. Both were rather tortuous matches which are included in this post. I think Hsieh-Kostyuk has probably been my favourite match of the week so far. Read on…

I’m really enjoying the resumption of tennis in Abu Dhabi this week and the odd midweek start to the tournament means there’s a lot more tennis going on at the weekend than usual. It comes at a favourable time with no Premier League football this weekend. Football was my favourite sport before I got into…

Happy New Year and welcome to the 2021 WTA season! I’m very thankful for the resumption of tennis as we moved into our third Lockdown this week in the UK. It’s going to be a long winter. I’m just trying to keep busy and generally avoid reading too much of the news. Wherever you are…