Day four of the Mutua Madrid Open saw just six WTA matches on the schedule as two players were forced to withdraw before play even got underway. It’s been another wild week on the WTA tour with just five seeds remaining in the draw and only ONE all seeded match-up for Wednesday’s slate of third round…
While the seeds have been dropping like flies, the defending champion, Petra Kvitova is sticking around in Madrid and is beginning to showcase some of her best form of the year. Kvitova will face an Australian Open rematch against Daria Gavrilova in the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday. Kvitova had an…
After Sunday’s jamboree of tennis fun, we were down from 26 matches to just eight on Monday! On the third day of main draw action, five of the seven seeds went tumbling out of the tournament as sections of this draw began to open up in style with at least four unseeded players confirmed to…
WTA action on Tuesday at the Mutua Madrid Open will feature the remaining eight second round singles matches. This post covers two previews from the top quarter of the draw including Dominika Cibulkova v Caroline Garcia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Camila Giorgi. In a quarter that has lost all of its seeds, the four players in question all have a…
Sunday at the Mutua Madrid Open has to be one the most hectic days of WTA action all year. There were 26 first round matches across seven courts and impressively, six of them had streams! On the whole, the seeds didn’t do too badly with four of them going out… however, that did include the…
Yay for the Bank Holiday… Three days off work is glorious and a weekend start presents the opportunity to watch a bit more tennis! Saturday was a manic day with two tournament weeks overlapping; the International tournaments in Prague and Rabat both had their singles finals, while the third Premier Mandatory tournament of the year in Madrid, got underway…
All the remaining first round matches at the Mutua Open in Madrid will be played on Sunday in what will be one of the best days of WTA action all year. In a match-up that features two of my favourite personalities on the WTA tour, the number 10 seed, Timea Bacsinszky will play Andrea Petkovic, fifth up on Pista 6 at…
Coming into Prague, Lucie Safarova had won just one set from five singles matches in 2016… roll on the week and Lucie has been crowned the champ! If you’d told me that Lucie would win Prague before the tournament, I really wouldn’t have believed it. Lucie came from a set down to defeat Sam Stosur, 3-6 6-1…
The clay court season is taking shape with the third Premier Mandatory tournament of the 2016 WTA season upon us, the Mutua Madrid Open. Note that main draw action kicks off on SATURDAY! Madrid always produces a brutal draw because none of the seeds have byes in the first round… as always, this has produced some tasty…
Lucieeeeee! For the first time since the 30th of October, 2015, Lucie Safarova won a singles match on the WTA tour; coming from a set down, Lucie defeated Mariana Duque-Mariño, 3-6 6-3 6-3, in the first round of the J&T Banka Prague Open on Tuesday. It’s been a tough time for Lucie after suffering from…
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