Hi everyone, my name is Mitch (@carnesy56 on Twitter) and I wanted to take this opportunity to record some of the experiences I had at the 2016 Australian Open as a staff member and as a patron. I have now worked at four separate Australian Opens, starting from 2012 (I missed 2014) and have really…
This post previews two first round matches on Wednesday’s schedule from the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix main draw in Stuttgart including Lucie Safarova v Karolina Pliskova and Andrea Petkovic v Kristina Mladenovic. In case you missed it, you can read a preview of the full main draw on mootennis.com HERE and highlights from day 1 at the tournament HERE. 1. Lucie Safarova (8)…
The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart is always a slow one to get started with players making their way from Fed Cup action at the weekend. Today’s post covers the results of qualifying, the first two main draw matches, some highlights from Tennis Twitter, injury updates and some exciting news about Pulse Play. Read on for Monday’s…
Two first round matches are on the schedule for the first day of the 2016 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart; at not before 8.30pm local time, Timea Babos and Sabine Lisicki will face off in an intriguing opener. This will be a big match for Lisicki as she returns to Stuttgart where she suffered…
The European clay court swing begins next week with the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. This tournament is regularly voted by the players as their favourite Premier event and it’s always a superb week of WTA tennis – top draw names, high quality first round match-ups, packed crowds and an awesome atmosphere… tough to beat…
The lone WTA week on green clay came to a conclusion on Sunday with Sloane Stephens crowned the champion in Charleston. April is a pretty awesome month of tennis with Charleston, Monte-Carlo and Stuttgart all back-to-back. I’ll be taking a much-needed break from blogging next week and be back for Stuttgart (YAY). Read on for…
Take a bow, Elena Vesnina… Coming through the qualifying draw in Charleston, the 29-year-old is into her first WTA final since 2013 after defeating Sara Errani, 6-4 4-6 6-2. In a thoroughly engaging semi-final, Vesnina produced a sensational third set display, aggressive and precise, and hitting 17 winners to 14 unforced errors. While she admitted in her post-match…
Yay for this one… The first of the semi-finals at the 2016 Volvo Car Open in Charleston will be a tantalising match-up between the number one seed and defending champion, Angelique Kerber and the number seven seed, Sloane Stephens. Kerber produced a classy display to defeat a fatigued Irina-Camelia Begu, 6-2 6-3. The Romanian player was impatient…
Charleston is flyyyyying by and we are already down to the final eight with quarter-finals day on Friday. Another top four seed fell on Thursday in the longest match of the day, but the number one seed is still in there along three other seeds. In case you missed it, a full recap of day…
Wednesday was a joyous day of WTA tennis with 14 second round matches at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston. Five seeds went out, quite a few rolled through and there was one notable retirement. No previews for Thursday, to be honest i’m hitting the wall majorly in my fifth straight week of blogging. A bumper…
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