I’ve been focussing my blogging attention on Linz this week as it’s the only tournament in my timezone so I can actually watch some of the matches in the evening. However, the most attractive of the quarter-final line-ups is over in Hong Kong where the draw has really held up and holds much intrigue with…
Just three seeds remain in Linz with a huge opportunity for those players left in the depleted top half of the draw. Two more seeds fell on Wednesday with Roberta Vinci losing her third consecutive match to Aleksandra Krunic in a wacky WTA scoreline, 6-1 6-7(3) 6-1. She was followed out of the tournament by…
If you had to guess, what would you say is the most important part of the body to train? Would you say legs, back, chest, or something else? After working in the industry for over 10 years and being ranked one of the top 50 sports coaches in the world I know what the most important part…
The first match of Tuesday’s evening session at the 2015 Generali Ladies Linz saw Barbora Strycova resist a tenacious effort from the 19-year-old Austrian wildcard, Barbara Haas, 6-0 6-7(5) 6-4. This was the first match i’ve watched from Linz this year and like a lot of people on Twitter, I find the new court surface…
It’s been over a month since Lucie Safarova took to a tennis court and finally, she’s backkkkk. On the 1st of September, Lucie suffered a disappointing first round exit at the US Open to Lesia Tsurenko, later revealing that she had been struggling with an abdominal tear that needed rest. Worse news would come when…
Monday’s schedule has a mixture of qualifying and first round matches as the 2015 Generali Ladies Linz kicks into full swing. The first two matches on the Centre Court are both qualifying matches; Johanna Konta goes up against Klara Koukalova, while Kaia Kanepi plays Aleksandra Krunic. Linz had a really impressive qualifying draw and i’ll…
The penultimate week of regulation WTA tournaments will start tomorrow with three International events in Linz, Tianjin and Hong Kong. All three tournaments have respectable line-ups with many players still seeking to confirm a place at the WTA Finals in Singapore. Linz is headlined by the returning, Lucie Safarova (yay!) and Caroline Wozniacki, Hong Kong…
The fourth and final Premier Mandatory tournament of 2015 concluded on Sunday with Garbiñe Muguruza winning her biggest career title to date, coming from a break down in both sets to beat Timea Bacsinszky, 7-5 6-4. When I was looking at the title stats yesterday prior to the final, it slipped my mind that Muguruza…
The 2015 China Open final will be contested between Timea Bacsinszky and Garbiñe Muguruza when the pair play in Beijing on Sunday at not before 4pm local time (9am UK time). Prior to Beijing, Bacsinszky was on a five match losing streak and hadn’t won a match since Wimbledon. Spin on a week and Bacsinszky…
This week my two hobbies in life, tennis and baking, came together. I’m obsessed with a programme called The Great British Bake Off. For those who don’t watch it, the programme is basically 12 people in a tent who are set three baking challenges each week and whittled down over time. They bake things like…
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