Friday is quarter-finals day in Kuala Lumpur with four of the eight seeds still remaining. The big tennis news of the day was that Petra Kvitova has pulled out of Indian Wells citing exhaustion. It’s quite concerning considering that we are only two months into the season, but I hope Petra is OK! Based on…
I’m enjoying this quieter week and being able to preview players who don’t often get a look in on Moo’s Tennis Blog. I’ve missed the boat to write previews for Wednesday’s matches in Monterrey and none of the matches for Thursday in Kuala Lumpur look particularly inviting… therefore, i’ve decided to get ahead of the…
In this rather quiet tennis week, i’ve been trying to finalise my tennis plans for the summer! Tickets for Queens and Nottingham are both out now on general sale, and Birmingham and Eastbourne are out next week. I’m definitely heading down to Eastbourne for three days, but I can’t decide about the other events. Back…
Another week has passed on Racket Rally and it was another good one for Moo! Five shares in Lucie kept me afloat and i’m contemplating whether to purchase more. Next week is a quiet one and i’ve decided not to bring in any players for Kuala Lumpur or Monterrey. I’ve only made one change which…
February concluded with victories for Lucie Safarova in Doha and Timea Bacsinszky in Acapulco. Bacsinszky thrashed Caroline Garcia in the final, 6-3 6-0. Bacsinszky has continued her rise up the rankings in 2015 and is 13-2 for the season (including Fed Cup). Bacsinszky’s only losses of the year so far have come against Simona Halep…
WOW. Lucie Safarova won her biggest career title as she defeated Victoria Azarenka, 6-4 6-3 in the final of the 2015 Qatar Open. This was a tremendous week of tennis from Lucie as she beat Sam Stosur, Ekaterina Makarova, Andrea Petkovic, Carla Suarez Navarro and Azarenka. I would never have imagined at the start of…
LUCIE’S IN THE FINAL! WOOOOOOOO… And back to planet Earth. Lucie Safarova reached her first WTA final since Quebec City in 2013 with another superb display to defeat Carla Suarez Navarro in the semi-finals, 6-3 6-2. Safarova has been in terrific form this week and picked up right where she left off from in her…
In the second of the semi-finals in Doha, Venus Williams and Victoria Azarenka will play each other for the fifth time on the WTA tour. Vika is still searching for her first win over Venus. In two rematches from Melbourne, both victors in Australia were winners once again in the quarter-finals of Doha. Azarenka defeated…
Lucie Safarova produced a clinic on Thursday night as she sailed into the semi-finals of the 2015 Qatar Total Open with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Andrea Petkovic. Lucie hit a stunning 30 winners to just 9 unforced errors. To see stats like that in Doha is really something. Firstly, a word for Petko. She…
In the best match of the tournament so far, Victoria Azarenka defeated Elina Svitolina, 6-3 6-7(4) 6-1 in Doha. It was a highly competitive and well fought match packed full of intense rallies. Azarenka started the match well; she was broken serving for the set, but closed it out in the next game. In the…
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