Thursday’s schedule in Antwerp is excellent with seven of the eight second round matches still to be played. On Wednesday, Dominika Cibulkova opened her tournament campaign with a very convincing victory over Kateryna Bondarenko, 6-1 6-2. It’s always nice when your predicted champion isn’t ousted in the first round! Antwerp seems to be delivering both…
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova strolled to her eight victory of 2015 with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Yanina Wickmayer. This was the first match i’ve watched from Antwerp and as many others are commenting on Twitter, it’s awfully dark. There was a pretty sombre vibe coming from the centre court and it didn’t sound like there…
On the first day of the 2015 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Grigor Dimitrov saved two match points to defeat Paul-Henri Mathieu, 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2 to set up a second round tie with Gilles Muller. Dimitrov looked to be heading out of the tournament after a sloppy start to his first rounder. Mathieu…
The women are heading to Antwerp next week for the BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games in Belgium. The tournament originally ran between 2002 and 2009, but this feels like a new tournament to me as I wasn’t following tennis closely then. Kim Clijsters is the tournament director and the venue looks awesome. The line-up is…
I’m really enjoying the Racket Rally game although my complete inability to read the rules is already destroying me. After a dismal Australian Open, I went and made loads of changes. In the process, I used up my courtcoins and have just two left! I’m now realising I can’t make hundreds of changes every week……
WTA action is back next week with two tournaments in Pattaya City (Thailand) and Antwerp (Belgium). The PTT Thailand Open is an International event, which has attracted four of the world’s top 50. It’s one those draws that is veryyyy challenging to try and pick out a winner. For coverage and superb photography, @elissetennis is…
Four of the world’s top ten are in Rotterdam including the Australian Open finalist, Andy Murray. The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, which is an ATP 500 event, always attracts a solid line-up and this year is no different. February is normally regarded as a pretty quiet tennis month but there were plenty of notable…
Soooo… the Australian Open concluded with Novak Djokovic defeating Andy Murray in four sets, 7-6(5) 6-7(4) 6-3 6-0 to win his fifth Australian Open title. It was an up-and-down match that had it’s moments, particularly the second half of the second set. Some of the criticism labelled at Djokovic was, in my opinion, complete twoddle. …
Take a bow, ladies. Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova, 6-3 7-6(5) to win her sixth Australian Open title and 19th Grand Slam overall in what was a fantastic final. The final had plenty of highlights and it was the second set that really brought this match to live. Pre-match, I wasn’t really feeling it. Although…
Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray will contest the Australian Open for the third time in their career when the pair meet on Sunday to wrap up the 2015 Australian Open Championships. Murray was first into the final with a four set victory over Tomas Berdych, 6-7(6) 6-0 6-3 7-5. After a feisty opening set in…
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