The Australian summer of tennis is nearing its conclusion as the top two seeds, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova will battle it out for the 2015 Australian Open title. It’s been a fun two weeks as always, but i’m looking forward to normal sleep patterns and not dreaming about tennis results (is that just me?…
All my favourite players have long gone from the singles draws, but Lucie is still sticking around in the women’s doubles! Playing with partner, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the pair have reached the final in their first ever tournament outing together. Beth has won a mixed doubles title before, but for Lucie, this is a first ever…
The quarter-final line-up for both the men and the women looked great on paper, but the last few days have been a little flat. Is it just me who loses interest at the end of tournaments when all my favourite players have all gone out? Generally, I much prefer the early stages of a tournament…
The second of the women’s semi-final will be an all-American affair between Serena Williams and the unseeded breakthrough act at this year’s Australian Open, Madison Keys. In the first of Wednesday’s quarter-finals, Keys fought from a break down in the decider and through a leg injury to beat Venus Williams, 6-3 4-6 6-4. @MooTennisBlog Vee…
The loss of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal from the bottom half of the men’s draw has opened the door for Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych, who will meet each other in the first of the men’s semi-finals which will be played on Thursday night in Melbourne (8.30am in the UK). I was chuffed for…
The first of the women’s semi-finals will pit the number two seed, Maria Sharapova up against the number ten seed, Ekaterina Makarova. Both of Tuesday’s quarter-final matches were pretty sharpish. Makarova defeated Simona Halep, 6-4 6-0 in just 69 minutes. Makarova has now reached back-to-back Grand Slam semi-finals. I wasn’t majorly surprised that Makarova won,…
The men stole the show on Sunday, but the women ruled Monday. Serena Williams and Dominika Cibulkova prevailed in frenetic and fantastic fourth round matches that both went the distance. Last year’s finalist Cibulkova was first into the quarter-finals hitting a barrage of winners to take out Victoria Azarenka, 6-2 3-6 6-3 in two hours…
BOOM. An all-American quarter-final between Venus Williams and Madison Keys will be served up in Melbourne and I am excited. This will be Keys’s first ever Grand Slam quarter-final, while Venus is here for the first time since 2010. Venus snapped a four match losing streak to upset Agnieszka Radwanska in three sets, 6-3 2-6…
The top half of the men’s draw has stayed entirely with the seedings as the number one seed, Novak Djokovic will take on the number eight seed, Milos Raonic in the quarter-finals. Djokovic is yet to drop a set this tournament; in the fourth round, he beat Gilles Muller, 6-4 7-5 7-5. Hitting 47 winners…
In a repeat of last year’s magnificent US Open quarter-final, Stan Wawrinka and Kei Nishikori are set to meet once again at a Grand Slam. Nishikori came from two sets to one down to beat Wawrinka, 3-6 7-5 7-6(7) 6-7(5) 6-4 in New York. It was a gripping match and had a surprising conclusion because…
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