Caroline Wozniacki will headline this weeks Copenhagen Open in her home country of Denmark. She is joined by the likes of Na Li, Petra Kvitova and Julia Goerges in what should be another interesting WTA tournament. This tournament has been much hyped for Wozniacki and she will look to impress the home crowds in Copenhagen…
After Victoria Azarenka laid down her credentials for the US Open title with a fantastic 6-4 6-1 victory over Maria Sharapova in the Stanford final, we now move onto San Diego where Jelena Jankovic and Sam Stosur headline the event and receive byes into R2. The tournament is littered with high quality first round matches…
It was an extremely good tournament this week in Istanbul and it was the talented teen, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who won the title. A-Pav reached the final by first beating Cirstea in the QF and then in a tight SF against the in-form Jarka Groth. Her opponent in the final was Elena Vesnina, who like her…
Stanford has witnessed some excellent womens matches this week but it is Victoria Azarenka and Maria Sharapova who will battle it out for the title in what should be a high quality, all shrieking affair. Azarenka overcome a 6-3 3-1 deficit to beat Bartoli in the QF and then produced a polished performance to beat…
Elena Baltacha pulled of one of the biggest wins of her career by knocking out French Open champion and number 1 seed, Francesca Schiavone in Istanbul. Overall, its been a fantastic year for Baltacha who picked up her first win earlier this year over a top 10 player when she defeated Na Li at Indian…
The first round saw some interesting results most noticeably with Ana Ivanovic pulling off a comfortable victory over nemesis Alisa Kleybanova. Ivanovic has struggled for form over the past 18 months but a good victory here has set her up a 2R clash with Marion Bartoli, which looks to be a winnable match on paper…
Andy Murray is the first of the Big 4 to return to action this week in Los Angeles along with the likes of Sam Querrey and Marcos Baghdatis. Quarter 1 – Murray (1) v Gulbis (5)Murray receives a bye into R2 and will then face Gabashvilli or a Qualifier so I expect Murray to reach…
The second WTA tournament for this week kicks off in Istanbul with the likes of Francesca Schiavone, Petra Kvitova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova competing. 1st Quarter – Schiavone (1) v Petkovic (6) Francesca Schiavone will have to overcome some British opposition in Keothavong and Baltacha. I expect her to progress with some difficulty to win her…
The American hard court season starts this week in Stanford with a relatively strong field headlined by Samantha Stosur and Elena Dementieva. Both Elena Dementieva and Dinara Safina are competing in their first tournaments since recovering from injury. There are some tasty first round clashes including Ivanovic v Kleybanova, Safina v Date Krumm and Hantuchova…
After claiming the last two grand slams at Roland Garros and Wimbledon, Rafael Nadal will be brimming with confidence and looking towards winning his first US Open title and the career grand slam. With Roger Federer seemingly struggling with form after being knocked out at the Quarter-final stage in the last two grand slams, Nadal…
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