The 2018 French Open is officially underway with Sunday the first day of main draw action. I’m on holiday for the next week in Portugal and am writing this from the balcony of our villa. I wish I could paint a glorious scene that I am drenched in sunshine. In fact, i’m shivering in a…
The draw for the 2018 French Open was unveiled on Thursday night. This post previews three of my favourite matches from the 64 first round matches which will be played over Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. I’d hoped to do a post of ten matches but just ran out time and want to do a draw…
Sunday was the final day of the 2018 Internazionali d’Italia where the singles and doubles champions were decided. A recap of the singles final between Elina Svitolina and Simona Halep is included below. There are two tournaments next week in Strasbourg and Nurnberg with final preparations for the second Slam of the year in Paris!…
Friday’s Set Points wraps up the quarter-finals of the 2018 Internazionali d’Italia. There’s recaps for the two matches that I got to see and summaries for the two that I was live scoring! Polls for Saturday’s semi-finals are linked below with thoughts about both matches up on the separate page. The best news of the…
Another busy day in Rome saw 16 become 8 with the quarter-finals of the 2018 Internazionali d’Italia all set. Thursday was bookended with three setters including another late night match on Court Centrale with Wozniacki-Sevastova going the distance. Friday’s line-up of quarter-final looks pretty stunning! Read on for nine stories from Thursday’s action in Rome.…
Wednesday’s order of play at the 2018 Internazionali BNL d’italia was a wild one with 14 second round WTA matches and one, at the time of writing, still to be played between Garbiñe Muguruza and Daria Gavrilova. I’m off to enjoy that match so here’s my recap of the day and what I got to…
Hi there, Roma! The main draw for the 2018 Internazionali BNL d’Italia kicked off on Monday with a total of 13 first round matches on the schedule. This is always a fab tournament to follow and i’d love to make it there one day. Read on for eight stories from Monday in Rome… Farewell, Roberta!…
Madrid concluded on Saturday with a brilliant final. The attention now switches to Rome which I have always preferred as a tournament. This is one of my favourite parts of the year in the run-up to Roland Garros and I am hoping to watch a bit more tennis this week. Note all match previews will…
Friday was semi-finals day at the 2018 Mutua Madrid Open with the final now all set for Saturday. Unfortunately I have been busy the last two days so haven’t had time to put together a Set Points post. I have kept the new “Match Thoughts and Polls” page going which has worked well for me…
It was another unnecessarily late night in Madrid with the last two WTA matches of the day finishing close to midnight. I’m glad to have been able to watch a bit more tennis but it means the posts are coming later! The last two Spaniards in the draw, Carla Suárez Navarro and Garbiñe Muguruza, battled…
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