The second Tuesday at Indian Wells is always reminiscent of Manic Monday at Wimbledon with all eight of the women’s fourth round matches on the schedule. Thankfully, the matches aren’t all clashing against each other. From a selfish point of view, it’s just as frustrating for me as Wimbledon because of the time difference and…
The highlight of Monday’s order of play was the all Willliams clash at night in the desert. There’s a few highlights from that match later on in the post but Monday’s Set Points, as usual, focuses on the matches from the day session and those that I got to watch live. As is tradition with…
Tuesday’s schedule at Indian Wells is always a cracker with all eight WTA fourth round matches played on the same day. It makes trying to write about the prospective matches a challenge so i’ve only been able to address five of them before bed! For a recap of action on day 5 at Indian Wells,…
Aside from the return of Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka, the dominant storyline has been the success of the teens in Indian Wells. The upsets have been heavy in the top half of the draw and just the top two seeds remain at either ends of the draw with six unseeded players nestled in between.…
Monday’s schedule will be headlined by a blockbuster Williams clash that will take centre stage at night. There’s plenty of good matches and all-seeded clashes to look forward to. For a review of second round match action from the bottom half of the women’s draw, click HERE. Read on for a sweeping preview of Monday’s…
The rain halted play at night on day 4 of main draw action in Indian Wells… the rain?! The match of the day featuring Sloane Stephens and Victoria Azarenka didn’t take to the court. It was another eventful day and generally a more successful one for the seeds with 10 of the 14 seeds in…
Third round matches at Indian Wells will commence on Sunday with eight matches from the top half and the likes of Simona Halep, Karolina Pliskova, Petra Kvitova, Jelena Ostapenko all in action. For a round-up of day 3 WTA main draw action at the 2018 BNP Paribas Open where nine of the 16 seeds fell,…
Friday’s schedule was brutal in a good way. There were just so many exciting matches and I was triple streaming for the first few hours! It was a day of upsets as nine of the 16 seeds in action went out. While a handful of surprising results, there were so many inspired performances from the…
The seeds come out to play from the bottom half of the women’s draw on Saturday at the 2018 BNP Paribas Open. The likes of Caroline Wozniacki, Elina Svitolina, Venus Williams, Angelique Kerber, Caroline Garcia and Madison Keys will all be in action, as well as the stars of Thursday’s night session, Serena Williams and…
Thursday’s day schedule felt rather subdued with the two landmark matches at night (and rightfully so) featuring Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka. Therefore I spent much of my evening flicking between matches as nothing really grabbed me. Read on for Thursday’s stories from the 2018 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. For a preview of…
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