The off-season is here and this year, Moo’s Tennis Blog will be taking a look back at some of the highlights of the year in a series of WTA Best of 2016 posts. In the doom and gloom that sometimes has been 2016, there were some pretty great moments of sportsmanship on the WTA tour. I’m all…
The final of the WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai saw Petra Kvitova win 11 of the last 13 games to record a fourth straight sets win in 2016 over Elina Svitolina, 6-4 6-2. Your 2016 @WTAEliteTrophy champion @Petra_Kvitova and finalist @ElinaSvitolina! #WTAEliteTrophy pic.twitter.com/KDBCiCd97f — WTA (@WTA) November 6, 2016 For Petra, she’ll finish the year…
Apologies for not being able to cover the last two days of the WTA Finals in Singapore as I was busy over the weekend. For the second straight year, a player lost their first two matches of the tournament but went onto win the whole caboodle… step forward, Dominika Cibulkova who produced a tremendous display to…
In the first match of the day on Friday, Garbiñe Muguruza won her first match of the tournament meaning that all eight singles players have picked up at least one win this year. Muguruza won 12 of the last 13 games to snap Kuznetsova’s six match winning streak with a 3-6 6-0 6-1 victory in one…
While the number seven and eight seeds will meet in the first of the Singapore semi-finals, the second one will be contested between the top two seeds, Angelique Kerber and Agnieszka Radwanska, at not before 7.30pm local time. It will also be a first match-up between the pair in 2016… In the last round robin…
Battling to reach the final of the WTA Finals for their first time in their careers, the number seven and eight seeds, Dominika Cibulkova and Svetlana Kuznetsova, will meet in the first of the semi-finals in Singapore on Saturday. While she was the last player to qualify for Singapore, Kuznetsova was the first player to…
Ahead of her third and final round robin match, Dominika Cibulkova knew she had to beat Simona Halep in straight sets to stand a chance of qualifying… and she did it! Cibulkova was two points away from going out but handled the pressure exceptionally well, prevailing 6-3 7-6(5) in one hour and 48 minutes. Roar?…
The final round robin match of the 2016 WTA Finals in Singapore will be an all top five clash between Agnieszka Radwanska and Karolina Pliskova. Permutations for the white group are quite simple and straightforward… the winner of this match will join Svetlana Kuznetsova in qualifying for Saturday’s semi-finals. Radwanska rebounded in resilient fashion after…
The star of this year’s Singapore so far without a shadow of a doubt has been Svetlana Kuznetsova. While she was the last to qualify and right at the last moment, Sveta is the first player to qualify for Saturday’s semi-finals. With results from tonight on Day 4 of @WTAFinalsSG, @SvetlanaK27 is the first player…
The final matches from the red group will be played on Thursday with all four players having an opportunity to advance to Saturday’s semi-finals. Simona Halep and Dominika Cibulkova will open proceedings at not before 4pm local time with Cibulkova requiring a straight sets win and other results to go her way to stay in…
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