Carla Suárez Navarro needs a good week in Linz to keep her slim hopes of qualifying for a first WTA Finals in singles alive… two matches down and so far so good! Suárez Navarro has advanced to the quarter-finals where she play with the dangerous, Denisa Allertova. Suárez Navarro has yet to drop a set in…
Angelique Kerber will play just her second WTA tour match since winning the Australian Open on Saturday, going up against the steadily improving, Denisa Allertova in Indian Wells. Allertova laid down her credentials with a thumping 6-0 6-1 victory over fellow Czech, Petra Cetkovska on Thursday. The match lasted just 41 (!) minutes and Allertova was very impressive.…
This post previews two of the first round matches set for Thursday’s order of play at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells with Denisa Allertova v Petra Cetkovska and Julia Goerges v Camia Giorgi. Indian Wells is always a strange one as it starts slowly with the seeds coming out to play from Friday. In case you missed it,…
All 16 second round matches will be played in Doha on Tuesday… it’s going to be a feast of WTA action! I’m currently crying at the prospect of having to work through it all but on a positive note, Lucie’s match is later, third on, so I *should* get home in time to watch. In…
The cull of seeds continued in Linz on Thursday with Denisa Allertova defeating Barbora Strycova, 7-6(0) 5-7 6-4, in the final match of the day. This was a really fun one and the third set in particular was gripping stuff. The first set was messy with many breaks and neither serving well. Strycova was four…
Just three seeds remain in Linz with a huge opportunity for those players left in the depleted top half of the draw. Two more seeds fell on Wednesday with Roberta Vinci losing her third consecutive match to Aleksandra Krunic in a wacky WTA scoreline, 6-1 6-7(3) 6-1. She was followed out of the tournament by…
After Maria Sharapova pulled out of the tournament, it left a pretty gaping hole in the top half of the draw. First round action on day one has chucked the second quarter (and parts of the first too) into a blender as seed after seed departed. The first to go was Ana Ivanovic, who was…
1. Karolina Pliskova v Denisa Allertova Pliskova has come from a set down to win both her matches this week. On Wednesday, she defeated Tsvetana Pironkova in a third set tiebreak, 3-6 6-3 7-6(1). By all accounts, Pliskova has been nowhere near her best, but she’s still in the quarters. This is a great attribute…
Prague’s schedule for Tuesday was affected by rain which means they are already playing catch-up as two first round matches are still yet to be finished. This means a couple of players will have to play two matches on Wednesday; one of them could be the number two seed Lucie Safarova who opens against Tereza…
