After a reasonably quiet day on Thursday, the upset train kicked into gear again as Ajla Tomljanovic knocked out the highest remaining seed in the womens draw, Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-4 6-4. After failing to serve out an upset win over Sloane Stephens at the Australian Open, Tomljanovic steadied herself in Paris to record the biggest…
Away from all the action at Roland Garros, Stanislas Wawrinka has just confirmed his attendance for the AEGON Championships at Queens, which starts in ten days time. It’s a real score for the London event to acquire another top ten player. Andy Murray, Tomas Berdych and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga are also playing Queens. In yesterday’s poll,…
Another day of shocks saw the world number one, Serena Williams ousted by Garbine Muguruza, 6-2 6-2. By all accounts, Muguruza played a sensational match and Serena just had no answers. This was another really STUNNING loss. It has completely opened up the womens draw with the top two seeds both out. Flavia Pennetta, Alize…
This isn’t shaping up to be a particularly rewarding tournament for some of the ATP next generation as Grigor Dimitrov followed Kei Nishikori on an early plane home with a first round exit. Dimitrov was beaten by Ivo Karlovic in straight sets. Dr. Ivo made the final in Dusseldorf so was in good form; however…
Guillermo Garcia-Lopez was always going to be a tricky match-up for Stan Wawrinka. It was the nature of this shock loss that was so stunning to watch. GGL produced a rock solid display to dispatch the Australian Open champion in four sets on Philippe Chatrier court, 6-4 5-7 6-2 6-0 in two hours and 23…
Martin Klizan caused the biggest upset of the tournament so far as he knocked out Kei Nishikori on a wet and miserable start to day 2 proceedings at Roland Garros. After a tight first set, which Nishikori served for at 5-4, Klizan powered through the next two sets as it became very obvious that Kei…
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga closed proceedings on day 1 of 2014 Roland Garros on Philippe Chatrier Court with a comfortable 7-6(4) 7-5 6-2 victory over fellow Frenchman, Edouard Roger-Vasselin. For the most part, it was a good performance from Tsonga and he did well to close out Roger-Vasselin in straight sets as ERV was one of the…
The early stages of the mens draw don’t look particularly tempting although things should get very interesting in the second week. Rafael Nadal has not been at his sensational best despite winning Madrid and reaching the final in Rome. Novak Djokovic looks to be over his wrist injury and has a crucial win over Rafa…
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a page with links to all the Twitter and / or Facebook accounts of the top 100 WTA players. I have finally got round to finishing my post on the top 100 ATP players. These pages can be permanently found in my “Features” section along the main toolbar.…
Am I the only person wondering where the heck this clay court season has gone? Rome will wrap up today and there will be just one week left for players to fine tune their game before Roland Garros kicks off NEXT SUNDAY. I won’t be investing heavily in next week’s tournaments, but here are my…
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