The entry list for Eastbourne was released today with Richard Gasquet, Alexandr Dolgopolov, Feliciano Lopez, Gilles Simon, Andreas Seppi and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez all present. The line-up is about the same quality as last year. It’s good to see Dominic Thiem commit to the event, although he is currently four places outside of the main draw.…
The full line-up for the AEGON International was released today with Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvitova, Jelena Jankovic, Angelique Kerber, Sara Errani, Flavia Pennetta, Caroline Wozniacki and Sloane Stephens all committing to the event. I’ll be going for a couple of days this year and I am also planning to get tickets for the Rally4Bally exhibition…
It’s been touching to see so many tennis players, both past and present, pay their respect to Elena Baltacha. You can keep donating to Rally4Bally HERE. The money is being donated 50:50 to the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and Elena’s tennis academy. I’m sure you will agree, both very worthy causes. The amount raised has…
This is the first occasion in quite sometime that I have been more intrigued by the men’s draw at a joint event. This clay court season has been wildly unpredictable for the men and I like it. Rafael Nadal has been struggling for form. Novak Djokovic has looked great, but has been troubled by a…
After two busy weeks, this one feels like a bit of a breather before Madrid and Rome back-to-back. There is a joint event in Oeiras, Portugal (formerly Estoril) which has attracted a strong WTA line-up and a bare looking ATP draw that has just about been saved with Tomas Berdych taking a late wildcard. There…
On the mens side, there are two events this week in Barcelona (ATP 500) and Bucharest (ATP 250). The clay court event in Barcelona has drawn a reasonable line-up which as always, is spearheaded by Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer. The top 16 players have byes into the second round. Let’s take a (slightly different)…
Stanislas Wawrinka continued his remarkable year with a first Masters 1000 title in Monte-Carlo, coming from a set down to beat Roger Federer, 4-6 7-6(5) 6-2. This was a pretty significant win because Wawrinka had only beaten Federer once before in 14 previous clashes. Oddly, that also came in Monte-Carlo. I only saw the third…
I’m excited. Sunday will see an all-Swiss final between Roger Federer and Stanislas Wawrinka in the conclusion of the 2014 Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters. The winner of this sure-to-be absorbing finale will take the Swiss number one spot. The polls for the semi-final matches saw 65% correctly go for Wawrinka to beat Ferrer and a third…
Quarter-finals day in Monte-Carlo was a long one with Milos Raonic and Stanislas Wawrinka kicking off the first quarter-final at 10.30am local time and Novak Djokovic and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez finishing off Good Friday’s proceedings at gone 8pm. I can’t remember ever seeing a match in Monte-Carlo being played under the lights. Their schedule starts early,…
Stanislas Wawrinka produced another fine performance in Monte-Carlo as he defeated Milos Raonic, 7-6(5) 6-2 to move into the last four. There was nothing to call between the pair in the first set with no break point opportunities. Raonic led in the first set tiebreak, 3-0 and 5-3, but it was Wawrinka who managed to…
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