I had my preview all written for Wednesday as I thought I had guessed the schedule for Tokyo correctly… wrong! The highlight of the tournament so far will see Victoria Azarenka take on Ana Ivanovic, which is not before 9am in the UK. There are two other tournaments this week in Guangzhou and Seoul. After…
I’ll be posting over at the Women’s Tennis Blog during the remainder of the US Open, so even more reason to check it out 😉 Here’s my summary of the quarter-final between Peng Shuai and Belinda Bencic. I am still GUTTED at the crowd that was on Arthur Ashe for what was Peng’s biggest moment…
Maria Sharapova’s exit to Carla Suarez Navarro was the big surprise on Thursday in Montreal. I was absolutely stunned that CSN was able to close out the match. I was watching Djokovic and then Kvitova so didn’t watch any of the match. It sounded like a mess, but i’m so happy that CSN was able…
Much of the talk on Wednesday was in relation to Eugenie Bouchard’s bizarre 6-0 2-6 6-0 loss to Shelby Rogers. Many of the Genie-haters came out to play after the loss. Where I agree with the exhausting hype, Genie has rightfully earnt it with her showings at the Grand Slams this year. I feel we are…
There are a handful of second round matches in Montreal and Toronto on Tuesday with Eugenie Bouchard, Agnieszka Radwanska, Victoria Azarenka, Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka all in action. First round action will also conclude at both tournaments. On the first day of action, two seeds fell in Montreal; Sabine Lisicki produced one of her…
Dominika Cibulkova and Carla Suarez Navarro are the only two seeds to have fallen so far in Stanford. Cibulkova’s loss was pretty significant as she was the defending champion. She lost to Garbine Muguruza in three sets. If you missed that match, I reviewed it HERE. The biggest headline of Tuesday was Sabine Lisicki breaking…
Here is the final part from my trip to Eastbourne and just in time before all the excitement of Wimbledon kicks off. Both previews for Wimby will be published on Saturday, starting with the womens. If you missed the first two parts, you can read part one from Sunday HERE and part two from Monday…
Determining my favourite WTA match of 2013 was not clear cut this year but in the end, I have gone for the US Open final between Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka. The quality and intensity of the first two sets ranked significantly higher than anything else I watched on the WTA tour in 2013 and made this a worthy…
Doha has never been a tournament that particularly captured my imagination and particularly after their three years hosting the WTA year-ending-championships in front of sparse and non-existent crowds. However it really shone this year with the big names all competing and reaching the latter stages. Along with the Serena-Kvitova quarter-final, the final in Doha between…
Serena Williams has been in impeccable form throughout this tournament, which has certainly taken a shine off the excitement factor for me because it is all looking a bit too straightforward for the world number one. Tomorrow we will find out the three players joining Serena in the semi-finals. 1. Victoria Azarenka v Li Na…
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