Belinda Bencic will play her first competitive singles match since Wimbledon against Timea Babos in the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Wednesday. For Bencic, it’s been an injury-ravaged year which had promised so much with a very encouraging start. Bencic cracked the top ten back in February by virtue…
Timea Babos will be seeking to reach the third round of a Slam in singles for the first time in her career when she faces the number 27 seed, CoCo Vandeweghe at Wimbledon on Thursday. Babos has had an excellent 2016 season in singles; while she has still played plenty of doubles, most recently with…
This post previews the best of the second round matches set for Thursday at Roland Garros including Bouchard-Bacsinszky, V.Williams v Chirico, Petkovic v Putintseva and Mladenovic v Babos. A final Set Points will come later tonight to wrap up day 4 action at the French Open. 1. Timea Bacsinszky (8) v Eugenie Bouchard In a battle…
Third round action will take place on Thursday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome. There wasn’t one match that really stood out but they all interest me so I thought i’d go all out and do a sweep of mini-previews for all eight third round matches… this includes Kuznetsova v Gavrilova, Suárez Navarro v…
Two first round matches are on the schedule for the first day of the 2016 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart; at not before 8.30pm local time, Timea Babos and Sabine Lisicki will face off in an intriguing opener. This will be a big match for Lisicki as she returns to Stuttgart where she suffered…
In a section of that draw that has lost both seeds, Timea Babos and Naomi Osaka will be battling for a spot in the last 16 of the Miami Open. This match-up is strangely compelling to me so i’m going all out with a preview! 😀 Babos enjoyed a big win on Friday, taking out…
The St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy has produced a solid slate of quarter-finals which will all take place on Friday. First up will be the number two seed, Roberta Vinci against one of four unseeded players in the last eight, Timea Babos. This will be Babos’s first Premier quarter-final and she’s enjoying a decent year so far.…
This will be my last post for a few days as i’m busy this weekend… my brother is getting married! I’m going to be playing serious catch-up with Madrid as the main draw comes out on Friday with play starting on Saturday. I hate the overlap between tournaments and that will happen with the finals…
The main draw of the 2015 Family Circle Cup in Charleston kicked off today with Mona Barthel progressing into the second round after a convincing 6-3 6-3 victory over Timea Babos in 70 minutes. Mona’s last outing in Charleston was a disappointing straight sets loss to Jessica Pegula in 2013, but this was a much…
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