The world number two, Angelique Kerber will be aiming to get her year on track when she plays fellow compatriot, Mona Barthel in the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships on Tuesday. Kerber is 4-4 for the year and yet to make it past the quarter-finals at any of the four tournaments that…
Wednesday will see second round action begin at Wimbledon although the weather forecast is not looking too good! This post covers two women’s matches from the third quarter of the draw including Simona Halep v Francesca Schiavone and Mona Barthel v Kiki Bertens. For a round-up of day 1 action on the outside courts including…
I knew who I wanted to be the focus of my next feature post… Mona Barthel! I’ve been a fan of Mona’s for quite a few years now. I first learnt of Mona in 2011 when she raced through three qualifying matches at the French Open and went onto win her first main draw match at…
It’s been over a month since Lucie Safarova took to a tennis court and finally, she’s backkkkk. On the 1st of September, Lucie suffered a disappointing first round exit at the US Open to Lesia Tsurenko, later revealing that she had been struggling with an abdominal tear that needed rest. Worse news would come when…
Beijing draw carnage… the top two seeds, Simona Halep and Petra Kvitova, are both out of the final Premier Mandatory event of the season. Kvitova lost for the first ever time to Sara Errani in straight sets, 7-5 6-4. Kvitova was characteristically error-strewn and went 4 for 17 on break point conversions. Errani played a…
There have been crazy scorelines aplenty on day 2 of the 2015 US Open. In one match, Olga Govortsova defeated Irina-Camelia Begu in a classic WTA scoreline, 6-1 0-6 7-6(3). Another wacky one, which I got to watch some of, saw Mona Barthel beat Tsvetana Pironkova, recovering from 5-7 2-5 down to somehowwww win, 5-7…
In an all-German affair, Andrea Petkovic and Mona Barthel will meet in the second round of the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford on Wednesday. Petkovic recovered from a slow start in the first round to defeat another German player, Carina Witthoeft, 5-7 6-1 6-3 in one hour and 59 minutes. Petkovic, who hasn’t…
It was frustrating that the two matches on the schedule that I really wanted to see started at exactly the same time. In the end, I missed Alize Cornet v Alison Riske on Court 1 and watched Belinda Bencic and Mona Barthel on Centre. I’m a fan of both Mona and Belinda so it had…
I will be trying to catch as many first round matches in Eastbourne as I can! I’m a bit tied up so there won’t be a tournament preview this week. However, with the 16 byes in the draw and quite a few uncertainties with players going deep in Birmingham, this is a tournament where it’s…
The only first round match to be played in Stuttgart on Monday wiill be the all-German clash between Mona Barthel and Carina Witthoeft. Barthel originally received a wildcard into the main draw but after gaining direct entry, her wildcard was given to Witthoeft. After a so-so year, Barthel produced two very encouraging displays in Charleston. …
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