The highest seed remaining in the Birmingham draw, Simona Halep will take on the unseeded, Kristina Mladenovic in quarter-finals action on Friday. The Frenchwoman is enjoying an impressive few months on the tour; on the clay, Mladenovic reached the semi-finals of Marrakech and the final of Strasbourg, and reached the third round of Roland Garros,…
Two of the in-form players on the WTA tour this year, Carla Suarez Navarro and Karolina Pliskova will meet for the fourth time in 2015 on Friday in the first of the quarter-finals from the Aegon Classic in Birmingham. Both players were pushed to three sets in their first matches of the week; Suarez Navarro…
Unfortunately no previews… i’m not feeling very well tonight. I’m hoping I will be better for Eastbourne at the weekend :-S Kerber and Lisicki are both looking good in Brum; Angie toughed out a three setter against Pironkova, who played some superb tennis in the second set of their match. Sabine bagged a new serving…
Another reason why I love this time of year is I can bring my happy Sabine pictures out again… yay for the grass. Scanning through the second round matches in Birmingham for Wednesday, the one that JUMPS out at me features Sabine Lisicki and Belinda Bencic. Lisicki is playing her first match on the grass…
Fact… every match i’ve watched featuring Katerina Siniakova has been an experience that I won’t forget. I mean… Status Level: Siniakova. pic.twitter.com/t8nJ8GElbK — The Overrule (@theoverrule) June 16, 2015 In the final match of the day on the Ann Jones Centre Court in Birmingham, Katerina Siniakova scored her first top 20 win with a victory…
1. Angelique Kerber v Tsvetana Pironkova (Birmingham, R2) Angelique Kerber will play her first grass court match of 2015 up against Tsvetana Pironkova on court 1 on Wednesday. Kerber has always done well on the grass and I think she could be a dark horse at Wimbledon if the draw gods are kind. Last year,…
The grass court season kicks into full gear next week with the women in Birmingham. This is the best ever line-up for the Aegon Classic with eight of the world’s top 20 in attendance. However, I expected the line-up to be even better and i’m surprised more of the top ten aren’t here. After a…
The last week or two has seen player announcements for the 2015 grass court tennis tournaments. As a Brit, I always follow updates with excitement and this year is particularly interesting with an extra week added to the grass court season.  For the WTA, Birmingham has sealed the lucrative middle week, while Eastbourne remains the…
Sunday’s Aegon Classic final will be contested between Ana Ivanovic and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova. Birmingham always features many surprises with the WTA players making their first steps onto the grass, so it may be regarded as a surprise in itself that the number one seed, Ivanovic has reached the final. It seems to be a…
There is a possibility that there could be a final in Birmingham between Zhang Shuai and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova. For a premier event, this would be pretty staggering.  Queens has also seen a number of notable upsets and the number two seed, Tomas Berdych joined the list of casualties from the ATP 250 event.  Berdych…
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