Timea Bacsinszky and Eugenie Bouchard will play each other for the first time on the WTA tour when they meet in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Monday. Bacsinszky played her best match of 2016 so far, comfortably defeating Tsvetana Pironkova in the second round, 6-2 6-1. The key…
This post covers two second round matches from Saturday’s slate of women’s matches at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells including Carla Suárez Navarro v Daria Kasatkina and Sloane Stephens v Eugenie Bouchard. For a full preview of the number two seed, Angelique Kerber’s first match of the week against Denisa Allertova, click HERE.…
All 16 second round matches will be played in Doha on Tuesday… it’s going to be a feast of WTA action! I’m currently crying at the prospect of having to work through it all but on a positive note, Lucie’s match is later, third on, so I *should* get home in time to watch. In…
Wednesday’s blockbuster match will see Agnieszka Radwanska face her first significant test of the Australian Open when she plays Eugenie Bouchard in the first night match on Rod Laver Arena. After a battering of a 2015 season, Bouchard finished the year barely inside the world’s top 50 at number 48 in the world. It had all…
1. Ekaterina Makarova v Kristina Mladenovic (US Open, R4) In the wide open second quarter of the draw, The number 13 seed, Ekaterina Makarova is the highest seed remaining. Heading into the US Open with a heavy cloud of injury uncertainty, Makarova has acquitted herself well to reach the fourth round of the US Open.…
Eugenie Bouchard secured arguably the best win of her year, beating Dominika Cibulkova, 7-6(9) 4-6 6-3 in two hours and 48 minutes. This was the first time that Bouchard has scored three wins at a tournament since the Australian Open. It was also another three set win, just her third of the season. There were…
After suffering a crushing 6-1 6-0 loss to Roberta Vinci in New Haven, her 15th loss in the last 18 matches, it seemed things couldn’t get much more miserable for Eugenie Bouchard. However, full credit to the Canadian player who has scrapped her way into the third round of the US Open with victories over…
The first match of the day in New Haven was complete in just over an hour as Roberta Vinci won the last 12 games of the match to beat a lost-looking, Eugenie Bouchard, 6-1 6-0. Bouchard has endured some really bruising losses this year but this one was unfortunately at the top of the tree.…
The slate of first round matches in Toronto is very impressive so here comes some previews and polls. From now on, if you want to see my full selection of predictions I will be updating the prediction page for each tournament (click HERE) with daily predictions. 1. Venus Williams v Sabine Lisicki (Toronto, R1) Venus…
I forgot how crazy the first two days of a Grand Slam are. This was the first time in ages I got to watch a Slam opening day from start to finish. It was fun but trying to keep up with everything is impossible! I enjoyed the challenge though. There were big upsets in the…
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