Petra Kvitova and Venus Williams produced the best womens match of the tournament as Petra came from a set down to beat Venus, 5-7 7-6(2) 7-5 in a magnificent contest. You can read my full recap of the match HERE. The line-up of third round matches from the top half of the womens draw is…
Maria Sharapova and Eugenie Bouchard will contest the first of the 2014 Roland Garros semi-finals on Thursday. It’s a match-up that is likely to thrill Stacy Allaster as the Bouchard bandwagon keeps on moving forward with full force. Sharapova was first to confirm her place in the semi-finals with a 1-6 7-5 6-1 victory over…
In the first womens match of the day Andrea Petkovic edged the qualifier, Kiki Bertens in three sets to reach her first Grand Slam quarter-final since the 2011 US Open. She will take on Sara Errani, who defeated Jelena Jankovic in two tight sets. Listening to Errani’s grunt on RG Radio this afternoon was a…
Eugenie Bouchard produced her best performance of the tournament to completely overwhelm Angelique Kerber and book her spot in a first French Open quarter-final and second consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final. Bouchard needed just 52 MINUTES to complete a comprehensive 6-1 6-2 victory over an out-of-sorts Kerber. Bouchard came out swinging from the first point and…
Yes, yes, YESSSSSS! I was absolutely delighted to see Lucie Safarova finally pull off a big win this year. She has been due something special and I am so pleased my prediction of Ivanovic to win in three dramatic sets was wrong! Lucie produced a magnificent performance to defeat Ana Ivanovic, 6-3 6-3 for her…
The WTA’s new darling, Eugenie Bouchard is beginning to divide opinion amongst tennis fans. Since reaching the Australian Open semi-finals, the WTA have absolutely bombarded Genie in every available advertising stream. She’s been to Singapore to promote the YEC with Chris Evert and has barely been off the WTA website in the last few months. …
There are some excellent second round matches in Oeiras tomorrow on the ladies side. As is characteristic of this event in Portugal, most of them have been relegated to the outside courts for the men. Who actually wants to watch Albert Montanes v Marcel Granollers? I’ve seen a few snippets of the action this week,…
The coverage this week in Indian Wells has been really great and there have some good women’s matches. Monday’s stat of the day was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova winning just four points in the deciding set to Aleksandra Wozniak as she was handed a bagel and a breadstick in a 6-1 6-7 6-0 loss. The big shock…
Saturday’s match between Ana Ivanovic and Elina Svitolina was a real cracker. The first two sets were high quality and the third was tremendously awful, yet gripping in its entirety. There was a lot to get excited about with Svitolina’s game. She served very well for a set and a half, and is a terrific…
This year’s Australian Open women’s tournament has been thrown wide open with Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Victoria Azarenka all falling before the semi-finals in a Wimbledon-esque draw. One thing for sure is that there will be a new Australian Open champion and a 75% chance that there will be a new Grand Slam champion.…
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