Monday marked the first day of main draw action at the 2017 Volvo Car Open and sadly, the first match on the Volvo Car Stadium ended in a retirement. In floods of tears, Katerina Siniakova was forced to retire in the third set with a back injury, which she had a medical time-out for midway…
As the dust settles from the duo of Premier Mandatory tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami, it will kick up once again for the start of the clay court season in the unique green clay setting of Charleston. The Volvo Car Open is one of the my favourite tournaments so i’ll be pushing through the…
The 2017 Volvo Car Open in Charleston will take place next week in South Carolina and to celebrate the start of the tournament, i’ve taken a look back at some of my favourite matches from following the tournament over the past five years. In a unique setting on green clay and always attracting an excellent entry list,…
The lone WTA week on green clay came to a conclusion on Sunday with Sloane Stephens crowned the champion in Charleston. April is a pretty awesome month of tennis with Charleston, Monte-Carlo and Stuttgart all back-to-back. I’ll be taking a much-needed break from blogging next week and be back for Stuttgart (YAY). Read on for…
Take a bow, Elena Vesnina… Coming through the qualifying draw in Charleston, the 29-year-old is into her first WTA final since 2013 after defeating Sara Errani, 6-4 4-6 6-2. In a thoroughly engaging semi-final, Vesnina produced a sensational third set display, aggressive and precise, and hitting 17 winners to 14 unforced errors. While she admitted in her post-match…
Yay for this one… The first of the semi-finals at the 2016 Volvo Car Open in Charleston will be a tantalising match-up between the number one seed and defending champion, Angelique Kerber and the number seven seed, Sloane Stephens. Kerber produced a classy display to defeat a fatigued Irina-Camelia Begu, 6-2 6-3. The Romanian player was impatient…
Charleston is flyyyyying by and we are already down to the final eight with quarter-finals day on Friday. Another top four seed fell on Thursday in the longest match of the day, but the number one seed is still in there along three other seeds. In case you missed it, a full recap of day…
Wednesday was a joyous day of WTA tennis with 14 second round matches at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston. Five seeds went out, quite a few rolled through and there was one notable retirement. No previews for Thursday, to be honest i’m hitting the wall majorly in my fifth straight week of blogging. A bumper…
First round action concluded at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston with all the seeds scoring wins. Two second round matches were also on Tuesday’s schedule and were both epic for different reasons. For a pair of previews including Stephens-Kovinic and V.Williams-Riske, click HERE. Read on for Set Points to wrap up Tuesday in Charleston… In…
Wednesday at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston will feature 14 second round matches, all of them to be streamed across TennisTV and Stre.am. This particular post covers two matches; Sloane Stephens v Danka Kovinic and Venus Williams v Alison Riske. For a full recap of day 1 action in Charleston, click HERE. 1. Sloane Stephens v Danka…
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