Sloane Stephens came from a set and a break down to defeat Bethanie Mattek-Sands, 3-6 6-3 6-2 as first round action continued on day 2 of the 2015 Family Circle Cup. Stephens has played some great tennis in this last month but this was arguably her best win of the year in terms of the…
The main draw of the 2015 Family Circle Cup in Charleston kicked off today with Mona Barthel progressing into the second round after a convincing 6-3 6-3 victory over Timea Babos in 70 minutes. Mona’s last outing in Charleston was a disappointing straight sets loss to Jessica Pegula in 2013, but this was a much…
The tennis season keeps trundling along and next week will feature one of my favourite WTA tournaments of the entire year in Charleston. I always get a really good vibe from Charleston and I am especially looking forward to this year’s edition as I was on holiday this time last year. Unfortunately, it is one…
The stand-out first round match from the 2015 Family Circle Cup draw is the all-American clash featuring Sloane Stephens and Bethanie Mattek-Sands. For the second tournament in a row, Mattek-Sands will open against an American player after she played Taylor Townsend in the first round of Indian Wells. In a highly entertaining match, Townsend edged…
I’ve watched two matches from Charleston this week and I have thoroughly enjoyed both of them. The 17-year-old, Belinda Bencic defeated Maria Kirilenko, 6-1 7-5 yesterday in the Russian player’s first match of 2014. Bencic played some smart tennis in the first set and needed seven match points to convert the win in straight sets. …
Following the tennis season can be rather manic. As the Miami final finished, the draws for Charleston and Monterrey were already in progress. Tennis seems to move so quickly that discussing anything from Miami already feels irrelevant. This seems like a marvellous time to plug my review of the womens tournament in Miami, which you…
Serena Williams Serena Williams claimed her third title of the season with a hard fought 3-6 6-0 6-2 victory over Jelena Jankovic in an entertaining final to wrap up the tournament in Charleston. Jankovic played a sparkling first set, perhaps her best set of tennis since she reached the mighty heights of the womens game. …
Serena Williams It has been an enjoyable week of tennis to follow in Charleston and we have been rewarded with an interesting final between Serena Williams and Jelena Jankovic. Serena strolled past her sister Venus Williams in a rather anticlimactic semi-final, 6-1 6-2. The other semi-final, which Jankovic won, was much more dramatic as she…
Jelena Jankovic The schedule was decimated yesterday in Charleston although the rain did eventually clear to allow the bottom half of 3rd round matches to be completed… 1. Jelena Jankovic v Eugenie Bouchard Jelena Jankovic had been pushed to the brink in her first two matches, most notably in her second round match where she…
Venus Williams 1. Bethanie Mattek-Sands v Madison Keys The second quarter has a distinctively American feel to it and will definitely see one American semi-finalist. The third round match between Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Madison Keys promises to be a lot of fun. Mattek-Sands crushed Sloane Stephens in the second round, 6-2 6-0, which was all the…
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