1. Venus Williams v Monica Puig The late night match in Charleston on Wednesday will see Venus Williams take on the world number 104, Monica Puig. Venus was forced to pull out of her third round match with Sloane Stephens in Miami due to a persistent back injury and there are still some concerns about…
The American hard court season is over with the conclusion of Miami. Today’s final between Andy Murray and David Ferrer was torturous at times and ended a dire tournament for the men. It featured a ton of errors, but did at least provide some cracking drama right at the end where Murray saved a championship…
Serena Williams was utterly dominant in the Charleston final as she won her first title since the Premier event in Toronto last August with a 6-0 6-1 victory over Lucie Safarova. Like Stosur in the semi-finals, Safarova did not do a lot wrong as she was thoroughly outplayed by the rampant American. There will be…
Polona Hercog (14) v Lucie Safarova (9) Lucie Safarova The top half of the Charleston draw always looked a little ropey compared to the bottom half and things have panned out that way with two unexpected faces making the semi-finals; however lets not write them off just yet as both have sparkled on the green…
Serena Williams has reached her first semi-final of the year at the expense of Sabine Lisicki, who had to retire from their quarter-final match down 1-4 due to an ankle injury. Lisicki has had a history of ankle problems so it must have a very worrying situation for her. There was a nice moment at…
Nadia Petrova Polona Hercog (14) v Nadia Petrova (13) Hercog caused the upset of the tournament in the third round as she took out the number three seed, Marion Bartoli, 6-4 1-6 6-4. The Slovenian showed great fight to recover from a 4-2 deficit in the third set and has flourished on the green clay…
I have now published my full predictions for Charleston, which can be viewed here… I must admit that I found this week’s draw very difficult to predict, which may explain my rather wacky predictions. I always seem to favour an underdog and have taken a number of risks this week. I hope to have time…
There is barely time to take a breather after the excitement of Indian Wells and Miami as the women kick off the clay court season in Charleston. This is the only tournament this week, which was originally headlined by the Miami champion, Agnieszka Radwanska. However she has now pulled out of the tournament citing a…
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