WTA action on Tuesday at the Mutua Madrid Open will feature the remaining eight second round singles matches. This post covers two previews from the top quarter of the draw including Dominika Cibulkova v Caroline Garcia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Camila Giorgi. In a quarter that has lost all of its seeds, the four players in question all have a…
The seeds in the bottom half of the women’s draw open their Miami campaigns on Friday… hallelujah for the Easter Bank Holiday Weekend so no work and more time to watch tennis! :-D. This post covers tricky openers for the highest seeds in the bottom half including Angelique Kerber v Barbora Strycova and Garbiñe Muguruza…
Friday’s most anticipated second round match at Indian Wells will see the number three seed, Agnieszka Radwanska face a stern early test against the world number 57, Dominika Cibulkova. As unseeded players go, Cibulkova is probably up there as the player that seeds will most want to avoid. Cibulkova’s ranking plummeted to 66, her lowest since…
The St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy has produced a solid slate of quarter-finals which will all take place on Friday. First up will be the number two seed, Roberta Vinci against one of four unseeded players in the last eight, Timea Babos. This will be Babos’s first Premier quarter-final and she’s enjoying a decent year so far.…
Thursday’s match of the day in St. Petersburg will see a first clash in over three years between Caroline Wozniacki and Dominika Cibulkova. The pair have played 12 times before but had avoided each other in draws since the end of the 2012 season. While the number 3 seed, Wozniacki had a bye in the first round, Cibulkova…
The first day of the 2016 Australian Open will cover the top half of the women’s draw with the likes of Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Belinda Bencic all in action. A first round preview of Serena’s first round match against Camila Giorgi can be found HERE. This post…
It was quite clear even during the US Open Series that the Race to Singapore was going to be manic with so many players in the running. While it has been eventful and intriguing to follow, in equal measures it has become an ever-lengthening maze of uncertainty and confusion. There is less than one week…
Dominika Cibulkova scored a big win in the last match on Sunday, edging Jelena Jankovic in a close first round encounter, 6-1 1-6 6-3. After two almost identical sets, Cibulkova played a really positive and aggressive final set. As is often the case, the Slovak player benefitted from serving first in the decider. After exchanging…
1. Dominika Cibulkova v Jelena Jankovic (Beijing, R1) The final match on the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing on Sunday will feature an all unseeded clash between Dominika Cibulkova and Jelena Jankovic. JJ leads the head-to-head, 3-1 although the pair haven’t played since 2009 when Jankovic won 6-1 6-1 on the clay courts of Stuttgart.…
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…
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