1. Lucie Safarova v CoCo Vandeweghe (Wimbledon, R4) I was nervously following the Lucie-Sloane match on the scoreboards at Wimbledon on Friday. After Sloane took the first set, I was resigned to her losing… however once again, she dug out the win in three sets, 3-6 6-3 6-1. Lucie has become much more match tough…
There have been no upsets overnight in Melbourne for the women; one seed did fall in Casey Dellacqua, but she always faced an uphill struggle against Madison Keys. Dellacqua started great, but Keys found her game to fly through the final two sets. Petra Kvitova had another solid win against Mona Barthel, who put up…
Osaka has been dominated by the “rising stars” of the WTA with seven of the eight quarter-finalists aged 21 or below. The 21-year-old, Zarina Diyas has come through from the bottom half and will play the number one seed, Sam Stosur in Sunday’s final. The Aussie has had an all-round solid week and is yet…
Poor old Linz. Eugenie Bouchard was the latest name to pull out of the tournament leaving just one seed, Karolina Pliskova left in the tournament. It’s an unfortunate, but unsurprising turn of events with attention turning to the YEC in Singapore for the likes of Genie and Ana. Moscow is also going to suffer next…
There were two womens matches on Saturday that didn’t finish, therefore requiring Sabine Lisicki, Ana Ivanovic, Yaroslava Shvedova and Madison Keys to return on Monday to complete the last 16 line-up. I was at Wimby today and realised Madison Keys had pulled out when I saw Caroline Wozniacki and Barbora Zahlavova Strycova walk past me…
