PETRA KVITOVA There was just the one semi-final today in Doha and it was another cracker! Petra Kvitova extended her winning streak to 12 with a come-from-behind victory over the world number one, Caroline Wozniacki, 3-6 7-6(3) 7-5 in two hours and 35 minutes. Kvitova rallied from a set and a break down, and Wozniacki…
We’re getting to the business end of Doha with the semi-finals up on Saturday. Unfortunately semi-finals has become singular with semi-final after Simona Halep was forced to pull out of the tournament following her quarter-final win. It’s such a shame because the last four line-up was totally lit! Read on for the highlights from Friday…
The last eight is all set at the 2018 Qatar Total Open in Doha with five of the top eight seeds still alive. There is just one unseeded player left in the draw in what has been a week of few shocks. There are many familiar faces left with five of the quarter-finalists having already…
The number six seed in Doha, Jelena Ostapenko is the highest seed to fall so far through three days of main draw action at the Qatar Total Open. All the other top ten seeds are into the last 16 with much of the draw intact. This is still quite a revelation as the WTA goes…
There were 17 matches on the schedule in Doha on Tuesday and only three of them went the distance. Today was a crappy day at work and I didn’t get to watch much tennis so no Set Points for Tuesday. Instead, since I am excited about Wednesday’s schedule, I am debuting a new sweeping day…
I’ve decided to start blogging again with the WTA tour for the Doha-Dubai double. While i’m not expecting to be posting as much as I have done in the past, I am excited to get back to writing! Bear with me as I get back into the swing of things. I won’t be doing prediction…
The 2017 Qatar Total Open in Doha will be remembered as one of the wettest tournaments of the year… that’s not a sentence I expected to write at the start of the week considering Doha is in the desert! Despite all the stoppages, they did well to get the tournament finished on time. This post is…
After five damp days in Doha, the rain finally disappeared long enough for the semi-finals in both singles and doubles to be completed. It’s the first time all week that the tournament has been on schedule! It did require three of the four semi-finalists in singles to play two matches in a long, long day.…
Another day in Doha and another day of interruptions. There was less rain than previous days but it was that frustrating stop-start kind of rain, so much so I can’t even remember how many stoppages there were. They are still behind in the schedule but all the second round matches were completed which was a…
Wednesday was a busy day at the Qatar Total Open with first round matches all completed but only three second round matches in the books following another rainy day in Doha. Trying to keep up with today’s results was really challenging so just a quick summary of the first round results… Daria Kasatkina d. Irina-Camelia Begu, 3-6…
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