There are two WTA tournaments next week in Dubai and Rio… Moo’s Tennis Blog will be focussing on the Dubai Duty Free Championships where four of the world’s top ten are in attendance. Dubai has been hit with a string of withdrawals; the tournament announced pre-draw that Australian Open finalists, Serena Williams and Angelique Kerber,…
Dubai has once again attracted the cream of the crop of ATP players with Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Tomas Berdych all in the draw for the 2015 Dubai Duty Free Championships. The draw is normally quite top-heavy in Dubai, but there is a lot more depth this year with all eight seeds…
Simona Halep defeated Karolina Pliskova, 6-4 7-6(4) in the final of the 2015 Dubai Duty Free Championships to win her second title of the year. It was a really entertaining final, which concluded with a wacky final few games as Halep held off her nerves and a spirited effort from Pliskova. Halep needed just one…
Karolina Pliskova continued her stunning week with a semi-final victory over Garbine Muguruza, 6-4 5-7 7-5 in Dubai. Karolina has won five matches this week against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Ana Ivanovic, Lucie Safarova and Muguruza with each match taking progressively longer. This marathon semi-final lasted two hours and 53 minutes. I can’t believe…
Just four players remain in Dubai; the bottom half has been ravaged with upsets, but there’s a tasty looking semi-final between two of the hottest players of 2015 so far. The top half has stuck with the seeding and should produce an equally enticing semi-final. I’ve had an awesome week in Racket Rally and my…
There were some very interesting results in Dubai on Wednesday as five of the top eight seeds went out of the tournament. The loss of the top seeds in the bottom half means that one of Lucie Safarova, Karolina Pliskova, Garbine Muguruza or Carla Suarez Navarro will make a Premier 5 final in Dubai this…
Lucie Safarova and Karolina Pliskova will play each other for the second consecutive week in the first of the Dubai quarter-finals at 2pm local time. Lucie had her best win since Wimbledon as she defeated the world number 11, Venus Williams, 6-4 6-2. Once again, I was following on the live scoreboard… this time, with…
The second round matches lived up to expectation in Dubai with quite a few interesting results. Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Agnieszka Radwanska all dropped a set, but won through to the third round. Three seeds weren’t quite as fortunate as Jelena Jankovic, Andrea Petkovic and Peng Shuai all lost. If you after some new…
Oh my days. Following Lucie Safarova‘s second round match in Dubai on the live scoreboard nearly destroyed me. After two hours and 52 minutes, Lucie defeated Casey Dellacqua, 6-7(6) 7-6(4) 7-5. Dellacqua had served for the match in the second set and came within two points of the win on multiple occasions. I expected Lucie to…
Venus Williams won her 16th consecutive match in Dubai with an excellent performance to defeat Belinda Bencic, 6-1 6-2 in just 69 minutes. Venus played a pretty sensational first set and was hitting the ball as clean as i’ve seen anyone hit the ball this year. She hit 11 winners to just 2 unforced errors…
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