Jelena Jankovic Jelena Jankovic saved three match points as she survived a nail-biter to progress to the second round of the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. Jankovic beat Caroline Garcia, 7-6 4-6 7-6, who struggled to close out the Serb and must work on her mental game if she is to transform her game to…
Novak Djokovic Eight of the top ten in the ATP rankings are in Dubai to contest the Dubai Duty Free Championships this week. Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer are the only two current top ten ranked players who are not playing in Dubai. Novak Djokovic will play his first match since defeating Rafael Nadal in…
Agnieszka Radwanska won her first title of the 2012 season with a hard fought 7-5 6-4 victory over Julia Goerges in the final of the Premier event in Dubai. Radwanska was the more solid player producing 12 winners, but only 6 unforced errors. Goerges went through good and bad patches as she offered up a…
Julia Goerges is having another fairytale week just like the one she enjoyed on the indoor clay courts of Stuttgart last April as she defeated the former world number one, Caroline Wozniacki, 7-6 7-5 to advance to the finals of the Dubai Duty Championships. This was Goerge’s third consecutive win against Wozniacki and today’s was…
Julia Goerges The quarter-final line-up for Dubai promised much, but failed to deliver on the most part. The one shining light came in the final match of the day as Julia Goerges came back from a set down for the second time this week to beat Daniela Hantuchova, 6-4 3-6 6-4 in a fantastic contest. …
Ana Ivanovic This week’s tournament in Dubai has seen its fair share of withdrawals with Victoria Azarenka pulling out of the tournament today (as I had suspected!) and joining the likes of Petra Kvitova, Li Na and Vera Zvonareva on the sidelines. However as the second round of action wrapped on Wednesday, all remaining five…
Peng Shuai Peng Shuai had her most significant scalp of the year so far as she beat Marion Bartoli, 6-4 6-3 in the first round of Dubai. Peng has had a disappointing start to 2012 having failed to advance past the second round in any of her tournaments this year; however she displayed some of…
Jelena Jankovic Jelena Jankovic enjoyed a straightforward victory over Petra Cetkovska, 6-2 6-2 in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships. In truth, Jankovic was not tested by Cetkovska, who hit 10 double faults throughout the lacklustre 73-minute contest. The most exciting moment was when the umpire, Mohammed Layani called Jelena “Mr Jankovic”…
Victoria Azarenka The women move from Doha to Dubai this week to contest the Dubai Duty Free Championships. The draw has been downgraded this year from 56 players to 28 as Doha and Dubai have swapped over in the calendar. To be honest, I completely lost interest in the Doha tournament which featured few entertaining…
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