It always takes me a few days to get over Wimbledon as it marks the end of my favourite stretch of the tennis calendar. It felt a good time to take a week off from blogging although I couldn’t help myself following the live scores! The two things I took away from last week; the…
A fantastic slate of third round matches in Monte-Carlo for Thursday requires the full SWEEP of matches in today’s preview. The action on Thursday features the world’s top six players with Nadal, Djokovic and Federer highlighting Court Central. In other news, BBC Sport continues to wind me up with their poor coverage of tennis. They…
This week, I made a few slightly risky predictions and they have not paid off at all! On Saturday, Stanislas Wawrinka made a fine start to his Indian Wells campaign with a 6-3 7-5 victory over a dangerous opponent in Ivo Karlovic. I thought he may struggle in his first action on the ATP tour…
Serena Williams All four finals took place on Sunday with Fabio Fognini, Serena Williams, Yvonne Meusburger and Ivo Karlovic in the winners circle. Fognini won his second title in two weeks as he completed the Stuttgart-Hamburg double with a come-from-behind win, which included saving three match points against Federico Delbonis, 4-6 7-6(8) 6-2. Both finalists…
The US hard court season kicks into gear next week with the women in Stanford and the men in Atlanta along with three other tournaments. Before then, we have semi-finals and finals to wrap up on this week’s clay court tournaments. Nicolas Almagro v Fabio Fognini (Hamburg, SF) Nicolas Almagro Fabio Fognini is enjoying a…
It was a mixed day of predictions today as my best two predictions (Pennetta and Verdasco) both came via retirements. Hamburg hasn’t been a great tournament for my predictions, but Bastad has been good and could be one of my best of 2013 so far if Flavia Pennetta can make the final and Mathilde Johansson…
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 1. Rafael Nadal v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Jo-Wilfried Tsonga took advantage of Andy Murray‘s third round exit to progress to the semi-finals of the Monte-Carlo Masters. Tsonga defeated Murray’s conqueror, Stanislas Wawrinka, coming back from a set down to complete a 2-6 6-3 6-4 victory. He now faces the unenviable task of playing Rafael…
1. Rafael Nadal v Grigor Dimitrov Grigor Dimitrov It has been business as usual for Rafael Nadal in Monte-Carlo with two pretty routine wins over Marinko Matosevic and Philipp Kohlschreiber. Nadal beat Kohlschrieber, 6-2 6-4 in the third round, facing no break points on his serve. Nadal’s next opponent is the unseeded, Grigor Dimitrov, who…
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