Wednesday at the Rogers Cup started with a flurry of upsets as Garbiñe Muguruza, Ekaterina Makarova and Lucie Safarova all exited. Muguruza lost to Lesia Tsurenko, 7-5 6-1 who has now won 15 of her last 16 matches on hard courts (heads up to @oceanside6 on Twitter for the stat). Garbi was madddddd in this…
As tennis has been pretty quiet since Wimbledon, it has provided an opportunity to reflect on what’s happened so far in 2015. I was flicking through my screencaps and came across one which had the caption “Lucie Safarova – 2015 Roland Garros Finalist”… it still gives me goosebumps. 2015 has been such an eventful year…
The slate of first round matches in Toronto is very impressive so here comes some previews and polls. From now on, if you want to see my full selection of predictions I will be updating the prediction page for each tournament (click HERE) with daily predictions. 1. Venus Williams v Sabine Lisicki (Toronto, R1) Venus…
The most enticing of the first round matches from the 2015 Bank of the West Classic Premier tournament in Stanford features the number five seed, Angelique Kerber up against Daria Gavrilova. The pair played each other in consecutive weeks in Brisbane and Sydney at the start of the year. Although Kerber won both matches, the…
I’m back from my trip to Eastbourne. I had such an brilliant time and I hope you liked all the photos. I’ll be posting a final wrap-up from Eastbourne tomorrow with a selection of my best photos from the four days. If you missed any of my posts live from Eastbourne then you can check…
I spent barely an hour on Centre Court on Tuesday as I ended up watching plenty of tennis on the outside courts. There’s so much to see and you never have a problem getting a good view. I also watched Barbora Strycova v Sara Errani which was magical and you can see all my photos…
I noticed today that the cameras were covered and nothing was streamed from Centre Court in Eastbourne today so I thought it would be nice to give a few recaps of the matches I got to watch today. The first match I watched today was the final qualifying match between Daria Gavrilova and Marina Erakovic.…
1. Daria Gavrilova v Maria Sharapova (Rome, SF) Three of the Rome semi-finalists are pretty standard. The story of this week though has been the run of Daria Gavrilova. The 21-year old has had a magnificent week, coming through qualifying and winning four main draw matches including back-to-back three set thrillers against Belinda Bencic and…
1. Daria Gavrilova v Christina McHale (Rome, QF) Oh I do love the WTA. If anyone predicted that Daria Gavrilova and Christina McHale would play a quarter-final in Rome, I DON’T BELIEVE YOU! McHale advanced via a walkover from Serena Williams who withdrew with a right elbow injury. McHale beat Sara Errani in the second…
It’s always painful having to twiddle my thumbs during my lunch hour whilst a great tennis match is going on. That was the case today when Daria Gavrilova and Ana Ivanovic played each other first up on Pietrangeli today. Tennis twitter at least cushioned the blow and made me feel like I was watching…
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