1. Serena Williams v Sloane Stephens (RG, R4) In the most anticipated women’s match of the tournament so far, Serena Williams came from a set and a break down to defeat Victoria Azarenka for the second time this year. It was a compelling match with plenty of talking points. Azarenka looked to be on her…
The second and final round of qualifying in Indian Wells is underway for the women with the main draw beginning on Wednesday. There are many great follows on Twitter if you want to see pictures of your favourite players and know who they are practising with… @StephintheUS and @lawanda50 are must follows this week. This…
In this rather quiet tennis week, i’ve been trying to finalise my tennis plans for the summer! Tickets for Queens and Nottingham are both out now on general sale, and Birmingham and Eastbourne are out next week. I’m definitely heading down to Eastbourne for three days, but I can’t decide about the other events. Back…
The women’s matches on Monday are shaping up to be pretty spectacular; however Sunday’s matches are not particularly enticing on paper. A few people have left comments about their lack of interest in the bottom half and to be honest, i’m feeling it a little too. The quarters could be interesting though. Fantasy Tennis Updates:…
The Australian Open starts tonight! In case you missed it, my preview for the women’s AO draw is already up and you can check it out HERE. Thanks for all the votes in the poll; After nearly 200 votes, Maria Sharapova currently leads the way with 26% of your votes, followed by Simona Halep (16%),…
Today’s most uplifting news was that Juan Martin del Potro has confirmed that he will be playing Sydney and the Australian Open. It’s great news although i’m still a bit concerned about how his wrists holds up and it sounds like he is still not 100% from his Facebook post. Thursday is quarter-finals day in…
There is just one WTA International tournament this week in Katowice, Poland and it is a new tournament gracing the tour. Katowice is played on indoor clay, like Stuttgart and I am interested to see the main draw get underway as the venue looks impressive. Lets take a look at the draw… Sabine Lisicki Petra…
Goerges Gone Paris saw its first significant upset as the 19-year-old, Kristina Mladenovic upset the number 7 seed Julia Goerges, 7-5 5-7 7-6(4) in 2 hours and 43 minutes. This was Mladenovic’s best result on the WTA tour so far and she seems to be progressing on the tour and beginning to live up to…
Julia Goerges I must firstly point out that I think the scheduling in Beijing has been shocking! I hate it when two different rounds are played on the same day; for example, tomorrow we have two second round matches being played and four third round matches. Victoria Azarenka is not scheduled for tomorrow, meanwhile the…
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…
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