US Open qualifying is underway and the draws will be out on Thursday evening (5pm UK time). I am not really that interested in New Haven or Winston-Salem, but there are some good potential match-ups for the women. Let’s take a look at the best of the 2nd rounders… 1. Sabine Lisicki v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova…
Fernando Verdasco v Jerzy Janowicz (Hamburg, R3) Fernando Verdasco A showdown between two in-form players will be the one to watch in Hamburg as Fernando Verdasco takes on Jerzy Janowicz. Verdasco pushed Andy Murray all the way in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and he built on that with a final appearance in Bastad last week. …
I’m still shocked at Day 3, but here are my picks for Day 4… 1. Li Na v Simona Halep Li Na Li Na takes on the in-form Simona Halep in an enticing second round Wimbledon clash that has been shockingly carted out to court 3. Halep was having a pretty abysmal year up until…
1. Serena Williams v Simona Halep Serena Williams I thought Serena Williams may pull out somewhere along the line in Rome, but she has been in sensational form all week and dismissed Carla Suarez Navarro in today’s quarter-final for the loss of two games. In total, Serena has lost just 7 games in her first…
The first day of action in Toronto saw four of the five seeds sent packing. Svetlana Kuznetsova who has struggled for consistency this year was defeated by the Romanian, Simona Halep, 4-6 6-4 6-3. Kuznetsova beat Halep in their only previous encounter earlier this year in Miami, 6-0 6-4 and was heading for a similarly…
Na Li was the highest seed to fall in the womens draw as the first round of the US Open was completed on Monday night. Li, the number 8 seed looked to be heading to a comfortable victory when she took the first set against Kateryna Bondarenko 6-2. However her game capitulated as Bondarenko (pictured…
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