The Victoria Azarenka-Simona Halep match-up has been on my bucket list all year and finally, finally, FINALLY, we will get to see it! The excitement is very slightly muted after watching a seemingly injured Halep scramble her way into the quarter-finals, coming from a set and a break down to beat Sabine Lisicki in a…
1. Simona Halep v Sabine Lisicki (US Open, R4) Simona Halep has sauntered into the second week of the US Open with three comfortable victories over Marina Erakovic (6-2 3-0 ret.), Kateryna Bondarenko (6-3 6-4) and Shelby Rogers (6-2 6-3). Halep now faces a completely different proposition up against the hard-hitting, Sabine Lisicki. The former…
Just a quick preview of the women’s final in Cincy tonight (not before 3pm local time) featuring Serena Williams and Simona Halep. Not only did I miss both Cincy semi-finals because they were both in the evening session but i’m a busy bee today. My family are have a BBQ and i’m in charge of…
For the second consecutive week, Simona Halep and Jelena Jankovic will play each other on the WTA tour… but this time it’s in a semi-final. I’m bowled over by Halep’s efforts this week. The Romanian player, who will seal the number two seed at the US Open with a win here, played five matches last…
In a match that felt like it would never end, Simona Halep defeated Kristina Mladenovic in Cincy, 7-5 5-7 6-4, having failed to convert on match points in the second set. Halep came into Cincy off the back of a gruelling run in Toronto where she was forced to withdraw in the third set of…
Well hello there… that was quite a result to wake up to this morning! Belinda Bencic upset Serena Williams in the second of the 2015 Rogers Cup semi-finals, 3-6 7-5 6-4. I wish I could watch back the whole match but time is against me today. Bencic twice failed to serve out the match but…
The first match of quarter-finals day at the 2015 Rogers Cup featured a bagel-breadstick sandwich as Simona Halep started slowly but finished in style, defeating Agnieszka Radwanska, 0-6 6-3 6-1. It was a strange match with neither playing their best at the same time. Radwanska made the much brighter start in the first set as…
This was a fun one… In a ding dong battle on Centre Court, Simona Halep edged Angelique Kerber in three gruelling sets, 6-3 5-7 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup. There were some brutal rallies in this match and both players were clearly struggling, especially Kerber. It had begun pretty routinely…
After the rain on Monday, there has been plentyyy of tennis to get stuck into on Tuesday. In the first match on Centre Court, Jelena Jankovic defeated Caroline Garcia in straight sets, 7-6(4) 6-2. The first set didn’t feature a break point! After Garcia’s wayward loss to Nicole Gibbs in Stanford, this was an improved…
I forgot how crazy the first two days of a Grand Slam are. This was the first time in ages I got to watch a Slam opening day from start to finish. It was fun but trying to keep up with everything is impossible! I enjoyed the challenge though. There were big upsets in the…
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