Two players who have had their fair share of troubles in the last year, Jelena Jankovic and Eugenie Bouchard, will play each other in a star-studded first round match in Rome on Tuesday. Jankovic’s year grinded to a halt in March when a shoulder/neck injury forced her out of Miami and Charleston. Furthermore, she also had a…
Agnieszka Radwanska and Jelena Jankovic will meet for the ninth time on the WTA tour with a place in the quarter-finals of the 2016 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells up for grabs. Radwanska survived a huge scare in the second round, coming back from *2-5 down in the third set and saving a match point…
This post covers two third round matches set for Sunday’s schedule at the 2016 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells; an all-seeded match-up between Simona Halep and Ekaterina Makarova, and the number 19 seed, Jelena Jankovic up against CoCo Vandeweghe. For a full round-up of what happened in the top half of the women’s draw…
This preview covers two more second round matches from Friday’s order of play at the 2016 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells including Madison Keys v Nicole Gibbs and Jelena Jankovic v Carina Witthoeft. For a full preview of arguably the best women’s match of the day on Friday between Agnieszka Radwanska and Dominika Cibulkova,…
The Dubai Duty Free Championships had begun with a string of one-sided results and bakery products. The first of Tuesday’s night matches finally produced a three setter and with that, the best match of the tournament; Jelena Jankovic won just her third match of the year so far, coming from a set and a break down to defeat…
This post previews two of the first round matches from the Dubai Duty Free Championships main draw set to be played on Tuesday including Ana Ivanovic v Daria Gavrilova and Belinda Bencic v Jelena Jankovic. In case you missed it, you can read a preview of the full main draw for the 2016 Dubai Duty Free…
All eight second round matches are on Tuesday’s order of play at the Apia International in Sydney. This includes the first outing in 2016 for Simona Halep who plays at not before 6pm local time against Caroline Garcia (see preview HERE). This post covers Jelena Jankovic v Sara Errani (1st up on Show Court 1)…
This post previews six of the first round matches from the 2016 Brisbane International main draw including Sunday’s matches featuring Timea Bacsinszky v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Alizé Cornet v Kristina Mladenovic. In case you missed it, you can read a (newly revamped!) preview of the full main draw on mootennis.com HERE. 1. Maria Sharapova (3) v Ekaterina Makarova A…
Simona Halep and Caroline Wozniacki both feature twice in part two of the countdown of my favourite WTA matches of 2015. In case you missed it, you can read part one HERE which featured some sentimental choices with my favourite live matches of 2015. Read on for part two which features matches 15 to 11.…
The Huajin Securities WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai got underway on Tuesday with Venus Williams, Jelena Jankovic and Elina Svitolina all scoring wins. Despite being a bit on the fence with this tournament, the early signs are favourable; it’s a great stadium and it was pretty well attended (well, better than I expected!). The fans…
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