Main draw action finally got underway on Tuesday at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Margarita Gasparyan both progressing into the second round with victories in the evening session. These were the first matches that I watched from St. Petersburg; I really like the main stadium and the court seems fast, which…
The first seed to fall in Nottingham was Karin Knapp who was *technically* upset by Yanina Wickmayer. It doesn’t feel like an upset though as Wickmayer is a much better player than her current ranking of 92 suggests. It was the second time the pair had played this year and both matches had the same…
Caroline Wozniacki What a day today in Rome with some real surprises… Caroline Wozniacki lost her fourth consecutive match as she blew 4-0 in the third set and a 5-2 lead in the tiebreak as she went down to an incredibly tenacious effort from Bojana Jovanovski. The young Serb was battling through injuries and cramp,…
Vera Zvonareva, Andrea Petkovic, Agnieszka Radwanska and Peng Shuai headline the WTA tournament in San Diego, which starts on Monday. The draw reminds me a little of the grass-court tournament in Birmingham but it is slightly stronger with more strength in depth across the line-up of seeds. The top eight seeds all have byes in…
After watching the two women’s matches on the Centre Court, I headed out to watch some of the women’s matches on the outside courts. I stood and watched the opening exchanges of Vera Zvonareva and Heather Watson. It was clear to see that there was a large gap in quality between the two, however Watson…
