Just four players remain in Dubai; the bottom half has been ravaged with upsets, but there’s a tasty looking semi-final between two of the hottest players of 2015 so far. The top half has stuck with the seeding and should produce an equally enticing semi-final. I’ve had an awesome week in Racket Rally and my…
Lucie Safarova and Karolina Pliskova will play each other for the second consecutive week in the first of the Dubai quarter-finals at 2pm local time. Lucie had her best win since Wimbledon as she defeated the world number 11, Venus Williams, 6-4 6-2. Once again, I was following on the live scoreboard… this time, with…
The second round matches lived up to expectation in Dubai with quite a few interesting results. Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Agnieszka Radwanska all dropped a set, but won through to the third round. Three seeds weren’t quite as fortunate as Jelena Jankovic, Andrea Petkovic and Peng Shuai all lost. If you after some new…
1. Karolina Pliskova v Carla Suarez Navarro In the all-Czech quarter-final, Karolina Pliskova edged out Lucie Safarova in two sets, 7-6(5) 6-3 in one hour and 27 minutes. I was disappointed for Lucie as it sounded like she was the better player in the first set. Lucie won three more points in the opener, but…
It’s quarter-finals day in Antwerp, but the next set of tournaments is already on the horizon. The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships will be the main focus of next week and the qualifying tournament begins tomorrow with the likes of Julia Goerges, Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, Ana Konjuh, Tereza Smitkova, Jarmila Gajdosova and Elena Vesnina all in…
There have been no upsets overnight in Melbourne for the women; one seed did fall in Casey Dellacqua, but she always faced an uphill struggle against Madison Keys. Dellacqua started great, but Keys found her game to fly through the final two sets. Petra Kvitova had another solid win against Mona Barthel, who put up…
The Australian Open draws are released TONIGHT! Normally I stay up for them, but I really can’t be bothered this year. I remember last year that the pre-draw activities went on for about an hour so the draw didn’t take place until Midnight… I will look forward to scanning both draws on Friday morning and…
In the mens draw, Juan Martin del Potro won his second match on his return from injury with an impressive 4-6 6-2 6-2 victory over the number one seed, Fabio Fognini. Next up for the big man is Mikhail Kukushkin in the quarter-finals on Thursday. It was great to see the end of the DelPo…
The first batch of second round matches took place in Brisbane on Tuesday with Maria Sharapova and Angelique Kerber both winning through in straight sets. Sharapova needed just 62 minutes to get past the qualifier, Yaroslava Shvedova, 6-0 6-1. Ajla Tomljanovic and Madison Keys were both unable to back up their upset wins in the first…
The draws in both Osaka and Tianjin have seen few upsets so far, therefore meaning my finalists in both tournaments are still alive! However, Linz has been as unpredictable as they come with just two seeds remaining after completion of the first round and some second round matches. On Wednesday, Dominika Cibulkova and Sabine Lisicki…
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