The bottom half of the women’s draw will take centre stage on Monday with the final four fourth round matches to be played. This post covers the two matches from the third quarter of the draw including Victoria Azarenka against Barbora Strycova and Angelique Kerber playing Annika Beck. 1. Victoria Azarenka v Barbora Strycova (AO, R4) The biggest…
An all-top 20 match-up opens up proceedings at the Apia International in Sydney on Monday with the world number 10, Angelique Kerber going up against the world number 19, Elina Svitolina. Kerber arrives in Sydney having reached the final of the Brisbane International with wins over Camila Giorgi, Madison Brengle, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Carla Suárez…
Victoria Azarenka has laid down the gauntlet in 2016, winning the Brisbane International, her first title since 2013 in Cincinnati. Azarenka defeated Angelique Kerber, 6-3 6-1 in 73 minutes; in fact the Belarusian dropped just 17 games throughout the whole tournament in what was a dominant sweep through the draw. After their last match at the…
The first week of the 2016 tennis season has been especially chaotic with a flood of withdrawals and the top three seeds in Brisbane, Simona Halep, Garbiñe Muguruza and Maria Sharapova, all pulling out with injury. However, the week will end with what promises to be a FASCINATING finale to the 2016 Brisbane International between Victoria Azarenka…
Tied at 2-2 in their head-to-head, Angelique Kerber and Carla Suárez Navarro will not only be fighting for a lead in the match-up, but a place in a first Brisbane International final. The Spaniard, Suárez Navarro, toughed out a topsy-turvy encounter with Varvara Lepchenko in the quarter-finals, 4-6 6-4 7-5, coming through in two hours…
It’s been a rather wacky start to the 2016 tennis season. Tuesday was a miserable day for the WTA with Simona Halep and Maria Sharapova both pulling out of Brisbane, and Serena Williams and Petra Kvitova retiring from their matches at the Hopman Cup and Shenzhen respectively. However, Wednesday presented some classic WTA drama… Broady…
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…
And here we goooo… it’s time for the fourth and final post in the countdown of my favourite WTA matches in 2015. In case you missed it, you can read part one HERE, part two HERE and part three HERE. As always, i’d love to hear what your favourite matches were, especially if they were ones…
Here’s part three of the countdown of my favourite WTA matches in 2015. There’s probably a few surprises in this part including a match from the very first week of the 2015 season which nearly slipped through the net! In case you missed it, part one can be found HERE and part two can be found…
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.…
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