This week there are three International WTA events in Acapulco, Florianopolis and Kuala Lumpur. WTA Florianopolis Venus Williams headlines the line-up for a new WTA event in Florianopolis, Brazil on hard courts. The rest of the draw is pretty sub-standard so Venus will fancy her chances of taking her second title since making her comeback to…
This week’s tournament in Kuala Lumpur was ravaged by the wet weather and a host of withdrawals. The number one seed, Agnieszka Radwanska and the number six seed, Ayumi Morita were both forced to pull out of their quarter-finals and then Petra Martic pulled out during the final handing Su-Wei Hsieh her first ever WTA…
Juan Martin Del Potro Juan Martin Del Potro‘s 2012 has really started to shine in recent weeks and things continued to come together for the Argentine on Thursday as he defeated a disappointing Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 7-6 6-2 to progress to the semi-finals of Dubai. Tsonga has failed to bring his best tennis in 2012…
I was delighted to wake up to the news that Alisa Kleybanova will return to the WTA tour next month in Miami where she has been awarded a wildcard. Kleybanova, who was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma last year and has been out since May, announced via a message on the WTA website that recent tests…
Jelena Jankovic Jelena Jankovic saved three match points as she survived a nail-biter to progress to the second round of the Malaysian Open in Kuala Lumpur. Jankovic beat Caroline Garcia, 7-6 4-6 7-6, who struggled to close out the Serb and must work on her mental game if she is to transform her game to…
Agnieszka Radwanska and Jelena Jankovic headline next week’s BMW Malaysian Open with both receiving late wildcards into the event. The quality of the draw is not particularly strong and it seems a shrewd move from both Radwanska and Jankovic to scoop easy ranking points. Radwanska opens up her campaign against Akgul Amanmuradova and based on…
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