Sunday’s finals saw a trio of firsts with Caroline Garcia and Camila Giorgi both winning their first titles of 2018 and Dayana Yastremska winning her first WTA title period. The season is drawing to a close and we have just one (!) week left of regulation tournaments. Read on for five stories in Sunday’s Set…
It was a nice feeling to catch up on tennis on Saturday after another busy week. Work is totally manic at the moment so I didn’t get to see any tennis in the week, let alone blog. I’m hoping to try and follow Singapore but don’t know how easy that will be! Saturday was semi-finals…
Maria Sharapova won her first WTA title since 2015, beating the 19-year-old, Aryna Sabalenka in Sunday’s Tianjin final of bold and fearless ballstriking, 7-5 7-6(8). If you like big hitting then this was the final for you! It was a thoroughly entertaining watch with the drama peaking in the second set tiebreak – even the…
Thursday was a disappointing day for the crowd in Hong Kong as half of the scheduled singles matches didn’t take to the court – the number one and three seeds, Elina Svitolina and Caroline Wozniacki respectively were both forced to pull out of the tournament ahead of their second round matches. Nicole Gibbs received a…
The first four second round matches took place on Wednesday in Hong Kong. The first result of the day saw the number seven seed, Daria Gavrilova turn the tables on Shelby Rogers from their recent encounter that broke records at the US Open. Gavrilova won, 6-1 2-6 6-2 in one hour and 44 minutes, taking…
The stars came out to play in Hong Kong in a terrific order of play for an International event. Agnieszka Radwanska and Venus Williams headlined the day session on Centre Court and came away with straight set wins. Radwanska didn’t face a break point in a 6-1 6-2 victory over Zhang Ling, while in a…
This is the penultimate week of regulation WTA tournaments in 2017 with three Internationals in Hong Kong, Linz and Tianjin. It’s a shame to see that the latter two are not being streamed on WTA TV. I’m a tad surprised about Tianjin since Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova are both competing. It seems that Linz…
Dominika Cibulkova won her third WTA title of 2016 in Linz and with that, is the seventh player to officially qualify for the WTA Finals in Singapore. Cibulkova had to work exceptionally hard to fend off a spirited challenge from Victorija Golubic in the final, saving four set points in the second set to seal…
Dominika Cibulkova is a semi-final win away from overtaking Johanna Konta into the lucrative eighth place in the Race to Singapore. In her quarter-final match on Friday against the defending champion, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Cibulkova wobbled serving out both sets but her level was generally high, prevailing 7-6(3) 6-4. Cibulkova was 5-1 up in the first…
It was a good day for the seeds in Linz as they went four out of four, all reaching the quarter-finals with straight set wins. The words Garbiñe Muguruza and unconvincing have been paired up quite a few times in the last month but not today… Muguruza produced an excellent display of attacking tennis to overwhelm Monica…
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