After Sunday’s jamboree of tennis fun, we were down from 26 matches to just eight on Monday! On the third day of main draw action, five of the seven seeds went tumbling out of the tournament as sections of this draw began to open up in style with at least four unseeded players confirmed to…
WTA action on Tuesday at the Mutua Madrid Open will feature the remaining eight second round singles matches. This post covers two previews from the top quarter of the draw including Dominika Cibulkova v Caroline Garcia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Camila Giorgi. In a quarter that has lost all of its seeds, the four players in question all have a…
Sunday at the Mutua Madrid Open has to be one the most hectic days of WTA action all year. There were 26 first round matches across seven courts and impressively, six of them had streams! On the whole, the seeds didn’t do too badly with four of them going out… however, that did include the…
Yay for the Bank Holiday… Three days off work is glorious and a weekend start presents the opportunity to watch a bit more tennis! Saturday was a manic day with two tournament weeks overlapping; the International tournaments in Prague and Rabat both had their singles finals, while the third Premier Mandatory tournament of the year in Madrid, got underway…
All the remaining first round matches at the Mutua Open in Madrid will be played on Sunday in what will be one of the best days of WTA action all year. In a match-up that features two of my favourite personalities on the WTA tour, the number 10 seed, Timea Bacsinszky will play Andrea Petkovic, fifth up on Pista 6 at…
The clay court season is taking shape with the third Premier Mandatory tournament of the 2016 WTA season upon us, the Mutua Madrid Open. Note that main draw action kicks off on SATURDAY! Madrid always produces a brutal draw because none of the seeds have byes in the first round… as always, this has produced some tasty…
Well hello smiling Petra… Petra Kvitova produced an irresistable performance to defeat an under-the-weather, Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-1 6-2 in just 66 minutes. Kuznetsova had a medical time-out at the end of the first set and also ran off the court before the final game due to a stomach complaint. It was a real shame that…
A marvellous week in Madrid will conclude for the women with an unlikely, yet rather fabulous final line-up featuring Petra Kvitova and Svetlana Kuznetsova. Before this tournament, I don’t think many, if any, had Petra or Svetlana on the radar. Kvitova had been out for over a month, taking time away from the tour citing…
1. Maria Sharapova v Svetlana Kuznetsova (Madrid, SF) The first of the WTA semi-finals will be an all-Russian affair featuring Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova. As to be expected, Kuznetsova’s victory over Lucie Safarova was a pretty painful watch for moi. Huge credit must go to Kuznetsova for the way she has battled through this…
Thursday’s blockbuster match-up will see Maria Sharapova and Caroline Wozniacki reignite their rivalry with a first encounter in 2015. Tennis has killed it today and I feel so behind in catching up with everything that has happened! It’s been arguably, the best day of the year so far. In the first match of the day,…
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