The lone WTA week on green clay came to a conclusion on Sunday with Sloane Stephens crowned the champion in Charleston. April is a pretty awesome month of tennis with Charleston, Monte-Carlo and Stuttgart all back-to-back. I’ll be taking a much-needed break from blogging next week and be back for Stuttgart (YAY). Read on for…
Singles action from Miami concluded on Saturday with Victoria Azarenka claiming the Sunshine Double. The second Premier Mandatory tournament of the year was a fun one with many of the top ten players finding some form again after an unsettled start to the year. Attention will soon switch to the Volvo Car Open in Charleston. This is one my…
The 2016 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells came to a conclusion on Sunday with Victoria Azarenka being crowned the champion. The WTA tour continues to be unpredictable from week-to-week but there were signs in the desert that some of the top ten players are finally getting their 2016 seasons in order. I enjoyed this tournament (time…
The Dubai-Doha swing has been eventful to say the least… while we actually saw seeds progress to the latter rounds of Doha and one of them actually go on to win it, there were plenty of upsets again. Indian Wells should be an interesting one to see if some of the slumping members of the top ten can…
It was a wild week on the WTA tour at the Dubai Duty Free Championships which was littered with upsets as all eight seeds departed before the quarter-finals and without winning a match. Upsets always add an injection of excitement, but the loss of seeds this week was rather unnerving. The final promised drama but…
Missed out on the tennis this last week? Match Points is here to bring you up to speed with all the happenings from St. Petersburg and Kaohsiung, other WTA news and the occasional snippet of ATP tennis that caught my eye. I’ll also be using this weekly feature to keep you updated with Racket Rally and Tennis Draw…
The first Grand Slam for the women is in the books after Angelique Kerber won her first Grand Slam title, beating Serena Williams in Saturday’s final. This is my tournament round-up, Match Points, picking out the most memorable moments of the Australian Open through tweets, pictures, GIFs, videos and plenty more… The Final Kerber d. S.Williams, 6-4 3-6…
The second week of the 2016 tennis season is over with the Australian Open now on the horizon. It was another withdrawal-heavy week in Sydney with three players pulling out pre-tournament and two more during the actual tournament. It paved the way for an unexpected final between Svetlana Kuznetsova and Monica Puig with the former producing a special…
The first week of the 2016 tennis season has been wacky to say the least. While four of the world’s top five WTA players have forced to withdraw/retire from tournaments this week, there have plenty of interesting moments and several players have snapped their opportunities and brightened their prospects for the Australian Open. Here’s a…
Introducing Match Points… a brand new feature post for Moo’s Tennis Blog in 2016. Match Points aims to bring together the most interesting points of the tennis day including best matches, scorelines, tweets, facebook posts, videos and plenty more. It’s still a work in progress so any feedback is appreciated. It won’t be a daily feature just yet but when I…
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