Daria Kasatkina won just her fifth career match on grass, battling back from a set down to beat Alison Van Uytvanck in her second round match in Eastbourne, 5-7 6-4 6-1. My last live experience of watching Dasha in Melbs was rather disastrous so i’m really glad I got to see her finish with a…
Naomi Osaka won the 2018 BNP Paribas Open with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Daria Kasatkina in Sunday’s final. This was Naomi’s first WTA title and a hugeee one at that. It is somewhat reminiscent of Jelena Ostapenko who won her first title last year at Roland Garros. The final was a bit of a…
The first of the quarter-finals at the 2017 Aegon International in Eastbourne saw Caroline Wozniacki outlast Simona Halep in a topsy-turvy encounter, 5-7 6-4 6-1 in one hour and 53 minutes. Match Recap After an early exchange of breaks, Wozniacki took control of the first set and looked the much sharper of the pair as…
Angelique Kerber defeated Karolina Pliskova in a superb US Open final, bookending her year with a second Slam title in a 6-3 4-6 6-4 victory in two hours and seven minutes. It’s been a sensational two weeks for Kerber who will ascend to the lofty heights of world number one when the rankings are released on…
Absolutely glorious… the final match of the day in Doha saw Agnieszka Radwanska come from a set down to beat Roberta Vinci, 3-6 6-2 6-3. It was a wonderful, wonderful match with some SENSATIONAL shotmaking and over 100 (!) net approaches between the pair. Here’s a collection of Twitter highlights from one of, if not, the best match of the…
The Dubai Duty Free Championships had begun with a string of one-sided results and bakery products. The first of Tuesday’s night matches finally produced a three setter and with that, the best match of the tournament; Jelena Jankovic won just her third match of the year so far, coming from a set and a break down to defeat…
In a pre-tournament interview, Julia Goerges remarked that she had “a good feeling” heading into the 2016 Dubai Duty Free Championships… the German player was pretty darn accurate as she produced a wonderful display in the first round to defeat the number eight seed, Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-0 6-1 in 55 minutes. There have been a…
I am going to keep this brief, for now at least, because I really am struggling to process what just happened. Australian Open 2016 Final… Angelique Kerber d. Serena Williams, 6-4 3-6 6-4 Angelique Kerber is a Grand Slam champion… Has it sunk in for you yet?! Angelique Kerber needed to play the match of…
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 cull of seeds continued in Linz on Thursday with Denisa Allertova defeating Barbora Strycova, 7-6(0) 5-7 6-4, in the final match of the day. This was a really fun one and the third set in particular was gripping stuff. The first set was messy with many breaks and neither serving well. Strycova was four…
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