The first match of Tuesday’s evening session at the 2015 Generali Ladies Linz saw Barbora Strycova resist a tenacious effort from the 19-year-old Austrian wildcard, Barbara Haas, 6-0 6-7(5) 6-4. This was the first match i’ve watched from Linz this year and like a lot of people on Twitter, I find the new court surface…
TAKE A BOW, LADIES. The third round match between Victoria Azarenka and Angelique Kerber was one of the most anticipated women’s matches of the tournament… and boy did it deliver! Azarenka defeated Kerber, 7-5 2-6 6-4 in two hours and 52 minutes of quite breathtaking tennis. This may be the heat of the moment but…
Eugenie Bouchard secured arguably the best win of her year, beating Dominika Cibulkova, 7-6(9) 4-6 6-3 in two hours and 48 minutes. This was the first time that Bouchard has scored three wins at a tournament since the Australian Open. It was also another three set win, just her third of the season. There were…
In perhaps the most anticipated women’s match of the day, Venus Williams produced her best performance of the summer by a country mile to defeat Belinda Bencic in straight sets, 6-3 6-4. It was Venus’s fourth consecutive straight sets victory over Belinda. Venus’s form over the summer had been shaky and even through her first…
The first fourth round match of the 2015 US Open is all set as we now know that Ekaterina Makarova will play Kristina Mladenovic on Sunday with a spot in the quarter-finals up for grabs. Makarova defeated Elina Svitolina, 6-3 7-5 in a decent match of quality hitting. The match had a very strange ending;…
In a highly compelling first round match, Andrea Petkovic came from a set down and then a break down in the decider to edge Caroline Garcia, 3-6 6-4 7-5. It was one of those matches where you wish it didn’t have to happen in the first round. I was in and out for the first…
There have been crazy scorelines aplenty on day 2 of the 2015 US Open. In one match, Olga Govortsova defeated Irina-Camelia Begu in a classic WTA scoreline, 6-1 0-6 7-6(3). Another wacky one, which I got to watch some of, saw Mona Barthel beat Tsvetana Pironkova, recovering from 5-7 2-5 down to somehowwww win, 5-7…
It was always going to be a tough opener for the number seven seed, Ana Ivanovic. While her section had opened up with the loss of Maria Sharapova through injury, her first round match against Dominika Cibulkova always looked like a dicey opener. After a very bright start, akin to her gorgeous red dress, and…
Dominika Cibulkova scored a fifth consecutive win over Kristina Mladenovic to progress into the quarter-finals of the Connecticut Open in New Haven. This was their toughest match to date with Cibulkova winning through an entertaining tussle, 2-6 7-6(1) 7-5. Both players had played tough three setters in the first round, but especially Cibulkova who had…
The first match of the day in New Haven was complete in just over an hour as Roberta Vinci won the last 12 games of the match to beat a lost-looking, Eugenie Bouchard, 6-1 6-0. Bouchard has endured some really bruising losses this year but this one was unfortunately at the top of the tree.…
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