The quarter-finals in the top half of the Miami mens draw will see Rafael Nadal take on Milos Raonic and Tomas Berdych play Alexandr Dolgopolov. Stanislas Wawrinka was defeated by Dolgopolov in three sets as the Ukranian player continued his rather dazzling recent run of form. In the last two months, he has made the…
In the first of the womens quarter-finals, it was Maria Sharapova who edged out a tight first set with Petra Kvitova before rolling through the second to post a 7-5 6-1 victory. I thought this match could have been a hot mess, but it was reasonable through the first ten games before Sharapova kicked it…
I love the grass court season so there will be plenty of updates over the next few months whether you like it or not! Sabine Lisicki was the first name to be officially confirmed for the 2014 AEGON Classic in Birmingham. It has also been suggested on the Women’s Tennis Forums that Jelena Jankovic and…
On Saturday I posted about the speculation regarding Juan Martin del Potro’s wrist and unfortunately the big man himself confirmed the inevitable on Sunday night. Del Potro was due to have surgery on his left wrist on Monday and is unlikely to return to the court in 2014. Ideally it would be great to see…
Like Indian Wells, Miami offers up all eight of the fourth round matches on the same day. To be honest, I am unenthralled by the line-up and perhaps that is just me feeling a downer on Miami. However if the matches go the way I think they could (they won’t) then the quarter-final line-up could…
The one match I really wanted to watch on Saturday in Miami was the third round match between Maria Sharapova and Lucie Safarova. Thanks to Serena’s long match, a rain delay and Donald Young v John Isner taking forever (thanks guys), it didn’t start till gone past 11pm UK time. By all accounts it was…
Serena Williams endured another tough match on Saturday as she spent over two and half hours on court with Caroline Garcia. The Frenchwoman put in a spirited performance and hung around terrifically well in the third set before Serena closed out the match in style, 6-4 4-6 6-4. In other news, Sabine Lisicki’s rough luck…
Reports from the Argentine media came out on Friday suggesting that Juan Martin del Potro is considering having surgery on his left wrist (see article here). It would be a crushing blow for the big man because it would rule him out for the rest of the year. As a DelPo fan, I feel genuinely…
Jelena Jankovic was the most high profile loss on Friday as she wasted a 5-1 third set lead to go down in what sounded like a strange match to Varvara Lepchenko, 6-3 2-6 7-6(2). The coverage of the womens draw has been slack, but I did manage to watch the first set of Serena William’s…
After an excellent week of coverage from Indian Wells, Miami is already starting to take quite a bit of flack with its lack of streams for the WTA tour. On Thursday, there were just two streamed WTA matches, which seems rather pathetic for a Premier Mandatory event. In general, Miami really seems to have regressed,…
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