The first day of the 2016 Australian Open will cover the top half of the women’s draw with the likes of Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Belinda Bencic all in action. A first round preview of Serena’s first round match against Camila Giorgi can be found HERE. This post…
This post previews six of the first round matches from the 2016 Brisbane International main draw including Sunday’s matches featuring Timea Bacsinszky v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Alizé Cornet v Kristina Mladenovic. In case you missed it, you can read a (newly revamped!) preview of the full main draw on mootennis.com HERE. 1. Maria Sharapova (3) v Ekaterina Makarova A…
Time to ring the bell again for a new WTA match-up… the first match on the Centre Court on Wednesday will be one of just three all-seeded clashes featuring Ana Ivanovic and Garbiñe Muguruza in yet another first career meeting. Both players have struggled to find their best form over the past few months but enjoyed surprisingly routine second…
In an unlikely US Open quarter-final, Roberta Vinci and Kristina Mladenovic will both be battling to reach a first ever Grand Slam semi-final when the pair meet in Tuesday’s day session on Ashe. The second quarter of the women’s draw was always going to throw up a surprise with Maria Sharapova pulling out of the…
1. Ekaterina Makarova v Kristina Mladenovic (US Open, R4) In the wide open second quarter of the draw, The number 13 seed, Ekaterina Makarova is the highest seed remaining. Heading into the US Open with a heavy cloud of injury uncertainty, Makarova has acquitted herself well to reach the fourth round of the US Open.…
After Maria Sharapova pulled out of the tournament, it left a pretty gaping hole in the top half of the draw. First round action on day one has chucked the second quarter (and parts of the first too) into a blender as seed after seed departed. The first to go was Ana Ivanovic, who was…
1. Ana Ivanovic v Dominika Cibulkova (USO, R1) As first round matches go, Ana Ivanovic drew a bit of a stinker. The number seven seed will play Dominika Cibulkova in what should be a cracking match-up for the neutrals… but perhaps not for Ana and Domi fans! Ivanovic reached back-to-back quarter-finals in Toronto and Cincy although…
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…
In a match that felt like it would never end, Simona Halep defeated Kristina Mladenovic in Cincy, 7-5 5-7 6-4, having failed to convert on match points in the second set. Halep came into Cincy off the back of a gruelling run in Toronto where she was forced to withdraw in the third set of…
1. Jelena Jankovic v Caroline Garcia (Toronto, R1) The 2015 season has gone a little sour for Caroline Garcia. The 21-year-old made a promising start to the year; she took out a seed at the Australian Open, reached two finals in Acapulco and Monterrey, and beat Ana Ivanovic three times. Since pushing Maria Sharapova all…
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