This week has felt pretty dead on the tennis tour and I am yet to sit down and watch any live tennis since Wimbledon. I believe there is a stream for Stanford online, but I find it hard to enjoy watching tennis when you can barely see the ball. The big news today was Roger…
It was a mixed day of predictions today as my best two predictions (Pennetta and Verdasco) both came via retirements. Hamburg hasn’t been a great tournament for my predictions, but Bastad has been good and could be one of my best of 2013 so far if Flavia Pennetta can make the final and Mathilde Johansson…
Rain decimated the Barcelona schedule so we have just one quarter-final match to preview for Friday. The remainder of the third round matches will kick off the schedule with the yet-to-be-decided quarter-finalists having to play two matches in one day. 1. Nicolas Almagro v Juan Monaco Juan Monaco Straight set wins for Nicolas Almagro and…
This weeks tournaments wrapped up yesterday with Dominika Cibulkova winning in Carlsbad and Polona Hercog retaining her title in Bastad. Cibulkova beat Marion Bartoli, 6-1 7-5 to claim her second career title and move up to number 13 in the world rankings. Hercog beat Mathilde Johansson, 0-6 6-4 7-5 in one of those crazy chokefest…
Andy Murray made a fine start to his clay court season with a 6-0 6-3 thumping of Viktor Troicki. Murray recorded his fifth straight victory over Troicki, who has had an uninspiring year so far. Murray will play the winner of Julien Benneteau and Jurgen Melzer in the third round. Juan Monaco, who was coming…
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