Sunday’s final in Montreal will be a rematch of this year’s French Open final as the number one seed, Simona Halep will play the number three seed, Sloane Stephens. The final will be played at 1:30pm local time in Canada (6:30pm in the UK). This post recaps Saturday’s semi-final wins for Halep and Stephens and…
The semi-finals are set in Montreal with a very intriguing line-up. I was playing tennis on Thursday night and generally hitting the wall for the week so thankful for the weekend to recharge before what is set to be a busy week in Cincy. Read on for 10 stories with accounts of Friday’s quarter-finals, highlights from…
Wednesday’s schedule in Montreal was rather dazzling on the eye. Sadly there was a noteworthy sad story involving Mihaela Buzarnescu that rather tainted the day. There were a handful of matches that were exciting on paper but sadly didn’t deliver and then the rain came! Read on for my recap of the day with eight…
Tuesday was a busy day in Montreal with 16 first round matches and 3 second round matches on the schedule. The weather behaved and everything is on course for what should be another exciting day of WTA action on Wednesday. The standard of matches that I watched on Tuesday improved as the day wore on!…
Monday was the first day of the 2018 Rogers Cup in Montreal with the likes of Venus Williams and Karolina Pliskova in action. The day session was hot and toasty, while the night session was cut short due to rain. Monday’s Set Points post rounds up some of the highlights of the day, as well…
Singles Champion Simona Halep defeated Madison Keys in Sunday’s Montreal final, 7-6(2) 6-3. The match, in terms of the quality of tennis, was not one for the scrapbook! Halep twice failed to serve out the first set but held on in the first set tiebreak, which was decided entirely by errors. The quality was marginally better in the…
The 2016 Rogers Cup final will be contested between the number five seed, Simona Halep and the number ten seed, Madison Keys at 1pm local time in Montreal. In a wild semi-final, Halep won the first and last six games of the match, overcoming a shaky patch in the second set to defeat Angelique Kerber,…
I love a good fairytale run and there have been so many on the WTA tour this year in 2016. The one that stands out for me so far… Samantha Crawford reaching the semi-finals of Brisbane Monica Puig reaching the final of Sydney Zhang Shuai and Jo Konta reaching the latter stages of the Australian…
The seedings have held in the bottom half of the Rogers Cup draw to produce a Wimbledon rematch between Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep in the first of the semi-finals in Montreal. Halep won 14 of the last 17 games in her quarter-final match, fighting back to defeat Svetlana Kuznetsova in a lopsided three setter,…
All in for Kerber v Kasatkina! I don’t have time to write a full preview but I just had to the acknowledge the existence of this match in our lives. It didn’t look likely for a time as Kerber lost the first set of her third round match to Elina Svitolina, 6-1. Svitolina twice failed to…
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