A place in Zhuhai and the world’s top 20 will be up for grabs in Saturday’s mega Moscow final between Daria Kasatkina and Julia Goerges. Despite all the upsets, I think it’s a super final at the last Premier stop of the year. Kasatkina scored her fourth win over Irina-Camelia Begu in 2017, winning 6-2…
Daria Kasatkina was the first player into the semi-finals of Moscow with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Aliaksandra Sasnovich. There were 12 breaks in 19 service games as both players struggled on serve, yet were potent on return. Kasatkina has now won 12 of her last 16 matches and by virtue of this result, will…
Upsets are common at the end of a long, tiring season and Moscow has certainly delivered on that front with the top four seeds exiting the tournament on Wednesday. The number one seed, Kristina Mladenovic managed to win her first set since August but couldn’t stop the rot, losing her tenth consecutive match to Aliaksandra…
A battle between two recent WTA finalists, Maria Sharapova and Magdalena Rybarikova, was one of the highlights in Moscow on Tuesday. Moscow has never been one for big crowds – it was great to see the stands packed! It didn’t pan out as the crowd would have liked as Rybarikova maintained her excellent form from…
Monday saw the start of main draw action at the final WTA regulation tournaments of 2017 in Moscow and Luxembourg. The first match of the day in Russia saw Katerina Siniakova score a rare win, beating Donna Vekic, 6-0 6-2 in 49 minutes. This was Siniakova’s first win since Wuhan and in the second round,…
Svetlana Kuznetsova defended her title in Moscow, winning 12 of the last 13 games to beat first time finalist, Daria Gavrilova, 6-2 6-1. By virtue of the win, Kuznetsova has sealed the eighth and final place in the Singapore line-up. Huge credit must go to Sveta who has had a brilliant end to the year…
The draw for the WTA Finals in Singapore was conducted on Friday and the groups are set in place. The first of many previews this week on Moo’s Tennis Blog will be up tonight! #WTAFinals Groups Red- @AngeliqueKerber, @Cibulkova, @Simona_Halep, @Madison_KeysWhite- @GarbiMuguruza, @KaPliskova, @ARadwanska, Seed 8 pic.twitter.com/BINSO4QqxR — WTA (@WTA) October 21, 2016 First thoughts…
Svetlana Kuznetsova kept her hopes of qualifying for the WTA Finals in Singapore alive with a hard fought, 7-5 6-7(2) 6-2 win over Timea Babos in two hours and 32 minutes. Kuznetsova took a little meander as she was broken to love when serving for the match at 7-5 *5-4, but recovered in the decider…
The eighth and final spot for the WTA Finals in Singapore will go to either Svetlana Kuznetsova or Johanna Konta. Carla Suárez Navarro was eliminated from the race after she was forced to withdraw down 4-6 0-3 to Daria Gavrilova in her second round match in Moscow. Kuznetsova needs to reach the final and she…
Starting with Moscow… the most dramatic match of the day saw the 18-year-old, Anna Blinkova save five match points and come from 2-5 down in the third set to defeat, Anastasija Sevastova, 4-6 6-1 7-6(10). Not only was it the best win of Blinkova’s career so far but it was also her first ever WTA main draw win.…
