The Wuhan semi-finals featured some fantastic quality tennis but both ended on a sour note with a pair of frosty handshakes. For the second straight day, Venus Williams pulled out another victory in a third set tiebreak, saving a match point on this occasion to defeat the US Open finalist, Roberta Vinci, 5-7 6-2 7-6(4)…
The big news on Thursday was the confirmation that Serena Williams has ended her year and will not compete in the WTA Finals in Singapore, which are set to get underway in just over three weeks. While it is a real blow to the tournament, I don’t think it comes as a major surprise as there…
For the first time since Wimbledon, Garbiñe Muguruza secured back-to-back wins on the tour to secure her place in the quarter-finals of the 2015 Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open. Muguruza achieved this feat in real style as she secured both of her wins in Wuhan with bagel sets. In the second round she defeated Sloane Stephens, 6-2…
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…
*NEW MATCH-UP ALERT KLAXON* While I didn’t include Garbiñe Muguruza v Sloane Stephens in my post earlier this year of WTA match-ups that I was desperate to see, this was one that I considered and am compelled to watch! Last week we got Muguruza v Bencic and now Muguruza v Stephens… Muguruza had a bye into…
Sitting pretty on a 14 match winning streak, Johanna Konta hasn’t lost a match since Wimbledon. After an excellent grass court season where her last three losses came against Maria Sharapova (Wimbledon), Belinda Bencic (Eastbourne) and Karolina Pliskova (Birmingham), Konta has gone on a superb run of form that has seen her crack the world’s…
Serena Williams won her 21st Grand Slam title and claimed the Serena Slam for the second time in her career, beating Garbine Muguruza, 6-4 6-4 in the 2015 Wimbledon final. It was a topsy-turvy final which had some wonderful moments. It had started in nervous fashion for Serena who threw in three double faults in…
Out of the four possible line-ups for the 2015 Wimbledon women’s final, there was only one that intrigued me… we gotttttt it! On Saturday, the world number one, Serena Williams will take on the world number 20 and first time Grand Slam finalist, Garbine Muguruza. By virtue of her performances this week, Muguruza will crack…
While the first of the 2015 Wimbledon semi-finals was expected, the second one, which will feature Agnieszka Radwanska and Garbine Muguruza is more unexpected. Radwanska has had a poor year by her standards; before the grass court season started, her best results were a quarter-final appearance in Doha and a semi-final showing in Katowice. The…
Perhaps it’s just me but this is my FAVOURITE of the women’s quarter-finals. Garbine Muguruza and Timea Bacsinszky have reached back-to-back quarter-finals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon which is an awesome effort from both. Even more noteworthy is that Muguruza and Bacsinszky had never previously made it past the second round at Wimbledon. Both Garbine…
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