The WTA’s new darling, Eugenie Bouchard is beginning to divide opinion amongst tennis fans. Since reaching the Australian Open semi-finals, the WTA have absolutely bombarded Genie in every available advertising stream. She’s been to Singapore to promote the YEC with Chris Evert and has barely been off the WTA website in the last few months. …
There are some excellent second round matches in Oeiras tomorrow on the ladies side. As is characteristic of this event in Portugal, most of them have been relegated to the outside courts for the men. Who actually wants to watch Albert Montanes v Marcel Granollers? I’ve seen a few snippets of the action this week,…
After two busy weeks, this one feels like a bit of a breather before Madrid and Rome back-to-back. There is a joint event in Oeiras, Portugal (formerly Estoril) which has attracted a strong WTA line-up and a bare looking ATP draw that has just about been saved with Tomas Berdych taking a late wildcard. There…
The Oeiras final will see Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova take on Carla Suarez Navarro, which was for once, correctly predicted by Moo! Pavlyuchenkova had a terrible start to her semi-final against Romina Oprandi, who had been on a rampage through the draw having lost just 14 games in her first three matches. Oprandi raced out into a 6-0 lead,…
1. Romina Oprandi v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova The real surprise package of this week has been Romina Oprandi, who tore past a lacklustre, Svetlana Kuznetsova to post a 6-2 6-2 quarter-final victory. She takes on another Russian tomorrow, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who edged past Elena Vesnina in a third set tiebreak, 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(3). Vesnina…
A pretty good day of predictions today in Oeiras and Munich; hoping I can keep it up with all three predicted finals still intact for this week… Svetlana Kuznetsova Romina Oprandi v Svetlana Kuznetsova Svetlana Kuznetsova has been shunted out onto the outside courts in Estoril for her first two matches but gets prime billing…
1. Sorana Cirstea v Kaia Kanepi Sorana Cirstea The scheduling for the centre court at the Portugal Open is ridiculously ATP centric, but they have at least picked out the best of the women’s match to open proceedings as the defending champion, Kaia Kanepi takes on Sorana Cirstea. On paper it looks the best match,…
The main focus for next week will be on the joint tournament in Oeiras, Portugal, which has been renamed from Estoril, but appears to be playing at the same venue… odd. Let’s take a look at both the WTA and ATP draws. WTA Oeiras Marion Bartoli and Dominika Cibulkova are the headline acts of one…
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