Maria Kirilenko Maria Kirilenko won the Pattaya City title, her first since 2008, meanwhile Mona Barthel claimed her first Premier title with victory in Paris. Kirilenko survived Sabine Lisicki in a epic final that displayed all the qualities of a peak WTA match as both seem adamant in giving the match to the opposing player. …
A full house of correct predictions for yesterday. Lets take a look at tomorrow’s finals… Maria Kirilenko Maria Kirilenko v Sabine Lisicki (Pattaya City, F) Pattaya has avoided the surprises to present us with what should be an excellent final tomorrow. Sabine Lisicki won her fourth match of the week to reach her first final…
Sorana Cirstea 1. Sorana Cirstea v Maria Kirilenko (Pattaya City, SF) Maria Kirilenko and Sorana Cirstea will meet at the semi-final stage in Pattaya for the second consecutive year after both won their quarter-finals in straight sets. Kirilenko had the toughest match today as she fought for over two hours to get past the in-form…
Today was an extremely bad day for my predictions as I lost both champion and finalist in Paris and Pattaya City! Lets take a look at the best matches for quarter-final day… Marion Bartoli 1. Marion Bartoli v Mona Barthel (Paris, QF) Marion Bartoli takes on Mona Barthel tomorrow in one of my few correct…
Sabine Lisicki Yanina Wickmayer v Kristina Mladenovic (Paris, R2) Yanina Wickmayer edged a tight first round match today with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, 7-6(7) 4-6 6-3. It was a rough draw for both, but I was pleased that Wickmayer won as I have tipped her to win in Paris. Her reward for the first round win is…
Goerges Gone Paris saw its first significant upset as the 19-year-old, Kristina Mladenovic upset the number 7 seed Julia Goerges, 7-5 5-7 7-6(4) in 2 hours and 43 minutes. This was Mladenovic’s best result on the WTA tour so far and she seems to be progressing on the tour and beginning to live up to…
Two WTA tournaments will take centre stage next week with two of the world’s top ten, Sara Errani and Petra Kvitova opting to play in Paris. The Adidas quartet of Ana Ivanovic, Maria Kirilenko, Sorana Cirstea and Daniela Hantuchova will all be in Pattaya City. Lets take a look a the draws… WTA Paris: Sara Errani…
Lucie Safarova David Ferrer won his first ATP Masters 1000 events with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Jerzy Janowicz. It was a good final with a number of long games in the second set, but Ferrer fought threw and broke the resistance of Janowicz, who tired towards the end. Although the tournament lost a lot…
David Ferrer and Jerzy Janowicz will square off in an unlikely final to conclude the last of the ATP Masters 1000 events in 2012. Ferrer was the first person to break Michael Llodra‘s serve this week as he won 7-5 6-3, meanwhile Janowicz continued to play some stunning tennis with a straight sets win over…
Gilles Simon As was to be expected, the Paris draw has been completely decimated as the top eight have their minds focused on the World Tour Finals, which start on Monday. I predicted the upsets, but the wrong ones! Lets take a look at the surprise semi-finals… Gilles Simon v Jerzy Janowicz Jerzy Janowicz has…
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