A brief preview post for today’s semi-final action at Queens, Birmingham and Halle. I was at Birmingham today and I hope to get a report of my day with photos out by tonight / tomorrow morning. Andy Murray v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Queens, SF) Andy Murray I was worried about whether the top seeds would make…
Queens was able to catch up today and completed all their third round matches with the big seeds all coming through. My original draws have been truly shocking this week and I am hoping to do a bit better for Eastbourne next week. Birmingham had some rain, but managed to get all their 3rd rounds…
Thursday will be a thoroughly packed day of tennis as the rain once again wreaked havoc with the schedule in Queens. Birmingham did pretty well to avoid major disruptions and remains on track with their draw. Let’s take a look at the top matches for Thursday. Please accept my apologies for yesterday’s predictions, Moo had…
Rain wiped out half of the schedule at Queens today, but that didn’t stop us seeing the match of the tournament so far as Juan Martin del Potro edged out an inspired Xavier Malisse, 7-6(5) 1-6 7-5. After losing the first set on the tiebreak, Malisse won 8 out of 9 games to lead by…
Tsvetana Pironkova The grass court season got underway today in Birmingham and there were some interesting results as last year’s champion, Melanie Oudin fell to Ajla Tomljanovic in the first competitive match to grace the new Ann Jones Centre Court. In other results, the grass lovers came out to play as Tsvetana Pironkova snapped a…
There are two ATP tournaments next week to kick off the 2013 grass court season. Queens has always reigned supreme, but over the last couple of years the draw has looked much thinner and Halle certainly has grabbed the better line-up for 2013 even with Rafael Nadal pulling out. Let’s take a look at the…
Jelena Jankovic Birmingham has always been affected by the weather but none more so than this year as play was practically wiped out on Thursday and Friday resulting in the final quarter-final and semi-finals being played today. Jelena Jankovic beat Misaki Doi in the quarter-finals and then edged past Zheng Jie, 6-7 7-5 6-1 in…
Incredible scenes saw David Nalbandian defaulted from the Queens Final, which handed the title to Marin Cilic. As Nalbandian led 7-6 3-4, he kicked an advertising board and drew blood from a linesman. The Queens crowd were furious during the post-match presentation as they booed the tournament director, but it should have been Nalbandian they…
Grigor Dimitrov I am going to Birmingham tomorrow to watch the tennis so only have time to post my quick predictions for tomorrow’s action! WTA Bimingham Quarter-Finals: Jelena Jankovic to beat Misaki Doi/Stephanie Foretz-Gacon in 3 sets Zheng Jie to beat Roberta Vinci in 2 tight sets Ekaterina Makarova to beat Su-Wei Hsieh in 2…
The top three at Queens on Thursday Kevin Anderson 1. Kevin Anderson (9) v Feliciano Lopez (5) The two highest seeds left in the top section of the draw will square off in the most intriguing third round match. Kevin Anderson has had two tough matches so far this week as he came from a…
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