The schedules for the next few days are a pig for trying to get previews out when Indian Wells is 7 hours behind the UK. Therefore I am focusing on matches that are already decided after Monday’s matches. All three matches previewed will be on Stadium 1’s day schedule for Wednesday. It is also worth…
There is no doubt that the matches on the schedule for Day 6 are the best of the tournament so far. There are some showcase clashes in both the men’s and women’s draws… and it’s the weekend woohoo! Wozniacki v Muguruza is the most interesting match of the week in my opinion so please do…
The third quarter of the women’s draw has lost both it’s top eight seeds promising a first Grand Slam semi-final for either Simona Halep, Flavia Pennetta, Roberta Vinci or Camila Giorgi. I think it is always exciting to see a new player reach a big milestone at a Grand Slam and all four are highly…
1. Serena Williams v Sorana Cirstea (Toronto, F) Sorana Cirstea This week’s memorable moments have all but exclusively featured Sorana Cirstea, who has played a fantastic week of tennis with wins over Caroline Wozniacki, Jelena Jankovic, Petra Kvitova and Li Na. Her semi-final victory over Li showed nerves of steel as she came back from…
1. Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal (Montreal, SF) Novak Djokovic The highlight of Saturday’s line-up will see Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic play each other on the hard courts for the first time since the 2012 Australian Open final. Both players strolled into the semi-finals with straight set wins; Djokovic recovered from a lacklustre quarter-final…
Thursday’s order of play was interrupted with one of those frigging frustrating stop-start days. The remainder of the second round matches will kick off Friday’s proceedings, but the third round matches should also take place with a much better forecast… 1. Milos Raonic v Kevin Anderson Milos Raonic My match of the day is slightly…
1.Rafael Nadal v Milos Raonic Philipp Kohlschreiber The one thing I have managed to predict correctly this week was Milos Raonic repeating his 2012 semi-final run in Barcelona. Raonic had an excellent day as he took out the in-form Ernests Gulbis, saving a set point in the second set breaker to win, 6-2 7-6(6). He…
1. Milos Raonic v Ernests Gulbis Milos Raonic From the eight third round matches in Barcelona, I am most intrigued by the match-up between Ernests Gulbis and Milos Raonic, which has not even made the Pista Central schedule. Gulbis has continued his excellent form of late with two straight set wins over Radek Stepanek and…
Milos Raonic 1. Milos Raonic v Sam Querrey The top-ranked American, Sam Querrey faces a tough task to replicate a 4th round performance from last week in Indian Wells as he squares up against fellow bullet server, Milos Raonic. Querrey took three sets to get past Lukas Kubot, meanwhile Raonic won all of his first…
1. Roger Federer v Milos Raonic Roger Federer Roger Federer has made easy work of his “tough” draw so far as he played a blinder to beat Bernard Tomic, 6-4 7-6 6-1 in the third round. The second set saw some of the highest standard of tennis we have seen so far in the tournament…
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