Missed out on the tennis this last week? Match Points is here to bring you up to speed with all the happenings from St. Petersburg and Kaohsiung, other WTA news and the occasional snippet of ATP tennis that caught my eye. I’ll also be using this weekly feature to keep you updated with Racket Rally and Tennis Draw…
On the first day of the 2015 ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, Grigor Dimitrov saved two match points to defeat Paul-Henri Mathieu, 4-6 7-6(2) 6-2 to set up a second round tie with Gilles Muller. Dimitrov looked to be heading out of the tournament after a sloppy start to his first rounder. Mathieu…
Four of the world’s top ten are in Rotterdam including the Australian Open finalist, Andy Murray. The ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament, which is an ATP 500 event, always attracts a solid line-up and this year is no different. February is normally regarded as a pretty quiet tennis month but there were plenty of notable…
After an awful day of predictions for Saturday, I correctly predicted the winners in both finals from Doha and Rotterdam! Simona Halep won the Doha title beating Angelique Kerber, meanwhile Tomas Berdych was triumphant in Rotterdam. It is worth noting that there were ATP events in Memphis and Buenos Aires this week, but with the…
The straight set matches continued in Doha on Saturday although both semi-finals certainly had their moments. In Rotterdam, Marin Cilic stretched his winning streak to nine matches. Here are some previews to the finals in Doha and Rotterdam on Sunday. 1. Angelique Kerber v Simona Halep (WTA Doha, F) Angelique Kerber continued her dominant run…
I have only followed the tennis fleetingly today and can only go on the scorelines and things I have read. Doha had an extraordinary day with four straight set quarter-finals with none of four losing players mustering more than three games in a set. In Rotterdam, there were upsets galore as the top two seeds,…
Rotterdam predictions this week have been majestically terrible. Doha has been a mixed bag although both my finalists still remain in the draw. This could be my last preview for a while as I will be moving house and won’t have any internet. Hopefully I will find a way to get round this to be…
The tennis action keeps on coming with all third round matches in Doha and remaining second round matches from Rotterdam to be completed on Thursday. Doha saw some richly entertaining matches on Wednesday as Petra Kvitova beat Venus Williams and Simona Halep beat Kaia Kanepi in third set tiebreaks. The end of the Venus v…
I am really enjoying all the coverage this week from Doha, Rotterdam and Memphis. I happened to catch the end of Marinko Matosevic against Jiri Vesely in Memphis where Vesely came through, 6-3 6-2 to win just his second ATP tour match. Early on in the second set, Matosevic was heard on the court microphone…
This week’s ATP events are headlined by the ATP 500 event in Rotterdam, which boasts five top ten players including Andy Murray, who has been granted a wildcard. Kei Nishikori and David Ferrer are the top seeds in Memphis and Buenos Aires respectively. Here are my previews and predictions for all three ATP events. ATP…
