The main draw of the 2018 Miami Open kicked off on Tuesday with a rather subdued schedule as many of the engaging first rounders were held over until Wednesday. This post is a quick one to recap the three matches that I followed, of which all of them went the distance! Read on for 5…
Barely a few hours after the WTA tournament had finished at Indian Wells and the draw for the second Premier Mandatory tournament of the year was unveiled. The main draw for the 2018 Miami Open will start on Tuesday and the draw has thrown up some blockbuster first round matches. This post has a few…
The semi-finals are set at the 2018 BNP Paribas Open and it’s a dreamy final four with Simona Halep, Naomi Osaka, Daria Kasatkina and Venus Williams left to battle it out for the title. I can’t remember the last time that I was *this* excited for a semi-final line-up. Thursday’s Set Points includes a review…
The first two quarter-finals of the 2018 BNP Paribas Open were played on a windyyy day in Indian Wells. This Set Points features a detailed recap of the first quarter-final and catches up with a few things missed from a manic Tuesday including highlights of Wozniacki-Kasatkina. There’s a pair of snap previews for tomorrow’s quarter-finals…
The second Tuesday at Indian Wells is always reminiscent of Manic Monday at Wimbledon with all eight of the women’s fourth round matches on the schedule. Thankfully, the matches aren’t all clashing against each other. From a selfish point of view, it’s just as frustrating for me as Wimbledon because of the time difference and…
The highlight of Monday’s order of play was the all Willliams clash at night in the desert. There’s a few highlights from that match later on in the post but Monday’s Set Points, as usual, focuses on the matches from the day session and those that I got to watch live. As is tradition with…
Aside from the return of Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka, the dominant storyline has been the success of the teens in Indian Wells. The upsets have been heavy in the top half of the draw and just the top two seeds remain at either ends of the draw with six unseeded players nestled in between.…
The rain halted play at night on day 4 of main draw action in Indian Wells… the rain?! The match of the day featuring Sloane Stephens and Victoria Azarenka didn’t take to the court. It was another eventful day and generally a more successful one for the seeds with 10 of the 14 seeds in…
Friday’s schedule was brutal in a good way. There were just so many exciting matches and I was triple streaming for the first few hours! It was a day of upsets as nine of the 16 seeds in action went out. While a handful of surprising results, there were so many inspired performances from the…
Thursday’s day schedule felt rather subdued with the two landmark matches at night (and rightfully so) featuring Serena Williams and Victoria Azarenka. Therefore I spent much of my evening flicking between matches as nothing really grabbed me. Read on for Thursday’s stories from the 2018 BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells. For a preview of…
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