Saturday’s New Haven final was an absolute cracker as Daria Gavrilova won her first WTA title, fighting back from a set down to beat Dominika Cibulkova, 4-6 6-3 6-4 in two hours and 45 minutes. It was the best i’ve seen Cibulkova play all year and her forehand was lethal early doors. Gavrilova kept battling…
Wednesday featured the four remaining second round matches from the Connecticut Open in New Haven. First up at 12pm local time was a qualifier-qualifier match-up between Kirsten Flipkens and Ana Bogdan. The Belgian player was seemingly cruising up 6-1 4-2 and with a break point for 5-2 before Bogdan mounted a comeback. Flipkens required the…
Four second round matches were on the schedule for Tuesday at the Connecticut Open in New Haven. The first match of the day was the last of the first rounders as Carla Suárez Navarro advanced to the second round by retirement while leading the qualifier, Jana Cepelova, 6-4 4-0. The Slovak player was forced to…
I was so focused on Cincy last week that I didn’t get to study the draw for this week’s tournament, the Connecticut Open in New Haven, until earlier today! As the US Open is next week, New Haven was a Sunday start with two main draw matches up on Sunday’s schedule – both were eye-catching results!…
This has been a busy weekend for me as I am in Coventry celebrating my cousin’s wedding. Therefore, I haven’t been too focused on the tennis! This is a snappy Set Points to cover Saturday’s Western & Southern Open semi-finals and share more super Cincy photos from Omar Boraby. The first of the semi-finals saw…
Friday at the Western & Southern Open was a manic day with a trio of third round matches still to be played after Thursday’s deluge of rain. Still, it was the first of the quarter-finals between Garbiñe Muguruza and Svetlana Kuznetsova that was up first on Center Court at 11am local time. In a repeat of…
Thursday was my tennis club night so I missed the first set of Cincy matches. I was a bit of a wreck and had nothing in my legs – it’s been a long week! I won one doubles set with my brother (he did all the work ha) but I lost everything else. Apart from…
On another busy day at the Western & Southern Open in Cincy, there were four matches up first at 11am local time. Three of them were decided in straight sets with Madison Keys the first winner of the day with a comprehensive 6-2 6-1 victory over Daria Kasatkina. I’m really fond of both players so…
Tuesday was a jam-packed day of tennis with 15 singles matches and a mix of first and second round encounters. Firstly, i’m thrilled to be working with a photographer in Cincy this week, Omar Boraby. Thanks to Omar for sharing his photos, which you’ll see during this post and through others during the week. Stay…
Another week, another new tournament… welcome to the 2017 Western & Southern Open! Main draw action began in Cincy on Monday with a first rounder cracker between Petra Kvitova and Anett Kontaveit. From a set and a break down, Kvitova produced an impressive comeback to win, 1-6 7-6(2) 6-3. For a recap and analysis of…
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