Are you ready? Two weeks of tennis mayhem began at 11:30am on Monday morning as the 2017 Wimbledon Championships officially got underway. This post, part one of Monday’s Set Points, covers the 16 matches from the third quarter of the draw, which is headlined by Elina Svitolina and Dominika Cibulkova. First up on Court 12…
Saturday was finals day at the 2017 Aegon International and the end of a great week in Eastbourne. The women’s final was first up on Centre Court at 12:15pm between the number three and six seeds, Karolina Pliskova and Caroline Wozniacki. Pliskova prevailed, 6-4 6-4 in a high quality finale. Pliskova played a stunning first…
Friday is my last full day in Eastbourne! Rather shockingly, after a manic Thursday, the schedule was just about caught up with where it should be with the semi-finals up. I started the morning by listening to the Wimbledon draw – once i’m back then the Wimby posts will commence. Before going out to watch…
Johanna Konta and Heather Watson were both in third round action at the Aegon International in Eastbourne on a hectic, Thursday. Over on Court 4, Watson secured back-to-back top 20 wins with a 6-4 6-3 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Konta was on Centre Court against the French Open champion, Jelena Ostapenko – this was a…
Thursday was another busy, busy day at the 2017 Aegon International in Eastbourne. It started with one of my few sightings of Jelena Ostapenko as I followed her into the grounds! There were seven matches up at 10:30am on the schedule with only one WTA match – therefore, it was Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Lauren Davis for…
After a brief break to catch up on photos, I headed back out to Court 5 to watch Timea Bacsinszky’s first singles match since her semi-final run at Roland Garros. The Swiss player was taking on Peng Shuai. While twice up a break in the first set, Bacsinszky couldn’t consolidate either time. Overall, it was…
There was plenty of tennis on show at the 2017 Aegon International in Eastbourne on Wednesday. However, it came to a disappointing end with light drizzle halting play from about 5pm leaving another jam-packed schedule for Thursday. For the second straight day, I began with Simona Halep vs. Duan Ying-Ying on Court 1. The match…
The weather forecast didn’t look so promising this morning and sadly, it was accurate with almost a complete wash-out. By the time play was cancelled at 5pm, it was absolutely bucketing it down! There was a little bit of play this morning – I was on Court 1 for the the number two seed and…
Monday was All-Access Hour with the players so a very busy day. I’d opted to watch the matches on the outside courts and skip the first few press conferences – watching tennis is always my priority and it was such a lovely day. When I found out that Petra had a press conference scheduled, I…
After two cold and windy days, the sun came out on Monday for a glorious day at the 2017 Aegon International in Eastbourne. Dare I say that it was actually warm! This could all change on Tuesday and Wednesday with the miserable looking forecast but i’m in a good mood so I will stick with…
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