New week, new tournament… welcome to the 2017 Miami Open! Main draw action got underway on Tuesday (and is still ongoing as I write this but I wanted to get a post about before I sleep) with Duan Ying-Ying the first winner of the tournament, defeating Laura Siegemund, 7-6(6) 6-3. Starting as we mean to go…
With a first ever win over Caroline Wozniacki, Kristina Mladenovic came from a set down to book her place in the semi-finals of Indian Wells for the first time with a 3-6 7-6(4) 6-2 victory on another baking day in the desert. Wozniacki had played an excellent opening set, winning the majority of big points…
For the second straight day, Svetlana Kuznetsova opened up WTA proceedings on Stadium 1 with another accomplished display, overturning two recent straight set losses to Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova with a straight sets win, 6-3 6-2. This was a very similar match to her fourth rounder against Garcia – she played a great opener buoyed by some…
Svetlana Kuznetsova was the first player into the quarter-finals of the 2017 BNP Paribas Open quarter-finals with a routine victory over Caroline Garcia, 6-1 6-4, on a lifeless Stadium 1 court. Kuznetsova hadn’t played a match in over a month before Indian Wells but she’s shown few signs of rust so far in the desert,…
In another scorching day in the desert, Angelique Kerber battled her way into the last 16, fending off a fierce charge from Pauline Parmentier to win, 7-5 3-6 7-5 in two hours and 35 minutes of gruelling tennis. Hats off to Parmentier who played a great match. Her inside-out forehand was at times, stunning, and…
Sunday began with the biggest upset so far in the desert as Caroline Garcia edged the number 11 seed, Johanna Konta in a third set tiebreak win, 3-6 6-3 7-6(1). Konta cruised through the first set on serve with Garcia labouring on return – I just couldn’t comprehend Garcia’s positioning inside the baseline to return which…
Angelique Kerber won her first match at Indian Wells since 2013, halting a four match losing streak in the desert with a routine straight sets win over Andrea Petkovic, 6-2 6-1 in just 58 minutes. It wasn’t a classic by any means but Kerber delivered a solid display with Petkovic committing many unforced errors, 24 to…
Friday’s order of play on Stadium 1 kicked off with an all-Brit battle between the number 11 seed, Johanna Konta and Heather Watson. It wasn’t all plain sailing for Konta as she came from an early break down in the first set and needed two bites of the cherry when serving out the match. Konta…
Kicking off day 2 of main draw action at the 2017 BNP Paribas Open was Lucie Safarova up against Lara Arruabarrena. I’ve missed so many of Lucie’s matches this year – the schedule was kind on this occasion and it was the perfect time for me to watch! Safarova got off to a winning start at…
I’ll be doing a series of Set Points posts this tournament to bring together all the action at Indian Wells. Each day, i’ll start with the matches that I got to watch, followed by what happened when I was asleep. The first main draw winner of the 2017 BNP Paribas Open was Heather Watson, who fought back…
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