The start of Tuesday’s bumper order of play was delayed an hour by rain but soon got underway with the number three seed, Dominika Cibulkova up against Ekaterina Makarova. Prior to 2017, Makarova had never beaten Cibulkova – now she has two hard fought three set wins to her name as she claimed the upset…
The final match of the day on Monday’s order of play in Dubai produced the biggest upset by seeding as Alison Riske maintained her excellent start to the year with a 6-4 6-4 victory over the number 11 seed, CoCo Vandeweghe. There’s no sugar coating this match which was an absolute shocker. Vandeweghe was in…
The 2017 Dubai Duty Free Championships began on Sunday with the number 15 seed, Caroline Garcia opening up proceedings on Centre Court against Johanna Larsson. It wasn’t an entertaining match but Garcia was good value for the win, 6-3 6-3. The Frenchwoman saved break points in three of her five service games in the first set and closed…
After five damp days in Doha, the rain finally disappeared long enough for the semi-finals in both singles and doubles to be completed. It’s the first time all week that the tournament has been on schedule! It did require three of the four semi-finalists in singles to play two matches in a long, long day.…
Another day in Doha and another day of interruptions. There was less rain than previous days but it was that frustrating stop-start kind of rain, so much so I can’t even remember how many stoppages there were. They are still behind in the schedule but all the second round matches were completed which was a…
Wednesday was a busy day at the Qatar Total Open with first round matches all completed but only three second round matches in the books following another rainy day in Doha. Trying to keep up with today’s results was really challenging so just a quick summary of the first round results… Daria Kasatkina d. Irina-Camelia Begu, 3-6…
Tuesday’s order of play at the Qatar Total Open in Doha was decimated by rain… rain again! The first batch of matches suffered two rain delays; seven hours after play got underway, the first and only winner of the day was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. In a replica scoreline of their last meeting on tour in Moscow last…
2017 is continuing where 2016 left off from with rain managing to disrupt the tennis, even in the desert! The first main draw match of the 2017 Qatar Total Open was twice halted for the rain but eventually finished just before midnight in Doha. Sam Stosur found her serve and forehand, and held her nerve in…
Kristina Mladenovic survived a couple of wobbles to win her first WTA title in St. Petersburg and serve out the final at the third time of asking against Yulia Putintseva, 6-2 6-7(3) 6-4. And what a final it was! I haven’t been able to watch as much tennis as i’d like this year but this…
The 2017 St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy will produce a brand new WTA champion on Sunday after Kristina Mladenovic and Yulia Putintseva both produced come-from-behind wins to reach the final. Mladenovic defeated this week’s surprise package, Natalia Vikhlyantseva, 4-6 6-2 6-2. The first set was closely contested with Mladenovic losing her way at the end with some errors. However,…
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