Apologies for disappearing on Wednesday and Thursday. I had a busy few days where tennis had to take a backseat. I’m back now for the end of the St. Petersburg and Taipei City tournaments. The match of the day in St. Petersburg saw Yulia Putintseva record her second top ten win in the last six…
Roberta Vinci got off to a good start in the defence of her St. Petersburg title, edging a tight three setter against Timea Babos. Vinci had beaten Babos en route to winning the title last year and this was another very close match with many switch-ups in momentum in just the third set alone. Vinci won four…
Main draw matches at this week’s tournaments in St. Petersburg and Taipei City got underway on Monday. At the Premier stop in St. Petersburg, there was a big win for Annika Beck; having previously lost her last six matches on tour against Kiki Bertens, the world number 67 scored her first ever win in this…
This will be the final Set Points of the 2017 Australian Open. I hope you’ve enjoyed the daily updates and you can catch up with them all HERE. This Australian Open has been one of the most memorable Slams in years. In the first of the women’s semi-finals on Thursday, Venus Williams fought through a…
While we are still missing that one fantastic match from this year’s Australian Open, the storylines have been immense… MIRJANA LUCIC BARONI. At the age of 34, Lucic-Baroni is into her second Slam semi-final, almost 18 years after her first one back in 1999 at Wimbledon. Lucic-Baroni scored her second top ten win of the week on Wednesday,…
Tuesday was quarter-finals day at the 2017 Australian Open with Venus Williams and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova first up on Rod Laver Arena. Venus prevailed in a tight two setter, 6-4 7-6(3) to reach her first semi-final in Melbourne since 2003 in yet another feel-good storyline. Welcome back to the semifinals, @Venuseswilliams. It's been a long 14 years.…
I love a feel-good Slam story and we’ve had so many to enjoy over the past few years on the women’s side. Without doubt, the pleasant surprise of this 2017 tournament has been Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. After storming past Agnieszka Radwanska in the second round, Lucic-Baroni has gone on to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.…
The final match of the day in Melbourne saw CoCo Vandeweghe roll into the quarter-finals, ousting the world number one, Angelique Kerber, 6-2 6-3. It was a strange match and it didn’t have that feeling of a number one seed being beaten, perhaps because it was so late in Melbourne. It was an excellent performance…
Never write off the Bourne-GOAT… Ekaterina Makarova maintained her sensational record in Melbourne by reaching the second week for the seventh (!) consecutive year. In a bruising battle on Rod Laver Arena, Makarova beat the number six seed, Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2 6-7(3) 6-3. And if you’re wondering why I keep calling Makarova the Bourne-GOAT then check…
Day 5 of the 2017 Australian Open began with some rain and a trio of three setters. In only the third extra-time finish in the women’s draw so far, the number eight seed, Svetlana Kuznetsova served out the win over Jelena Jankovic at the third time of asking, 6-4 5-7 9-7 in three hours and 36…
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