Week 1 is in the book and week 2, you’re up! Svetlana Kuznetsova and Irina-Camelia Begu kicked off main draw proceedings at the 2017 Apia International in Sydney and it was Kuznetsova who continued her solid start to the year with a 6-1 6-4 victory. Kuznetsova was 6-1 4-0 up before Begu reeled off four games…
Karolina Pliskova won her seventh title with a sensational display to defeat Alizé Cornet, 6-0 6-3 in Saturday’s final. The Czech player has looked irresistible on serve all week and perhaps most impressively, has been building points patiently and coming forward at the right times. Without doubt, Pliskova will be a contender for the Australian…
The first three champions of the 2017 WTA season will be crowned on Saturday with the conclusions of Brisbane, Auckland and Shenzhen. In Brisbane, the number three seed, Karolina Pliskova will take on Alizé Cornet on Saturday at not before 7pm local time (9am UK time). A preview is now up on the blog. WTA Brisbane…
The seeds had been exerting their dominance through the first few days of the new season… it’s all come tumbling down somewhat over the past two days with the WTA’s top five all falling before the semi-finals in their respective tournaments. In the last of the Brisbane quarter-finals, Elina Svitolina scored her second consecutive win…
The first three days of the 2017 season had seen the top ten go 11-0 for the year. Wednesday opened up the wild proceedings for the new year… starting in Auckland, there was a huge surprise as Madison Brengle scored the biggest win of her career over the world number two, Serena Williams, 6-4 6-7(3) 6-4 in…
Three days into the 2017 season and it sounds like we already have a solid contender for match of the year. In the Brisbane night session, Garbiñe Muguruza saved a match point to edge past Daria Kasatkina, 7-5 3-6 7-6(7) in two hours and 58 minutes. I was livescoring the match (back to work today…
First round action in Brisbane continued on Monday with a trio of three setters. The first match of the day was the most dramatic and will be tough to beat all year! Roberta Vinci saved five match points to beat Kateryna Bondarenko, 7-6(4) 6-7(4) 7-6(5) in two hours and 46 minutes. Vinci had been drawn…
The first week of the season is always one of the most hectic due to the number of tournaments and the time difference, but with no more TennisTV catch-up service, it’s going to be even more of a challenge to cover! My Set Points posts this week are not going to cover everything but will…
2016 just keeps on giving with the surprises as this evening, Ana Ivanovic announced her retirement from professional tennis. Ana said in the short video that injuries had contributed to “not being able to perform up to my high standards”. While many things had been speculated in this planned live broadcast on Facebook, i’m surprised and particularly as…
Before the Christmas festivities begin, I wanted to play catch-up with what’s been happening during the off-season. Tuesday’s tennis news started on a high and ended on a real low. Firstly, many congratulations to Victoria Azarenka who gave birth to her first child today! Today I had my hardest fight and my very best victory! Our…
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