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…
The final of the WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai saw Petra Kvitova win 11 of the last 13 games to record a fourth straight sets win in 2016 over Elina Svitolina, 6-4 6-2. Your 2016 @WTAEliteTrophy champion @Petra_Kvitova and finalist @ElinaSvitolina! #WTAEliteTrophy pic.twitter.com/KDBCiCd97f — WTA (@WTA) November 6, 2016 For Petra, she’ll finish the year…
Apologies for not being able to cover the last two days of the WTA Finals in Singapore as I was busy over the weekend. For the second straight year, a player lost their first two matches of the tournament but went onto win the whole caboodle… step forward, Dominika Cibulkova who produced a tremendous display to…
In the first match of the day on Friday, Garbiñe Muguruza won her first match of the tournament meaning that all eight singles players have picked up at least one win this year. Muguruza won 12 of the last 13 games to snap Kuznetsova’s six match winning streak with a 3-6 6-0 6-1 victory in one…
Ahead of her third and final round robin match, Dominika Cibulkova knew she had to beat Simona Halep in straight sets to stand a chance of qualifying… and she did it! Cibulkova was two points away from going out but handled the pressure exceptionally well, prevailing 6-3 7-6(5) in one hour and 48 minutes. Roar?…
The star of this year’s Singapore so far without a shadow of a doubt has been Svetlana Kuznetsova. While she was the last to qualify and right at the last moment, Sveta is the first player to qualify for Saturday’s semi-finals. With results from tonight on Day 4 of @WTAFinalsSG, @SvetlanaK27 is the first player…
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