Quarter-finals day in Beijing was hit with another walkover as unsurprisingly, Serena Williams was forced to pull out of Beijing before her quarter-final match with Sam Stosur was set to begin. Courtney Nguyen tweeted last night that Serena had not held a press match conference to treat swelling of her knee. Fingers crossed that Serena…
The Beijing quarter-finals are all set and in one case, we already know a semi-finalist. Ana Ivanovic has advanced to the last four after Simona Halep pulled out of the tournament. There were some unhappy Petkovic fans on Twitter as the German player had pushed Halep to a third set tiebreak earlier today before losing. …
Here’s a match recap of the first of the third round matches in Beijing, which took place on Wednesday between Maria Sharapova and Carla Suarez Navarro. Thanks again to Adam Wells. In other news, I set my alarm early for Venus v Petra this morning… 😦 With the roof of the National Tennis Stadium closed above…
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Main draw action kicked off in Wuhan on Sunday with a surprisingly solid crowd on hand for what was an eventful opening day on the Centre Court. In the first match of the day, the Chinese wildcard, Xu Shilin was forced to retire due to heat exhaustion at 0-5 down in the third set tiebreak…
The second match on Arthur Ashe Stadium between Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova was the most anticipated match of the women’s tournament so far. And IT DIDN’T DISAPPOINT. Wozniacki produced one of the best wins of her career to defeat the number five seed, Maria Sharapova, 6-4 2-6 6-2 in two hours and 37 minutes. …
In the TFF DreamTeam game, Wild Briar Village continues to lead the way. Woo is in 2nd place and #teamwoz is in 3rd place. I’m down in 7th place and have a depleted women’s team. Sunday’s schedule will be lit up with the showpiece match-up between Caroline Wozniacki and Maria Sharapova, which will be during…
The bottom half of the women’s draw looks in great shape as we head into the third round. There have been quite a few upsets in the third quarter, but there are some quality players still remaining. In the fourth quarter, we are just one match away from some blockbuster last 16 matches. As always,…
The first day of action at the 2014 US Open saw a number of scares, but just one seed fell; Garbine Muguruza lost in straight sets to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. This was a disappointing result for Garbine after losing at the first hurdle of Wimbledon too. Simona Halep, Venus Williams, Angelique Kerber, Caroline Wozniacki and Andrea…
A random thank you to everyone who has been following the blog this week. The poll for yesterday’s quarter-final between Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep was the most popular poll ever on Moo’s Tennis Blog with 68% going for Halep to win. It sounded like another great contest between the pair and it has firmly…
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