1. Agnieszka Radwanska v Sloane Stephens (Toronto, R3) Sloane Stephens There are quite a few potential third round matches I would put ahead of this match but it is the best of the ones confirmed for Thursday so far. Sloane Stephens has continued her good form in 2013 anywhere but the US with two solid…
1.Sabine Lisicki v Kaia Kanepi Sabine Lisicki Wow… I wrote in my preview yesterday that Sabine Lisicki was one of the few players who I felt had the belief to challenge Serena and boy did she show that today. Lisicki produced a sensational performance to come from a break down in the third set to…
1. Venus Williams v Sloane Stephens Venus Williams There were two third round match-ups that I had my eye on; the first, which was Radwanska/Barthel bombed out yesterday when Mona lost to Magdalena Rybarikova, but the second one has thankfully materialised as Venus Williams will take on Sloane Stephens in the showcase match on Saturday. …
Maria Sharapova v Li Na Maria Sharapova continued her devastating progression through the Australian Open draw with a 6-2 6-2 win over Ekaterina Makarova in the quarter-finals. The world number two has lost just 9 games throughout the whole tournament, but still comes up short to the record held by Mary Pierce who lost just…
1. Milos Raonic vs. Tomas Berdych Milos Raonic has been knocking on the door for his big breakthrough for quite a while. I thought Wimbledon might be the time, but he suffered a disappointing Wimbledon and fell early at the Olympics despite a very solid effort in the second round going down to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 25-23 in the…
Pavlyuchenkova The tournament in Carlsbad, San Diego has seen the completion of the first round where Melanie Oudin saved two match points to defeat Sloane Stephens, 1-6 7-6 6-0. It is one of the those matches that can be summed up by just reading the scoreline! Stephens is a great talent, but she will have…
Sorana Cirstea Sorana Cirstea has shown some promising form in 2012 and despite not playing at her best yesterday, she produced one of her most impressive displays of character to beat Iveta Benesova, 4-6 7-5 7-6 in the first round of the BNP Paribas Open. Benesova looked to have the match in the bag as she served…
Andrea Petkovic produced a solid performance to defeat the talented youngster, Sloane Stephens, 6-2 6-1. Stephens started the match with some real intent hitting some beautiful clean winners past Petkovic. She has a very nice game including a willingness to come into the net, which is refreshing to see in an up and coming player.…
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