As Luxembourg finishes on Saturday, the other four draws this week will feature semi-final action. In Moscow, doubles partners Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Lucie Safarova are the only seeds left and could meet in the final. As always, Moo’s Tennis Blog is rooting for Lucie to go all the way! Grigor Dimitrov hit a pair of…
There is plenty of tennis on Thursday so here’s a selection of thoughts and picks for all five draws. My predictions have been so-so this week, but both my champions in Moscow and Luxembourg are still alive. Last week was good, but I just came up short in predicting a champion… WTA Moscow 2nd Round…
1. Sam Stosur v Simona Halep (Moscow, F) Sam Stosur Moscow will close with a fascinating finale between Sam Stosur and Simona Halep. Stosur has hit her best form of the year and produced another clinical display in the semi-finals to take out home favourite, Svetlana Kuznetsova in straight sets. Halep was even better as…
There are too many tournaments this week! Today’s predictions were pretty poor on the most part so let’s try and improve for Saturday. Here goes with another day of previews… 1. Caroline Wozniacki v Sabine Lisicki (Luxembourg, SF) Sabine Lisicki The Luxembourg draw is severely skewed with one semi-final offering up 2 top 15 players…
Yesterday was a struggle to pick out matches to preview, but today is much easier because there are some great potential encounters. Sam Stosur v Ana Ivanovic (Moscow, QF) Ana Ivanovic A quarter-final more fitting of a final will see Moscow’s two biggest draws, Sam Stosur and Ana Ivanovic square off in an intriguing match. …
I was surprised to see so little coverage about Alisa Kleybanova, who today beat Carla Suarez Navarro in straight sets to reach her first quarter-final since April, 2011. I have been thoroughly impressed with her comeback so far and look forward to seeing how she gets on in her quarter-final match against Simona Halep or…
After the excitement of the penultimate Masters event, it is a quieter week for the top 10 on the ATP tour with just 3 of them showing up at this week’s 250 events in Stockholm, Vienna and Moscow. *I forgot all about the ATP event in Moscow so I haven’t done a full preview* ATP…
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