Marion Bartoli Victoria Azarenka (1) v Dominika Cibulkova (16)Azarenka waltzed into the third round with another dominant display over the young Brit, Heather Watson. She will face Cibulkova who rather surprisingly swept past Zheng Jie, 6-2 6-0. Zheng won just nine points on her serve and was broken at every opportunity by the Slovakian. Azarenka…
Ana Ivanovic This week’s tournament in Dubai has seen its fair share of withdrawals with Victoria Azarenka pulling out of the tournament today (as I had suspected!) and joining the likes of Petra Kvitova, Li Na and Vera Zvonareva on the sidelines. However as the second round of action wrapped on Wednesday, all remaining five…
Victoria Azarenka and Sam Stosur will play out the final of the Qatar Open in Doha after both won their semi-finals on Saturday. Azarenka won a dramatic semi-final as she overcame an injury to beat Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-2 6-4 in a somewhat more straightforward match than their previous encounters. It was interesting to see Radwanska…
Sam Stosur The second round matches in Doha saw the exodus of the seeds as a stunning seven seeded players crashed out of the competition. Sam Stosur was one of the rare few to advance with a hard fought 6-4 7-6 victory over Sorana Cirstea. Stosur lost her first round match at the Australian Open…
Sorana Cirstea Sam Stosur was the only seed to fall at the first hurdle in the bottom half of the women’s draw with a disappointing 7-6 6-3 loss to the Romanian world number 59, Sorana Cirstea. By all accounts, Cirstea played her best match in years and reignited the excitement that many had felt when…
Vera Zvonareva Two of the seeds fell on the second day of action at the Apia International in Sydney. Sam Stosur was out-of-sorts as she was defeated by Francesca Schiavone, 6-2 6-4. There were some exciting points in the match (see highlights below) and Schiavone continued her solid start to the 2012 season. It was…
Kaia Kanepi The first three days of the new season had seen just one seeded player exit the WTA events in Brisbane and Auckland. However normal order was restored on the WTA tour today as the upsets were well and truly flowing! The number 7 seed in Brisbane, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was well and truly thumped…
There were no shocks in Brisbane today as all the first round matches were completed on day two of the new season. Sam Stosur eased into the second round with a 6-2 6-3 win over Anastasiya Yakimova. Stosur was comfortably the better player and it was a solid performance for the first match of her…
Sam Stosur The engines are revving for 2012 as the first draw of the season was finally released on Friday night for the Premier event in Brisbane. The draw looks very uneven with four big names all found in the top half of the draw. Sam Stosur is the number one seed and has a…
Here is the next post in my series of entries previewing the 2012 tennis season… I have already stated who I think will win the majors; now I give you my predictions for the top 10 in the WTA rankings at the end of 2012. Like this year, I expect the ranking points to be…
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