It was a wild week on the WTA tour at the Dubai Duty Free Championships which was littered with upsets as all eight seeds departed before the quarter-finals and without winning a match. Upsets always add an injection of excitement, but the loss of seeds this week was rather unnerving. The final promised drama but…
It has been a wild week at the 2016 Dubai Duty Free Championships; all eight seeds failed to win a match, a feat that had never occurred at a Premier event and hadn’t happened on the WTA tour since Bastad in 2014. After all the upsets we are left with a final to be contested…
The second of Friday’s semi-finals in Dubai pits Barbora Strycova and Caroline Garcia against each other in an Australian Open rematch. Strycova bagged a first win over Ana Ivanovic, 7-6(5) 6-3, in the last of the quarter-finals having failed to win more than three games against the Serb in their three previous matches. Ivanovic was a shadow…
The bottom half of the women’s draw will take centre stage on Monday with the final four fourth round matches to be played. This post covers the two matches from the third quarter of the draw including Victoria Azarenka against Barbora Strycova and Angelique Kerber playing Annika Beck. 1. Victoria Azarenka v Barbora Strycova (AO, R4) The biggest…
The bottom half of the women’s draw will kick off on Tuesday with the likes of Simona Halep, Venus Williams, Garbiñe Muguruza and Angelique Kerber all opening their Australian Open campaigns. This post covers two matches from the third quarter of the draw. 1. Caroline Garcia v Barbora Strycova (AO, R1) One of the stand-out matches…
The 2015 WTA season has come to an end and as is tradition on Moo’s Tennis Blog, it’s time to count down my favourite matches of the year. In 2014, the fourth round match between Maria Sharapova and Angelique Kerber at Wimbledon was my number one pick. It’s worth noting that these are my personal…
The cull of seeds continued in Linz on Thursday with Denisa Allertova defeating Barbora Strycova, 7-6(0) 5-7 6-4, in the final match of the day. This was a really fun one and the third set in particular was gripping stuff. The first set was messy with many breaks and neither serving well. Strycova was four…
Just three seeds remain in Linz with a huge opportunity for those players left in the depleted top half of the draw. Two more seeds fell on Wednesday with Roberta Vinci losing her third consecutive match to Aleksandra Krunic in a wacky WTA scoreline, 6-1 6-7(3) 6-1. She was followed out of the tournament by…
The first match of Tuesday’s evening session at the 2015 Generali Ladies Linz saw Barbora Strycova resist a tenacious effort from the 19-year-old Austrian wildcard, Barbara Haas, 6-0 6-7(5) 6-4. This was the first match i’ve watched from Linz this year and like a lot of people on Twitter, I find the new court surface…
1. Timea Bacsinszky v Barbora Strycova (USO, R1) For the first time this year, Timea Bacsinszky is struggling. The Swiss player has had a tremendous year up till now, moving up 34 places in the rankings since the end of 2014. However, she is currently on a four match losing streak extending back to Wimbledon. Each loss…
