Stuttgart is my favourite WTA event on the tour excluding my biased love for Eastbourne. The draw may be missing Serena Williams, Victoria Azarenka and Li Na, but it remains absolutely stacked. You will be hard pushed to find a better line-up of first round matches in any WTA draw this year. Can you tell…
Maria Sharapova An exciting week of tennis on both the ATP and WTA tours has concluded with Maria Sharapova defeating Li Na in the Stuttgart final and Rafael Nadal beating Nicolas Almagro in the Barcelona final. Sharapova was on fire today, raising her game by several levels compared to her performance against Angelique Kerber yesterday,…
Li Na The WTA Stuttgart final will feature the top two seeds, Maria Sharapova and Li Na, who will square off for the 14th time on the WTA tour. For the third time this week, Sharapova was forced into a deciding set having won the opening set of her match. Each match has been progressively…
A rough week of predictions in Stuttgart for moi so far! Let’s see if I can improve for the semi-finals… 1.Maria Sharapova v Angelique Kerber Maria Sharapova For the second day in a row, Maria Sharapova was stretched to three sets as she fended off a late surge from Ana Ivanovic, who certainly had her…
1. Petra Kvitova v Li Na Li Na Last year, the quarter-finals of Stuttgart threw up one of the best days of womens tennis in 2012; this year could easily produce the same kind of magic with the headlining quarter-final of the day, a battle of Grand Slam winners between Petra Kvitova and Li Na. …
Tomorrow is truly a feast of excellent second round matches to look forward too in Stuttgart… 1. Jelena Jankovic v Sabine Lisicki Sabine Lisicki The highest seeded upset on day two saw the Jelena Jankovic from Miami and Charleston, turn up in Stuttgart too with a very solid 6-4 6-4 win over the number 6…
Today in Barcelona, Ernests Gulbis continued his excellent form of late with a comfortable 6-3 6-4 victory over Fernando Verdasco, who is rapidly speeding the wrong way down the rankings. Tomas Berdych avoided another early upset as he saved a match point in a 3-6 7-5 6-4 victory over Nikolay Davydenko. In Stuttgart, Ana Ivanovic…
Stuttgart is one of my favourite stops on the WTA tour and the draw has not disappointed with some great match-ups from the get go. Note that the top four players have byes into round two. Let’s take a look at the draw… Angelique Kerber Maria Sharapova headlines Stuttgart where she won the first of…
Maria Sharapova capped off a tremendous week as she beat an injury affected Victoria Azarenka, 6-1 6-4 in the Stuttgart final. Azarenka had won their two previous encounters in 2012 in straight sets, but Sharapova turned the tables on the world number one with an excellent display of 31 winners to just 13 unforced errors. …
Maria Sharapova produced another terrific display to snap Petra Kvitova‘s 27 match winning streak on indoor courts with a 6-4 7-6 semi-final victory. Kvitova struggled to deal with the Sharapova serve in a forgettable first set, which saw few rallies. Kvitova came to life in a sensational second set, but was unable to make her…
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