The Miami Open final features a familar face in Serena Williams who has battled through to her tenth final in Miami. Her opponent, Carla Suarez Navarro, is in uncharted territory as she will play her first ever Premier Mandatory final. 2015 has been a stunning year for Carla… have you had enough of all the…
It seems rather fitting that we get another match-up between Andrea Petkovic and Carla Suarez Navarro after what happened in Antwerp last month (see original preview HERE). Last month, Carla was forced to withdraw before the Antwerp final due to a neck injury. Carla’s year just keeps on getting better and better, and she has put…
With 35 WTA match wins between them, Venus Williams and Carla Suarez Navarro have both made superb starts to the 2015 season. The pair will meet for the fifth time on Tuesday in the quarter-finals of the 2015 Miami Open. Suarez Navarro has a great chance of cracking the world’s top ten this week after…
1. Caroline Wozniacki v Venus Williams (Miami, R4) Seventh time lucky? Caroline Wozniacki is still seeking her first ever victory against Venus Williams and she’ll get another crack on Monday when the pair meet in the fourth round of Miami. Wozniacki’s first two matches were polar opposites; the first was a crushing 6-0 6-1 win…
In Friday’s first batch of WTA matches, Victoria Azarenka and Sloane Stephens both won through in straight sets. Azarenka comprehensively outplayed Jelena Jankovic to win, 6-1 6-1. Jelena put up some resistance at the end in a marathon final game. Azarenka needed multiple match points and Jankovic was 0/13 on break points throughout the whole…
I’m still trying to process some of the results from Tuesday… One of Lesia Tsurenko, Jelena Jankovic, Flavia Pennetta and Sabine Lisicki will be in the Indian Wells final on Sunday. It’s a surprising line-up considering Lisicki and Jankovic have endured miserable starts to the year. In fact, the four players in the bottom half all failed to win…
Lucie Safarova produced a clinic on Thursday night as she sailed into the semi-finals of the 2015 Qatar Total Open with a 6-2 6-1 victory over Andrea Petkovic. Lucie hit a stunning 30 winners to just 9 unforced errors. To see stats like that in Doha is really something. Firstly, a word for Petko. She…
There were some very interesting results in Dubai on Wednesday as five of the top eight seeds went out of the tournament. The loss of the top seeds in the bottom half means that one of Lucie Safarova, Karolina Pliskova, Garbine Muguruza or Carla Suarez Navarro will make a Premier 5 final in Dubai this…
The final of the BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games will feature Carla Suarez Navarro and Andrea Petkovic. Suarez Navarro progressed into her first ever Premier final with a commanding 6-2 6-2 victory over Karolina Pliskova in 61 minutes. This was an excellent performance from Suarez Navarro, her best of the week so far, as she…
1. Karolina Pliskova v Carla Suarez Navarro In the all-Czech quarter-final, Karolina Pliskova edged out Lucie Safarova in two sets, 7-6(5) 6-3 in one hour and 27 minutes. I was disappointed for Lucie as it sounded like she was the better player in the first set. Lucie won three more points in the opener, but…
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