In the countdown of my favourite WTA matches of the year, here comes part two of the festivities. If you missed the first part which featured matches 20 to 16, you can catch up HERE. Anyway, here are matches 15 to 11 with some love for this year’s clay court season… 15. Jelena Jankovic d.…
Here’s a match recap of the first of the third round matches in Beijing, which took place on Wednesday between Maria Sharapova and Carla Suarez Navarro. Thanks again to Adam Wells. In other news, I set my alarm early for Venus v Petra this morning… 😦 With the roof of the National Tennis Stadium closed above…
Moo’s Tennis Blog is now on Facebook! I’ll be updating the Facebook page with all my posts and generally bringing joy to the world so please like the page HERE. I’ve already added a selection of my best photos from the grass court season and some of the best ones from Omar Boraby, who contributed…
As day 5 featured a string of interesting matches, the same cannot be said for day 6. The four highest seeds all have, on paper, reasonably straightforward looking matches and the other four don’t have a great deal of star appeal. I was looking forward to the prospect of Kvitova-Keys, but Madison was knocked out in…
In the first womens match of the day Andrea Petkovic edged the qualifier, Kiki Bertens in three sets to reach her first Grand Slam quarter-final since the 2011 US Open. She will take on Sara Errani, who defeated Jelena Jankovic in two tight sets. Listening to Errani’s grunt on RG Radio this afternoon was a…
After a rollercoaster start to Roland Garros 2014, day 5 was somewhat flat. The two womens seeds to fall were Kirsten Flipkens and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Pavs was forced to retire hurt with a back injury against Kiki Bertens. She had break points in the second set that would have seen her serve for the match. …
I really thought there was an error with the US Open app when I saw a tick next to Tommy Robredo‘s name this morning. I know Federer has been struggling all year, but to lose in straight sets to Robredo, a player he has a 10-0 head-to-head record against was a real upset. Richard Gasquet…
US Open qualifying is underway and the draws will be out on Thursday evening (5pm UK time). I am not really that interested in New Haven or Winston-Salem, but there are some good potential match-ups for the women. Let’s take a look at the best of the 2nd rounders… 1. Sabine Lisicki v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova…
The Oeiras final will see Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova take on Carla Suarez Navarro, which was for once, correctly predicted by Moo! Pavlyuchenkova had a terrible start to her semi-final against Romina Oprandi, who had been on a rampage through the draw having lost just 14 games in her first three matches. Oprandi raced out into a 6-0 lead,…
1. Romina Oprandi v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova The real surprise package of this week has been Romina Oprandi, who tore past a lacklustre, Svetlana Kuznetsova to post a 6-2 6-2 quarter-final victory. She takes on another Russian tomorrow, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who edged past Elena Vesnina in a third set tiebreak, 6-3 6-7(3) 7-6(3). Vesnina…
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