Unfortunately it was a sad end to the 2019 Rogers Cup with just four games played in the final as Serena Williams was forced to retire. It was still a great week of tennis in Canada and has got me out of my post-Wimby slump! Attention quickly turns to Cincinnati with main draw action starting…
A fantastic week in Toronto is drawing to a close with the singles final all set for Sunday between Serena Williams and Bianca Andreescu. After Toronto, we move straight onto Cincinnati where there is another fabulous draw primed. Looking forward to Cincy which is one of my favourite tennis weeks of the year! Read on…
The 2019 Rogers Cup has been a great tournament so far for the women with many close matches, new players coming through, home favourites rolling, upsets among the band of seeds but stability too with four of the top eight making the quarter-finals. Read on for a Set Points round-up from Friday’s quarter-finals in Toronto.…
The second round is in the books at the 2019 Rogers Cup. It’s been a good week so far and there have been so many closely contested matches. On Wednesday, seven of the 13 matches went the distance with just the one seed going out in the last match of the day where Iga Swiatek…
The first round is in the books at the 2019 Rogers Cup and the second round is underway after a busy day in Toronto. It was another day of upsets with 5 of the 6 seeds in action going out and so much happening at night. I feel so many of these “upsets” have caveats…
I wasn’t sure if I was ready to jump back into the whirlwind of tennis yet but the draw for Toronto has me hooked with so many exciting first round matches. I just hope the tournament delivers with the promise of this draw. Day 1 was a good start! I’m super busy at work right…
There was no post on the blog yesterday as I had tickets for the World Athletics Championships at the Olympic Stadium in London. It was a good night and athletics is a lot of fun to watch live. The atmosphere was super and there was so much going – it was hard to keep up…
Second round concluded on a busy Wednesday at the 2017 Rogers Cup in Toronto. The first match of the day on Grandstand saw the biggest upset by ranking so far as CiCi Bellis continued her superb year with a second top ten win of her career over the number eight seed, Svetlana Kuznetsova, 6-4 7-5.…
In a first ever encounter on hard courts, the number five seed, Elina Svitolina will take on the number nine seed, Venus Williams in a blockbuster third round encounter at the Rogers Cup on Thursday. Both are well in contention for the WTA Finals in Singapore and the winner of this match will advance to…
Before I dive into action on day 2 of the Rogers Cup in Toronto, a heads up for a new guest post on the blog! Many thanks to Ben who has written a great post about his week at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford with plenty of insight into the tournament where…
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