The fast-paced nature of the tennis season strikes again as less than a day after the tournaments in Stanford and Washington concluded, the next tournament is already underway. Monday saw the start of main draw action at the 2017 Rogers Cup in Toronto. The day started with four first round matches up on the schedule…
19 of the world’s top 20 are in action next week at the Rogers Cup. The tournament location in Canada switches every year and in 2017, we’re in Toronto. My aim for the week – to avoid confusing Toronto with Montreal! Stanford and Washington saw the return of several marquee names, yet next week they…
Lucie Safarova and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, aka Team Bucie, won their fourth doubles title together on Sunday night in Toronto when they defeated Caroline Garcia and Katerina Srebotnik in a one-sided final, 6-1 6-2. The WTA also announced that Lucie and Beth have qualified for the doubles event at the WTA Finals in Singapore. It’s been…
Well hello there… that was quite a result to wake up to this morning! Belinda Bencic upset Serena Williams in the second of the 2015 Rogers Cup semi-finals, 3-6 7-5 6-4. I wish I could watch back the whole match but time is against me today. Bencic twice failed to serve out the match but…
Belinda Bencic continued her superb recent run of form to reach the semi-finals of the 2015 Rogers Cup and set up a semi-final date with Serena Williams on Saturday night. Bencic backed up her wins over Eugenie Bouchard, Caroline Wozniacki and Sabine Lisicki to score her fourth top 25 win of the week with an…
The first match of quarter-finals day at the 2015 Rogers Cup featured a bagel-breadstick sandwich as Simona Halep started slowly but finished in style, defeating Agnieszka Radwanska, 0-6 6-3 6-1. It was a strange match with neither playing their best at the same time. Radwanska made the much brighter start in the first set as…
Oh my… Sara Errani upset Victoria Azarenka on Thursday with a 7-5 6-3 victory to set up an unlikely quarter-final against Lesia Tsurenko. It was a befuddling loss that i’m struggling to get my head around. Azarenka just had a really bad day at the office and couldn’t find any rhythm. I’m still cringing at…
This was a fun one… In a ding dong battle on Centre Court, Simona Halep edged Angelique Kerber in three gruelling sets, 6-3 5-7 6-4 to move into the quarter-finals of the Rogers Cup. There were some brutal rallies in this match and both players were clearly struggling, especially Kerber. It had begun pretty routinely…
Wednesday at the Rogers Cup started with a flurry of upsets as Garbiñe Muguruza, Ekaterina Makarova and Lucie Safarova all exited. Muguruza lost to Lesia Tsurenko, 7-5 6-1 who has now won 15 of her last 16 matches on hard courts (heads up to @oceanside6 on Twitter for the stat). Garbi was madddddd in this…
After posting last week about some of my favourite WTA match-ups that i’m desperate to see, I didn’t expect that my number one match would happen in Toronto! On Wednesday at the Rogers Cup, Petra Kvitova will take on Victoria Azarenka… BRING IT ON! At the time of writing I am waiting to see the…
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