As the Olympics looms on the horizon, the US tournaments are coming thick and fast with the calendar bunching up over the next few weeks. Washington and Stanford are both a week early, thus reducing the Wimbledon blues! The draw for Washington has held up pretty well and is arguably more inviting than Stanford. Let’s take a…
Friday nights of Slam draws are my favourites… give me a draw to plough through and i’m happy! For profiles of the top 16 seeds at Wimbledon including recent form, previous Wimbledon performances, fun facts and general thoughts, check out my first preview for the women’s tournament HERE. This post focuses entirely on the draw, going…
It’s time for Wimbledon… woohoo! This is always my favourite Slam and i’m off work until the 7th of July so currently floating on air. This will be the first of many, many posts to come over the next two weeks so stay tuned to Moo’s Tennis Blog and tell your friends! There will also be more…
The most prestigious tennis tournament of the year will begin on Monday. The draw was released today at 10am and there are quite a few interesting 1st round and potential 2nd round match-ups! Two of the semi-final spots will be very wide open as Federer has struggled with injury this year and Wawrinka has never…
The 2016 Aegon International draw was conducted in Eastbourne on Saturday with main draw action set to get underway on Sunday. The line-up is very similar to last year with the two key omissions being the two Slam champs of 2016, Angelique Kerber and Garbiñe Muguruza. Check out my highlights from day 1 at the Aegon…
The Aegon Classic in Birmingham will be next week’s star attraction on the WTA tour. Also worth a mention is the new tournament in Mallorca, which has a wonderful looking centre court. I’m loving this time of the season when all my grass court pictures are actually relevant! As a Brit, i’ll be keeping the…
It’s goodbye to the clay and a hearty hello to the grass court season… i’ve been waiting for this moment for suchhhh a long time! The British grass court season actually got underway last week at the $50k ITF tournament in Eastbourne but the upcoming week will see the first WTA events on grass in 2016. The…
One of my favourite things to do is to sit down with a Slam draw and make my picks… that’s been the excitement of my Friday evening! For a mostly fact-based post with detailed profiles of the top 16 seeds at Roland Garros, click HERE. Read on for my thoughts about the women’s draw and how it may (or…
The second Major of 2016 will begin on Sunday with all eyes on Roland Garros for the next two weeks. The draw was released on Friday morning in Paris and it’s looking a little top heavy! Just to let you all know i’m going on holiday midway during the first week so I will likely disappear. I’ll…
The women’s draw at the Mutua Madrid Open concluded on Saturday with Simona Halep defeating Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2 6-4 in the final to claim her 12th title and a first since Indian Wells. It’s now goodbye to Madrid and a hearty hello to Rome! The Internazionali BNL d’italia main draw begins on Monday with a…
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