In one of two all-American second round clashes from the top quarter, Bethanie Mattek-Sands and CoCo Vandeweghe will battle it out in a sure-to-be compelling clash with the winner on course to play Serena Williams in the third round. Vandeweghe upset Sloane Stephens in the first round with a solid 6-4 6-3 display. It wasn’t…
After Maria Sharapova pulled out of the tournament, it left a pretty gaping hole in the top half of the draw. First round action on day one has chucked the second quarter (and parts of the first too) into a blender as seed after seed departed. The first to go was Ana Ivanovic, who was…
This is the first of four preview posts focusing on first round women’s matches at the US Open which will all be played on Monday and Tuesday. As always, don’t be shy in sharing your opinion! For further coverage of the tournament, check out the Moo’s Tennis Blog Facebook and Twitter pages… please like and…
For the first time since 2011, Maria Sharapova is into the last eight at Wimbledon. A longer break since Roland Garros and a neat draw have helped Maria progress through her first four rounds without the loss of any sets. Sharapova was tested in her fourth round match against Zarina Diyas but ultimately prevailed, 6-4…
1. Lucie Safarova v CoCo Vandeweghe (Wimbledon, R4) I was nervously following the Lucie-Sloane match on the scoreboards at Wimbledon on Friday. After Sloane took the first set, I was resigned to her losing… however once again, she dug out the win in three sets, 3-6 6-3 6-1. Lucie has become much more match tough…
Day 3 was slow to get going but as to be expected with the schedule, peaked in the evening. There were so many good women’s matches on at the same time. There were more upsets in the women’s draw with five of the top 12 seeds already out after just three days. In case you…
No more seeds fell in the bottom half of the women’s draw on day 3 (Halep v Gajdosova still to play at time of writing) after a cull of the seeds on the first day of the 2015 Australian Open. This nearly wasn’t the case for Maria Sharapova who saved two match points to beat Alexandra…
Jelena Jankovic Here is a quick round-up of what has been happening so far this week: WTA Stanford: Serena Williams won her opening match against Nicole Gibbs, 6-2 6-1 to set up a quarter-final match with Chanelle Scheepers; however the number 4 seed, Jelena Jankovic was not so lucky as she lost yet another first…
Caroline Wozniacki and Coco Vandeweghe were just two of the names to make the QF’s of WTA Tokyo on Wednesday. Wozniacki continued her impressive form of late with a comprehensive 6-1 6-2 victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Once again, Pavlyuchenkova struggled to cope with Wozniacki as she was on the end of yet another disappointing one-sided…
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