Dominika Cibulkova and Carla Suarez Navarro are the only two seeds to have fallen so far in Stanford. Cibulkova’s loss was pretty significant as she was the defending champion. She lost to Garbine Muguruza in three sets. If you missed that match, I reviewed it HERE. The biggest headline of Tuesday was Sabine Lisicki breaking…
I just had to write something about this match! I managed to get back from work in time for the start of the second set and was throughly entertaining by a magnificent Centre Court contest. Petra Kvitova defeated Venus Williams, 5-7 7-6(2) 7-5 in two hours and 30 minutes to book her spot in the…
Rain is going to severely interrupt Friday’s schedule. If they don’t play anything on Sunday, there is likely to be a backlog of matches going into the second week because Saturday’s forecast is also looking ropey. I hope you enjoyed all my photos in my Wimbledon report from Monday here. I was pretty chuffed because…
What a week for Venus Williams, who won her biggest title since 2010 and maintained a terrific 15-match winning streak in Dubai. She beat Alize Cornet in the final, which wrapped up a solid week of tennis at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. For the final poll of WTA Dubai, 69% of Moo’s Tennis Blog…
Today featured another wow moment of 2014 as the world number 26, Alize Cornet upset the world number one, Serena Williams in a stunning 6-4 6-4 victory. Cornet now meets Venus Williams in a surprising unseeded finale to the 2014 edition of the Dubai Duty Free Championships. In yesterday’s poll, 69% correctly went for Venus…
The Dubai semi-finals features a Williams special as both Venus and Serena progressed to the last four. All four quarter-finals were wrapped up in straight sets. In other news, I was scouring through the future entry lists and discovered that Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic have already committed to the AEGON Classic at Birmingham this…
In the two hotly anticipated matches in Dubai on Tuesday, neither disappointed. Caroline Wozniacki produced a fine turnaround to get past Sabine Lisicki, 2-6 6-3 6-3. In the other match, a third set tiebreak was needed to separate Angelique Kerber and Ana Ivanovic as Kerber suffered another really tough loss, her fourth loss this year…
I am really enjoying all the coverage this week from Doha, Rotterdam and Memphis. I happened to catch the end of Marinko Matosevic against Jiri Vesely in Memphis where Vesely came through, 6-3 6-2 to win just his second ATP tour match. Early on in the second set, Matosevic was heard on the court microphone…
Tokyo was one of my favourite tournaments of the entire year and in particular, the two semi-finals were both superb. The first of the semi-finals between Petra Kvitova and Venus Williams was my favourite match from Asian swing coming in at number 9 on my countdown. Venus had rolled back the years beating a struggling…
A cracking schedule for tomorrow, but unfortunately some great matches including Sloane-Bouchard will be on untelevised courts… 1. Venus Williams v Sabine Lisicki Sabine Lisicki Two players that have had their greatest successes at Wimbledon will square off in a blockbuster second round clash in Beijing. Venus Williams had a bye in the first round…
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