This is the fourth and final part in the countdown of my favourite WTA matches from the 2016 season. In case you missed any of the first three posts, you can catch up with the following links: Part 1, matches 20 to 16 HERE Part 2, matches 15 to 11 HERE Part 3, matches 10 to 6…
Daria Kasatkina missed three match points against Roberta Vinci when they last played in Doha, eventually losing out in a third set tiebreak. Six months on, Kasatkina will get another shot against Vinci in the third round of the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Thursday. Kasatkina enjoyed an excellent win over the number 13 seed, Sam…
This post covers two all-seeded third round matches at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells for Monday; Ana Ivanovic against Karolina Pliskova and Roberta Vinci playing Elina Svitolina. For a round-up of all the action from the women’s bottom half on Saturday, click HERE. 1. Ana Ivanovic v Karolina Pliskova (IW, R3) Ana Ivanovic will…
Absolutely glorious… the final match of the day in Doha saw Agnieszka Radwanska come from a set down to beat Roberta Vinci, 3-6 6-2 6-3. It was a wonderful, wonderful match with some SENSATIONAL shotmaking and over 100 (!) net approaches between the pair. Here’s a collection of Twitter highlights from one of, if not, the best match of the…
Belinda Bencic confirmed her place in the world’s top ten when the new rankings come out on Monday after defeating fellow 18-year-old, Daria Kasatkina in the semi-finals of St. Petersburg, 6-4 6-3. I’ve said it so many times this year already but Bencic’s ability to tough out wins is pretty extraordinary… it’s the mark of…
The St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy has produced a solid slate of quarter-finals which will all take place on Friday. First up will be the number two seed, Roberta Vinci against one of four unseeded players in the last eight, Timea Babos. This will be Babos’s first Premier quarter-final and she’s enjoying a decent year so far.…
The first day of the 2016 Australian Open will cover the top half of the women’s draw with the likes of Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova, Agnieszka Radwanska, Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Belinda Bencic all in action. A first round preview of Serena’s first round match against Camila Giorgi can be found HERE. This post…
It’s been a rather wacky start to the 2016 tennis season. Tuesday was a miserable day for the WTA with Simona Halep and Maria Sharapova both pulling out of Brisbane, and Serena Williams and Petra Kvitova retiring from their matches at the Hopman Cup and Shenzhen respectively. However, Wednesday presented some classic WTA drama… Broady…
This post previews six of the first round matches from the 2016 Brisbane International main draw including Sunday’s matches featuring Timea Bacsinszky v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Alizé Cornet v Kristina Mladenovic. In case you missed it, you can read a (newly revamped!) preview of the full main draw on mootennis.com HERE. 1. Maria Sharapova (3) v Ekaterina Makarova A…
The US Open finalist, Roberta Vinci has continued her excellent recent form and just like her last tournament, will play a Williams sister in the semi-finals… this time, Venus. It’s refreshing to see Vinci backing up that run in New York because to be honest, I expected her form to drop off after such a…
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