I forgot how difficult the Asian Swing is to follow when i’m working… play starts at 4am when i’m sound asleep. I could get up to watch some tennis but sleeeeeep. Then i’m at work while everything is going on. I’ve managed to find nuggets of time in the morning and during my lunch hour…
Just wow. This is the second day in a row that tennis has rendered me a speechless and sputtering wreck. Flavia Pennetta won the 2015 US Open, her first Grand Slam singles title, with a 7-6(4) 6-2 victory over Roberta Vinci. In her victory speech, Pennetta also dropped a bombshell as she announced her retirement…
ROBERTA VINCI. I’m trying to put words together but AHHHHHHH! And breatheeeeeeeee. In all my years of watching tennis, i’ve never witnessed anything quite like that. Roberta Vinci created one of the upsets in tennis history to defeat Serena Williams and set up an all-Italian US Open final against Flavia Pennetta. Wow it’s actually…
The first of the women’s 2015 US Open semi-finals will be played between Serena Williams and Roberta Vinci. Roberta Vinci reached her first ever Grand Slam semi-final with a hard fought 6-3 5-7 6-4 victory over Kristina Mladenovic in two hours and 32 minutes. It was a ropey match for two sets but the quality…
In an unlikely US Open quarter-final, Roberta Vinci and Kristina Mladenovic will both be battling to reach a first ever Grand Slam semi-final when the pair meet in Tuesday’s day session on Ashe. The second quarter of the women’s draw was always going to throw up a surprise with Maria Sharapova pulling out of the…
1. Ekaterina Makarova v Kristina Mladenovic (US Open, R4) In the wide open second quarter of the draw, The number 13 seed, Ekaterina Makarova is the highest seed remaining. Heading into the US Open with a heavy cloud of injury uncertainty, Makarova has acquitted herself well to reach the fourth round of the US Open.…
The first match of the day in New Haven was complete in just over an hour as Roberta Vinci won the last 12 games of the match to beat a lost-looking, Eugenie Bouchard, 6-1 6-0. Bouchard has endured some really bruising losses this year but this one was unfortunately at the top of the tree.…
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…
The Beijing quarter-finals are all set and in one case, we already know a semi-finalist. Ana Ivanovic has advanced to the last four after Simona Halep pulled out of the tournament. There were some unhappy Petkovic fans on Twitter as the German player had pushed Halep to a third set tiebreak earlier today before losing. …
The most intriguing of Sunday’s three finals will be in Istanbul where the top two seeds (wow) have progressed through to the showpiece finale. Caroline Wozniacki and Roberta Vinci have both looked in great form so far this week; Wozniacki has lost two sets through the tournament to Karin Knapp (4-6 6-2 6-1 in the…
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