Washington is certainly the tournament to follow tonight with five courts offering up quality mens and womens singles matches. Where Carlsbad flourished last night with a string of compelling matches, today you would be pretty peeved if you had tickets for main stadium court with Laura Robson and Daniela Hantuchova the main highlights. Anyway, the…
The Citi Open in Washington D.C. is a joint event with interesting draws for both the ATP 500 and WTA International events. ATP Washington Juan Martin del Potro Juan Martin del Potro will make his first appearance after a sensational semi-final performance at Wimbledon where he pushed Novak Djokovic all the way in a classic. …
I have just realised that I forgot to do a wrap-up for the Stanford final so here goes! Serena continued her good form to defeat Marion Bartoli in the final, 7-5 6-1. Bartoli started the match well and earnt the first break to lead by 4-2 in the first set. Bartoli’s serve was really hitting…
This week is a packed line-up of tennis on both the WTA and ATP tours. We have the inaugural tournament in Washington, which is headlined by Shahar Peer and Nadia Petrova. It is not a fantastic draw but it has much more strength in depth than the lopsided draw from Baku last week. Peer and…
This week has been littered with surprises in Washington with two of the older players on tour making it through to the final. David Nalbandian has stormed his way through the draw with surprising ease losing just one set to Giles Simon. Nalbandian was out injured during Roland Garros and Wimbledon but has clicked straight…
The ATP tournament this week in Washington has witnessed a host of shocks as all 4 Americans in Roddick, Isner, Querrey and Fish were knocked out. The number two seed, Andy Roddick suffered a disappointing 6-3 6-3 loss to Giles Simon in a match where Roddick failed to find any rhythm. Roddick started the year…
An exciting line-up will head to Washington this week with Tomas Berdych, Andy Roddick, Marin Cilic, John Isner and Fernando Verdasco all looking for some success in the run up to this years US Open. In the first quarter, number 1 seed Tomas Berdych is projected to meet John Isner. Berdych could meet Richard Gasquet…
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