In the only upset of the day, Magdalena Rybarikova defeated the number seven seed, Belinda Bencic, 6-4 3-6 6-3. BB was disappointing and just couldn’t get going in that third set. In hindsight, I don’t think this surface suits her game and particularly against someone with such a funky game. Credit to Magda though who…
Agnieszka Radwanska and Jelena Jankovic will meet for the ninth time on the WTA tour with a place in the quarter-finals of the 2016 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells up for grabs. Radwanska survived a huge scare in the second round, coming back from *2-5 down in the third set and saving a match point…
The remaining five seeds in the top half of the 2016 BNP Paribas Open women’s draw all successfully advanced to the fourth round. It was a much calmer day with four of those five seeds untroubled in straight sets. Read on for my Set Points summary of day 5 with help from Tennis Twitter. For Monday’s line-up, check…
Timea Bacsinszky and Eugenie Bouchard will play each other for the first time on the WTA tour when they meet in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells on Monday. Bacsinszky played her best match of 2016 so far, comfortably defeating Tsvetana Pironkova in the second round, 6-2 6-1. The key…
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…
Are you not entertained? Day 4 was another wacky, wild and entertaining day in the desert. While more seeds survived than fell on day 4 at the 2016 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, the number two and four seeds were both vanquished in straight set losses. Many of the seeds were challenged and some battled…
This post covers two third round matches set for Sunday’s schedule at the 2016 BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells; an all-seeded match-up between Simona Halep and Ekaterina Makarova, and the number 19 seed, Jelena Jankovic up against CoCo Vandeweghe. For a full round-up of what happened in the top half of the women’s draw…
The seeds came out to play on Friday… and the majority didn’t last the day! Nine out of the 16 seeds lost their first match in Indian Wells. There doesn’t seem to be much of a transition at the moment between some of the lower seeds and unseeded players. You can look at it from…
This post covers two second round matches from Saturday’s slate of women’s matches at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells including Carla Suárez Navarro v Daria Kasatkina and Sloane Stephens v Eugenie Bouchard. For a full preview of the number two seed, Angelique Kerber’s first match of the week against Denisa Allertova, click HERE.…
Angelique Kerber will play just her second WTA tour match since winning the Australian Open on Saturday, going up against the steadily improving, Denisa Allertova in Indian Wells. Allertova laid down her credentials with a thumping 6-0 6-1 victory over fellow Czech, Petra Cetkovska on Thursday. The match lasted just 41 (!) minutes and Allertova was very impressive.…
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