Garbiñe Muguruza avoided the recent runaway train of “upset” seeds to book her spot in the quarter-finals of Doha where she will play Andrea Petkovic. The Dubai-Doha Middle East swing has been unpredictable to say the least; the recurring theme of surprise results continued on Wednesday with the loss of Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Eugenie Bouchard…
It was yet another eventful day on the WTA tour. Top seeds departed Doha but what’s new? I’m really struggling with Doha as I expected, thought, HOPED that the second round matches would be played over two days but then realised it’s a Saturday final… It all feels so rushed. So much happened today so…
All 16 second round matches will be played in Doha on Tuesday… it’s going to be a feast of WTA action! I’m currently crying at the prospect of having to work through it all but on a positive note, Lucie’s match is later, third on, so I *should* get home in time to watch. In…
Lucie Safarova is backkkk… *high fives everyone*. Regular readers of Moo’s Tennis Blog will know i’m a big Lucie fan so this is going to be a really exciting week. Lucie’s been out of action since the WTA Finals in Singapore following complications from the bacterial infection she suffered during last year’s Asian Swing. Prior…
This post covers previews for two second round matches on Tuesday at the Qatar Total Open in Doha featuring the two highest ranked German players; Angelique Kerber who plays Saisai Zheng and Andrea Petkovic up against Margarita Gasparyan. 1. Angelique Kerber v Saisai Zheng (Doha, R2) In her first WTA tour match since winning the Australian Open,…
Hallelujah to a Sunday start… while a day off would have been nice, i’m not saying no to a day of being able to watch tennis without work getting the way! Here are the highlights from a pretty eventful day one. I’ve also included an awesome interview with Lucie and Rob in Doha. A feature post…
It was a wild week on the WTA tour at the Dubai Duty Free Championships which was littered with upsets as all eight seeds departed before the quarter-finals and without winning a match. Upsets always add an injection of excitement, but the loss of seeds this week was rather unnerving. The final promised drama but…
Tennis, why can’t you slow down? Dubai is barely in the books (Match Points coming soon!) and yet Doha is already on our doorstep with main draw action starting on SUNDAY. At least on this occasion, all the qualifiers have been placed so we know the entire draw. This post covers two first round matches…
The WTA tour moves from Dubai to Doha next week for the Qatar Open. As the two tournaments swap tier each year, Doha is a Premier 5 tournament with plenty of ranking points up for grabs. Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova have both withdrawn from the tournament, but it’s still packed with seven of the world’s top ten. I’m excited, as…
It has been a wild week at the 2016 Dubai Duty Free Championships; all eight seeds failed to win a match, a feat that had never occurred at a Premier event and hadn’t happened on the WTA tour since Bastad in 2014. After all the upsets we are left with a final to be contested…
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