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…
All in for this one… a battle of the 18-year-olds will be the second of Saturday’s semi-finals in St. Petersburg. While just two months separate Belinda Bencic and Daria Kasatkina in age, 52 places separate the pair in the rankings. Bencic has had the far greater exposure on the WTA tour but Kasatkina is beginning…
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.…
Thursday’s match of the day in St. Petersburg will see a first clash in over three years between Caroline Wozniacki and Dominika Cibulkova. The pair have played 12 times before but had avoided each other in draws since the end of the 2012 season. While the number 3 seed, Wozniacki had a bye in the first round, Cibulkova…
Main draw action finally got underway on Tuesday at the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Margarita Gasparyan both progressing into the second round with victories in the evening session. These were the first matches that I watched from St. Petersburg; I really like the main stadium and the court seems fast, which…
Yanina Wickmayer and Jelena Ostapenko will meet in the first round of the St.Petersburg Ladies Trophy in what is sure to be a feisty affair. Wickmayer continues to blow hot and cold; her aggressive baseline game made her a regular in the top 30 between 2009 and 2012 but she has never managed to regain that kind…
The WTA tour kicks back into action next week with two new events in St. Petersburg, Russia and Kaohsiung, Taiwan. This week, Moo’s Tennis Blog will be focusing on the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy where seven of the world’s top 30 are in attendance. This is a Premier event which has replaced Antwerp in the calendar. Let’s…
A heads up for another tennis fantasy game for anyone who likes to do draw predictions for either WTA or ATP. I mentioned the Tennis Draw Challenge game in my post for the Australian Open which i’ve been doing for the last year. They’ve made some super updates this year and you can now set up your…
The first Grand Slam for the women is in the books after Angelique Kerber won her first Grand Slam title, beating Serena Williams in Saturday’s final. This is my tournament round-up, Match Points, picking out the most memorable moments of the Australian Open through tweets, pictures, GIFs, videos and plenty more… The Final Kerber d. S.Williams, 6-4 3-6…
I am going to keep this brief, for now at least, because I really am struggling to process what just happened. Australian Open 2016 Final… Angelique Kerber d. Serena Williams, 6-4 3-6 6-4 Angelique Kerber is a Grand Slam champion… Has it sunk in for you yet?! Angelique Kerber needed to play the match of…
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