On a glorious sunny day in Paris, main draw action began at the 2021 French Open. It was a sharp contrast to day 1 of last year’s Roland Garros where the conditions were utterly miserable! Day 1 had just the one seeded upset on the women’s side, an unexpected nailbiter and plenty of off-court drama.…

The second Major of 2021 begins on Sunday with the delayed-by-one-week French Open. The past five editions have all produced first time Slam champions. If recent French Opens have taught us anything, it’s to hold onto your hats and expect some draw carnage. Read on for my preview of the main draw including first round…

That’s a wrap for the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open as Aryna Sabalenka beat Ash Barty, 6-0 3-6 6-4, to win the biggest title of her career. The tour heads to Rome next week with another cracking main draw and action getting underway on Monday. I won’t be blogging for Rome. The schedule is so tight…

The final is all set for Saturday in Madrid as Ash Barty and Aryna Sabalenka both won their semi-finals in straight sets. It sets up a third meeting between Barty and Sabalenka in 2021 and their second consecutive final having contested the Stuttgart final two weeks ago. Read on for Thursday’s belated diary with a…

The quarter-finals at the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open are in the books as Ash Barty, Paula Badosa, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Aryna Sabalenka advanced to the final four. Semi-finals are up on the schedule for Thursday before a day off on Friday ahead of Saturday’s showpiece. Read on for Thursday’s diary from Madrid. QF Highlights (1)…

Both halves of the draw now come together as all four quarter-finals will be played on Wednesday at the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open. A shorter post today as the matches all seemed to fall at awkward times and two of them, the ones discussed in this post, went past the two hour 30 minute mark.…

The first two quarter-finals are all set at the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open. Monday was a great day of tennis with highlights in all four of the third round matches. I wish every weekend could be a Bank Holiday. I’m looking forward to having a few days off to watch the tennis during the first…

I loved the first match of the day between Naomi Osaka and Karolina Muchova, which is the focus of today’s post. The rest of the day was mostly meh with straight setters all the way and the last match of the day scheduled for the Manolo Santana court never happening. My expectations are stupidly high…

Yay for the Bank Holiday Weekend. It was bliss to watch uninterrupted tennis this afternoon with the second round matches from the top half of the draw played out in Madrid. This tournament hasn’t quite kicked into gear yet. I’m excited about some of Monday’s matches from this half of the draw though. More on…

The first round is in the books for the 2021 Mutua Madrid Open. The first two days have been largely uneventful with 14 of the 15 seeds progressing to the next round. I’ve historically hated the Madrid tournament but i’ve slowly come round to it in recent years and am looking forward to a chilled…