It’s been a rather wacky start to the 2016 tennis season. Tuesday was a miserable day for the WTA with Simona Halep and Maria Sharapova both pulling out of Brisbane, and Serena Williams and Petra Kvitova retiring from their matches at the Hopman Cup and Shenzhen respectively. However, Wednesday presented some classic WTA drama… Broady…
In a now Halep and Sharapova-less Brisbane draw, Garbiñe Muguruza is the highest seed remaining. She will play her first match of the 2016 season on Wednesday against Varvara Lepchenko. Muguruza looked calm and in high spirits in press (see video below). I could listen to Garbiñe talk for hours… she’s enchanting! I like the excited…
Introducing Match Points… a brand new feature post for Moo’s Tennis Blog in 2016. Match Points aims to bring together the most interesting points of the tennis day including best matches, scorelines, tweets, facebook posts, videos and plenty more. It’s still a work in progress so any feedback is appreciated. It won’t be a daily feature just yet but when I…
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Alizé Cornet both beat higher ranked opposition on day 1 of the Brisbane International to set up a second round tie for Tuesday, second up on show court 1. Pavs delivered the best performance on Sunday, overwhelming the number five seed, Timea Bacsinszky, 6-2 6-1. Peak Pavs was definitely in the house…
The finalists from the last two trophy matches in Auckland, Venus Williams, Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki headline a reasonably strong line-up for the International event in Auckland with all eight seeds from the world’s top 45. Always attracting excellent crowds, Auckland is one of the best International events of the year and a fun one to follow.…
This post previews six of the first round matches from the 2016 Brisbane International main draw including Sunday’s matches featuring Timea Bacsinszky v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Alizé Cornet v Kristina Mladenovic. In case you missed it, you can read a (newly revamped!) preview of the full main draw on mootennis.com HERE. 1. Maria Sharapova (3) v Ekaterina Makarova A…
And hereeee we go again… The first main draw of the 2016 season was officially unveiled on Friday for the Brisbane International, the showcase WTA event for the upcoming first week. The curtain officially comes down with main draw action starting on Sunday; qualifying began on Friday with victories for the likes of Margarita Gasparyan, Kaia Kanepi and Naomi Osaka.…
The 2016 tennis season is just a few days away and after a much needed break, Moo’s Tennis Blog will once again be a hive of activity! It’s taken a while, slightly longer than usual, but i’m craving live tennis. Once again, i’ll be concentrating on the WTA in 2016. Unfortunately I don’t have the…
As the New Year approaches, i’m reflecting on the year; there were many memorable live tennis experiences including Eastbourne and visiting Roland Garros for the first time. I’m hoping to make it to another new tournament in 2016 (planning required!) but for now, i’ve already booked my hotel for Eastbourne (yayyy) and will try and get to Wimbledon a few times too. Anyway, here…
In 2015, we had a number of guest posts from tennis fans who visited tournaments – I wrote about my experiences of visiting Eastbourne and Wimbledon, Jonni wrote about attending the US Open and recently, we had Morgane writing about the amazing atmosphere at the Fed Cup final in Prague. It would be awesome to post more guest posts from fans…
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