After playing each other five times in 2014, it’s take until August of 2015 for another Serena-Ana match. For a time this didn’t look likely… Ivanovic made a woeful start to her third round match against Sloane Stephens, quickly going down 4-0 and losing the first set, 6-2. Stephens didn’t do anything special but played…
Thursday is my tennis day where I actually get on the tennis court rather than watching the pros do their thing. I missed the first two sets and a half but did see the end of the third round match in Cincy between Jelena Jankovic and Karolina Pliskova which was pretty noteworthy. Jankovic saved a…
Rain, rain, rain… I hear rain on my window and keep seeing rain on my TV screen. Rain is threatening to make it a late night/morning in Cincy. Two players who have managed to make it through to the third round are Lucie Safarova and Belinda Bencic… this is an interesting one as most will…
It’s a rare occurrence when you get to the third round at a tournament and one player has played two matches and the other one hasn’t even stepped onto the court yet. Ana Ivanovic is into the third round of Cincy without playing a match. In the first round she received a bye and in…
NEW MATCH-UP ALERT! For the first time on the WTA tour, Karolina Pliskova and Jelena Jankovic will play each other in third round action in Cincinnati. Both players won their matches on Wednesday in straight sets. For Pliskova, it was her first match of the week after having a bye in the first round. I…
In a match that felt like it would never end, Simona Halep defeated Kristina Mladenovic in Cincy, 7-5 5-7 6-4, having failed to convert on match points in the second set. Halep came into Cincy off the back of a gruelling run in Toronto where she was forced to withdraw in the third set of…
1. Jelena Jankovic v Madison Keys (Cincy, R2) After missing Toronto with a wrist injury, Madison Keys returned to action in Cincy with a superb victory over Timea Bacsinszky, 6-4 6-3. Keys overturned her loss at the French Open to inflict a third straight defeat for Bacsinszky who hasn’t won since Wimbledon. Keys will play…
The only second round match in Cincy on the WTA side is the last match on the Center Court schedule which promises to be an intriguing clash between two Grand Slam champions, Ana Ivanovic and Venus Williams. In first round action on Monday, Venus defeated Zarina Diyas, 7-6(6) 6-4 in what was a patchy match. It was…
Lucie Safarova and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, aka Team Bucie, won their fourth doubles title together on Sunday night in Toronto when they defeated Caroline Garcia and Katerina Srebotnik in a one-sided final, 6-1 6-2. The WTA also announced that Lucie and Beth have qualified for the doubles event at the WTA Finals in Singapore. It’s been…
The first round of Cincy begins on Monday and there is plenty to look forward to over the next week. As always, I will be endeavouring to cover all the WTA action. Please note I will be posting my predictions each day HERE so you can follow my progress… last week was hilariously bad but…
