The joint tournament in Acapulco this week features a WTA international draw and an ATP 500 event. I have fond memories of watching the ATP event in Acapulco last year. There were some brilliant matches towards the end of the tournament with the semi-final between Grigor Dimitrov and Andy Murray a particular highlight. The crowds…
Simona Halep officially pulled out of Doha today. This doesn’t come as a great surprise, but what it has done is shake up the draw and make the majority of my predictions obselete… that will teach me for posting the preview early! Caroline Wozniacki has been bumped up to the number two seed and will…
Dubai down, Doha up next. Six of the world’s top ten will be in Doha for the 2015 Qatar Total Open with the main draw beginning on Monday. Doha is a 32-player draw with byes for the top four seeds so it comes as no surprise that with such a solid line-up, there are some…
Simona Halep defeated Karolina Pliskova, 6-4 7-6(4) in the final of the 2015 Dubai Duty Free Championships to win her second title of the year. It was a really entertaining final, which concluded with a wacky final few games as Halep held off her nerves and a spirited effort from Pliskova. Halep needed just one…
Karolina Pliskova continued her stunning week with a semi-final victory over Garbine Muguruza, 6-4 5-7 7-5 in Dubai. Karolina has won five matches this week against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Barbora Zahlavova Strycova, Ana Ivanovic, Lucie Safarova and Muguruza with each match taking progressively longer. This marathon semi-final lasted two hours and 53 minutes. I can’t believe…
Just four players remain in Dubai; the bottom half has been ravaged with upsets, but there’s a tasty looking semi-final between two of the hottest players of 2015 so far. The top half has stuck with the seeding and should produce an equally enticing semi-final. I’ve had an awesome week in Racket Rally and my…
There were some very interesting results in Dubai on Wednesday as five of the top eight seeds went out of the tournament. The loss of the top seeds in the bottom half means that one of Lucie Safarova, Karolina Pliskova, Garbine Muguruza or Carla Suarez Navarro will make a Premier 5 final in Dubai this…
Lucie Safarova and Karolina Pliskova will play each other for the second consecutive week in the first of the Dubai quarter-finals at 2pm local time. Lucie had her best win since Wimbledon as she defeated the world number 11, Venus Williams, 6-4 6-2. Once again, I was following on the live scoreboard… this time, with…
The second round matches lived up to expectation in Dubai with quite a few interesting results. Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Agnieszka Radwanska all dropped a set, but won through to the third round. Three seeds weren’t quite as fortunate as Jelena Jankovic, Andrea Petkovic and Peng Shuai all lost. If you after some new…
Oh my days. Following Lucie Safarova‘s second round match in Dubai on the live scoreboard nearly destroyed me. After two hours and 52 minutes, Lucie defeated Casey Dellacqua, 6-7(6) 7-6(4) 7-5. Dellacqua had served for the match in the second set and came within two points of the win on multiple occasions. I expected Lucie to…
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