Thursday’s schedule in Antwerp is excellent with seven of the eight second round matches still to be played. On Wednesday, Dominika Cibulkova opened her tournament campaign with a very convincing victory over Kateryna Bondarenko, 6-1 6-2. It’s always nice when your predicted champion isn’t ousted in the first round! Antwerp seems to be delivering both…
Barbora Zahlavova Strycova strolled to her eight victory of 2015 with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Yanina Wickmayer. This was the first match i’ve watched from Antwerp and as many others are commenting on Twitter, it’s awfully dark. There was a pretty sombre vibe coming from the centre court and it didn’t sound like there…
The women are heading to Antwerp next week for the BNP Paribas Fortis Diamond Games in Belgium. The tournament originally ran between 2002 and 2009, but this feels like a new tournament to me as I wasn’t following tennis closely then. Kim Clijsters is the tournament director and the venue looks awesome. The line-up is…
WTA action is back next week with two tournaments in Pattaya City (Thailand) and Antwerp (Belgium). The PTT Thailand Open is an International event, which has attracted four of the world’s top 50. It’s one those draws that is veryyyy challenging to try and pick out a winner. For coverage and superb photography, @elissetennis is…
Take a bow, ladies. Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova, 6-3 7-6(5) to win her sixth Australian Open title and 19th Grand Slam overall in what was a fantastic final. The final had plenty of highlights and it was the second set that really brought this match to live. Pre-match, I wasn’t really feeling it. Although…
I don’t have a great deal to say other than YAY! Lucie Safarova and Bethanie Mattek-Sands beat Yung-Jan Chan and Jie Zheng, 6-4 7-6(5) in the final of the women’s doubles. Lucie and Beth both saved break points in their last two service games before breaking to seal the opening set, 6-4. The second set was…
The Australian summer of tennis is nearing its conclusion as the top two seeds, Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova will battle it out for the 2015 Australian Open title. It’s been a fun two weeks as always, but i’m looking forward to normal sleep patterns and not dreaming about tennis results (is that just me?…
All my favourite players have long gone from the singles draws, but Lucie is still sticking around in the women’s doubles! Playing with partner, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the pair have reached the final in their first ever tournament outing together. Beth has won a mixed doubles title before, but for Lucie, this is a first ever…
The second of the women’s semi-final will be an all-American affair between Serena Williams and the unseeded breakthrough act at this year’s Australian Open, Madison Keys. In the first of Wednesday’s quarter-finals, Keys fought from a break down in the decider and through a leg injury to beat Venus Williams, 6-3 4-6 6-4. @MooTennisBlog Vee…
The first of the women’s semi-finals will pit the number two seed, Maria Sharapova up against the number ten seed, Ekaterina Makarova. Both of Tuesday’s quarter-final matches were pretty sharpish. Makarova defeated Simona Halep, 6-4 6-0 in just 69 minutes. Makarova has now reached back-to-back Grand Slam semi-finals. I wasn’t majorly surprised that Makarova won,…
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