There have been no upsets overnight in Melbourne for the women; one seed did fall in Casey Dellacqua, but she always faced an uphill struggle against Madison Keys. Dellacqua started great, but Keys found her game to fly through the final two sets. Petra Kvitova had another solid win against Mona Barthel, who put up…
No more seeds fell in the bottom half of the women’s draw on day 3 (Halep v Gajdosova still to play at time of writing) after a cull of the seeds on the first day of the 2015 Australian Open. This nearly wasn’t the case for Maria Sharapova who saved two match points to beat Alexandra…
The match of the tournament so far will see the two time Australian Open champion, Victoria Azarenka go up against the number eight seed, Caroline Wozniacki. I can’t quite fathom how this match hasn’t earnt the night session on Rod Laver Arena, but the scheduling has been odd so far this week. To see a…
There weren’t as many upsets in the women’s draw on Tuesday, but there were still some notable exits with Jelena Jankovic, Flavia Pennetta and Andrea Petkovic going out; all three players remain winless in 2015. I watched the end of Petkovic’s match with Madison Brengle, who reached the final in Hobart last week. Petko struggled…
One day into the Australian Open and i’m already struggling to keep up. I say this all the time. I’m sorry. I got up at 5am this morning to watch a bit of tennis. Being at work when everything is going on, particularly with what sounded like the match of the tournament between Thanasi Kokkinakis…
The Australian Open starts tonight! In case you missed it, my preview for the women’s AO draw is already up and you can check it out HERE. Thanks for all the votes in the poll; After nearly 200 votes, Maria Sharapova currently leads the way with 26% of your votes, followed by Simona Halep (16%),…
GRAND SLAM TIME. The Australian Open promises to be a fascinating Slam for the women with a long list of legitimate contenders. Once again, Serena Williams headlines the draw and is the bookmakers favourite… based on the first two weeks of the 2015 season, this looks to be one of the most open Slams for…
With my earlier predictions being decimated with walkovers and various teams not playing well, we’ve now arrived at a doubles final between the teams of Kop Jones/Spears and Mattek-Sands/Mirza. Both teams are quite experienced doubles players and have had long partnerships with one another, even though Mirza’s main partner is Hsieh Su-Wei this year. And…
The Australian Open draws are released TONIGHT! Normally I stay up for them, but I really can’t be bothered this year. I remember last year that the pre-draw activities went on for about an hour so the draw didn’t take place until Midnight… I will look forward to scanning both draws on Friday morning and…
In the mens draw, Juan Martin del Potro won his second match on his return from injury with an impressive 4-6 6-2 6-2 victory over the number one seed, Fabio Fognini. Next up for the big man is Mikhail Kukushkin in the quarter-finals on Thursday. It was great to see the end of the DelPo…
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