Day 8 was another fascinating day at Roland Garros. Play opened with a surprisingly comprehensive victory for Eugenie Bouchard over Angelique Kerber. You can read my recap of that match HERE. Bouchard will play Carla Suarez Navarro in the first of the womens quarter-final. The second of the quarter-finals from the top half will feature…
Eugenie Bouchard produced her best performance of the tournament to completely overwhelm Angelique Kerber and book her spot in a first French Open quarter-final and second consecutive Grand Slam quarter-final. Bouchard needed just 52 MINUTES to complete a comprehensive 6-1 6-2 victory over an out-of-sorts Kerber. Bouchard came out swinging from the first point and…
Yes, yes, YESSSSSS! I was absolutely delighted to see Lucie Safarova finally pull off a big win this year. She has been due something special and I am so pleased my prediction of Ivanovic to win in three dramatic sets was wrong! Lucie produced a magnificent performance to defeat Ana Ivanovic, 6-3 6-3 for her…
There have been many surprises at this year’s Roland Garros, but perhaps the greatest of them all is Pauline Parmentier reaching the second week of Roland Garros. The world number 145 has had some reasonable results on the ITF tour this year, winning a title in Grenoble in February. However she had not won a…
After a reasonably quiet day on Thursday, the upset train kicked into gear again as Ajla Tomljanovic knocked out the highest remaining seed in the womens draw, Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-4 6-4. After failing to serve out an upset win over Sloane Stephens at the Australian Open, Tomljanovic steadied herself in Paris to record the biggest…
After a rollercoaster start to Roland Garros 2014, day 5 was somewhat flat. The two womens seeds to fall were Kirsten Flipkens and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Pavs was forced to retire hurt with a back injury against Kiki Bertens. She had break points in the second set that would have seen her serve for the match. …
Another day of shocks saw the world number one, Serena Williams ousted by Garbine Muguruza, 6-2 6-2. By all accounts, Muguruza played a sensational match and Serena just had no answers. This was another really STUNNING loss. It has completely opened up the womens draw with the top two seeds both out. Flavia Pennetta, Alize…
Tuesday saw a huge shock in the womens draw as Li Na, the number two seed, was tumbled out in three sets by Kristina Mladenovic, 7-5 3-6 6-1. It came as such a surprise because Mladenovic, though talented, has done barely anything of note in singles this year. Apart from a top ten win over…
In one of the more difficult matches to call from the womens draw, Varvara Lepchenko comfortably defeated Petra Cetkovska, 6-4 6-1 out on court 2. It was a match that had three hour epic mess written all over it, but Lepchenko beat the darkness to wrap up the first round win in 72 minutes. The…
2014 Roland Garros is officially underway! Agnieszka Radwanska was the first winner of this year’s tournament as she defeated the world number 34, Zhang Shuai, 6-3 6-0. On paper, it looked like a tough match as Zhang has been in good form of late having made the quarter-finals of Rome. It was a competitive start…
