Like Indian Wells, Miami offers up all eight of the fourth round matches on the same day. To be honest, I am unenthralled by the line-up and perhaps that is just me feeling a downer on Miami. However if the matches go the way I think they could (they won’t) then the quarter-final line-up could…
The one match I really wanted to watch on Saturday in Miami was the third round match between Maria Sharapova and Lucie Safarova. Thanks to Serena’s long match, a rain delay and Donald Young v John Isner taking forever (thanks guys), it didn’t start till gone past 11pm UK time. By all accounts it was…
Serena Williams endured another tough match on Saturday as she spent over two and half hours on court with Caroline Garcia. The Frenchwoman put in a spirited performance and hung around terrifically well in the third set before Serena closed out the match in style, 6-4 4-6 6-4. In other news, Sabine Lisicki’s rough luck…
Jelena Jankovic was the most high profile loss on Friday as she wasted a 5-1 third set lead to go down in what sounded like a strange match to Varvara Lepchenko, 6-3 2-6 7-6(2). The coverage of the womens draw has been slack, but I did manage to watch the first set of Serena William’s…
After an excellent week of coverage from Indian Wells, Miami is already starting to take quite a bit of flack with its lack of streams for the WTA tour. On Thursday, there were just two streamed WTA matches, which seems rather pathetic for a Premier Mandatory event. In general, Miami really seems to have regressed,…
As the dust has barely settled from two weeks in the desert of Indian Wells, the Miami draw is out and main draw action for the women kicks off on Tuesday. It has been difficult to put a full preview together for this tournament with very limited time and with qualifiers unlikely to be placed…
My predictions had shaped up quite nicely this week as my two finalists were both still in contention going into the final. Both Li Na and Simona Halep had beaten their semi-final opponents before this year, but of course it was Agnieszka Radwanska and Flavia Pennetta who prevailed! It’s a surprising final, but one that holds…
Women’s semi-finals action at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells highlights Friday’s night schedule. Three of the four women’s quarter-finals were pushed to three sets but the offerings on Thursday were not pretty. As Indian Wells simmers to a conclusion, the attention will swiftly turn to Miami where the main draw of the second…
2014 is starting to look like a big year for the WTA. The days when Serena, Azarenka and Sharapova would win regularly have not been happening at the start of 2014 with all three players suffering some surprising losses. I am not accustomed yet to the likes of Simona Halep and Dominika Cibulkova as reliable…
My original men’s draw has been completely decimated to the ground; however my women’s draw is actually doing OK. Both my finalists, Li and Halep, are still in the draw. You now know that by me mentioning this, both will go and get knocked out on Wednesday! In yesterday’s polls, 60% of people correctly went…
