The coverage this week in Indian Wells has been really great and there have some good women’s matches. Monday’s stat of the day was Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova winning just four points in the deciding set to Aleksandra Wozniak as she was handed a bagel and a breadstick in a 6-1 6-7 6-0 loss. The big shock…
The top half of the women’s draw looks really inviting with a number of marquee match-ups for Monday. In the other matches, Alisa Kleybanova has a great chance to make the fourth round. Her victory over Garbine Muguruza really went under the radar. The match between Ekaterina Makarova and Dominika Cibulkova should also be very…
Victoria Azarenka’s miserable year continued as she laboured to a 6-0 7-6 loss to Lauren Davis in Indian Wells. Her foot injury, which she described as inflammation and nerve damage in between the bones of her foot, doesn’t sound promising and she is now a major doubt for Miami. Predictions-wise, Friday was a pretty ropey…
The seeds come out to play on Friday in the women’s draw with Agnieszka Radwanska, Victoria Azarenka and Jelena Jankovic all in action. There were some snapping streak wins on Thursday with Francesca Schiavone and Donna Vekic both recording their first wins of 2014. Can Vinci follow suit? Indian Wells and Miami have always been…
The first Premier Mandatory tournament of 2014 begins on Wednesday with a strong field that as usual, is lacking the Williams sisters. The draw looks wide open with Li Na and Agnieszka Radwanska the top two seeds. Note that the 32 seeds all have byes into the second round and will begin their campaigns on…
Acapulco wiped the floor with Dubai this week in terms of producing high quality and competitive matches. I had several gripes about the scheduling with five consecutive days of matches finishing past midnight. However it didn’t seem to affect the quality of tennis and the crowds were pretty spectacular all week. When the Murray-Dimitrov semi-final…
The order of play in Acapulco is beginning awfully late at 4pm local time every day, which means that it all takes place while I am asleep. All the first round matches wrapped up yesterday and the entire slate of second round matches will play on Wednesday. Credit to the schedulers for not relegating the…
Along with the men’s event in Dubai there is a joint event in Acapulco, a WTA event in Florianopolis and an ATP event in Sao Paulo. There are big changes to the event held in Acapulco, which has now been converted from clay to bright blue hard court. The men’s draw features Andy Murray and…
What a week for Venus Williams, who won her biggest title since 2010 and maintained a terrific 15-match winning streak in Dubai. She beat Alize Cornet in the final, which wrapped up a solid week of tennis at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. For the final poll of WTA Dubai, 69% of Moo’s Tennis Blog…
Today featured another wow moment of 2014 as the world number 26, Alize Cornet upset the world number one, Serena Williams in a stunning 6-4 6-4 victory. Cornet now meets Venus Williams in a surprising unseeded finale to the 2014 edition of the Dubai Duty Free Championships. In yesterday’s poll, 69% correctly went for Venus…
