Third round action in Madrid opened on Manolo Santana Court with home favourite, Lara Arruabarrena going up against Anastasija Sevastova. It was a surprise to see this match get top court billing and I can only assume that Carla Suárez Navarro had not wanted to play on the top court? Sevastova needed three attempts to…
Thursday will be quarter-finals day at the 2017 Mutua Madrid Open with just three seeds remaining in what has been another wild week on the WTA tour. This post features two snap previews for quarter-final matches including Svetlana Kuznetsova vs. Eugenie Bouchard and Kristina Mladenovic vs. Sorana Cirstea. A Set Points post to round up Wednesday’s action…
After the excitement of Sunday and Monday, Tuesday was a much quieter day in Madrid with nine second round matches. The most intriguing match from the day session was CoCo Vandeweghe up against Laura Siegemund. Both are well known for their antics on court! Despite wasting a set and a break lead, Vandeweghe eventually ended…
After the hectic weekend where 32 first round matches were played, Monday had a much calmer vibe with just seven matches on the schedule. The results though were anything but with six of the seven matches going to three sets… second round action on the Manolo Santana opened with a rather sizeable upset on paper…
The most anticipated match of the day, and perhaps the entire year so far, between Eugenie Bouchard and Maria Sharapova lit up Monday’s night session in Madrid. I was here for the drama but was kind of expecting a letdown… in fact, it lived up to expectation and THEN SOME. Bouchard beat Sharapova, 7-5 2-6 6-4 in…
The first round of Madrid is one of the busiest weekends of tennis with 32 first round matches. Ten were played on Saturday and a further 22 on a sumptuous Sunday of WTA action. Opening up Sunday’s Manolo Santana schedule was Angelique Kerber who scored a decent win over Timea Babos, 6-4 6-2. Aside from two…
You couldn’t have written the script any better… ten days after Eugenie Bouchard came out with some of the harshest comments about Maria Sharapova including calling her a “cheater”, the pair will meet in an absolutely mouthwatering second round clash in Madrid at not before 8pm local time on Monday. While the match-up had…
It’s a busy weekend of tennis with the finals for Prague and Rabat set and the main draw of Madrid starting on Saturday. Firstly in Prague, Saturday’s all-unseeded final will be contested between Mona Barthel and Kristyna Pliskova. Barthel has won seven (!) matches, coming through qualifying and even saving three match points in her…
The third Premier Mandatory tournament of 2017 starts on Saturday at the Mutua Madrid Open with nine main draw matches on the schedule. It’s a packed draw with no byes for the top seeds and a plethora of high quality of first round matches. This will be a sweeping preview since we are underway so soon with…
Apologies for no post yesterday as I decided to play tennis last night. It was a really good session and I finally feel after a month of playing regularly, i’m starting to improve. For the first time this year I was timing my forehand well (my best shot) and actually hitting through the ball. My favourite…
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