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…
Another new week of tournaments began on Monday with main draw action in Prague (Czech Republic) and Rabat (Morocco). Starting with Prague, there was a rather noteworthy upset as Camila Giorgi upset the number one seed, Karolina Pliskova, 7-6(6) 6-2. It was Giorgi’s first ever victory over Pliskova having lost their three previous encounters. Upset complete!…
The 2017 edition of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, the 40th anniversary of the event, was certainly a memorable one. The tournament saw the return of Maria Sharapova and a third win in a row by a German player in a fabulous final. This post brings together the highlights from the tournament including a recap of the…
Saturday’s semi-finals at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix looked very enticing on paper and both delivered. In the hotly anticipated match-up between Maria Sharapova and Kristina Mladenovic, it was the Frenchwoman who prevailed in a three set tussle, 3-6 7-5 6-4 in two hours and 38 minutes. Sharapova had delivered another clean set to win…
Friday was quarter-finals day at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart and once again, this is a snappy round-up of results as I was unable to watch much tennis today. In the first match of the day, Maria Sharapova enjoyed a third straight sets win in a row, fending off an in-form, Anett Kontaveit, 6-3 6-4.…
This will be a snappy Set Points just to wrap up today’s results – I was busy at work so couldn’t really follow the scores and then played tennis this evening so missed the first night match. Unlike Tuesday, tonight’s tennis from myself wasn’t so good! The conditions were tricky as it was damp and…
Wednesday was one of the most anticipated days on the 2017 WTA calendar and it was an early one in Stuttgart as journalists were out in force to watch Maria Sharapova’s practice on the main court. First groundstrokes for Sharapova on site of a WTA event in over a year. pic.twitter.com/X0NUTRWsUm — René Denfeld (@Renestance) April…
The 2017 Stuttgart main draw finally got underway on Tuesday with Barbora Strycova the first winner of the tournament. In a surprisingly efficient display and dropping just nine points (!) behind her serve, Strycova defeated lucky loser, Jennifer Brady, 6-2 6-2. Next up for the Czech player will be Simona Halep on Wednesday. .@BaraStrycova picks…
The next week promises to be one of the most intriguing on the WTA tour in 2017 as eight of the world’s top ten descend on Stuttgart at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix. The tournament will also see the return of Maria Sharapova – the Russian player will compete in her first match on Wednesday following…
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