Blockbuster match-up alert… for the first time since 2015, Garbiñe Muguruza and Caroline Wozniacki will play each other in the fourth round of Miami on Monday. While Wozniacki has advanced through her two matches this week in straight sets, Muguruza has been forced to battle from a set down twice. Muguruza d. Zhang Shuai, 4-6…
After a challenging 18 months for Lucie Safarova, the tide seems to be turning in singles. In Saturday’s first match of the day on court 2, Safarova beat Ajla Tomljanovic, 6-1 6-3 to book her place in the last 16 of the Miami Open. It’s taken Lucie a long time to get over the health issues…
This post previews two fourth round matches to feature on Monday’s schedule at the Miami Open including Mirjana Lucic-Baroni up against Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and Dominika Cibulkova taking on Lucie Safarova. All eight fourth round matches will be played in Miami on Monday and last year it produced one of the most exciting days of WTA tennis…
Since so many of the matches are going to be late in Miami and past my bedtime, I thought i’d go for an early Set Points to cover the first half of the day. Continuing on from Thursday’s line-up, there were four matches that were not completed due to the rain. The first of those…
Second round action commenced at the Miami Open on Thursday with Stadium court opening up with the number two seed, Karolina Pliskova. In less than an hour, the Czech player defeated Madison Brengle, 6-1 6-3. I was stuck at work for the first set of matches but I was naturally thrilled to see Lucie Safarova reach…
Day 2 of the Miami Open main draw was a packed line-up with a total of 20 matches on the schedule. This Set Points is everything that happened up until I went to bed! Starting the day was another three set tussle between Jelena Jankovic and Yaroslava Shvedova. Four of the pair’s five previous matches…
Looking forward to this one… Simona Halep faces a tricky opener as she will play Naomi Osaka in the second round of the Miami Open on Friday. Osaka hadn’t lost her first match at any tournament in 2017 heading into Miami and she kept that trend going with a first round win over Kristina Kucova, 6-2 6-3…
New week, new tournament… welcome to the 2017 Miami Open! Main draw action got underway on Tuesday (and is still ongoing as I write this but I wanted to get a post about before I sleep) with Duan Ying-Ying the first winner of the tournament, defeating Laura Siegemund, 7-6(6) 6-3. Starting as we mean to go…
The manic March of tennis moves to Miami for the next two weeks with the second Premier Mandatory tournament of the year. Serena Williams will be missing again but nine of the world’s top ten are in attendance. Once again, this is just a sweeping preview looking at the key takeaways of the draw with…
The 2017 BNP Paribas Open concluded on Sunday with an all-Russian singles final. This post brings together the highlights from Indian Wells with best bits from the tournament including a recap of the final and links to memorable matches, shots and plenty more. If you fancy a trip down memory lane, you can check out my previous Match…
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