The second round of the 2022 Australian Open is in the books. Day 3 followed the same trend of the first two days and was pretty subdued. Day 4 broke the mould with the first notable upsets of the tournament. I’ve been waiting for that moment, waking up and scrolling through the scores, befuddled and…
The lead-up to the 2022 Australian Open has been… well, eventful. It’s now time for the tennis to shine as the main draw for the Australian Open began on Monday. This post wraps up the highlights from the first round. On the whole, I think it was a pretty subdued start (which was probably required…
Australian Open time. What a wild run-up it’s been this year and still it goes on. Sydney and Adelaide concluded on Saturday with Paula Badosa and Madison Keys as the champs. Badosa-Krejcikova was an excellent final, while Keys winning was a real feel-good story. She looked fantastic all week! The draw for the 2022 Australian…
2022 tennis, hi there. It’s been a MESS of a week as tennis hit the global headlines. I can’t deny that i’ve been hooked by all the drama and am fascinated to see what happens on Monday. This post though will be a Djokovic free zone! The first week of the season always used to…
This is the annual post on Moo’s Tennis Blog where I have a bash at predicting next year’s season ending WTA rankings. 2021 was a mixed bag of predictions on MTB – view the results here. Please sound off in the comments with your top ten predictions for 2022! 10. Amanda Anismova: Let’s throw a…
It’s time to look back at last year’s predictions… and it was a mixed bag! I had four of the world’s top 10 in my top 10 and correctly predicted one ranking position. I did better on the Slam champs! Before posting my predictions for 2022, let’s take a look back at some of my…
The WTA Best of 2021 series concludes on mootennis.com with a countdown of the best matches. This year’s countdown is definitely skewed to the first half of the season and the Slams, and features the matches that moved me in 2021. For previous years’ countdown between 2011 and 2020, you can find them here. Let’s…
The WTA best of 2021 series continues on mootennis.com with a selection of light-hearted moments from the season with Hsieh Su-Wei the star of the show once again. I always enjoy looking back over previous years and if you have missed any of the previous editions of funny moments, you can find them all here…
The WTA Best of 2021 series on mootennis.com continues with Handshakes and Hugs. The aim of this post is always to showcase the acts of sportswomanship on the WTA tour and despite still being in the midsts of a pandemic, there were many touching moments. If you’ve missed any of the previous editions of handshakes…
The 2021 tennis season is officially in the books. As has become the norm in recent years, I pretty much checked out from tennis after the US Open 😂. I just got my ballot for the end-of-season awards so i’m kicking off the best of 2021 series on Moo’s Tennis Blog with the WTA Player…
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