The 2016 Wuhan Open final will be contested between the number 10 seed, Dominika Cibulkova and the number 14 seed, Petra Kvitova in Saturday’s final… and no one can deny that they haven’t earnt it! While Kvitova knocked out the world number one, Angelique Kerber in one of the matches of the year on Wednesday, Cibulkova…
The highlight of Wednesday’s schedule was a match-of-the-year contender between Angelique Kerber and Petra Kvitova that lasted three hours and 20 minutes. Petra prevailed for the best win of her year, 6-7(10) 7-5 6-4. I watched the first set during my lunch break which turned into a long one! Kvitova should have edged a brutal…
Tuesday was a busy day in Wuhan and a surprisingly successful day for the seeds with eight of the ten in action progressing to the third round. We’ve become used to upsets this year but actually, there’s been some stability among the world’s top ten during the second half of the season. The highest seed to fall…
First career match-up klaxon… the number seven seed, Carla Suárez Navarro will play the number 11 seed, Johanna Konta for the first time on the WTA tour when the pair meet in the third round of the Wuhan Open on Wednesday. Suárez Navarro had a bye in the first round and won her second round match…
After two retirements on the first day of main draw action in Wuhan, four more followed on a hot and sticky Monday in Wuhan. These included the following… Simona Halep d. Irina-Camelia Begu, 6-3 2-0 ret. Yulia Putintseva d. Anastasija Sevastova, 6-1 4-1 ret. Madison Brengle d. Heather Watson, 6-3 2-1 ret. Misaki Doi d. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova,…
Lucie, Lucie, Lucie… that’s three Lucie’s to match her number of hard court wins in 2016! 😉 Safarova scored a decent first round win over Varvara Lepchenko, 7-5 6-3. The story of the first set was missed break point opportunities – the first 14 break points (8 for Varvara and 6 for Lucie) were all missed/saved.…
Well hello there! It’s been nearly two weeks since my last blog post and ageeees since my last tournament preview. After the US Open and an exhausting summer, I needed to take a break. I just spent a relaxing week in Wales – my batteries are definitely recharged! I wanted to bring you up to…
I haven’t been covering Tashkent this week, the International event that has been running alongside Wuhan. Saturday’s final was an intriguing one on paper between Donna Vekic and Nao Hibino and I did get to watch some of it. Vekic has had a disappointing year up till now but still manages to have these…
The Wuhan semi-finals featured some fantastic quality tennis but both ended on a sour note with a pair of frosty handshakes. For the second straight day, Venus Williams pulled out another victory in a third set tiebreak, saving a match point on this occasion to defeat the US Open finalist, Roberta Vinci, 5-7 6-2 7-6(4)…
The big news on Thursday was the confirmation that Serena Williams has ended her year and will not compete in the WTA Finals in Singapore, which are set to get underway in just over three weeks. While it is a real blow to the tournament, I don’t think it comes as a major surprise as there…
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