Both ranked inside the world’s top 30, the opener between Andrea Petkovic and Madison Keys is a brutal draw befitting of the quality of first round matches in Rome. Last week in Madrid, Petkovic faced off in the first round against the Rabat champion, Timea Bacsinszky. While she put up an admirable fight, especially having been in tears in during a medical…
The women’s draw at the Mutua Madrid Open concluded on Saturday with Simona Halep defeating Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2 6-4 in the final to claim her 12th title and a first since Indian Wells. It’s now goodbye to Madrid and a hearty hello to Rome! The Internazionali BNL d’italia main draw begins on Monday with a…
Quarter-Finals day at the Mutua Madrid Open was a much calmer affair after the drama of Wednesday. It also ended at a reasonable hour so i’ve managed to finish Set Points tonight! While just one seed remains, there’s still plenty of intrigue in this semi-final line-up. This will likely be my last post from Madrid…
Hello everyone, my name is Murphy and I’m extremely happy to contribute to Moo’s Tennis Blog with a guest post from the Stuttgart final. I know that a lot of tennis fans do like the WTA tournament in Stuttgart – that’s why I’m trying to write a small guide for those who plan to visit! The…
Ohhh Madrid, you are a mess. It’s been a frenetic week at the Mutua Madrid Open and that escalated further on Wednesday with the two remaining seeds in the top half of the draw both departing, one with a loss and one through injury. This has left a tournament wide open for literally anyone to win this…
In a seed-free top half of the 2016 Mutua Madrid Open women’s draw, Dominika Cibulkova and Sorana Cirstea will battle it out for a lucrative spot in the semi-finals of a Premier Mandatory tournament. Cibulkova has been pushed to three sets in all three of her matches in Madrid this week; it’s been a challenging run…
Day four of the Mutua Madrid Open saw just six WTA matches on the schedule as two players were forced to withdraw before play even got underway. It’s been another wild week on the WTA tour with just five seeds remaining in the draw and only ONE all seeded match-up for Wednesday’s slate of third round…
While the seeds have been dropping like flies, the defending champion, Petra Kvitova is sticking around in Madrid and is beginning to showcase some of her best form of the year. Kvitova will face an Australian Open rematch against Daria Gavrilova in the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open on Wednesday. Kvitova had an…
After Sunday’s jamboree of tennis fun, we were down from 26 matches to just eight on Monday! On the third day of main draw action, five of the seven seeds went tumbling out of the tournament as sections of this draw began to open up in style with at least four unseeded players confirmed to…
WTA action on Tuesday at the Mutua Madrid Open will feature the remaining eight second round singles matches. This post covers two previews from the top quarter of the draw including Dominika Cibulkova v Caroline Garcia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova v Camila Giorgi. In a quarter that has lost all of its seeds, the four players in question all have a…
