Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Alizé Cornet both beat higher ranked opposition on day 1 of the Brisbane International to set up a second round tie for Tuesday, second up on show court 1. Pavs delivered the best performance on Sunday, overwhelming the number five seed, Timea Bacsinszky, 6-2 6-1. Peak Pavs was definitely in the house…
The finalists from the last two trophy matches in Auckland, Venus Williams, Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki headline a reasonably strong line-up for the International event in Auckland with all eight seeds from the world’s top 45. Always attracting excellent crowds, Auckland is one of the best International events of the year and a fun one to follow.…
This post previews six of the first round matches from the 2016 Brisbane International main draw including Sunday’s matches featuring Timea Bacsinszky v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Alizé Cornet v Kristina Mladenovic. In case you missed it, you can read a (newly revamped!) preview of the full main draw on mootennis.com HERE. 1. Maria Sharapova (3) v Ekaterina Makarova A…
And hereeee we go again… The first main draw of the 2016 season was officially unveiled on Friday for the Brisbane International, the showcase WTA event for the upcoming first week. The curtain officially comes down with main draw action starting on Sunday; qualifying began on Friday with victories for the likes of Margarita Gasparyan, Kaia Kanepi and Naomi Osaka.…
The 2016 tennis season is just a few days away and after a much needed break, Moo’s Tennis Blog will once again be a hive of activity! It’s taken a while, slightly longer than usual, but i’m craving live tennis. Once again, i’ll be concentrating on the WTA in 2016. Unfortunately I don’t have the…
As the New Year approaches, i’m reflecting on the year; there were many memorable live tennis experiences including Eastbourne and visiting Roland Garros for the first time. I’m hoping to make it to another new tournament in 2016 (planning required!) but for now, i’ve already booked my hotel for Eastbourne (yayyy) and will try and get to Wimbledon a few times too. Anyway, here…
In 2015, we had a number of guest posts from tennis fans who visited tournaments – I wrote about my experiences of visiting Eastbourne and Wimbledon, Jonni wrote about attending the US Open and recently, we had Morgane writing about the amazing atmosphere at the Fed Cup final in Prague. It would be awesome to post more guest posts from fans…
I have been focusing on the WTA tour this year but i’m pleased to say that we have a guest post from Vithun Illankovan (@VitIllankovan on Twitter) who is here to count down his season-ending top ten predictions for the ATP at the end of 2016. 10. Richard Gasquet I expect Gasquet to retain his place in the Top…
It’s finally Christmas and I have two solid weeks off work… absolute bliss! Slightly later than planned, here’s part two of my WTA predictions. As always, comments are much appreciated. I have enjoyed reading everyone’s thoughts on what’s going to happen in 2016 over on my WTA top ten predictions for 2016 post. Here’s the best of the…
It’s time for the annual post of WTA predictions on Moo’s Tennis Blog. In case you missed it, you can read my predictions from previous years HERE and my review of how 2015 predictions fared HERE. I really struggled this year and there were two players in mind that I wanted to include in my…
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