Day 5 was actually a quiet day as all eight women’s singles matches were won by the higher ranked player and seven of the matches were decided in straight sets. The only top seed to face any real danger was Serena Williams who was really struggling with her movement and footwork. Serena survived a tortuous…
Two rounds down and the 2021 Australian Open is shaping up very nicely. The stand-out result on day 4 was the loss of the defending champion, Sofia Kenin. More on that in this post. Kenin was the only seed to lose with nine of the ten seeds in action on Thursday progressing to the last…
Attention switched back to the bottom half of the draw on Day 3 of the 2021 Australian Open. It was quite an eventful day with three seeds falling and one of the favourites combing back from the brink. I was sad to see Petra go out 😢. Three days in and i’m definitely starting to…
The first round of the 2021 Australian Open is officially in the books. Five seeds fell on Tuesday – Victoria Azarenka, Petra Martic, Johanna Konta, Maria Sakkari and Zhang Shuai. Azarenka and Sakkari are covered in this post. Konta was forced to retire due to an ab injury which was a real shame as she…
Ready. Steady. Go! The 2021 Australian Open is underway and day 1 was all about the loaded bottom half of the women’s draw. It was actually a relatively quiet day for the seeds. I definitely expected more carnage to be honest. Three seeds fell on day 1 – Angelique Kerber, Alison Riske and Wang Qiang.…
We’re nearly there. It’s been a rocky road up to the 2021 Australian Open but the tournament is set to get underway on Monday. After the withdrawals on Friday and Saturday, and the announcement that the Grampians Trophy final will not be played at all, my attention has naturally switched to the first Slam of…
Thankfully there were no further positive cases recorded on Thursday and the tennis returned on Friday with another manic schedule. The Australian Open draw was also released overnight. My FOMO is through the roof right now 😂. All the quarter-finals from the Yarra Valley Classic and the Gippsland Trophy were played under the MCA roof…
Wednesday was one of the most manic days of tennis that I can remember. It was the last 16 of the Yarra Valley Classic and the Gippsland Trophy, as well as the first round of the Grampians Trophy. The recent news coming out of Melbourne is that there will be no play on Thursday after…
I’m really enjoying the return of the tennis, even with the overwhelming number of matches. I’ve accepted that I can’t follow everything so just trying to pick and choose the matches that interest me and check in on as many players as possible. I’m surprised how well the draws have held up so far, especially…
Monday was a mix of first and second round matches at the Yarra Valley Classic and the Gippsland Trophy. Some of the top eight seeds came out to play for the first time and they were all successful. Just two seeds (Donna Vekic and Wang Qiang) lost on day 2 of the Melbourne Tennis Extravaganza.…
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