Day 3 at the 2021 Dubai Duty Free Championships was the busiest tennis day for a while with 16 second round matches on the schedule. There were upsets, a retirement and even some drama! Read on for my Dubai diary from Tuesday. The tennis just keeps on trucking along with all eight third round matches…
Goodbye Doha, Hello Dubai! The first WTA 1000 tournament of 2021 began on Sunday with first round action concluding on Monday. Two of the 16 seeds are out of Dubai at the first hurdle. Kristina Mladenovic beat the number 13 seed, Petra Martic and Barbora Krejcikova upset the number 16 seed, Maria Sakkari with the…
That’s a wrap for the 2021 Qatar Total Open. Saturday’s final between Petra Kvitova and Garbiñe Muguruza was a quick one as Petra won, 6-2 6-1 in just 66 minutes. This post ties a neat bow on Doha. Next week, the tour moves to Dubai for the first WTA 1000 event of the season. There…
Quarter-finals day at the 2021 Qatar Total Open featured four match-ups where there wasn’t really a clear favourite in any of them. In reality, three of the matches were one-sided and the only three setter had a clear frontrunner from the start. If you missed out on today’s Doha quarter-finals then hopefully this post brings…
The second round is in the books in Doha. The day session was mostly underwhelming in a sea of straight setters. Things kicked into gear with a cracking night session. Muguruza-Sabalenka lived up to the expectation, which is the focus of today’s post, and Pliskova-Jabeur was super entertaining with Pliskova just about hanging on in…
The WTA tour has moved away from Australia with the Middle East swing kicking off in Doha. It’s the classic WTA draw with so many 50-50 match-ups. I tentatively went for a Kvitova-Muguruza final in my Draw Challenge. Last week in Adelaide, Iga Swiatek won the title without dropping a set. Very, very impressed with…
That’s a wrap for the 2021 Australian Open! Despite the challenge that the Australian swing always poses to watching from the UK (😴), it’s been a lot of fun to watch and blog. You kind of have to pause the rest of your life for two weeks to follow the Australian Open. That hasn’t been…
We’re down to the final two at the 2021 Australian Open after Thursday’s semi-finals. Naomi Osaka and Jennifer Brady won through to Saturday’s showpiece. There’s always a big sense of relief when Thursday’s matches have passed and there is no more overnight tennis! I can finally start catching up on sleep 😂. It’s been fun.…
Both quarter-finals on day 10 went three sets and it is now confirmed that we will have a new Slam finalist from the top half of the draw! I’m starting to struggle with pictures and have just one photo of Brady and Muchova combined. Trust me, it’s not intentional to never give Muchova the limelight…
Tuesday’s quarter-finals were both decided in straight sets although the scorelines didn’t exactly tell the full story. This draw has produced so many blockbuster match-ups and we have the ultimate one set for Thursday as Serena Williams will take on Naomi Osaka in the semi-finals. Can’t wait! Read on for thoughts of Naomi and Serena’s…
