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.…
And so we go again… strap yourself in for a feast of tennis over the next three weeks! Two WTA 500 tournaments, the Yarra Valley Classic and the Gippsland Trophy, both began on Sunday with 54-player draws. They’ll be joined on Wednesday by the Grampians Trophy with a 28-player draw for the players who were…
The first week of the 2021 season is in the books as the Abu Dhabi WTA Women’s Tennis Open concluded with a one-sided final and another dominant performance from Aryna Sabalenka. It’s been nice to have tennis as a distraction. There have been some great storylines from Australian Open qualifying in Dubai. The 20-year-old Brit,…
Monday’s quarter-finals (it’s weird to have quarters on a Monday) in Abu Dhabi all went three sets with the last match of the day between Elina Svitolina and Veronika Kudermetova being decided in a third set tiebreak. We’re guaranteed a new WTA finalist from the bottom half of the draw. One thing i’ve noticed this…
The final two matches on Sunday’s schedule in Abu Dhabi saw the top two seeds, Sofia Kenin and Elina Svitolina, save match points to advance to the quarter-finals. Both were rather tortuous matches which are included in this post. I think Hsieh-Kostyuk has probably been my favourite match of the week so far. Read on…
I’m really enjoying the resumption of tennis in Abu Dhabi this week and the odd midweek start to the tournament means there’s a lot more tennis going on at the weekend than usual. It comes at a favourable time with no Premier League football this weekend. Football was my favourite sport before I got into…
Happy New Year and welcome to the 2021 WTA season! I’m very thankful for the resumption of tennis as we moved into our third Lockdown this week in the UK. It’s going to be a long winter. I’m just trying to keep busy and generally avoid reading too much of the news. Wherever you are…
This is the annual post on Moo’s Tennis Blog where I have a bash at predicting next year’s season ending WTA rankings. 2020 was actually a decent year of predictions on MTB although they were heavily affected by the COVID hiatus. Please sound off in the comments with your top ten predictions and also post…
It’s time to look back at last year’s predictions… and it’s not looking bad at all! The rankings were affected which has had an impact on the year-end positions. I managed to predict the world’s top five although not quite in the correct order. I had seven of the world’s top 10 and correctly predicted…
The WTA Best of 2020 series continues on mootennis.com with the ten year anniversary (!) of the countdown of best matches. Despite the abbreviated season, there were still many memorable matches on the WTA tour in 2020 that are worth reliving and deserving of entering the vaults of WTA classics. An honourable mention to the…
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