EMERGENCY POST. The 2014 US Open had been, dare I say, a little dull through the first four days. Suddenly, in the space of about 15 minutes, the women’s draw was given a rather hefty (and welcome) shake as Simona Halep, Angelique Kerber and Venus Williams all lost. It’s a real shame that all these…
The bottom half of the women’s draw looks in great shape as we head into the third round. There have been quite a few upsets in the third quarter, but there are some quality players still remaining. In the fourth quarter, we are just one match away from some blockbuster last 16 matches. As always,…
Ana Ivanovic was the latest seed to fall at this year’s US Open after a surprising 7-5 6-4 loss to Karolina Pliskova. It means that Ivanovic has lost before the third round at the last three Grand Slams. It was disappointing because this was a really good draw for the Serb. Credit though to Pliskova,…
In the TFF DreamTeam game, Wild Briar Village is the current leader in the Moo’s Tennis Blog league. This isn’t good news because that’s my brother. HannonShane is in second place followed by Caskett in third place. This will probably have changed if you’re checking the leaderboard now! I’ve had a solid start in the…
The biggest upset of the week so far saw Peng Shuai defeat the number four seed, Agnieszka Radwanska. It was a superb performance from Peng who maintained her aggression throughout the whole match and served impeccably, not getting broken at all in the second set. In what would turn out to be the final game…
I’m finding it hard to get excited about the men’s draw with this ridiculous scheduling at the US Open. Two second round matches will be completed on Wednesday with first round action concluding too. In my opinion, the tournament loses all sense of flow and those players who have to play their first round matches…
Holy moonball. I felt it was necessary to document what was a pretty solid contender for “worst match of 2014” featuring Lucie Safarova and Saisai Zheng. In the end, Safarova dug in deep to secure an incredibly hard fought victory, 6-3 4-6 6-2 in two hours and 36 minutes of moonball madness. Lucie won the…
The first day of action at the 2014 US Open saw a number of scares, but just one seed fell; Garbine Muguruza lost in straight sets to Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. This was a disappointing result for Garbine after losing at the first hurdle of Wimbledon too. Simona Halep, Venus Williams, Angelique Kerber, Caroline Wozniacki and Andrea…
In the first set of matches on day 2 of the 2014 US Open, Svetlana Kuznetsova became the highest seeded casualty in the women’s draw so far. She was defeated by Marina Erakovic, 3-6 6-2 7-6(3) on court 5. I expected this to be a horrible match when I started watching at the end of…
LEGENDS. Venus Williams and Kimiko Date-Krumm are two of the most well respected players on the WTA tour and the pair fought out a rollercoaster first round match on day one of the 2014 US Open. Venus won 2-6 6-3 6-3 in exactly two hours, fending off a late charge from the 43-year-old Japanese player. …
