The top half of the women’s draw looks really inviting with a number of marquee match-ups for Monday. In the other matches, Alisa Kleybanova has a great chance to make the fourth round. Her victory over Garbine Muguruza really went under the radar. The match between Ekaterina Makarova and Dominika Cibulkova should also be very…
Saturday’s match between Ana Ivanovic and Elina Svitolina was a real cracker. The first two sets were high quality and the third was tremendously awful, yet gripping in its entirety. There was a lot to get excited about with Svitolina’s game. She served very well for a set and a half, and is a terrific…
Victoria Azarenka’s miserable year continued as she laboured to a 6-0 7-6 loss to Lauren Davis in Indian Wells. Her foot injury, which she described as inflammation and nerve damage in between the bones of her foot, doesn’t sound promising and she is now a major doubt for Miami. Predictions-wise, Friday was a pretty ropey…
The seeds come out to play on Friday in the women’s draw with Agnieszka Radwanska, Victoria Azarenka and Jelena Jankovic all in action. There were some snapping streak wins on Thursday with Francesca Schiavone and Donna Vekic both recording their first wins of 2014. Can Vinci follow suit? Indian Wells and Miami have always been…
The first ATP Masters 1000 event of the year in Indian Wells promises to be a fantastic tournament. This will be Stanislas Wawrinka’s first appearance on the ATP tour since winning his first Grand Slam and he is joined by familiar faces with Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and Federer all competing in the desert. David Ferrer…
The first Premier Mandatory tournament of 2014 begins on Wednesday with a strong field that as usual, is lacking the Williams sisters. The draw looks wide open with Li Na and Agnieszka Radwanska the top two seeds. Note that the 32 seeds all have byes into the second round and will begin their campaigns on…
Acapulco wiped the floor with Dubai this week in terms of producing high quality and competitive matches. I had several gripes about the scheduling with five consecutive days of matches finishing past midnight. However it didn’t seem to affect the quality of tennis and the crowds were pretty spectacular all week. When the Murray-Dimitrov semi-final…
Roger Federer won his first ATP title since Halle last year and his biggest title since winning the Masters 1000 event in Cincinnati in 2012. Federer’s win has set up the first Masters 1000 event of 2014 in Indian Wells next week rather marvellously. Here are my thoughts on Saturday’s final and the tournament as…
Today saw an announcement about the Indian Premier League Tennis, which is set to take place in the off-season. I have to admit I didn’t know anything about this until today when all the tennis tweeters started announcing it. I don’t know the ins and outs of it, but personally, it seems completely ridiculous. The…
I am rejoicing at having internet all sorted now so I can now stream tennis, all ready for Indian Wells, which begins next week! There were no surprises in Dubai on Thursday as Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer set up a blockbuster semi-final showdown at the Dubai Duty Free Championships. Can it live up to…
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