After watching the two women’s matches on the Centre Court, I headed out to watch some of the women’s matches on the outside courts. I stood and watched the opening exchanges of Vera Zvonareva and Heather Watson. It was clear to see that there was a large gap in quality between the two, however Watson…
There was a real sense of anticipation and excitement with the second match of the day between Serena Williams and Tsvetana Pironkova. This was Serena’s first match since winning the Wimbledon title last July following a number of injury and health-related problems. As both players took to the court, Serena received a warm ovation from…
I visited Eastbourne for the first time last year and had such an amazing day that I was certain that I must visit again this year! I had been waiting for this day for agesss and as you can imagine, I was literally bouncing off the walls with excitement! The line-up for this year was…
The final match we saw was between Juan Martin Del Potro and Adrian Mannarino. After a 20 minute delay following the retirement of Llodra in the previous match, the players finally took to the court around 4pm. On paper, this match looked to be a comfortable one for Del Potro… as the afternoon progressed it…
I was lucky enough to get two tickets in the ballot for the tennis at Queens. The tickets were for Court 1 for the Round of 16 matches, and although at first I was slightly disappointed not to have got tickets for centre court, I realised we would still get some great matches because of…
I will be doing my blog again for the grass court season with reviews from my upcoming trips to Queens, Eastbourne and Wimbledon, and my thoughts on all the tennis going on in June!
The first week of 2011 saw two unlikely winners as Petra Kvitova and Greta Arn were victorious in Brisbane and Auckland respectively. Petra Kvitova has shown her potential before, most notably her semi-final run at Wimbledon last year; however her game has been blighted with inconsistency. This week though, everything fell into place as she…
Here is a round-up of what has happened so far in the first week of tennis in 2011… Hopman Cup After two sets of group games, Serbia and USA both look poised to reach the final. Disappointingly, Robson and Murray lost their second round match today losing a one-sided mixed doubles to the French pairing…
There are three ATP tournaments that kick off the 2011 tennis calendar… ATP Doha Doha has the strongest draw with Nadal and Federer as the two top seeds. Nadal opens up against Karol Beck and is likely to face his first test in the QF where his projected opponent is the talented Ernests Gulbis. Davydenko…
This years women’s tournament in Auckland sees a number of Russian stars taking to the court. Maria Sharapova is the number 1 seed and will be joined by fellow Russians, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina and the number 2 seed, Yanina Wickmayer. Sharapova will take on the talented Spaniard, Carla Suarez Navarro in round 1…
