Saturday was semi-finals day at the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford and the Citi Open in Washington. Keeping in trend with much of the week, the two matches in Stanford were both one-sided. In fact, the last 11 singles matches have all ended in straight sets! CoCo Vandeweghe booked her spot in a…
Garbiñe Muguruza was first into the Stanford semi-finals on Friday with a comprehensive 6-1 6-3 victory over Ana Konjuh. Continuing on from Wimbledon there’s an intensity to Muguruza, one that we have rarely seen at non-Slam events. The Spaniard was rock solid and gave very little away during the 62 minute contest. Konjuh produced a…
The past two days have been really busy at work so i’ve had to park the blog. I was playing tennis on Thursday evening but it wasn’t a long session so I managed to get back in time to watch plenty of tennis from Stanford and Washington. In stark contrast to Tuesday, I was terrible! It…
I was on duty at my tennis club on Tuesday so I was on the court as opposed to watching tennis for the first few hours! Building on my mixed doubles triumph at the weekend, I actually played well! I was struggling with my serve as it was quite windy and I was often serving…
Lesia Tsurenko and Lara Arruabarrena got main draw proceedings underway in Stanford in what was my first experience of WTA TV! It was a scratchy start from both in their first matches on hard courts since Wimbledon. It was third time lucky for Tsurenko in consolidating a break of serve in the first set and…
The WTA tour heads to the US for the summer hard court season with Stanford and Washington starting next week… and with that, i’m back! I was spent after a busy Spring and three very hectic weeks of blogging through Eastbourne and Wimbledon. I’ve enjoyed the break and have been on a tennis detox, barely…
The 2017 Bank of the West Classic has attracted a star-studded line-up in Stanford with the Wimbledon champion, Garbiñe Muguruza joined by high-profile wild cards in Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova. There’s also a crop of talented teens with Ana Konjuh, Naomi Osaka and CiCi Bellis all present in what is a very intriguing…
Simona Halep has taken a late wildcard into the Citi Open in Washington D.C. and heads up the 2017 edition of the tournament. The field contains four top 50 players, as well as a pair on their continuing return from injury, Sloane Stephens and Sabine Lisicki, who will be playing their first hard court tournaments…
Over the past seven months, I have moaned and moaned and moaned about how disillusioned I was at the lack of streaming for the WTA tour. The past two months haven’t been so bad with wall-to-wall coverage for the French Open and Wimbledon, and having discovered SportZone on Chrome (thanks to my readers!). Finally though…
This post brings together the highlights from the 2017 Wimbledon Championships including a recap of the singles final and links to memorable matches, points, media and plenty more. All previous Match Points tournament summaries from 2016 and 2017 can be found HERE. Thanks for all your comments and support during these past three weeks. I’ll now be taking…
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