Saturday was finals day at the 2017 Aegon International and the end of a great week in Eastbourne. The women’s final was first up on Centre Court at 12:15pm between the number three and six seeds, Karolina Pliskova and Caroline Wozniacki. Pliskova prevailed, 6-4 6-4 in a high quality finale. Pliskova played a stunning first…
This post features my ten favourite photos of the day from semi-finals day at the Aegon International in Eastbourne. For a recap of the day including a match recap of Wozniacki-Watson and highlights from the press conferences including Johanna Konta, Caroline Wozniacki and Heather Watson, click HERE. A packed out Centre Court crowd for the…
Friday is my last full day in Eastbourne! Rather shockingly, after a manic Thursday, the schedule was just about caught up with where it should be with the semi-finals up. I started the morning by listening to the Wimbledon draw – once i’m back then the Wimby posts will commence. Before going out to watch…
This post features my ten favourite photos of the day from Thursday’s bumper schedule around the grounds at the Aegon International in Eastbourne. For a round-up of the matches, there are three posts up on the blog including a match recap of Wozniacki vs. Halep and highlights from both of their press conferences HERE. Lauren…
The first of the quarter-finals at the 2017 Aegon International in Eastbourne saw Caroline Wozniacki outlast Simona Halep in a topsy-turvy encounter, 5-7 6-4 6-1 in one hour and 53 minutes. Match Recap After an early exchange of breaks, Wozniacki took control of the first set and looked the much sharper of the pair as…
Johanna Konta and Heather Watson were both in third round action at the Aegon International in Eastbourne on a hectic, Thursday. Over on Court 4, Watson secured back-to-back top 20 wins with a 6-4 6-3 win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Konta was on Centre Court against the French Open champion, Jelena Ostapenko – this was a…
Thursday was another busy, busy day at the 2017 Aegon International in Eastbourne. It started with one of my few sightings of Jelena Ostapenko as I followed her into the grounds! There were seven matches up at 10:30am on the schedule with only one WTA match – therefore, it was Agnieszka Radwanska vs. Lauren Davis for…
This post features my ten favourite photos from around the grounds at the Aegon International in Eastbourne on Wednesday. For a recap of the day and thoughts on the matches that I watched, check out the pair of Set Points posts up on the blog – #1 covering Halep-Duan and Kuznetsova-Barthel HERE and #2 covering…
After a brief break to catch up on photos, I headed back out to Court 5 to watch Timea Bacsinszky’s first singles match since her semi-final run at Roland Garros. The Swiss player was taking on Peng Shuai. While twice up a break in the first set, Bacsinszky couldn’t consolidate either time. Overall, it was…
There was plenty of tennis on show at the 2017 Aegon International in Eastbourne on Wednesday. However, it came to a disappointing end with light drizzle halting play from about 5pm leaving another jam-packed schedule for Thursday. For the second straight day, I began with Simona Halep vs. Duan Ying-Ying on Court 1. The match…
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