The upset train gathered more pace on day 4 of main draw action at the 2017 Dubai Duty Free Championships. The 17-year-old, CiCi Bellis scored the biggest win of her career so far, defeating the world number six, Agnieszka Radwanska, 6-4 2-6 6-2. Bellis played a superb match – I was so impressed with her…
The start of Tuesday’s bumper order of play was delayed an hour by rain but soon got underway with the number three seed, Dominika Cibulkova up against Ekaterina Makarova. Prior to 2017, Makarova had never beaten Cibulkova – now she has two hard fought three set wins to her name as she claimed the upset…
The final match of the day on Monday’s order of play in Dubai produced the biggest upset by seeding as Alison Riske maintained her excellent start to the year with a 6-4 6-4 victory over the number 11 seed, CoCo Vandeweghe. There’s no sugar coating this match which was an absolute shocker. Vandeweghe was in…
The world number two, Angelique Kerber will be aiming to get her year on track when she plays fellow compatriot, Mona Barthel in the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships on Tuesday. Kerber is 4-4 for the year and yet to make it past the quarter-finals at any of the four tournaments that…
The 2017 Dubai Duty Free Championships began on Sunday with the number 15 seed, Caroline Garcia opening up proceedings on Centre Court against Johanna Larsson. It wasn’t an entertaining match but Garcia was good value for the win, 6-3 6-3. The Frenchwoman saved break points in three of her five service games in the first set and closed…
Doha was a big soggy mess but thankfully, the weather is set fair for the Dubai Duty Free Championships which is where the women are playing next week with main draw action starting on SUNDAY. Dubai is the Premier 5 event this year with a 56-player draw. There have been quite a few withdrawals including Simona Halep,…
The 2017 Qatar Total Open in Doha will be remembered as one of the wettest tournaments of the year… that’s not a sentence I expected to write at the start of the week considering Doha is in the desert! Despite all the stoppages, they did well to get the tournament finished on time. This post is…
After five damp days in Doha, the rain finally disappeared long enough for the semi-finals in both singles and doubles to be completed. It’s the first time all week that the tournament has been on schedule! It did require three of the four semi-finalists in singles to play two matches in a long, long day.…
Another day in Doha and another day of interruptions. There was less rain than previous days but it was that frustrating stop-start kind of rain, so much so I can’t even remember how many stoppages there were. They are still behind in the schedule but all the second round matches were completed which was a…
Wednesday was a busy day at the Qatar Total Open with first round matches all completed but only three second round matches in the books following another rainy day in Doha. Trying to keep up with today’s results was really challenging so just a quick summary of the first round results… Daria Kasatkina d. Irina-Camelia Begu, 3-6…
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