Tuesday was quarter-finals day at the 2017 Australian Open with Venus Williams and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova first up on Rod Laver Arena. Venus prevailed in a tight two setter, 6-4 7-6(3) to reach her first semi-final in Melbourne since 2003 in yet another feel-good storyline. Welcome back to the semifinals, @Venuseswilliams. It's been a long 14 years.…
Serena Williams will play Johanna Konta for the first time when the pair take to the court on Wednesday for the quarter-finals of the Australian Open… BRING. IT. ON. Williams has yet to drop a set through her first four rounds. She faced her most challenging match of the tournament in the fourth round against Barbora Strycova, winning…
I love a feel-good Slam story and we’ve had so many to enjoy over the past few years on the women’s side. Without doubt, the pleasant surprise of this 2017 tournament has been Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. After storming past Agnieszka Radwanska in the second round, Lucic-Baroni has gone on to reach the quarter-finals of the Australian Open.…
A heavy-hitting clash between Garbiñe Muguruza and CoCo Vandeweghe will be on Tuesday’s schedule with a first ever Australian Open semi-final appearance up for grabs for the winner. Vandeweghe scored the biggest win of her career on Sunday evening, comfortably seeing off the world number one, Angelique Kerber, 6-2 6-3. It was a lacklustre display from the German…
The final match of the day in Melbourne saw CoCo Vandeweghe roll into the quarter-finals, ousting the world number one, Angelique Kerber, 6-2 6-3. It was a strange match and it didn’t have that feeling of a number one seed being beaten, perhaps because it was so late in Melbourne. It was an excellent performance…
In the only fourth round match that has gone entirely with seeding, the number two seed Serena Williams will play the number 16 seed, Barbora Strycova with a place in the quarter-finals up for grabs. Uncertainty loomed over Serena pre-tournament having played just two matches since the 2016 US Open with one of those being a…
In a repeat fourth round match from last year’s Australian Open, Johanna Konta will take on Ekaterina Makarova for a place in the quarter-finals. In 2016, Makarova was the higher ranked player but a lot has changed in the last year… Konta was dealt one of the toughest possible draws but she has handled it so,…
Never write off the Bourne-GOAT… Ekaterina Makarova maintained her sensational record in Melbourne by reaching the second week for the seventh (!) consecutive year. In a bruising battle on Rod Laver Arena, Makarova beat the number six seed, Dominika Cibulkova, 6-2 6-7(3) 6-3. And if you’re wondering why I keep calling Makarova the Bourne-GOAT then check…
Day 5 of the 2017 Australian Open began with some rain and a trio of three setters. In only the third extra-time finish in the women’s draw so far, the number eight seed, Svetlana Kuznetsova served out the win over Jelena Jankovic at the third time of asking, 6-4 5-7 9-7 in three hours and 36…
In the most anticipated match of the 2017 Australian Open so far, the number 9 and 17 seeds, Johanna Konta and Caroline Wozniacki will collide in a blockbuster third rounder on Saturday. Konta was dealt a dicey draw in Melbourne but has handled her first two rounds impeccably. In the first round she overturned a…
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