Away from Beijing, the big tennis news of the days was that Maria Sharapova’s drug ban has been reduced to 15 months meaning that she can return to competitive tennis on the 26th of April, 2017. I’m just glad that this whole matter can be put to bed because it had dragged on for long…
A blockbuster third rounder is on the cards in Beijing when the number two seed, Garbiñe Muguruza takes on the Wuhan champion, Petra Kvitova in the third round of the China Open. Muguruza was the first player into the third round with a 6-2 7-6(5) win over Yulia Putintseva. It was a nervous yet committed…
It’s been a tough road back for the world number 223, Peng Shuai who was sidelined from the tour for nine months after Roland Garros last year to have surgery on her back. The Chinese player has been competing well of late but not getting the wins; just this summer she pushed the likes of Zhang…
The first two matches of the day on the National Tennis Stadium saw Madison Keys and Roberta Vinci both start with a brilliant bagel against Chinese opposition, but need three sets to prevail. Keys beat Duan Ying-Ying, 6-0 4-6 6-1, while Vinci came from a break down in the final set to edge past Zheng Saisai,…
The number two seed, Garbiñe Muguruza will continue her title defence in Beijing where she will play Yulia Putintseva in the second round. Both players were forced to three sets in their opening round matches on Saturday. Muguruza has been struggling for form all year bar the French Open and she delivered another unconvincing display…
Petra Kvitova maintained her record of winning a WTA title every year since 2011 with another sensational display, blasting her way to the title with a 6-1 6-1 win over Dominika Cibulkova in the final which lasted just 52 minutes. First title of 2016 for @Petra_Kvitova! #WuhanOpenTennis pic.twitter.com/Ht7ofJFVHk — WTA (@WTA) October 1, 2016 It was…
The main draw for the 2016 China Open in Beijing starts on Saturday… Saturday! It’s nice to be able to watch more tennis at the weekend but I hate tournaments overlapping as the main draw will begin before the final for Wuhan has even started. Now onto the positives where we have another superb draw to look forward…
The 2016 Wuhan Open final will be contested between the number 10 seed, Dominika Cibulkova and the number 14 seed, Petra Kvitova in Saturday’s final… and no one can deny that they haven’t earnt it! While Kvitova knocked out the world number one, Angelique Kerber in one of the matches of the year on Wednesday, Cibulkova…
The highlight of Wednesday’s schedule was a match-of-the-year contender between Angelique Kerber and Petra Kvitova that lasted three hours and 20 minutes. Petra prevailed for the best win of her year, 6-7(10) 7-5 6-4. I watched the first set during my lunch break which turned into a long one! Kvitova should have edged a brutal…
Tuesday was a busy day in Wuhan and a surprisingly successful day for the seeds with eight of the ten in action progressing to the third round. We’ve become used to upsets this year but actually, there’s been some stability among the world’s top ten during the second half of the season. The highest seed to fall…
