I’m loving my time in New York so far! Day 1 was all about sightseeing, starting in Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn Bridge and the 9/11 Memorial (very moving) and ending with Times Square at night. Day 2 was starting to ramp up the tennis! I got my first taste of Flushing Meadows on Sunday afternoon…
This post previews two first round matches at the 2016 US Open including Serena Williams v Ekaterina Makarova and Lucie Safarova v Daria Gavrilova. Just before take-off, I managed to catch a few snippets of the draw via Twitter so it gave me something to do (aside from rewatch Bake Off again!) to write a…
The final Slam of the year is upon us and i’m feeling super duper excited right now because I am flying to New York today! I’ll be at Flushing Meadows for the first three days of the tournament and it will be my first time at the US Open. Therefore, coverage will be a little muted during…
The Western & Southern Open final in Cincinnati will take place on Sunday at 2pm local time between the number two seed, Angelique Kerber and the number 15 seed, Karolina Pliskova. A win for Kerber will see her go to world number one… Expectations for Cincy were perhaps muted for Kerber following a gruelling week…
Two super semi-finals are on Saturday’s schedule at the Western & Southern Open; arguably the two in-form players on the WTA tour go head-to-head in the second of the semis at not before 2.30pm local time in Cincinnati with the number two seed, Angelique Kerber taking on the number three seed, Simona Halep. Kerber was first into the…
The first of the semi-finals at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati will be contested between the number four seed, Garbiñe Muguruza and the number 15 seed, Karolina Pliskova. In a first career match-up, Pliskova produced a fine display to topple Svetlana Kuznetsova in three sets, 6-3 4-6 6-2. After splitting sets, Pliskova powered through…
In third round action at the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati, Angelique Kerber and Barbora Strycova played out a brutal match in the sun on Grandstand court. Kerber won the battle of Rio medallists, prevailing in two tight sets, 7-6(5) 6-4. Kerber wrapped up the first set on a crazy set point; she couldn’t get the…
Rain caused a delay to the schedule but the sun soon made an appearance! Four first round matches were held over from Tuesday; Andrea Petkovic scored a big win over Lucie Safarova, 6-4 6-7(4) 6-2 in two hours and 29 minutes. Petkovic lost the second set having wavered with three match points at 6-5 but…
It seems to be a continuing storyline of the 2016 season as rain continues to follow the tour… EVERYWHERE. Tuesday was another stop-start day with many showers about. Four first round matches failed to finish which means a number of players will have to play twice on Wednesday on what is a monster schedule of…
Belinda Bencic will play her first competitive singles match since Wimbledon against Timea Babos in the second round of the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati on Wednesday. For Bencic, it’s been an injury-ravaged year which had promised so much with a very encouraging start. Bencic cracked the top ten back in February by virtue…
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