For the second time this year Angelique Kerber has defeated Karolina Pliskova in a Premier final to win her fourth title of the year with all of them being WTA Premier Events. Pliskova will be disappointed with her performance despite her producing a number of backhand and forehand winners but also produced a high number... Continue Reading →
Bank of the West Classic Final Preview – Angelique Kerber v Karolina Pliskova
For the third time this year and for the sixth time in their career’s Angelique Kerber and Karolina Pliskova will battle for the second time in a final this year. Their previous meeting was in the final of Brimingham with Kerber winning their epic match against her Czech opponent. Pliskova’s win this year came in... Continue Reading →
Bank of the West Classic Preview – Angelique Kerber v Elina Svitolina
Both Angelique Kerber and Elina Svitolina had to fight hard in their quarter finals matches after losing the first set but both players are in the semi-finals after a couple of epic battles last night with Svitolina three points away from going out down at 4-6 4-5 however she went on to win 8 of... Continue Reading →
Bank of the West Classic Preview – Angelique Kerber v Agnieszka Radwanska
After some injury concerns this week and at one point against Doi being 1-6 0-2 down Agnieszka Radwanska’s tournament looked all but over however despite losing 8 of the first 9 games she then went on to win 12 games in a row and won the match 1-6 6-2 6-0 to set up a meeting... Continue Reading →
Caroline Wozniacki defeated in Washington!
For the first time in her career Caroline Wozniacki has lost to Varvara Lepchenko taking their head to head record to 4/1. The Dane looked set for the next round with her head to head record against the American however a match is never won on paper and Wozniacki has suffered another early loss taking... Continue Reading →
Bank of the West Classic Preview – Caroline Wozniacki v Varvara Lepchenko
The top seed Caroline Wozniacki gets her tournament underway tomorrow in Stanford against an opponent she has had a lot of joy against in the past. Wozniacki turned 25 next month and is looking for her 25th career title. Varvara Lepchenko is the opponent standing in the way of the third round for the Dane... Continue Reading →
Broady wins in three, 500 wins for Stosur & Lisicki loses from 6-1 4-1 up…
Naomi Broady defeats Jarmila Gajdosova 3-6 7-5 7-6! Noami Broady is through to round two at the Citi Open after an epic win against the Australian Gajdosova. The match did look like getting away from the Brit at 3-2 in the first set when she went on to lose 5 games in a row and... Continue Reading →
Can Wozniacki defend her points over the next couple of months?
After her exit to Barbora Strycova at Wimbledon last year Caroline Wozniacki’s form massively increased in the second half of the season winning the title in Istanbul runner up at the US Open and Tokyo as well as being one of the players of the tournament at the WTA Finals in Singapore. In the second... Continue Reading →
Bank of the West Classic Preview – Angelique Kerber v Daria Gavrilova
The line-up for the Bank of the West Classic this week includes some of the top names in the world of tennis despite the absence of Serena Williams however a cracking match is in prospect in round one in Stanford with Angelique Kerber and Daria Gavrilova set to play each other for the third time... Continue Reading →