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2020 WTA Roland Garros fantasy tennis: Strength in numbers as top seeds continue to flourish

THE second half of the Roland Garros fantasy Round of 64 saw plenty of interesting matchups, with five top ten players taking the court. But while majority of the competition’s seeds were too good this time around, a couple fell to unsuspecting foes. Ash Barty continued her strong run, defeating China’s Saisai Zheng in straight […]

2020 WTA Roland Garros fantasy tennis: Ash Barty joins the fray

THE final day of Round of 128 saw reigning titleholder and world number one Ash Barty hit the court for the first time, and doing it in style with a threatening straight sets defeat of young talent Coco Gauff who is capable of defeating anyone on her day. The 6-2 6-2 victory started a slew […]

2020 WTA Strasbourg and Rabat Open fantasy tennis: Second seeds struggle on Day 2

IT was another fairly predictable day at both the Strasbourg and Rabat Open fantasy tournaments, with a couple of outlying matches throwing the competition for a loop.  The biggest win of the day was at Strasbourg with Iga Swiatek impressing in a straight sets win over Serena Williams – a player 20 years her senior. […]

2020 WTA Strasbourg and Rabat Open fantasy tennis: Americans dominate on day one

IT was a stellar start to the United States at both the Strasbourg Open and Rabat Open fantasy tournaments with nine of the eleven American competitors making it through to the second round amongst a plethora of talented players. Meanwhile, Australia struggled to produce a win across both tournaments and plenty of matches came down […]

2020 WTA Madrid Open fantasy tennis: Czech Republic continues to impress as seeds prevail

ALL bar two seeds continued through to the Round of 16 after a big day of competition at the Madrid Open fantasy, while just the five matches went to three sets in what was a mostly one sided day of tennis.  Three of the four Czech Republic competitors head through to the third round, with […]

2020 WTA Madrid Open fantasy tennis: Three more seeds out as young talent prevails

DAY two of the Madrid Open fantasy tournament saw two seeds eliminated from the competition while a couple of wildcard and qualifying entrants reigned supreme. Among the strongest winners of the day were Ash Barty, Caroline Garcia and Magda Linette, with all three players applying phenomenal pressure and speed to their matches for around 45-minute […]

2020 WTA Stuttgart and Istanbul fantasy tennis: Seeds too good on day one

IT was a big first day of fantasy competition for both the Tennis Grand Prix and Istanbul Open, with both Round of 32 days hosting a wealth of talent and mostly predictable outcomes, with all seeded players across both competitions heading through to the second round. At Stuttgart, not one match went to three sets […]

2020 Istanbul Open fantasy tennis preview: Martic aims for back-to-back as Bogota stars hope to build on form

AS most of the world’s best WTA Tour players turn their attention to Stuttgart, there are still some high quality players on offer in Turkey for the Istanbul Open. We preview the potential winners in our fantasy tennis tournament. FAVOURITE Petra Martic (CROATIA) The reigning champion in Istanbul, Martic is back again and looking to […]

2020 WTA Copa Colsanitas fantasy tennis: Azarenka makes perfect return as Begu, Cocciaretto knock out seeds

GRAND Slam winner and former world number one, Victoria Azarenka made the perfect return from injury by winning her first round match at the 2020 WTA Copa Colsanitas fantasy tennis tournament. The unseeded Belarusian – now ranked outside the top 50 – downed Australian, Astra Sharma in straight sets 7-5 6-3. Sharma reached the final […]

2020 WTA Miami Open fantasy tennis: Stephens breaks through for important win

SLOANE Stephens won her first match against a top 400 opponent for the year, joining a number of Americans in the second round of the 2020 WTA Tour’s Miami Open fantasy tennis tournament. The out-of-form talent came from behind to defeat Japan’s Nao Hibino 6-7 7-5 6-3, joining four other United States representatives in the […]

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