WTA Tour wrap: Collins claims second straight title as Petkovic returns to winners list
TWO WTA Tour events came to a close today, with the WTA 500 Silicon Valley Classic and WTA 250 Winners Open decided. iN San Jose, USA, The Silicon Valley Classic finished off with a hometown winner as Danielle Collins claimed her second title in as many weeks, with the seventh seed breaking through to win 6-3 […]
WTA Tour wrap: Collins earn another final berth as Sherif makes history in Romania
THE Silicon Valley Classic and Winners Open finalists have been decided in both San Jose, USA and Cluj-Napoca, Romania, following straight sets victories across the board during the semi finals. At the WTA 500 event in San Jose, fourth seed Daria Kasatkina and seventh seed Danielle Collins both overcame their respective opposition to earn finals berths. For […]
WTA Tour wrap: Collins survives tight encounter as Mertens moves through
DANIELLE Collins has fought through a couple of tight tiebreakers to be one of three seeds through to the semi-finals at the Silicon Valley Classic in San Jose. Collins overcame a plucky Elena Rybakina, with the seventh seed American toppling the second seed Kazakh 7-6 7-6. The first tiebreaker went 7-5, and the second one […]
WTA Tour wrap: Mendez through to final eight on debut as Romanians fall at Winners Open
HOME nation competitors were ousted at the 2021 WTA Tour Winners Open in Clu-Napoca, Romania with the first lot of Round of 16 matches completed. Most had to back up after a big day the day before, with the four competed matches all over relatively quickly. Both Romanian representatives in third Ana Bogdan, and unseeded […]
2021 Wimbledon preview: Will the Fed Express have one last stop? Can Serena equal the Grand Slam record?
THE Wimbledon Championships are finally here. One of the most eloquent events on the planet, the third Grand Slam of the year played on the grass courts of London are set to begin overnight with plenty of sub-plots in both the men’s and women’s draws. For the greatest ever champions at the event, there is […]
WTA Tour wrap: Carnage in Eastbourne as Bad Homburg goes to plan
THERE were two very different sets of results at the WTA Tour’s grass court events overnight, with the Eastbourne and Bad Homburg Round of 16s completed. In Eastbourne, just one seed survived the night – top seed Aryna Sabalenka – as the four others fell, leaving the title wide open after the Belarusian favourite. Meanwhile […]
WTA Tour wrap: Jabeur makes history as Samsonova makes breakthrough
TWO huge results came to fruition overnight, as qualifier Liudmila Samsonova went all the way, claiming the Bett1Open WTA 500 title in Berlin, whilst Ons Jabeur made history at the WTA 250 Viking Classic Birmingham, becoming the first Arab woman to win a WTA title. For Jabeur, it was about “going for it” as much as making […]
WTA Tour wrap: Samsonova stars with upset win in Bett1Open
THERE was no shortage of excitement at both the Viking Classic and the Bett1Open as a couple of surprise upsets headlined the action particularly in Berlin. With rain plaguing the Viking Classic all of the quarter and semi-finals were played making for plenty of intense battles but in the end it was Ons Jabeur and […]
WTA Tour wrap: Mixed bag of results across grass court events
IT was a bit of a mixed bag of results across the WTA Tour’s two grass court events yesterday, with two seeds making their way through in each of the Viking Classic and Bett1Open quarter finals, whilst in the other two matches the underdog prevailed. In Berlin, fifth seed Belinda Bencic advanced through to the […]
WTA Tour wrap: Azarenka wins battle of former number ones as Samsonova cracks Top 100
A SEED fell at each of the grass events overnight, with the WTA 500 tournament in Berlin seeing Karolina Pliskova go down in straight sets while at the 250 event in Birmingham Jelena Ostepenko competed hard to go down in three. It was Jessica Pegula who took down Pliskova, overcoming the former world number one 7-5 6-2 credit to a […]
