2023 Australian Open preview: Women’s Singles
MONDAY marks the start of Australia’s most prestigious tennis tournament, with the Australian Open kicking off at Melbourne Park. The first round contains 128 players – including 32 qualifiers – 64 of whom will take to the courts on the opening day. We take a look at the Australian Open women’s singles field, and how […]
Top 5 WTA potential breakout players in 2023
EACH year tennis sees a number of breakout players who have a season that catapults them from the middle or lower world ranking spots, into the top echelon of players. In the women’s game, that was the likes of Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina, while Iga Swiatek went from a one-time Grand Slam winner to […]
Sabalenka steals near-impossible victory
BELARUSIAN sixth seed Aryna Sabalenka produced one of the most incredible come-from-behind victories in history to stay alive in the US Open. Trailing 2-6 1-5 in the second set, Sabalenka was all but done and dusted during her match against unseeded Estonian, Kaia Kanepi. Then, in the blink of an eye, Sabalenka only conceded three […]
Crafty Cornet rolls reigning champ Raducanu
LAST year’s US Open winner, Emma Raducanu is out of the 2022 edition after falling to Frenchwoman Alize Cornet in straight sets on day two of action. Cornet won with a few extra breaks to serve to advance through to the second round 6-3 6-3 in an hour and 42 minutes on Louis Armstrong Stadium. […]
2022 US Open preview
THE 2022 US Open kicks off tonight with the world’s best tennis players to converge on Flushing Meadows. Both fields are wide open and we take a look who the favourites and contenders are, as well as some of the first round matches to watch. MEN’S SINGLES: The favourite: World number one Daniil Medvedev has […]
Bia bolts into Toronto semis
AN OUTSTANDING come-from-behind quarter finals win over 12th seed Belinda Bencic has seen Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia make history. The unseeded talent became the first Brazilian to reach the semi-finals of a WTA Tour 1000 event, achieving the feat in the National Bank Open in Toronto. Haddad Maia won in three sets, 2-6 6-3 6-3, […]
Chinese teenager takes out home nation hope
QINWEN Zheng has continued her remarkable rise up the WTA Tour world rankings by reaching a quarter final in Toronto, defeating local hope Bianca Andreescu in three sets. The hard-hitting Chinese star fought it out across a tough first two sets before running away with the match thanks to a couple of crucial breaks in […]
Upsets galore in Canada as seeds fall
IT was absolute carnage in both Montreal and Toronto at the top-end as seven of the nine top five seeds in action bowed out of their respective Masters 1000 tournaments. In what showed the evenness of the overall ATP and WTA Tours at the moment, only top women’s seed Iga Swiatek, and fourth men’s seed […]
Kyrgios bowls Baez, next up Medvedev in Montreal
AUSTRALIAN Nick Kyrgios has set up a mouth-watering second round clash against world number one Daniil Medvedev at the National Bank Open in Montreal. The world number 37 – who is coming off a title at the Citi Open in Washington – is in red-hot form and disposed of Argentinian Sebastian Baez in one hour […]
Wimbledon Boulter: Katie takes out sixth seed
IN FRONT of home fans on Centre Court, British wildcard Katie Boulter won her way through to the third round of Wimbledon, toppling sixth seed Karolina Pliskova in three sets. The world number 118 only had a 6-5 year-to-date win-loss record coming into the grasscourt Grand Slam event, but has reached the Round of 32 […]
