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Monthly Archives: July 2010

E-boks Danish Open report — Day One!

I’m Andreas and since I’ll be at the Wozniacki Invitational e-boks Danish Open all week I will write a short daily report from the tournament. I originally went to Court 1 at 10am, only to find out that Court 1 and Court 2 were at COMPLETELY different venues about three kilometres apart. The match on [...]

Stanford and Los Angeles Semi-Final picks.

Los Angeles OOP: Today sees Murray face off against Lopez as Querrey meets Tipsarevic. Murray has to be seen as the favourite in his match but Lopez is always dangerous and has the capacity to cause a lot of problems. However the head to head is 2-0 to Murray and 4-0 in sets so he [...]

Semifinals Set In Los Angeles and Stanford

ATP Farmers Classic: [1] [WC] A Murray (GBR) d A Falla (COL) 76(3) 61 [2] S Querrey (USA) d R Schuettler (GER) 62 36 76(4) [6] J Tipsarevic (SRB) d [3] M Baghdatis (CYP) 63 75 [4] F Lopez (ESP) d [WC] J Blake (USA) 36 76(6) 64 Friday saw the the completion of all [...]

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Watching the Farmers classic – they’re famous or something

Stanford and Los Angeles Quarterfinals Set

WTA Bank Of The West Classic: (4) Marion Bartoli (FRA) d. (WC) Ana Ivanovic (SRB) 63 64 (5) Maria Sharapova (RUS) d. Olga Govortsova (BLR) 63 63 Maria Kirilenko (RUS) d. (6) Shahar Peer (ISR) 64 63 (8/WC) Victoria Azarenka (BLR) d. Melanie Oudin (USA) 63 61 Thursday saw the second round of both the [...]

Andreev Wins Through To Gstaad QFs in Comeback Tournament

Igor Andreev advanced to the quarterfinals of Gstaad in a match that was stopped at 6-6 due to bad light last night. Check out the men in the second picture drooling over Igor. Hold him tighty, Maria.

Breaking: Elena Baltacha Defeats French Open Champion Schiavone

British number one Elena Baltacha put on a clinical performance to en route to defeating the French Open Champion and world number eight Francesca Schiavone 6-4 6-2 for her third top ten win of the year. Which puts her tally above that of ATP world number four and British number one Andy Murray.

Blast From The Past: Lindsay Davenport and Jelena Dokic both win.

Lindsay Davenport teamed up with world number three doubles player, Liezel Huber, to defeat Melanie ‘Believe’ Oudin and Michaella Krajicek 6-4 6-2 in her first WTA match in two years. She will be playing with Huber up until the US Open but there has no confirmation on her plans after the US Open. Rumour has [...]

WTA Stanford and ATP Los Angeles: Wednesday roundup

WTA Bank Of The West Classic: Draw: (1) Samantha Stosur (AUS) d. (Q) Christina McHale (USA) 61 75 (2) Elena Dementieva (RUS) d. Kimiko Date Krumm (JPN) 36 63 64 (3) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d. (Q) Olga Savchuk (UKR) 76(4) 62 (7) Yanina Wickmayer (BEL) d. Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) 61 64 The seeds continued to [...]

Tennis: A Flashback to Greater Times

This was an article written by Time magazine just before the beginning of the 2001 US Open. It discusses the popularity of the WTA back in a time when it was even more popular than the ATP and though it is extremely long, it is definitely a great read for anyone who was fortunate enough [...]

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