The best meet at the season finale. Over the past five years there have been five new winners of the WTA Finals but before that the dominance was from Serena Williams. In 2014 Serena joined Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles winning the finals on three consecutive occasions and in all of Serena’s five titles has... Continue Reading →
The pressure is about to ramp up for Elina Svitolina!
Little expectations and pressure but now expect that to ramp up. On the tour you cannot really hide, this tour is relentless and played around 47 of the 52 weeks of the year. Even in the off season you cannot stay away from the limelight. Eli Svitolina now has that pressure ramped up. Being critical... Continue Reading →
Star of the show Svitolina strikes again to take Singapore title!
Elina Svitolina has done it. The second half of the season you could say was a write off for the Ukranian and then she came to Singapore. No expectations, no pressure and probably lacking in confidence but this is completely against what happened. The performances were stunning since Day 1 of the championships. I love... Continue Reading →
Singapore Showdown – The Final Two
Everyone wants to be there, only eight make it every year and on Sunday the final two will compete in the Singapore showdown as the season shuts down. Elina Svitolina and Sloane Stephens will be the two to battle for one of the tours biggest prizes. Elina's year has been tough, it hasn't really gone... Continue Reading →
37/7 before Wimbledon and 9/10 since, what happened to Petra Kvitova’s season?
A 14 match winning streak and 5 titles to her name from January to the end of June; Petra Kvitova was playing the best tennis and the most consistent tennis on the tour. Following the title in Birmingham which ended up surprisingly being her last of the year the former Grand Slam champion played just... Continue Reading →
Pliskova & Svitolina progress whilst Kvitova & Wozniacki begin packing their bags!
What a tournament it has been! Karolina Pliskova needed one set to progress to the semi-finals after what has been a pretty flat season for the Czech number two but she has made her way through to the semi-finals of Singapore. Eli Svitolina who has been superb this week in Singapore faced the possibility of... Continue Reading →
WTA Finals Day 3 – Sloane & Angie win – all 8 still active with final round-robin set to begin
No one has gone yet, some are close to the finish line where as some look all but set to book their place in the semi-finals. After two matches each all eight players are still alive in the competition. The only player without a win in Singapore is Petra Kvitova but the Czech number one... Continue Reading →
Dane Delight! Wozniacki turns up as Petra’s almost done in Singapore!
Within around 48 hours you could be out of Singapore. The WTA Finals is a whirlwind of momentum and for Caroline Wozniacki what was a poor defenceless performance in her first match completely pulled it together as she dumped Petra Kvitova in a three set battle leaving the Czech number one on the verge of... Continue Reading →
Is part of Kerber’s renowned fight missing?
Angie Kerber has had a good year winning Wimbledon and Sydney and has also made latter stages of some of the tours biggest events but how good has the year been on a whole, could it have been better and is she lacking some of that renowned fight we associate her with? Kerber has lost... Continue Reading →
WTA Finals Day 2 – Bertens and Stephens leave more questions for the top seeds!
Well, has this ever happened before? The top four seeds at Singapore have all lost their opening round match. Wozniacki and Kvitova yesterday in straight sets but today Kerber and Osaka got a set on the board but end with a defeat. For Kiki Bertens it was a first set to forget as she fell... Continue Reading →