Dubai – 12:00 Hantuchova v Peng: Hantuchova leads the head to head 2-0 with both matches being on hard courts. Hantuchova really struggled against Hercog yesterday losing the opening set. She needed a 3rd set tie break to secure the win. Peng beat Bartoli in straight sets. She has been unspectacular so far this year. Hantuchova [...]
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Sunday’s matches, 19th February
ABN Amro World Tennis Tournment Final Federer v Del Potro: Head to heads are 8-2 in Federer’s favour. He has won both their recent matches (last 2 years) in straight sets, both on hard courts. Fed’s price opened at around 1.60 but moved out 10 ticks pretty quickly and has remained around 1.70 since (other [...]
Friday’s matches, 17th Feb
Brazil Open 14:00 Almagro v Berlocq: 1st seed takes on 5th seed. They have played just once before which was in May last year. That was also on clay and a very tight match went Almagro’s way in 3 sets. Berlocq is extremely consistent on clay and is able to win Challenger events almost at [...]
Thursday’s matches, 16th Feb
Brazil Open 14:00 Starace v Berlocq: Starace leads the head to heads 8-0! In Fact Berlocq has only taken 1 set in those 8 matches. Berlocq’s game has improved a great deal since their last match in 2010. In cont5rast Starace is sliding lower from around 45 12 months ago to his current 76. Both [...]
Wednesday’s matches, 15th February
Doha 12:30 Benesova v Halep: Benesova has made a great start to 2012. She made the quarter finals in Brisbane and the 4th round of the Oz Open losing to eventual champion Azarenka. In the first round here she made a slow start but came back strongly to win in 3 sets. Halep started 2012 [...]
Monday’s matches, 13th February
Qatar Total Open 2012 Keothavong v Paszek: Head to heads are 2-0 to Paszek. She is yet to record a win in a main draw match this year although she was underdog in all 3 matches ( to Williams, Ivanovic and Goerges). She also lost in the first round of qualifying for Sydney to Jovanovski. Keothavong [...]
Sunday’s matches – 5th Feb
Fed Cup Wickmayer v Jankovic – Indoor hard court – approx 12:30 EDIT- Well that was a waste of time. Similar to Davis Cup, players can be changed at very short notice. Jankovic has been replaced in this match by Krunic. This is why I rarely blog about DC or Fed Cup They have played [...]
Saturday’s matches, Feb 4th
Open Sud de France – Semi Final Berdych v Kohlschreiber: They played twice last year with Berdych winning both. The set count is 5-1. However Kohlschreiber has started 2012 very well and beat Gasquet in the quarter final. His serve has been pretty reliable. He has always had a good serve but he has reduced [...]
Tuesday’s matches, 31st Jan
Melzer v Petzschner: Melzer had to come through the qualifying rounds which he did without too much drama. Surprisingly he has never won a set against his doubles partner Petzschner. Their last match was earlier this month in Brisbane. He hasn’t won a main draw match yet this year although he had wins over Tsonga [...]
Australian Open 2012 – Men’s Final
Djokovic v Nadal: Ok I have gathered all the information I can on this one. Pheww! Now to try an make sense of it all. Djokovic won all their 6 matches in 2011. That isn’ t a fluke. All were finals and the last 2 were the US Open and Wimbledon. In both matches Djokovic [...]
