Open 13 Semi Final – 13:00 Tsonga v Del Potro: Del Potro leads the head to heads 3-1. Tsonga won their most recent match which was last October. Del Potro’s game has improved in the few months since then. Del Potro had a long week last week losing to Federer in the Final in the [...]
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Friday’s matches, 24th Feb
Copa Clara – 17:00 Wawrinka v Nishikori: They have never played before which I think actually favours Nishikori. Compared to other surfaces he is a bit of an unknown quantity on clay. He and his team will know all about Wawrinka on clay and will have devised a game plan accordingly. Both players are qute [...]
Thursday’s matches, 23rd Feb
Open 13 – 17:30 Del Potro v Davydenko: Davy leads the head to heads 3-1. However in all their matches Davy was the higher ranked player. A lot has happened since their last match at the World Tour Finals in 2009. Last week we saw a little of the Davydenko who reached number 3 in [...]
Wednesday’s matches, 22nd Feb
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 [...]
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 [...]
