The main event of the evening….. Murray v Nadal: Head to heads are 13-5 in Nadal’s favour. On outdoor hard courts its 4-4. To be fair I feel Nadal is a little fortunate to still be in the tournament. He was clearly below his best against Nishikori and was constantly under pressure on his serve. [...]
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Miami, 29th March
Wozniacki v Sharapova: Sharapova leads the head to heads 3-2 but Woz won their last 2 hard court matches ( both in America). They had very different quarter finals. Sharapova was up against Li Na who had beaten her the last 4 times. No one expected Li to play quite so badly and she held her serve [...]
Miami, 28th March
V Williams v Radwanska: Williams leads the head to heads 5-1 winning their last 5 matches. They haven’t played since March 2010. The matches with the two Williams sisters are difficult to predict at the moment with their absence from the tour. There seem to be two camps. Those who feel that they are too [...]
Miami, 27th March
Dimitrov v Tipsarevic: Dimitrov has an impressive win over Berdych in the last round. Whilst Dimitrov played well Berdych was a level or two below his best. Berdych has a tendency to play “safe” in opening sets and seems to concentrate more on not making errors than in being aggressive and making winners. If he [...]
Miami, 26th March
Stosur v S Williams: The last time they met was in the US Open final last year. Stosur won that match really quite easily 6-2, 6-3 and we saw another Serena outburst when the umpire gave Stosur a point that Williams thought she had won. Williams had shouted, “come on!!” before Stosur hit her return. [...]
Miami, 23rd March
Wozniak v Niculescu: Niculescu has had a reasonable season so far reaching the quarter finals in Doha losing to Sam Stosur in 3 sets. However since then she has had 2 weak losses. She lost the second set against Kirilenko 6-0 and then lost as a strong favourite in Indian Wells to Sofia Arvidsson. Wozniack [...]
Miami, March 21st
Andujar c Giraldo: Two clay courters who have successfully developed their hard court games in the last 12 months. All their previous matches were on clay and Giraldo leads the head to head 2-1. Andujar won their most recent match which was at last year’s French Open. Most of the stats over the last 3 months [...]
Indian Wells 2012, Mens Semi Finals
Djokovic v Isner: They have played just twice before. Both matches were in 2010. Djokovic won both matches with their Davis Cup match being the closest. 6-4 i n the 5th set. Surprisingly that match was on clay. Not Isner’s best surface. Djokovic starts at 1.13 against the second highest ranked American on an American hard [...]
Indian Wells 2012, March 14th
The last couple of days have seen some unexpected results, due in part to the severe flu that has been going through the players. Hopefully from today any that haven’t been struck down should be ok and will perform a little closer to how we expect. Almagro v Berdych: The last time they met [...]
Indian Wells 2012, 12th March
Cibulkova v Vinci: Cibulkova leads the head to heads 2-1 although Vinci won their last match ( on grass). Vinci has improved her ranking by over 20 places in the last 12 months and is in excellent form. Cibulkova is favoured by the market despite the fact that she retired in Dubai and has recent [...]
