A massive traffic jam caused top seed and world number one, Serena Williams, to borrow a bicycle from her hotel to cycle to the Miami Open on Saturday, an unusual occurrence which she thought was cool, but it may have had an effect on her game, as she started slowly [...]
In windy, hot and humid conditions at the Miami Open on Saturday Petra Kvitova, Caroline Wozniacki and Andrea Petkovic all lost their third round matches to open up the draw which now offers some very interesting match ups. Venus Williams is also out, as she had to withdraw with a [...]
Tobias Kamke stunned Del Potro, whilst James Blake eliminated Bennetau in second round of Miami ATP World Tour Masters 1000. Ramos and Melzer also entered the third round. An unexpected second round exit for last week’s Indian Wells finalist Juan Martin Del Potro who was leading 5-2 in the opening [...]
Janko Tipsarevic eased into third round of Miami, whilst David Ferrer was given another bye. Nishikori, Zemlja and Malisse also advanced to round of 32. Seventh-seeded Serb Tipsarevic overcame Dudi Sela of Israel in straight sets after efficiently converting four out of his five break point opportunities. He went 3-0 [...]
Defending champ Novak Djokovic dropped only one game in second round of Sony Open Tennis, Dolgopolov, Haas and Simon also through to the third round. Top seed Djokovic started the defense of Miami title in an exquisite fashion as he gave his second round opponent Lukas Rosol of Slovakia absolutely [...]
The Miami Open’s second seed, Victoria Azarenka, was due to play her first match on Friday after having had a bye in the first round, but even with the extra days to recover from her ankle injury, she was not able to take to the court. The 19 year old [...]
World number 1 and top seed Serena Williams made her way with ease into the third round at the Miami Open when she totally overpowered Flavia Pennetta of Italy 6-1 6-1 in just over an hour and a quarter. Her sister, 19th seed Venus, had a much harder battle on [...]
Bernard Tomic and Viktor Troicki reach round of 64 at Miami Masters, Jarkko Nieminen eliminates Nalbandian. 45th-ranked Australian Tomic found himself one break down twice in the opening set of his first round match against 35-year-old Marcel Gicquel of France, but prevented the latter to serve out the opener at [...]
The second round at the Miami Open began on Thursday with the seeded players playing in the top half of the draw playing their first matches after they all received byes into the second round, with very mixed results. 10th seed Marion Bartoli had to retire with a foot injury [...]
Lleyton Hewitt, Nikolay Davydenko and James Blake were successful in their first round matches at Sony Open Tennis in Miami. While seeded players were given a bye in the first round, former No. 1 Australian Hewitt started his Miami 2013 campaign with a two-set triumph against Portuguese Joao Sousa, ranked [...]
For Rafael Nadal, winning the title at Indian Wells was a welcome surprise. For the rest of the ATP Tour however it was business as usual, i.e. the recent trend of seeing one of the “big four” standing in the winner’s circle at the biggest events. With a 17-1 record [...]
Christina McHale, Jamie Hampton, Madison Keys, Victoria Duval and Bethanie Mattek-Sands all made it to the second round at the Miami Open on Wednesday, to score a good day for Americans at a home tournament. The 376th ranked 17 year old Victoria Duval, playing in just her second WTA main [...]
Svetlana Kuznetsova is continuing to win matches after a long layoff due to injury and, although not seeded at the Miami Open, she is still a strong threat to the other players in the draw. On Wednesday she played against Lourdes Dominguez Lino and won in straight sets 6-3 6-3. [...]
Men’s tennis has been blessed with many outstanding doubles pairings. In the early years of competitive tennis, Wimbledon saw the multiple Championship winning pairings of the Renshaws, the Baddesleys and the Dohertys (all pairings of brothers – is there something about the special rapport between brothers?) In the immediate post [...]
