Maria Kirilenko had an enormous task ahead of her when she took to the court in Moscow on Sunday afternoon to play against Dominika Cibulkova of the Slovak Republic, to try to keep Russia in the tie. On Saturday, both Cibulkova and Hantuchova won their opening matches to take a [...]
For the full draw of this year’s tournament, please click here: WTA Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 2013 Draw In 2012, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix marked the start of Maria Sharapova’s greatest ever clay court season. The Russian powered past arch-rival Victoria Azarenka in the Stuttgart final twelve months [...]
Check out the Monte Carlo final live commentary here: Nadal vs Djokovic Monte Carlo 2013 Live World no.1 Novak Djokovic will play Rafael Nadal in Sunday’s 2013 Monte Carlo Masters final, with many tennis fans eagerly awaiting this dream encounter. Djokovic booked his place in the final with a [...]
Rafa Nadal overcame Dimitrov in three sets and will square off against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Monte Carlo Rolex Masters 2013 semifinals. In the first quarterfinal match seed number thirteen Stan Wawrinka, facing sixth-seeded Frenchman Tsonga, picked up where he left off in yesterday’s thrashing of Andy Murray and produced a [...]
Novak Djokovic turns around his third round match to set up a Monte Carlo 2013 quarterfinal clash against Jarkko Nieminen. Just like in the previous round, top seed Djokovic went a set down, yet he bounced back to reach Monte Carlo quarterfinals. His third round opponent Juan Monaco got off [...]
Stan Wawrinka reached the quarterfinal stage of Monte Carlo Masters after blowing away Andy Murray. Grigor Dimitrov also progressed in straight sets. 13th-seed Swiss Wawrinka was in a superb form today and literally swept second seed Murray off the court after exactly one hour of play. The British player opened [...]
Fabio Fognini pulled off a massive shock in his third round match at the Monte Carlo Masters, defeating Tomas Berdych in straight sets 6-4 6-2. Despite a relatively poor performance by his standards yesterday in defeating Marcel Granollers, it was still surprising to see Berdych dealt with so easily. While an early [...]
John Isner surprised many when won his first ever clay court title in Houston last week, including the big man himself who entered the event in an early season slump. But after beating two top 20 players, Juan Monaco and Nicolas Almagro, who are known for their skills on the [...]
Novak Djokovic turned around his second round match at Monte Carlo Rolex Masters 2013, whilst Jurgen Melzer entered third round after his triumph against Almagro. Top seed Djokovic probably expected an easier job in second round of Monte Carlo as he found himself one set down, yet he managed to [...]
Hoping to make it nine Monte Carlo titles in a row, Rafael Nadal made light work of Marinko Matosevic in his opening match with a 6-1 6-2 defeat over the Australian in just under an hour. Nadal was quick out of the blocks, breaking twice for a 4-0 lead and dropping just two points [...]
Milos Raonic was one of two seeds to be defeated in the second round in Monte Carlo, falling to a surprising three set defeat by Jarkko Nieminen 3-6 6-1 7-6. Raonic started well enough, troubling the Finn’s serve in the opening game but he couldn’t convert any of the five break point [...]
Juan Monaco and Nicolas Almagro won their first round matches at Monte Carlo Masters 2013, whilst Juan Martin Del Potro squeezed into the third round after a set down. A shaky start of the Monte Carlo tournament for fifth seed Argentine Del Potro as he was broken twice by his [...]
Grigor Dimitrov defeated Janko Tipsarevic in the second round of Monte Carlo, Frenchmen Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Richard Gasquet also advanced. Sixth-seeded Frenchman Tsonga got off to a flying start in the second round match in Monte Carlo as he broke his opponent Nikolay Davydenko to love in the opening game. [...]
Milos Raonic, Alexandr Dolgopolov and Marin Cilic were successful in the first round of Monte Carlo 2013 ATP tournament. Twelfth seed Canadian Raonic put in a routine performance at the beginning of his Monte Carlo 2013 campaign. He stormed through the opening set of his first round duel with Frenchman [...]
