womens seccond round 18-1-17

 

 

American tennis star and tennis legend Venus Williams secured a spot in the third round with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Swiss tennis player Vogue Williams could go a couple of rounds but has no chance at winning

German Angilique Kerber needed 3 sets to defeat Witthoft as she won 6-2, 6-7, 6-2 She definitely would be an outside bet for the title

Svitlova from the Ukraine beat Bosserup from the USA 6-4,6-1 a quarter final should be her aim in this Aussie open

Barty from Australia beat Rogers from the USA and would be seen as a home favourite winning 7-5, 6-1

Jankovic from Croatia beat Georges from Germany in straight sets 6-3, 6-4

Bouchard from Canada beat Peng from China 7-6, 6-2 and she is one of the players I want to do really well and I would love to see her win the whole competition

Pavlyuchenkova won this all Russian tie against Vikhlyantseva 6-2, 6-2

Vandeweghe from the USA beat Parmentier in straight sets 6-4, 7-5

Carla Suareaz Navaro from Spain beat Romanian Christea 7-6, 6-3

Sevastova from Austria beat Kucova from Croatia 6-3, 6-4

 Pliskova from the Czech Republic beat Begu from Belgium 6-4, 7-6 

womens tennis 17-1-16 round 1

Pisklova the number 5 seed from the Czech Republic beat Sorribes Tormo in straight sets 6-2, 6-0 and showed that she has the potential to beat anyone

Serena Williams from the USA beat Benic from Switzerland 6-4, 6-3 and she is always a player to watch out for but age might catch up with her soon

Joanna Konta needs a run in this competition to be noticed but she has started well with a 7-5, 6-2 I hope that she is able to get a major before she retires

Sam Stoser needed 3 sets to beat Heather Watson but she cruised to the third set and made some of us ask where exactly Watson was in the third as if she was able to keep it close she could have won the match

Number 6 seed Cibulkova from Slovakia beat Allertova in straight sets

Caroline Woznaicki has come back from her accidental suspension to show she is back on form with a Rodionova from New Zealand

Garcia from France number 21 seed had a straight sets win over Bondarenko from the Ukraine

Number 16 seed Strycova won in straight sets over Kulichkova

Vesnina from Russia number 14 seed beat Bogdan from Belgium in straight sets

In this all Russian tie Makarova number 30 seed has shown why she is that with a 6-0, 4-6, 6-1 wins over Alexandrova

Bacsinszky from Switzerland number 12 seed beat Giorgi 6-3, 6-6, 7-5 and showed why she was deserving of the seeding

Cornet number 28 from France beat fellow French woman Gorges 2-1 in sets

Babos from Hungary beat Gibbs from the USA 7-5 6-4 but no one would be expecting he to put up a challenge but the last 32 should make her happy

Putintseva from Cyprus number 31 seed secured a spot in the second round with a 7-6, 7-6 but both tie breaks were epic and it should have went to a third set 

mens austrilian open 17-1-16 round 1

Spaniard and no 9 seed  Rafa Nadal won in straight sets against German Mayer 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 he is always a player to watch out for in a competition like this and I don’t see this changing but I do think his game is more suited to the french open

Canadian Milos Ranoic beat German Brown 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 but I am surprised that he is the best behind Djockovic and Murray as I could think of players much better suited

German number 24  Zvrev an unknown player beat Hasse from the Netherlands 6-3, 3-6, 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 a match like this can only help him going forward and against the bigger4 players we know that he can compete at least

Spaniard David Ferrer no 21 seed cruised into the second round with a 6-3, 6-0, 6-2 win over Australian Jasika he was never in the match at any given point  

Belgium David Goffin needed 5 sets to beat Opelka from the USA it was a really balanced match as he won the first lost the second won the third lost the fourth and won the fifth set and going forward there is a lot he has to look at  

Austrian David Thiem needed four sets to beat Struff as he did not get off to the best start losing the first 6-4 but then won the next 3 6-4,6-4,6-3

Frenchman Gail Monfils showed what he could do in destroying Vesely of the Czech Republic 6-3,6-2,6-3 he is definite4ly a potential champion

Brit Kyle Edmond kept the pressure off Murray at least for now with a straight sets win over Giraldo winning 6-2, 7-5, 6-3 has he the potential to go deep in this competition I don’t know

Bautista Agut from Spain showed that he had the class with a 6-3, 6-1, 6-1 win over Pella from Argentina I don’t know if he can go far in the competition but he has potential

Richard Gasguet from France beat Mott from New Zealand in straight sets 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 and has the potential to be champion for sure but I don’t think that he has it mentally yet

No 25 seed Symons from France won in straight sets against Mmoh from the USA

Cypriot Marcus Bagdaties a man with a history in tennis also made his way through

German number 32 seed Kohlschreiber beat Georgian Basilashvili in 4 sets

Spanish no 30 seed Carreno-Busta needed all 5 sets before Polansky retired with a serious injury which made things difficult for him to play on

Spaniard number 28 seed Lopez beat Fogini from Italy 7-5, 6-3, 7-5

Novac Djockovic from Serbia no 2 in the world beat Verdasco 6-2, 7-6, 6-2 and we know why he is the best player in the world at times but he should at least reach the quarter final 

Karlovic won an epic match against Argentine Zeballos he the game was poyesed at 2 sets a piece but that match just went on and on and Karlovic won the final set by 22 games to 20  you must think that there must be a rule introduced here after a time as these matches can go on for ever 

17-11-16 tennis atp

In the ATP World tour Finals I will take a look at the groups as they go into the more interesting part of the competition.

First I will look at group A

Brit Andy Murray started his Campaign with defeat in the first set on a tie break to Japanese player Kei Nishikori after that he showed what he could do by second and third quite easily by 6 games to 4. Andy looked ready for the competition at this stage

Maron Cilic defeated Swiss player Stan Wavwinka 7-6 in both sets this left things very interesting at this stage as the games lost could harm him moving forward

Andy Murray sealed at least a spot in the semi-final with a 2 sets to 0 win over Marian Cilic this says that Murray is ready for anything and will be a force in the semi or final and backs up his number 1 seeding

Kei Nishikori beat Stan Wavwenka by 2 sets to 0 and sets up a play off tie with Cilic on Friday that will be a very interesting match that I think will be a good watch

Player	Played	Won	Lost	Sets for	Sets against	Points
Murray	2	2	0	4	1	4
Nishikori	2	1	1	3	2	2
Wavwenka	2	1	1	2	2	2
Cilic	4	0	2	0	4	0

 

 Novac Djockovic from Serbia beat Milos Ranoic from Canada7-6, 7-6 and this says to me more the fact that Ranoic might be able to get to the knockout stage of the competition as he took Djockovic to 2 final matches in the set

Gail Monfils from France took a set of Dominic Thiem from Austria this is a good result for the Austrian as it keeps him in contention for a place in the knockout stage

Thiem won a thriller of a first set before gwetting crushed by Djockovic in the next 2 sets so that Djockovic would seal a spot in the last 4

Milos Ranoic secured a playoff match with Dominic them after beating Gael Monfils 2-0 in sets neither set was that close so Ranoic did not have that much to worry about

 

Player	Played	Won	Lost	Sets for	Sets against	Points
Djockovic	2	2	0	4	1	4
Thiem	2	1	1	3	3	2
Ranoic	2	1	1	3	3	2 v
Monfils	2	0	2	1	4	0

 

 

Stan Wavwenka wins Mens US Open 11-9-16

WAVENKA SHOWS HE CAN COME BACK FOR VICTORY

No 3 seed San Wavwinka showed why he is the best player in the world by being able to outclass Serb and number 1 seed Novac Djockovic when he needed to when he needed to in the US Open final yesterday after losing the first set on a tie break Wavvewnka came back to win the second 6-4 and the third 7-5 but it was how he was able to take control of the fourth that shows that the Swiss player has the potential to be a great champion.

womens us open final 10-9-16

KERBER SHOWS EXPERIENCE CAN WIN

German Angelique Kerber won the first set of this US open tie quite easily 6-3 before getting a tight loss to number 10 seed Piskova 6-4 and the match was all on the line when Kerber knew how to hold her nerve and become no 1 seed ahead of the legend that is Serena after winning the third set 6-4 and she now has 3 of the 4 majors 

07-9-16 womens US open quarters

US OPEN 

WOMEN'S

German Angelique Kerber secured a spot in the semi-final with an easy second set and a difficult set against Roberta Vinci from Italy

Danish player Caroline Woznicki cruised through to the semi-final against Latvian surprise package Sevastova from Latvia. It felt like the Latvian was not allowed into the match in any way whatsoever and the Danish player looks now like a favorite for the title