Tag: Stosur

What a story! The American teenager Victoria Duval upsets 2011 US Open champion (at the US Open!)  in her opener in New York. Although Victoria was born in Miami, she grew up with her parents in Haiti. Now ranked world no.296 (see ranking progression), the young...

Last week was another good one for Simona Halep. The upcoming Romanian is getting better and better to win her 4th tournament of the season in New Haven. Obviously we are not talking about winning a slam, but Simona’s tennis and confidence is getting...

We have 4 big names at the Hopman Cup. Poland will have a very strong team with its most representative players Jerzy Janowicz and Agnieszka Radwanska. Radwanska "I’m really excited to play the Hopman Cup for the first time. I’ve never played mixed doubles with Jerzy before....

It’s time to change coaches! The most spectacular change was definitely  the hire and fire affair from Maria Sharapova that dumped Jimmy Connors after one match. Sam Stosur had definitely a longer stint (6 years) with David Taylor and they did split in a less dramatic...

We had some interesting movements in the WTA rankings. Azarenka and Sharapova Victoria Azarenka may have lost an ugly final against Sam Stosur, but at least the week in Carlsbad helped her to get back to the second position in the rankings. The weird stuff is...

This final was easier than forecasted for Sam Stosur that before this match she was 0-8 against Vika. The Australian conceded only 5 games to an imperfect Victoria Azarenka that  has committed a whopping 32 unforced errors and only 11 winners. Vika had also a terrible...

That was quite an erratic semifinal! Vika Azarenka had the perfect start to serve a bagel (6-0) to Ana Ivanovic. Even if the first set had such a nasty score the two players were not so uneven as Vika won 37 points vs. Ana’s 22...

Finally Sam Stosur is managing to get some good results. The Australian is not having one of her finest seasons to have a 22/16 win-loss record in 2013. This made Sam to crash out the top ten (now ranked 13). The Australian has now scored...

Serena is flying away from the rest of the pack! The American consolidates her lead in the ranking after winning her 16th slam opening up a big gap between her and the others. Strange enough even if Azeranka lost to Sharapova in the semifinal in Paris,...

A good result for Vika!  The match lasted a couple of hours. The quality was not superb with Vika committing 8 double faults (5 from Sam's side) and both players being broken 6 times on 13 service games each. Eventually Azarenka won the match even if...