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The final of WTA Brisbane International 2019 will be Lesia Tsurenko’s first career Premier final. Her opponent Karolina Pliskova will attempt to regain the title she won in 2017. Tsurenko has looked unbeatable this week, and is one match away to seal a perfect week in Brisbane. The Ukrainian will be playing in her fifth […] READ MORE
The semifinals of WTA Brisbane International 2019 will feature only two seeded players in a tournament of upsets from Day 1. Naomi Osaka, the reigning US Open champion, who has so far been the most consistent seeded player this week, will face Lesia Tsurenko in the first semifinal. Tsurenko is yet to beat or even […] READ MORE
The quarterfinal matches of WTA Brisbane International 2019 are all set, and there have been no shortage of upsets. The top seed, and defending Brisbane champion, Elina Svitolina was stunned at the first hurdle when she fell to Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-4 0-6 6-3. Svitolina, on her first outing since winning the season-ending championship […] READ MORE
Australia’s Kimberly Birrell Upsets Kasatkina on Court 1 Kimberly Birrell produced a fearless performance to cause the biggest upset of Day 1 at the Brisbane International, when she knocked out World No.10 Daria Kasatkina of Russia 7-5 4-6 6-7 in a dramatic three-hour epic. Birrell, the 20-year-old Australian who had to undergo the rigorous Australian […] READ MORE
The WTA is once again running its own fantasy game, aptly called WTA Fantasy Tennis. The aim of the game is to predict who will qualify for the WTA Finals as far before they actually qualify as possible, and predicting the four semi-finalists at a selection of WTA tournaments. I will be giving my expert […] READ MORE
In this article, I will be revealing my predictions of the year-end Top 10 on the WTA Tour in 2019. Essentially I am predicting the eight players to qualify for the WTA Finals next year, as well as the two alternates should one of the top eight not be able to participate. I also made […] READ MORE
Defending champion USA heads to Prague for the Federation Cup Final, November10 th-11th, 2018. The Czech Republic are understandably many people’s favourites to wrestle the crown from the USA. Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova are the highest ranked players at #5 and #7, respectively. Sloane Stephens (#8) is the only top ten player for the […] READ MORE
Sloane Stephens completed an amazing comeback against Karolina Pliskova, 0-6 6-4 6-1, booking her WTA Finals final spot against Elina Svitolina. This result sends out a big message ahead of the Fed Cup final. Whereby, the USA try to defend their title against the Czech Republic. Had Pliskova shown ruthlessness against Kerber in the 2016 […] READ MORE
We are up to the semifinals of the US Open. It’s crunch time for the top players, as the remaining eight battle for their first Slam title of the season. All three Major winners this year (Caroline Wozniacki, Simona Halep, and Angelique Kerber) have been bounced from the tournament. Two of the women playing on […] READ MORE
We’re in the second week of the final Grand Slam of 2018. The US Open is rapidly approaching its final stages, and there are four Round of 16 matches taking place on Sunday. Our panelists are here to predict all four of them for you. Predicting today are writers David Adair and Tracey Essex, along […] READ MORE