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The final four is set in St Petersburg. Top two seeds Maria Sakkari and Anett Kontaveit are joined by Irina-Camelia Begu and Jelena Ostapenko. We’ve been given quality tennis all week in Russia and that trend looks set to continue on Saturday. With that in mind, we take a look at who should make the […] READ MORE
The WTA St Petersburg Ladies Trophy continues to give us tennis of the highest quality. The tournaments top seeds keep on winning which means we should see some great matches in the coming days. Headlining Thursday’s action are the likes of Petra Kvitova and former champion Jelena Ostapenko. We take a look at how all […] READ MORE
Day two of the St Petersburg Ladies Trophy is packed full of must-see tennis. Eleven matches will be played out on Tuesday, with the likes of Petra Kvitova and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova taking to the court. When the dust settles we should have a much better idea of who the serious contenders are. With that in […] READ MORE
The second day of action in St Petersburg should feature high quality tennis across all 11 matches taking place. Tuesday sees several top seeds and favourites in action such as Maria Sakkari and Jelena Ostapenko. However, with such a deep field in Russia for this event nothing is guaranteed. As always, we take a look […] READ MORE
The WTA’s tennis hiatus is over. The St Petersburg Ladies Trophy will be the First WTA tournament to take place since the end of the Australian Open. It is also the only WTA tournament this week so it is little surprise that the draw is deep and enticing. Maria Sakkari is the top seed here […] READ MORE
And then there were two. Homegrown talents have performed admirably at the WTA St Petersburg Ladies Trophy, with all four semifinalists representing Russia. Now Margarita Gasparyan and Daria Kasatkina are set to battle it out in the final. Both have played quality tennis this week and are deserving of their place in the final, but who […] READ MORE
Seven of the eight quarterfinalists in St Petersburg are Russian. As such, it is looking inevitable that we will se a home grown talent lifting the St Petersburg trophy at the end of the week. #1 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova remains the favorite to lift the trophy. However, #4 seed Kuznetsova and former World #10 have […] READ MORE
The top Russian seeds continue to perform in St Petersburg as we look forward to Thursday’s WTA action. None of the top home seeds have yet left the tournament. We take a look at which, if any, of Thursday’s participants will keep that trend going in our WTA St Petersburg ladies Trophy day 4 predictions. […] READ MORE
Day 3 in St Petersburg sees three of the top four seeds–including #1 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova–in action for the first time. Joining them is the winner of the 2015 edition of the tournament, Jelena Ostapenko. Wednesday’s action should give us a good idea of who should be favourite to take home the trophy. Most of […] READ MORE
The second day of action in St Petersburg sees newly crowned WTA Lyon champion Clara Tauson in action against #8 see Daria Kasatkina. The main draw of this tournament is full of hometown talent, with eight Russians featuring in the field of 32. Five of those eight are seeded and will be hopeful of adding […] READ MORE
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