WTA Mutual Madrid Open - Day three

Day three of the Madrid Open and Agnieszka Radwanka beat Eugenie Bouchard in straight sets. 

This was a good win for Aga against Eugenie a player I see winning a Grand Slam in the not too distant future. 

Ni La beat Kirsten Flipkens in straight sets and this was a good solid win for Ni La who hoping to at least make it to the final. 

The surprise is of the day was Sam Stosur beating Dominika Cibulkova in straight  sets. Dominika had a fairly good hard court season so was expecting her to do reasonably well, maybe she has not adjusted to the clay yet. 

Australian Open - Day Three

Day three at the Australian Open and Serena Williams beat Vesna Dolonc in straight sets. Serena played well and will now play Daniela Hantuchova in the next round. 

Jie Zheng beat the talented American Madison Keys in three sets. For Madison this will be a learning curve and as she was leading by four games to one the third set. 

These are kind of losses that Madison will learn from and will hopefully come back stronger. 

Sam Stosur hammered Tsvetana Pironkova in straight sets which included a six love second set. It was a suprise result considering that Tsvetana won the Sydney tournament over the weekend. 

Another surprise result was Monica Niculescu beating Sabine Liscki in three sets. I still feel that Sabine saves all her best tennis for Wimbledon and is not that motivated for the other slams. 

In the men's draw Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer both recorded straight sets wins to progress to the third round. 

WTA HP Open, Osaka, Japan - Final

The HP Open Osaka, final took place over the weekend, Samantha Stosur beat Eugenie Bouchard in three sets.

It was very much a match which had the experience of Sam Stosur up against the teen Eugenie Bouchard. 

Eventually Sam's experience of big matches helped her to secure the match and the title. 

But Eugenie's performance in this tournament will make her contender for titles in 2014 and will certainly make the tennis elite take notice.

WTA HP Open, Osaka. Japan

WTA HP Open Osaka quarter finals took place today and Madison Keys the teenage American recorded a good win straight victory over Jie Zheng.

Madison could potentially win this tournament but there was also good quarter finals win are Eugenie Bouchard and Sam Stosur. 

This tournament has got the experience Sam Stosur and the up and coming teenagers like Eugenie Bouchard and Madison Keys and it certainly helps to make this tournament more interesting and watchable.

 

US Open- day two

Day two of the US Open was pretty eventful. Heather Watson lost in three sets to Simona Halep and in the second set Heather could have won the match instead she made too many unforced errors and costly double faults. Which ultimately cost Heather the match.

The 11th seed and former US champion Sam Stosur lost in three sets to Victoria Duval and Victoria is a seventeen year old  Haitian American ranked 296 in the world. So it was a real shock that she was able to beat a former US Open champion. 

She now faces Daniela Hantuchova in the third round it will be interesting to see if can continue and make it to the fourth round.