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Karl Poling, like Finn Reynolds, is a left-hander who plays in the deuce court, but it was the New Zealander who served first, with the sun at his back, when he and James Watt...
Valentina Ivanov’s second round match in Olomouc was against her doubles partner, and fellow qualifier, German left-hander Carolina Kuhl, and it was a bit worrying to see both of...
Valentina Ivanov has moved up enough in the rankings in the last few months to ensure that she’s now meeting much better players on a regular basis, and fifth seed Chloé Paquet,...
Monique Barry and Tiphanie Lemaître have actually been partners before, in Nakhon Si Thammarat nearly two years ago. They were the second seeds on that occasion, and were hoping...
The oldest of three British tennis-playing sisters, 18 year old Allegra Korpanec Davies is working her way up the rankings quite quickly, so I was looking forward to seeing how...
Young Czech player Nikola Koprivova doesn’t have a WTA ranking, and had to get into the qualifying draw at Olomouc via a wild card. On paper, at least, she was going to have a...
Missing out on defending their doubles title in Cary cost Finn Reynolds and James Watt a few places in the rankings, but any wins in Newport would help offset that, as they had...
Matt Donald’s only previous M25 singles final was in Monastir last November, where he lost in two tie-breaks, so he would have been hoping for a better result on the clay in...
One of the problems with the streaming coverage from so many tournaments is the cameras being placed at the wrong end of the courts. You might well think “what does it matter?”...
Matt Donald has had a good run in Kassel this week, and his defeat of top seed Ioannis Xilas in the quarter-final, a match that had been suspended due to darkness on the previous...
