There is now another Czech player to pay attention to on the WTA tour. Twenty-one-year-old Marie Bouzkova made herself known as a player to be reckoned with when she dispatched of the number seven seed, Sloane Stephens, in the second round of the Rogers Cup in Toronto. The young Czech player did not stop there,…
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The joy of victory is sometimes overstated; however, there was no denying Kuznetsova’s joy yesterday when she came from a set down and saved four match points to win the Citi Open title in three sets. Spare a thought for her opponent, Donna Vekic, who came so close to winning the title. However, after the…
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SIGNIFICANT RANKING CHANGES FOR THE WEEK OF 07.30.2018 The mover of the week honors go to Nikoloz Basilashvili. He won his first ATP World Tour singles title and became the first Georgian player to win an ATP World Tour title. After winning the first set, Basilashvili lost his focus and it looked like the defending…
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WEEK: 11.27.2017 Aryna Sabalenka gets the mover of the week honors with her win in Mumbai. She won the L&T Mumbai Open as the number one seed by easily defeating Dalila Jakupovic 6-2, 6-3 to claim her first WTA title. The Belarusian has been slowly making her way up the rankings and came pretty close…
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WEEK: 11.20.2017 Mover of the week honors go to Belinda Bencic. After breaking into the top ten early in her career (number seven in 2016); the Swiss Miss found her career derailed by a plethora of injuries, which caused her to fall out of the top 100. She had not played since April following wrist…
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WEEK: 10.30.2017 The tennis season is winding down; although there are still a few 125K series tournaments, the season is essentially over on the WTA Tour with the completion of the WTA Finals. At 29, Mihaela Buzarnescu gets the mover of the week honors, moving up seventeen places to number 72. This is a career…
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