Just six months after suffering career-threatening injuries to her left, racket-wielding hand, Petra Kvitova was today able to use it to lift the Aegon Classic trophy after beating Ashleigh Barty 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in Birmingham. The ever smiling Czech was playing in only her second tournament since she was stabbed by an intruder at her Read More …
Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova is thoroughly enjoying the grass court section of the women’s tour, following up her Surbiton win with a performance of real grit to overcome World No43 Alison Riske, from the USA, 6-2,6-7,7-5 in a match that kept the Nottingham Open centre court crowd totally engrossed for two hours and 35minutes. Rybarikova was Read More …
Jelena Ostapenko and Laura Robson are both Junior Wimbledon champions, but that is where the similarity ends at the moment. Three years after her junior triumph at the Championships, the unseeded Ostapenko won the French Open women’s title on Saturday in Paris, making the kind of dramatic transition into the senior ranks that Robson seemed Read More …
