A possibility of a 'World Cup of Tennis Fianls' being replaced with the Davis Cup:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/43202373

 

 

What do you make of this?

 

 

Just saw Rafa has pulled out of Rio and is in doubt now for IW and Miami.

 

He's had a run of pulling out of tournaments since last year.

I think the Davis Cup could be good but be better integrating with Fed Cup and having World Cup Tennis in one place at one time, or they need to make adjustments to the Fed Cup....but all the attention is always mens tennis... BBC Sport reported on Jamie Murrays doubles title win this week but no mention of Heather Watsons at the same tournament, it was eventually added into the article in a small piece late yesterday evening. I know the mens is probably the matches most are interested in etc but reporting should be of both wins not just an add on way after, I find it shoddy reporting and sexist, another example this morning GMB reporting on Athletics and said Andy Pozzi was the only british gold medal winner!! totally no report on KJT

 

Kyle Edmund is the new British number 1 at #24 as Murrays points fall off while he prepares his return from injury.

 

This Weeks Titles Winners

 

Acapulco WTA/ATP

 

Del Potro BT Anderson 6/4 6/4

Murray & Soares BT Bryan & Bryan 7/6(7/4) 7/5

 

Tsurenko BT Voegele 5/7 7/6(7/2) 6/2

Maria & Watson BT Christian & Santamaria 7/5 2/6 10/2

 

Dubai ATP

 

Bautista Agut BT Pouille 6/3 6/4

Rojer & Tecau BT Cerretani & Paes 6/2 7/6(7/2)

 

Sao Paulo ATP

 

Fognini BT Jarry 1/6 6/1 6/4

Delbonis & Gonzalez BT Koolhof & Sitak 6/4 6/2

 

Indian Wells 125k WTA

 

Errani BT Bondarenko 6/4 6/2

Townsend & Wickmayer BT Brady & King 6/4 6/4

Serena is making her big comeback in Indian Wells and could face Venus in R3.

 

Heather Watson has drawn Azarenka in R1!

Norrie qualifies for his first major ATP 1000, possible 2nd round match with Djokovic..

 

Sharapova continues to struggle losing to Osaka in first round

Marias comeback is going from bad to worse. Bad loss to Osaka in R1. So many errors and double faults.

You've got to congratulate Osaka as well though. That must have given her a massive confidence boost going into the next round.

Jo loses early again. Going nowhere at the moment and she has a shed load of points to defend in Miami.

Yeah Jo certainly not the Jo we grew to love over the last few years, her game feels like it is back to the inconsistent way it was before she had a good patch, Kyle also lost to Dudi Sela.

 

Djokovic suffered a loss to world 109 Taro Daniel, Pouille, Zverev, Schwartzman, Isner and Muller all lost as well

 

Azarenka, Mladenovic, Ostapenko, Kvitova all lost as well.

 

On female brit side good news is Gabi Taylor is really performing well winning a lot of lower tiered events and climbing rankings into top 180

Jo Konta with 1000 points to defend next week in Miami.

 

If she's out in the first couple of rounds she'll be back down in the mid-20s in the rankings or thereabouts.

Ye big week for Jo needs to find some consistency

 

Federer just matched his best run of 16 tour wins in a row not lost this year yet

Big breakthrough week for both womens finalists at Indian Wells, Kasatkina and Osaka both had some great victories during the week. Federer went on his best start to a season with 17 victories in a row to come to an end in the final

 

Indian Wells ATP/WTA

 

Mens Winners

 

Del Potro BT Federer 6/4 6/7(8/10) 7/6(7/2)

Isner & Sock BT Bryan & Bryan 7/6(7/4) 7/6(7/2)

 

Ladies Winners

 

Osaka BT Kasatkina 6/3 6/2

Hsieh & Strycova BT Makarova & Vesnina 6/4 6/4

 

 

Another big tournament over next two weeks is Miami, Konta a lot to defend, the return of Bethanie Mattek-Sands after her horrendous injury at Wimbledon last year, she is returning to the doubles with Safarova I believe.

 

Katie Boulter has been given a wildcard into qualies first round against Taylor Townsend and Naomi Broady faces Oceane Dodin, in mens qualies Liam Broady faces Henri Laaksonen and Cam Norrie faces Stefan Kozlov as they try to reach main draw

Naomi lost in three sets, Katie won which was great as did Liam and Cameron and looking at final Q round they all have a brilliant chance to make main draw.

 

Kyle and Jo both have byes and Heather first round is against Haddad Maia who won the only other previous time they met.

 

 

Heather suffered another first round loss...

 

All the brits left in Qualies came through and made main draw which is good going and rewarded with a good chance to progress in mens as Liam drawn fellow qualifier Fratangelo and Cameron got Jarry , Katie on the other hand has drawn Hseih

Cameron and Katie both lost their first rounds but Liam progressed a good victory for him.

 

Serena also lost against Osaka as she continues her comeback

Federer will lose the world #1 ranking next week after Miami with his 2nd round loss to kokkinakis he's also confirmed he wont be playing clay season again this year.

 

Good win for Jo over Mertens who reached the Australian Semi Finals and sets up a 4th round clash with Venus who she beat in Miami last year at the semi final stage before going on to win the title.

Marin Cilic and Juan Martin del Potro also made it through to the fourth round on Sunday in Miami with straight-set victories.

 

 

Jo lost in 3 sets 5/7 6/1 6/2 she needed a medical time out after second set, means she falls to roughly 22nd in world, Muguruza also lost meaning all the top 3 women are out.

John Isner has upset second seed Marin Cilic to reach the quarter-finals of the Miami Open.

Miami feels very open for anyone to win on both sides.

 

Nice to see Sloane Stephens have a good run and she'll move into the top ten with it faces Azarenka in semi final which is also nice to see her doing well here, the other half of the draw Venus should take the win in her QF over wildcard Collins but she has been playing very well and Venus has had 2 three set matches in a row, the other QF is harder to predict Ostapenko V Svitolina.

 

The mens side will probably go down to Del Potro from the bottom half, he faces off against Raonic in his QF and the other QF is Isner V Chung, although Chung has flown up the rankings and been playing very well he could upset them all if on his game. In the top half we have Carreno Busta V Anderson, Zverev V Coric