Big chance for Norrie now, highest seed of the final 4!

Paula Badosa will face Victoria Azarenka in the Indian Wells final after upsetting Ons Jabeur on Friday.

 

Spain's Badosa, playing the tournament for the first time, defeated 13th seed Jabeur, one of the most in-form players on the Tour this year, 6-3 6-3.

 

Azarenka came from a set and break down to beat Jelena Ostapenko 3-6 6-3 7-5.

Cameron Norrie through to the final! What an amazing couple of months for British tennis :D

Indeed an amazing couple of months for British tennis. Cameron will face either Taylor Fritz or Nikoloz Basilashvili.

^and he won

 

Paula Badosa also won and it was a crazy good game to watch, so nail-biting! What a tournament for Badosa, she beat Coco, Kerber, Jabeur, Krejcikova and

Azarenka in the final. She is now also #11 in the WTA ranking.

I watched the women's final. It was really unpredictable who was going to win that one up to the last point. Norrie's match was on too late but I saw a bit of it this morning. He did well to come back from a set and a break down.

Watched a bit of the Norrie match but because I had to work I turned it off to sleep! Such a topsy turvy match - losing the first set by losing 5 games in a row, to being a break down in the second set, to somehow turning it all around

 

Good to see Brits climbing the rankings

Looks like Novak might not be defending his Aussie Open title. It'll be interesting to see who does turn up.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/58964622

Could easily see them reversing that decision by the time the comp comes around.

Not sure about that, the Aussies seemed pretty serious about Covid last year

 

but find it bizarre that 50% of the players are not vaccinated

Serious with regards to the Australian citizens but they didn't mind all the celebs flying over, their gov got loads of criticism for it.

 

Not surprised about the vaccine hesitancy, common with a lot of elite sportspeople. There's a load of Premier league teams where less than half the squad have (allegedly) received the jab.

British number three Heather Watson has lost a sixth successive match to bow out of the Tenerife Open in round one.

 

Watson fought back from 5-3 down in the deciding set and led 5-2 in the tie-break but was beaten 6-4 2-6 7-6 (8-6) by Danish seventh seed Clara Tauson.

Andy Murray showed all of his quality and fight to edge past Frances Tiafoe in a thrilling European Open first-round match in Antwerp.

 

Murray saved two match points before taking a second of his own to win 7-6 (7-2) 6-7 (7-9) 7-6 (10-8) in a tense battle lasting three hours 45 minutes.

Emma′s been busy! She is the latest ambassador for Dior!

Britain's Andy Murray was knocked out in the second round of the European Open in Antwerp by world number 14 Diego Schwartzman.

 

The Argentine, 29, came from 4-1 behind to take the first set before winning a tight battle in the second to go through 6-4 7-6 (8-6).

 

Murray fought back from 4-2 down in the second set to force a tie-break.

Could easily see them reversing that decision by the time the comp comes around.

 

Didn't even take until then...

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/59037620

Edited October 25, 20213 yr by Dobbo.

haven't checked the WTA ranking and its all kinda crazy

all these are getting new peaks:

 

3 Krejcikova

6 Sakkari

7 Jabeur

10 Badosa

 

11 Kontaveit

12 Pavlyuchenkova

 

20 Pegula

21 Raducanu

 

Finally Emma has a win under her belt at tour level :D

Emma Raducanu's hopes of facing her idol Simona Halep in the Transylvania Open were ended by Marta Kostyuk in the quarter-finals.

 

The 18-year-old US Open champion was comprehensively beaten 6-2 6-1 by her teenage Ukrainian opponent.

 

Before the match Raducanu described how Kostyuk would "destroy" her when they played at junior level.

 

Kostyuk will face Halep in the last four after the Romanian thrashed compatriot Jaqueline Cristian 6-1 6-1.

She really did, Raducanu has played s bad since winning the US open, totally unrecognisable