Mona Barthel scores biggest career victory, tops the list of WTA players with most match wins in 2013
By upsetting fellow German Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-2 in the second round of the $2,369,000 Qatar Total Open, Mona Barthel not only defeated a sixth-ranked player for the first time, but she also recorded her 14th...
Statistical approach: Based on the Australian Open past, how will Top 8 WTA seeds perform in 2013?
Omair has been a regular contributor on Women's Tennis Blog, but now he has his own website and in the days leading up to the Australian Open he employed his love of stats to...
Radwanska into Sydney final, keeps her 2013 record perfect by spoiling Li’s
Agnieszka Radwanska and Li Na both entered the Premier-level Sydney semifinal with perfect win-loss records this season, owing to their title runs in Auckland (Radwanska) and inaugural Shenzhen (Li), but the higher-ranked Pole spoiled Li's...
Sydney semifinalists: Radwanska vs. Li, Kerber vs. Cibulkova
Top four seeds were the only seeds in the Apia International Sydney quarterfinals and three of them advanced to the semis - No.1 Agnieszka Radwanska, No.2 Angelique Kerber and No.4 Li Na, while No.3...
Join John Bolan in his 2013 year-end ranking prediction and win a Top 10 WTA player autograph
Last year our great contributor John Bolan merged his courage and talent for tennis predictions and shared with us as early as in January how he thought the season-ending WTA Top 10 would look...
Comparison of January WTA ranking predictions to the 2012 year-end outcome
In January this year, Women's Tennis Blog's faithful contributor John Bolan was brave enough to share with the world his predictions about the 2012 year-end ranking and asked you to join him in foretelling...
Five WTA questions for the upcoming 2013 season
Off-season is a period of reflecting on the season behind us and trying to predict the year ahead based on the information we currently have. Marine of Tennis Notebook poses five big questions for the...
Angelique Kerber loses to Li Na and goes home with no wins in Istanbul
After losing to Serena Williams in the opening match of the Red Group at the WTA Championships, Angelique Kerber held two match points against No.1 Victoria Azarenka in the most entertaining match of the...
No.1 Azarenka saves two match points to win absolute marathon against Kerber
It has been by far the most thrilling match of the WTA Championships. In short, in the first set Victoria Azarenka wasted four successive set points and one more, while Angelique Kerber used her...
Serena downs Kerber to open Red Group action
Angelique Kerber came to her first match at the WTA Championships and her first match as a Top 5 player as the only player at the tournament who has defeated Serena Williams this year and...