Tennis!

[Colly]

The Wenger?

[badotori]

More like the Radcliffe.

[Lineker]

The Wenger?

Haven't seen that one.

[MJB]

The AVB?

[IAceI]

The Bielsa.

[Adam]

Laura Robson has dispatched Jie Zheng in straight sets to book her place in the quarter finals of the Guangzhou Open. She faces Shuai Peng next.

Starting to get really excited about the rise of Robson. She is now outplaying and defeating high ranked players and if she keeps this going she could well be seeded by the time we reach Wimbledon next year. Superb stuff.

[Starvinho]

Could to see her continuing the good form.

[Starvinho]

Laura Robson reached her second WTA singles semi-final with victory over Peng Shuai at China's Guangzhou Open.

After more than three hours, 74th-ranked Robson overcame China's world number 47 Peng to win 7-5 5-7 6-2.

Robson, 18, will play Romania's Sorana Cirstea, ranked 30th, in the last four after she saw off Alize Cornet 6-4 6-3.

The Londoner is aiming to become the first British woman to contest a main tour singles final since Jo Durie in 1990 in Newport, USA.

The last British woman to win a WTA singles title was Sara Gomer in July 1988 in Aptos, California.

Go Laura!

[Mongrel]

She's certainly the most promising young Australian tennis player.

[Starvinho]

Laura Robson became the first British woman for 22 years to reach a WTA singles final with victory over Sorana Cirstea in Guangzhou, China.

The Londoner, 18, beat the Romanian third seed 6-4 6-2 to match Jo Durie's 1990 run to the final in Newport, USA.

Robson will play Chinese Taipei's Su-Wei Hsieh on Saturday after the world number 53 beat fourth seed Urszula Radwanska 6-1 3-6 6-0.

[IAceI]

She's got a good chance against Su-Wei Hsieh I'd say, and if anyone is wanting to watch it it'll be on at 8am tomorrow morn and will stream through bet365, and some other betting websites perhaps. Will mind on to get up and give it a watch probably. She goes in 2/5 favourite, so best of luck to Laura to win her first WTA Tour title.

[IAceI]

EDIT: Double post.

Edited September 21, 2012 by IAceI

[Starvinho]

I think she'll win, her confidence is high at the moment. Come on Laura!

[IAceI]

She's just gone a break down in the first set so is losing 4-2. Hasn't really played worse, just didn't get the job done on some big points on Hsieh's serve and then Hsieh immediately broke her in the next game. Maybe a little nervous, understandably, but still in the match.

[Starvinho]

Laura Robson failed in her bid to become the first British woman since 1988 to win a WTA singles final as she was beaten 6-3 5-7 6-4 by Su-Wei Hsieh at the Guangzhou Open.

Chinese Taipei's Hsieh took the first set but the British number one saved five championship points at 5-3 down in the second and battled to win it 7-5.

Robson continued to build momentum into the third set, taking a 3-0 lead.

But Hsieh won five successive games and sealed victory in two hours 48 minutes.

Saving 5 match points and then being 3-0 up in the final set?! She should've won from that position. Gutted for her but I think she'll take positives from this and continue to improve.

[IAceI]

She was a break up in all three sets quite early on. I saw up until 5-5 in the second set and she played well when Hsieh was in control but less impressive when she had her own chances. Her serve was a bit off today and Hsieh's game was just too unpredictable for Robson in many aspects, double handed off both sides with a lot of drop shots and lobs - a huge departure from the standard fare of mechanical ground strokes that you see on the WTA circuit these days.

[IAceI]

Heather Watson has beat Sabine Lisicki in the first round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Phenomenal win for her against a very highly ranked opponent. She now plays Maria Sharapova in round 2.

So good luck with that one, Heather.

[IAceI]

Watson currently holding her own against Sharapova, on serve at 3-2 but Sharapova's power advantage is ominous; winning her a lot of free points both on Watson's serve and her own. As you'd expect as well, Sharapova is holding her serve much easier than Watson and troubling her opponent quite a lot on hers.

Come on Heather though!

EDIT: She recovered a break at 5-6 to get to a tie break and then won that 9-7. Phenomenal stuff!

Edited September 25, 2012 by IAceI

[Starvinho]

First Laura now Heather! It's great to see our young women doing great at the moment and moving up the rankings.

[IAceI]

See, I go to work and Sharapova gets the win. I should have called in sick.