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The week after a Slam is always pretty peaceful, the sound of birds flying through the summer breeze, the gentle clinking of glasses as Pimms is enjoyed on the patio… the scampering of feet as the rainclouds gather!
Teenager Ana Konjuh won her first WTA title in Monday’s delayed Aegon Open Nottingham final, coming from a set down to beat Monica Niculescu of Romania 1-6 6-4 6-2 and lift The Elena Baltacha Trophy.
Click here to see the Canadians in action this week during the grass tournaments; Aegon Championships, Gerry Weber Open, Aegon Classic & more.
Let’s be honest – the only grass we really care about is almost at the end of the District Line (that’s the green one on the Underground map) and we are getting ever closer to strawberries and Pimms.
Click here to see the latest tennis draws from the Gerry Weber Open in Halle, the AEGON Championships in London, and the Aegon Classic in Birmingham.
Still no sign that Jelena Jankovic is coming to like grass. She loses her chance to rise above #29. For Belinda Bencic, though, this brings many opportunities.
British teenager Katie Swan will face former Wimbledon semi-finalist Tsvetana Pironkova in the first round of the Aegon Classic Birmingham in what will be the 16-year-old’s first ever WTA Tour match.
The Trophy is the "Elena Baltacha" she was also known as ' BALLY ' she won the Nottingham event three times(in the tournaments various incarnations).
Sixteen-year-old Katie Swan is set to make her WTA Tour debut after she and fellow Britons Johanna Konta and Naomi Broady were granted wildcards into the Aegon Classic Birmingham.
Click here to see the latest photos from Stuttgart and 's-Hertogenbosch.
The sun is shining, the grass is covered in dew and it’s time for us to just take a breath and think about the last two weeks on the vibrant clay of Paris.
The clay court season is over, long live the grass! For an extra week as well no less...
Click here to see the trophy photos from the 2015 Roland Garros tennis in Paris.
The last time Lucie Safarova and Serena Williams faced each other on clay, it wasn’t red. It was green. As I’ve been told many times, green and red clay aren’t interchangeable as playing surfaces.
Where to start on the penultimate day at Paris? At least the good people at Roland Garros had the sense to ensure that anyone who had tickets for last night’s thriller were allowed to come and watch the continuation of the semi-final between Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.
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