The Tennis Tea

Karolina Pliskova made history last year by becoming the first robot to win a title in Stuttgart.                                           This week the tour heads to Stuttgart, Germany for the Sharapova Apologist Grand Prix    Porsche Tennis Grand Prix . Although not the first tournament of the clay season, the tournament in some ways marks the official start of the clay season since it attracts so many top players, and is not played on the irrelevant, verdant variety of the surface. Sorry not sorry, Charleston So let's dig into the draw!                                                                                                          Who are the favorites? The most accurate way to predict WTA tournament champions. Karolina Pliskova is the defending champion and has been solid this year. However, she doesn't have the easiest draw and would have to beat several serious clay court players to even get to the final. Simona Halep is arguably the be

Before delving into my predictions of which women will leave the competition in the (red) dust this clay court season, I want to stress the truly foolish nature of this endeavor by listing a number of events which would be of equal or lesser difficulty to predict. deciding what numbers will win the lottery [predicting the precise location and time when lighting will strike figuring out the exact moment and cause of your death Before you say this list is pure hyperbole, get this: in 2019, all the 18 of the WTA tournaments have been won by different women. This is an unprecedented level of cuckoo even when one considers the state the WTA Tour has been in for the past 4 years or so, which has seen a revolving door of players go in form and then suddenly out of form with more peaks and valleys than a Petra Kvitova match.        One thing that’s been consistent on the WTA?: Kerber’s salty attitude after losing. Naturally, the WTA, has framed this madness as