The sport is missing Tiger since he underwent back surgery and it is feared that the poor show up at tournaments is due to this. Fans are asking “Where is Tiger?”

Although there are other accredited players like Jordan Spieth, Rory Mcllroy and Jason Day who have managed to draw hug audiences, the show up is still not that great.

A golf executive with IMG,Kennerly said, “Tiger still delivers that unconventional fan that golf needs. This was evident when Tiger hurt himself last year and could not play the Honda Classic, where the sales of tickets to the tournament softened a little bit.”

The question at hand is, “Can Tiger Woods be replaced?” Well, I will let you be the judge of that. However, it isn’t much a factor to argue on since Tiger is by far the greatest player of his generation.

Many have said that to them, without Tiger in the game, we are missing something. It has been rumored that Tiger might not return to the sport due to his setbacks with the back surgery. We have not seen him on the course for such a long time it seems like forever.

Tiger however dismissed these rumors on Wednesday after he released a video that shows him taking a full swing with a 9 iron on an indoor swing simulator. “Progressing nicely” was the caption that couldn’t have been missed by anyone with sound mind.

The swing appeared perfect and to many it consoled them with the idea that the golf star will soon be back to wow us.

The timing of Woods back to the game is still unknown. By him not being able to play, the sport has suffered a major blow in terms of dollars and cents. People still want to see and appreciate Tiger’s game. He is still an enormous asset to golf.

21- year old Garbine Muguruza, survived a tight second set against Timea Babos to reach her first time ever quarterfinal at the Qatar Total Open. It would be correct to say that Muguruza played one of her best tennis to beat Timea Babos, who is the current ace leader in 2016 6-2, 7-5.

During her on-court interview, Muguruza said, “I think the game was very tough especially the second set where we were fighting really hard. Timea started playing better than before and by the end of the match, we were both tight. Nonetheless, I am happy to Win!”

As much as Babos is the ace leader, Muguruza stole the show on serve by hitting 10 aces of her own and 31 winners against 22 unforced errors. On the other hand, Babos maintained her stat on the sheet with 21 winners and 21 errors but missed out on a chance of forcing a second set tie break by the end of the match, putting Muguruza on the edge in Doha.

“ Timea has a very strong serve. Therefore I had to focus on my serve as well as hers in order to win.”

Muguruza has played in Doha for the second time in her tennis career. She will be playing Andrea Petkovic to secure a spot in the semifinals.Petkovic won against Coco Vandeghe 6-3 in the first set and 6-4 in the second set.

“ I think the city is great. Doha is absolutely amazing, and I’m really excited to be here and playing.” She said.

In the course of the day, Elena Vesnina endorsed her winover SimonaHalep with a 7-5, 5-7 and 6-3, putting her into her first premier-level quarterfinal

The last match of the day was between Roberta Vinci and Cagla Buyukakcay, the Turkish wildcard. Vinci maintained her focus in the game, beating Cagla 7-5, 6-1.