ATP World Tour Finals 2011 Diary: Federer earns 60th win on misty day at the O2
Disappearing act… On arrival at North Greenwich for London's O2 Arena, visitors are shepherded up a tennis player adorned escalator, round in a circle, to be greeted, eventually, by the iconic dome and...
View ArticleATP World Tour Finals Diary: Djokovic in the throes of his winning habit
Winning ways Dropping the first set to a pumped up Tomas Berdych, Novak Djokovic looked the tiniest bit worried. He was swatting and swishing his racket, and cuddly Marian Vajda was losing hair by the...
View ArticleATP World Tour Finals Diary: Federer puts the kibosh on Rafa in one-hour win
Federer the King The press room reeled. The fans gawped. The Tour face-palmed. Roger Federer annihilated Rafael Nadal in exactly 60 minutes, 6-3, 6-0, their second-fastest encounter. It was...
View ArticleATP World Tour Finals Diary: All hail David Ferrer, the unlikeliest of heroes
It couldn't happen to a nicer man David Ferrer did a Roger Federer at the O2 on Wednesday night, obliterating Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-1 for what he called 'his best win of the season.' Losing just two...
View ArticleATP World Tour Finals Diary: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga dances his way through...
Dancing on Jo-Wilfried Tsonga danced his way into the semi-finals with an uprorious 7-6(2), 4-6, 6-3 win over Rafael Nadal, in which he spent almost more time at the net than Tim Henman. It was a...
View ArticleWhy Judy Murray can do so much more for British tennis than be just another...
The Lawn Tennis Association has employed many a famous face to find that elusive grand slam champion during its stream of regimes. Brad Gilbert, Peter Lundgren, Ann Quinn, Paul Annacone (now coaching...
View ArticleThe tennis off-season: a stretch without much 'off' in it
Gone are the days when tennis players (we’re talking about you, John McEnroe) spent the Christmas break eating turkey with all the trimmings and nursing their sore limbs and tired minds after 40-odd...
View ArticleResolutions for a new year of tennis in 2012
A new year, a new season, a still-newish decade. The 2012 tennis season has begun, and my has it already been with a boom. We've got a new dance move (the Petko-dunk), a new reality TV show (Serena...
View ArticleWhy Saturday was a day for British bunting in Melbourne
There was a mild bit of kerfuffle in the Australian Open press room on Saturday. Not because someone had snaffled someone’s desk, or stolen their complimentary towel (although that has happened)....
View ArticleBritain's band of merry men and women keep on delivering…now they just need...
It has been some start to 2012 for Britain’s tennis players. So encouraging that I was almost tempted to spend my Monday finding a Geri Halliwell Union Jack dress to wear with pride for the rest of...
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