US Open Tennis
Can Murray turn gold into something more valuable? With the big four once more down to just three, like an Agatha Christie novel, the draw is the best place to look for a good steer. Whilst Andy...
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One Last Triumph for Team GB? Will this great summer of sport never end? Just hours after our triumphant Olympians and Paralympians schlep up and down the city of London in a big bus, everyone’s...
View ArticleAustralian Open Tennis 2013
Avoid any ‘on fire’ references If Andy Murray can win the 2013 Australian Open, the Scot will become the first Briton since Fred Perry in 1936 to record back-to-back Grand Slam victories. And he is in...
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Murrayless but with Added Nadal Since the retirement of Roland Rat back in the late 80s (a prime candidate for the Operation Yew Tree chaps if ever there was one,) the British public have yearned for a...
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Lets all climb Robson’s Ridge Wake up Britain!!! Time…for you to fall in love with tennis for another fortnight, as middle England camps out in SW19, desperately hoping the now lovable pup Andy Murray...
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High Five Whilst those for whom tennis exists but for two weeks per year, may believe that the germinating of Andy Murray’s 2013 Wimbledon triumph was his 2012 brave but ultimately futile SW19 defeat...
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Big Four start their quest for 2014’s Big Four Titles If only people could be more reasonable about these things. Men’s tennis currently treats us to four players who will go down as great players. The...
View ArticleDavis Cup Quarter Final 2014 – Italy vs Great Britain
The what??? For the first time since 1986, Great Britain have reached the last eight of this prestigious, but most unBritish of tournaments. Italy lie in wait on clay at the imaginatively-titled...
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Stan Wawrinka’s victory at the Australian Open in January reportedly brought down the curtain on the ‘Big Four’ (Djokovic, Nadal, Federer, Murray) domination of the Men’s game. However, whether it’s...
View ArticleFlashback – 2013 Wimbledon Final
Ah, those were the days Youngsters will find this hard to believe, but there was a time when it was considered that martians invading the planet earth, and making off with the Queen’s crown was...
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Women = Trouble As Rory McIlroy has set about proving of late, women are a bloody menace. ‘Can’t live with them, can’t win sports titles with them’ should be the new clichéd slogan, as the ditching of...
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Scot Murray in Away Fixture He may have lost the independence vote, but Andy Murray’s hot streak means he may fancy his chances of pissing off the English another time, at the round-robin end-of-season...
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All Change for the Women but the Same Old Faces in the Mens Given the Aussie Open is a Major where Andy Murray has finished runner-up three times in the past five years, it seems foolish to predict...
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Late May swings around and for the lovers of tennis it’s off to the romantic city of Paris for a fortnight of clay as Rafa Nadal seeks his sixth French Open title in a row and his tenth title in total....
View ArticleWimbledon Ladies 2015
Grunts, Munts and ****s Mens tennis has never been more exciting, or so we are told. With four of the greatest specimens to ever hold a racket currently plying their trade, the game has never been more...
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If you Williams; it is no dream Curious times in tennis. In the post-Nadal era, the mens’ racket is dominated by four players, with everyone else largely there just to shlep the tournament out a bit...
View ArticleDavis Cup Semi Final 2015 – Great Britain vs Australia
Aussie Bashing Part 2 of 3 Despite ostensibly being a disappointing year for Andy Murray, it could well turn out to be his greatest yet. Forget the Wallabies and the Rugby World Cup, disregard Stuart...
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Tennis in London usually evokes thoughts of green grass and strawberries but nowadays it equally can suggest indoor hard blue courts and a trip to North Greenwich for some overpriced nachos and a giant...
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Game Set Waaaaaah-tch We don’t know exactly what Andy Murray studied in school – but biology may just have passed him by. Promising the wife that you will scoot home at the first sign of any baby is...
View ArticleFlashback – 2013 Wimbledon Final
Ah, those were the days Youngsters will find this hard to believe, but there was a time when it was considered that martians invading the planet earth, and making off with the Queen’s crown was...
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