I’m not going to mention the match. Everyone knows my feelings about it already. What I am going to mention, however, are the “fans”. You know the ones. The ones who don’t watch tennis until someone they’ve been told they should be supporting (cos he sort of comes from the same country but we’ll ignore the fact he’s actually from that bit up north ( Read more... )

I often wonder how you pick your favourite tennis players. Or, more accurately, how they pick you. So many times I've watched someone and thought; 'You have everything going for you. You're talented, interesting and passionate. So why don't I like you that way?' (see Marin Cilic, Thomaz Bellucci for example). It's infuriating when a player has ( Read more... )

My favourite way of dealing with tough losses is laughing at them. Unless, of course, there's nothing at all funny about them (the wimbledon final that will not be named except I just named it oooops) - there's probably nothing funny about this but I can take solace in the fact that both Andy AND Novak are sucking, so at least they have each other ( Read more... )