Well that wasn't the match I was expecting, nor the result I was hoping for ( Read more... )

It was a good match, one that swung back and forth more than once. It had a few low spots where the play wasn't that inspiring from either lady, but overall it was an excellent match - one that kept you guessing as to who would win pretty much from the first ball to the last ( Read more... )

Wow, what a day ( Read more... )

It's four for four. Today both Novak Djokovic and Naomi Osaka won their respective quarter finals ( Read more... )

My two top favourites (not just in this tournament, but overall in tennis) Rafa & Petra Kvitova played today and both won in straight sets and to be honest neither of them looked particularly troubled ( Read more... )

After a week and a day of what has been on the whole very exciting and enjoyable tennis, we are finally at the quarter finals stage ( Read more... )

I didn't manage 3:30 a.m, although I was awake at the time and did have a quick look at my iPad to see where they were at in the schedule and saw that Rafa would indeed be playing around about 4:00 a.m. (my time). However, I decided I really wasn't feeling up to being awake quite so early - not even for Rafa ( Read more... )

I've been lucky the last two times Rafa has played as he's been scheduled for the night session, which fits in nicely with our morning. However, tomorrow he is scheduled to play during the day session, the last match of the day session, beginning not earlier than 3:30 a.m. my time. It could, if either of both of the ladies' matches on court before ( Read more... )

I'm not sure that will mean much to anyone outside of the UK and even within the UK it might not mean much to many today. Anyway ( Read more... )