For obvious reasons there has been very little tennis this year. However, for the last fortnight the French Open (the tournament that is usually played in late May/early June) has been taking place and today is the men's final where for the 56th time Rafa and Novak Djokovic will face one another ( Read more... )

The last two weeks have been spent watching the French Open. Once again overall it was very enjoyable ( Read more... )

With the Australian Open about to start, I thought I'd make a prediction for this year.

This is not a prediction I wish to make, especially as it 'cuts out' my two favourite players (and will annoy plutos_revenge, which isn't something I do lightly *g*). However, it really is what I feel will happen ( Read more... )

And it is all over for another year ( Read more... )

Unsurprisingly Serena Williams did win the women's final, giving her twenty grand slam titles ( Read more... )

Andy managed to take it to a fifth set and just for a moment or two I dared to hope and dream that I would have incorrectly predicted another result and that Andy would prevail and meet Stan in tomorrow's final ( Read more... )

Well I was correct about two things yesterday (maybe I'm getting better): firstly that both matches would go to at least four sets and secondly that Stan Wawrinka would win his semi-final clash against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Although it was a match Jo could (maybe even should) have won as he had seventeen break points and only took one of them ( Read more... )

Hmmm, so I'm really not that good at this prediction lark, am I? *Grins ( Read more... )

Well, my predictions for yesterday were (sadly in one case) correct - Andy and Novak did both win ( Read more... )

Well, I'm still slightly stunned after the shocks at the French Open yesterday - both my predicted winners went out ( Read more... )