I really can't quite compute it is July - July! Where have six months gone? Wimbledon has started; we have a General Election on Thursday and the weather is almost certainly going to get warmer. Not, I am relieved to say, as warm as some of my American friends have it ( Read more... )

Wimbledon begins today after missing last year due to Covid ( Read more... )

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... )

Well, the less said about yesterday the better ( Read more... )

Yesterday was, for me, a very good day ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a mixed day for me as whilst Andy & Jo did both win, and Roger comfortably won a match I thought would be close, several of my second level favourites went out and the biggest upset of all (for the day and for me) was Rafa going out in a five set match.

To be honest I thought he was going to go out in straight sets (as I said to caffyolay) as ( Read more... )

Today is the day when Wimbledon goes crazy, ditto the fans and those of us able to watch from the comfort of our sofas, have to make decisions as to who we are going to watch ( Read more... )

The day where, unless there has been lots and lots of rain during the previous six days, there is no play at Wimbledon ( Read more... )

Well yesterday pretty much went 'according to plan'. Rafa, Andy & Jo all won - although in Andy's case it certainly wasn't straight-forward :-) (Mind you that's Andy for you ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a pretty good of tennis, albeit somewhat interrupted by the 'battle to see who could make the most noise' between the people outside doing the road resurfacing and the boiler chaps in the kitchen. It was a very noisy day and rather exhausting and distracting to an extent. So I was rather glad that my out-and-out favourites weren't ( Read more... )