The 5th June seems like a long, long time ago right now. As Djokovic brushed aside Murray at Roland Garros to complete his much coveted career Grand Slam, his ascent to becoming the greatest tennis player of all time looked inevitable. He was just 5 Grand Slam titles behind Federer’s [...]
Think back to Flushing Meadows last year and one of the lasting memories might be Jack Sock slumped on Grandstand, over-heated and in some serious trouble. Sock wasn't the only player to succumb to the heat and the demands of 5 sets. The record-breaking retirement list for the Men’s tournament, [...]
With Novak Djokovic out of the Cincinnati Masters due to a ‘recurring wrist injury’, Olympic gold medalist Andy Murray is top seed in the competition this week. It is impressive he has made the flight north so quick after the exhausting final with Juan Martin del Porto. The image of [...]
Marcus Willis and the curious case of Philip Kohlschreiber Andy Murray’s Wimbledon triumph was certainly responsible for a mass exodus from armchairs to tennis courts nationwide combined with a sharp rise in the share price of Pimms, but perhaps the greatest story to emerge from the 2016 Championships was that [...]
Bouncebackability was on show in all its glory in the early stages of the WTA and ATP Masters 1000 events this week in Canada. First up was Canadian favourite Eugenie Bouchard whose recent form has suffered more low points than Andrew Castle's commentary. She was in stages totally unplayable against [...]
Canadian Eugenie Bouchard is causing quite a stir in Montreal and she continued her impressive form at the Rogers Cup on Wednesday. For a second consecutive day, Bouchard upset a higher-ranked opponent as she defeated world top 10 player Dominika Cibulkova 6-2, 6-0 in just over an hour of play. [...]
