You know you’re in a granite quarter when Verdasco and Johnson look like a pair of ten-a-penny bums. With 3 previous champions who have won 12 of the last 13 titles all lumped together no-one bar Murray is going to progress quietly. The preceding week's action has also been anything [...]
Tennis players are getting older. Well, the very best are. In the last three years, the average age of Grand Slam winners is teetering close to a figure that you suspect most professional athletes dread even greater than the general public - the big 3 0. It occurred to us [...]
In order to keep up to date with the all the action in the first Grand Slam of the season, we recommend resetting the body clock by having a large Saturday night then lying in till Sunday evening, as we’re off down Under to sunny Melbourne for the Australian Open. [...]
Novak is back! After dominating the sport for the last few years, Novak Djokovic was finally supplanted from the summit of the ATP rankings by the UK’s finest, Sir Andy Murray. After a faltering end to the 2016 season, questions were starting to be asked of the Serb’s mentality and [...]
In this article we uncover exactly what's new on the UK front. Changes to the UK grass-court season in 2017: While the cornerstones of the world tennis calendar remained the same in 2016, there was a great deal of expansion into new markets and uncharted landscapes. Sofia, Bulgaria hosted its first [...]
We've discussed home-soil changes for the 2017 tennis season. Now let’s go deeper into the ATP and WTA tours to see what else is new and exciting for the whole year ahead. We’ll also add some betting perspective to hopefully spark some bright ideas. The Newbies: The Hungarian Ladies [...]
With 46 wins in 49 matches since the French Open, coupled with Djokovic's undeniable slump from superhuman to mere mortal, Andy Murray consummated his No.1 status with victory last week at the Paris Masters. Not only is the Scot the new alpha-male of the ATP, he also got to walk [...]
Bercy, Paris is the setting for the final Masters 1000 tournament of the year. Novak Djokovic, despite the well-publicised ongoing attack from Andy Murray, still sits atop the ATP rankings and will have his sights set on an incredible fourth consecutive title. Murray’s form in the second half of the [...]
ATP Swiss Indoors Basel: Stan Wawrinka forced to fly the flag for Switzerland in Federer’s absence There are not many tournaments on the ATP tour which are dominated so heavily by one player quite like Roger Federer’s romance with the event hosted in his birthplace, Basel. In the last decade, [...]
The crème de la crème of the American tennis scene will seek to take advantage of three-time champion Thomas Berdych’s absence from the Stockholm Open later this month. Steve Johnson, John Isner and last year’s double’s champion, Jack Sock, are yet to fully make their mark on the singles circuit [...]
