For those not lying flat out on the rehabilitation bench, Paris Bercy calls. The final stop on the Masters 1000 tour has historically been known as one of the faster indoor hard-court tournaments and previous results have reinforced this. Bomb-droppers of varying effectiveness Jerzy Janowicz (2012), Milos Raonic (2014) and [...]
Chatting with some layman friends over an IPA in the pub this lunchtime about the upcoming US Open (strictly tennis laypersons who scratch their heads when I tell them Alexander Dolgopolov has been match fixing lately) and the main thing they focus on is the obvious absence of Djokovic, Murray, [...]
Tennis trading has always required an agile body clock. Just over the next couple of months traders will likely use the majority of PT(-8), ET(-5), MSK(+3), CST(+8), JST(+9) and CET(+1) as the time zones to groggily set their alarms by. It certainly used to be the case that this chosen [...]
Considering the ladies’ championships the main talking point and betting focus of any Grand Slam is usually, of course, Serena Williams. Now she is a mother in the making, much like with Roland Garros, Wimbledon betting becomes a little bit like The Grand National. So let's take a look at [...]
Men’s Tournament: So, what of the The Big Five’s chances? Well these days Roger plays when and where he wants - Roland Garros does not qualify. Murray and Stan have been stuck in 2nd gear for months (although maybe Wawrinka's just hitting form on cue - he's strong favourite to [...]
When a teary-eyed Maria Sharapova confessed to the world’s media that she had failed a drugs test at January’s Australian Open, a return to the court in a professional playing capacity seemed implausible, if not impossible. Sharapova tested positive for meldonium (a substance proven to increase endurance, reduce fatigue and [...]
Here we take a look at which of our favourite tennis greats could be calling it a day this season. While many of these players could easily go on making decent prize money for seasons to come, let's outline a few reasons why this could/should be the end and offer [...]
When Roger Federer, a model of durability throughout his playing career, damaged his knee early in 2016 running a bath for his girls, many feared it was the beginning of the end for the former number one. With no Grand Slam titles since victory over Andy Murray at Wimbledon [...]
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 [...]
