Britain’s Henry Patten, who as student used to input scores for IBM on the outside courts, completed a remarkable Wimbledon story collecting the men’s doubles title alongside Finland’s Harri Heliovaara, winning 6-7, 7-6, 7-6 against Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson, the Australian 15th seeds in an enthralling final on Centre Court. Unseeded Patten and Heliovaara, Read More …
Holger Rune, the sixth seed, produced a staggeringly impressive performance, saving two match points and dragging himself back from a seemingly hopeless final set tie break position to defeat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, the No31 seed, and reach the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time 6-3,4-6,3-6,6-4,7-6 (10/8) in 3hrs 59mins Rune faced an underarm serve Read More …
Matteo Berrettini finally erased the painful memories of his Covid-19 enforced withdrawal from Wimbledon last year with a thumping 6-3,7-6,7-6 win against Alexander Zverev in 2hrs 27mins on Court No1 to set up a blockbuster fourth round clash with Carlos Alcaraz, the top seed. Berrettini has only played, due to injury, 17 matches this year Read More …
Just six months after suffering career-threatening injuries to her left, racket-wielding hand, Petra Kvitova was today able to use it to lift the Aegon Classic trophy after beating Ashleigh Barty 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in Birmingham. The ever smiling Czech was playing in only her second tournament since she was stabbed by an intruder at her Read More …
Slovakia’s Magdalena Rybarikova is thoroughly enjoying the grass court section of the women’s tour, following up her Surbiton win with a performance of real grit to overcome World No43 Alison Riske, from the USA, 6-2,6-7,7-5 in a match that kept the Nottingham Open centre court crowd totally engrossed for two hours and 35minutes. Rybarikova was Read More …
Jelena Ostapenko and Laura Robson are both Junior Wimbledon champions, but that is where the similarity ends at the moment. Three years after her junior triumph at the Championships, the unseeded Ostapenko won the French Open women’s title on Saturday in Paris, making the kind of dramatic transition into the senior ranks that Robson seemed Read More …
After an incredible 2016 for British tennis, Leon Smith only took seconds to come up with his wish for the New Year;“ Simple, more of the same please!” You can understand why Smith, Great Britain’s popular Davis Cup captain, wants to replicate the previous 12 months which culminated in a Knighthood for his great friend Read More …
Leon Smith, Great Britain’s Davis Cup winning captain, has revealed Andy Murray is working harder than ever at his Florida training based to defend his World No1 ranking. Murray interrupted his punishing schedule to receive the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for an historic third time after defending his Olympic title, winning Wimbledon Read More …
Judy Murray has called on tennis chiefs not to waste the “golden opportunity” to build on the remarkable success of sons Andy and Jamie by boosting playing numbers across Britain using the ground breaking scheme she runs in Scotland. Britain’s most famous tennis Mum and her team travel the length and breadth of Scotland in Read More …
Nick Kyrgios is a 21-year-old loose cannon on the tennis court, but the sport needs him badly. The Australian has agreed to see a sports psychologist following his latest meltdown in Shanghai that saw him fail to compete properly and then try to – and fail – to explain himself to the media. Kyrgios will Read More …
