The weather had played more than a walk-on part so far in this year’s Wimbledon, though the sometimes torrential downpours that marked Monday and Tuesday…
It was always going to be a tricky opening match for the eight-time champion Roger Federer. The Swiss did not have as many matches under…
It was all going so well, with every court around the grounds in full swing, even Centre and No1 courts. Then all at once, the…
How do you top the intensity, the noise, the emotion, and the sheer presence of what Centre Court delivered late into the first evening of…
The first day’s tennis on Wimbledon’s famous lawns in two years brought with it something of an embarrassment of riches, especially for the home fans…
It seems like an eternity ago, yet it was just five years. 2016 marked my fifth year covering the tournament where I had once queued…
It was a blow, and no mistake. Defending champion Simona Halep had waited two years to come back to London’s lawns, and was practising already,…
And so, after two years, it is back to the site of one of Roger Federer’s most unhappy defeats, at the hands of the man…
It was one of the biggest sporting events to admit defeat in the face of the coronavirus pandemic a year ago. On the last day…
They are big boots to fill: Andy Murray, former world No1, and multiple Wimbledon and Olympic champion, has lifted the huge Queen’s trophy five times.…
Only one Briton has won the prestigious, and very large, Queen’s trophy in the Open era, and that is five-time champion Andy Murray. The former…
Few need reminding that the last year or more has had a huge impact across the globe. By many measures, tennis professionals have had it…
So far, there has been little to rain on the LTA’s parade after tennis returned to UK grass for the first time in two years.…
There was a lot of talk of birthdays in the run-up to a first meeting between 20-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime and 39-year-old Roger Federer. The 10-time…
After two years, during which the entire 2020 grass season was abandoned due to the coronavirus pandemic, the most elegant tennis venue on the men’s…
Never perhaps has Roger Federer faced such a daunting route to the title in one of his favourite haunts, Halle Westfalen. But then not since…
After three months of sweating it out on the hard courts of Australia and North American, and two months skidding across the red clay of…
There has been a consensus in men’s tennis almost since the teenage Rafael Nadal began his journey from his first French Open title to a…
Neither of the debutante Roland Garros finalists had done it the easy way, with both world No32 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and No33 Barbora Krejcikova beating multiple…
The women’s draw has rightly celebrated the quality in both depth and breadth at this year’s French Open. Six of the eight quarter-finalists reached that…
If the seedings had played themselves out at this year’s Roland Garros, the top 16 women in the world—aside from the missing Simona Halep—would have…