Wimbledon 2015: Gutsy Watson and Broady head to Round 2, Robson looks ahead
Andy Murray may be a former champion at his home Grand Slam, may have won Olympic gold on the same famed Wimbledon Centre Court and…
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Wimbledon 2015: Djokovic buoyed up in ‘the cradle of our sport’ against Kohlschreiber
While the best woman in the tennis world was working her way back from an early challenge on Court 1 to take a straight-sets opening…
Wimbledon 2015: Serena Williams takes first step on road to Calendar Slam
It was an unexpected admission at this stage in her remarkable career. Serena Williams revealed after winning the French Open that she was not a…
Wimbledon 2015: Roger Federer and his favourite tournament prepare for turf wars
To the casual observer, it could have been a regular chat at the end of a regular club knock-about between some folk in regular tennis…
Wimbledon 2015: Can Serena Williams move a step nearer the Calendar Slam?
There may be 19 players on the women’s tennis stage who have reached a Grand Slam final, but there is no doubting the queen of…
Wimbledon 2015: Murray faces Nadal, Federer, then Djokovic in title bid
Whatever prayers the defending champion Novak Djokovic offered up to the Wimbledon gods ahead of Friday’s draw, they worked. The world No1 and top seed…
Ill-starred Philipp Kohlschreiber talks Federer, grass – and that backhand
The Wimbledon men’s seedings were released on Wednesday, and it’s fair to say there were not too many surprises. The two who contested last year’s…
Wimbledon 2015: With five of last six titles, Kvitova and Williams top seeds
Petra Kvitova may be the defending champion at Wimbledon, the Grand Slam that brings out the very best in the tall left-handed Czech, but she…
Wimbledon 2015: Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer top seedings, Rafael Nadal No10
The seedings for the men’s draw of the Wimbledon Championships were announced today and, despite the unique adjustments that the only grass Major makes to…
Lawns at The Boodles fine-tune Djokovic, Nadal, Raonic and more for Wimbledon
The oh-so-sweet grass-court season may be a week longer this year, may have squeezed in an extra tournament to help the difficult transition from the…
Andy Murray once again throws his weight behind charity fundraisers
Fans and admirers of Andy Murray have become familiar not just with his great achievements on court but his many charitable activities off court. For…
Wimbledon 2015: Lleyton Hewitt and Nicolas Mahut join British wild cards
2002 Wimbledon champion and four-time Queen’s champion Lleyton Hewitt, who at the age of 34 is bowing out of professional tennis this year, has been…
Halle 2015: Seven-time champ Roger Federer faces down defeat in thriller
Half of Roger Federer’s meetings against old friend Philipp Kohlschreiber had been played on grass. One of them was at Wimbledon, in 2009, and three…
Grass Class feature: Federer, Murray, and Hewitt lead the green party
With a quarter-final run on the clay of Roland Garros in his rear-view mirror, Roger Federer summed up on Twitter his pleasure at what lay…
Tennis heads to grass roots: Nadal to Stuttgart, Federer to Halle, Murray to Queen’s
With Wimbledon’s announcement that, come 2015, The Championships would move its sacrosanct fortnight back by a week to the end of June, the door opened…
Wimbledon 2015: ‘World’s best tournament’ puts money where its mouth is
The Championships, as the most famous tennis tournament in the world refers to itself, has once again thrown down the gauntlet to its fellow Grand…