At this moment of time I have been unlucky in purchasing Wimbledon tickets. I was pretty fortunate last year to go four times as I went a bit crazy with buying Olympics tickets so it kind of makes sense that I haven’t got any this year! I am an LTA member, which gets a direct entry into their ballot; however I have had no joy so far. All my family have also been unsuccessful in the public Wimbledon ballot, which is a first. Normally, at least one of us gets tickets, but I am guessing that following an Olympics year and Andy Murray’s successes in 2012, the ballot has become even more oversubscribed than usual this year.
Anyway I hope to do some live tweeting (not excessive as I do plan to watch some tennis!) from both Birmingham and Eastbourne, which you will be able to view via my blog or you can give me a follow on Twitter (@MooTennisBlog). I will also being doing some blog reports, which I have done for the past two years with my experiences and all my best photos. Here is an example of my posts from 2012…
 |
| A sunny day in Eastbourne |
Moo's Tennis Blog 
I sincerely enjoy your blog. I believe that you have a good grasp of tennis and tennis handicapping. I just wanted to share something with you that I have noticed in the past few years. I have witnessed in smaller events preceding larger tournaments (such as Strasbourg preceding the French )heavily seeded players lose in the early rounds where they were heavily favored by the bookies to win, as they should be all things being equal….but watch players like Djocovitch, Murray, Bartoli and others lose rather handily to much lesser players…I can only speculate as to the reasons…perhaps they were using these events as tune ups, practice or just weren't taking them seriously enough (or other more nefarious reasons)…but I have seen this occur time and time again…please watch this for yourself and let me know through your blog what you might be seeing as well…it might take you a few seasons to see the trends..but they ARE there….
LikeLike
TooI'm A RegularFollower ToI. Lucky!
LikeLike
You do good work Moo..
LikeLike
Love your work Moo, so hope you win a title soon on the WTA tour.
LikeLike
I so want to see Robson take out Wozniacki and Ursula to dump Venus out. If Vesnina wins the 1st set in a tiebreak Vika could find the going tough.
LikeLike
Thanks everyone!Are you referring to the FITD on the women's tennis forums, mgray1966? I have been playing that game for over 2 years but can never seem to win! I've done well again for Brussels but there is always someone better 😉
LikeLike