Victoria Azarenka was the highest seeded casualty on Wednesday as she was knocked out of the tournament by Bojana Jovanovski, 6-3 3-6 7-5. It was a fantastic match featuring plenty of brutal rallies. There wasn’t much variety, but the hitting was so good from both players. Azarenka hit 19 more winners than Jovanovski, but the…
The first big upset in the mens draw saw David Ferrer bundled out by Andrey Kuznetsov in five sets. The Russian player was fantastic and served out the match with ease, having been two sets to one down. Ernests Gulbis and Mikhail Youzhny also fell as for the second year in a row, Sergiy Stakovsky’s…
I was at Wimbledon for the first Monday of the 2014 Championships and had a tremendously majestic day. I had Court No.2 tickets (thanks to my Brother), but we spent much of the afternoon roaming around the outside courts. Nothing beats the first day of Wimbledon because there is sooo much going on! I’m still…
I had a fantastic time at Wimbledon on Monday and have my report and photos coming later tonight. I’ll be blogging manically for the next two weeks and this is the first of many previews coming your way. I really hope you’ll continue to follow Moo’s Tennis Blog for the rest of the Championships 😀…
Of the four Grand Slams, Wimbledon has been the one I was most excited for when it came to the men. There really is no clear favourite. The Wimbledon grass court formula has seen Andy Murray bumped up to number three in the seedings to represent the “big four” with Novak Djokovic at one, Rafael…
Wow. Madison Keys defeated Angelique Kerber in a magnificent Eastbourne final, 6-3 3-6 7-5, lasting one hour and 55 minutes. Keys hit a whopping 60 winners to 48 unforced errors as she held her nerve tremendously well to break Kerber’s serve in the final game of the match and convert on her fourth match point. …
WIMBLEDON HAS ARRIVED. Main draw action kicks off on Monday at 11.30am on the outside courts and at 1pm on the two show courts. Last year, it was Marion Bartoli who claimed the title in what was a wacky and exciting Wimbledon draw. Serena Williams is the number one seed, but comes into the tournament…
Here is the final part from my trip to Eastbourne and just in time before all the excitement of Wimbledon kicks off. Both previews for Wimby will be published on Saturday, starting with the womens. If you missed the first two parts, you can read part one from Sunday HERE and part two from Monday…
I enjoy doing fantasy tennis games for the Slams. For the Australian Open and the French Open, I have a run a league for the TFF Dream Team Fantasy Game and am doing one again for Wimbledon. The details to join the league are below along with the details for another interesting new game run…
Here is part two of my trip to Eastbourne. If you missed part one featuring Rally4Bally and smiling Aga, you can read it HERE. There were some fantastic WTA matches on Monday and I was really chuffed to see some of them live. The weather was pretty grey and cold, but it was dry and there was…
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