Lucie and Rob are just the best

Moo’s Tennis Blog is becoming somewhat of a tribute to Lucie Safarova of late! Many thanks to Kim (@kimdv11) on Twitter for alerting me to another great video of Lucie Safarova and Rob Steckley during a changeover.  Regular readers will know i’m a huge fan of their partnership and I was bowled over by a…

Fantasy Games for the US Open

Once again, i’m trying to gather as many people as I can for the TFF Dream Team fantasy game for the US Open.  If you’re looking for a fantasy game, then why not join in! There are also two games on the US Open website; the Bracket Challenge and the Live Prediction Challenge. Unfortunately for…

The perils of plagiarism

News spread quickly yesterday that Neil Harman had been caught plagiarising whilst writing for the Wimbledon Annual.  I must say, this is the most surreal storyline of the entire year.  If this story is news to you, then you catch up on what’s happened with the three links below.  I felt compelled to write a…

What are the best tennis podcasts?

I wrote this post about two months ago, but completely forgot about it what with grass and Wimbledon and general tennis festivities.  I have become hooked on tennis podcasts over the last couple of months.  When I am stuck at work, podcasts have helped me get through many a long day! I thought it would…

The story of Jim, the Londoner who strings at Wimbledon

I have received quite a few requests lately about sharing material and every now and then, one catches my eye.  Below is ‘Jim’, which is a brand new doucmentary posted as part of 1000 Londoners, the most in-depth and expansive documentary series ever produced about a city. Produced by Chocolate Films it comprises a new,…

Tennis Fantasy Games for Wimbledon

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…

Why are tennis balls fuzzy?

Alternative post alert… Mindsponge is an educational web-series on YouTube.  The goal of the series is to find the science, history, stories, and reasons behind questions that a lot of people have asked before, but that most people don’t know the answers to.  You may be wondering why I am writing about this on a tennis…