Allez Jo! The big headline on Thursday surrounded the world number one, Novak Djokovic, who was knocked out of the Rogers Cup by Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 6-2 6-2. Although some saw it coming after Djokovic was on court for two hours and 40 minutes against Gael Monfils, this scoreline is just crazy. Novak doesn’t lose matches,…
Grigor Dimitrov prevented a repeat of the 2013 Wimbledon final (lucky us) as he produced a sensational display to beat Andy Murray and set up a tantalising semi-final with Novak Djokovic. I’m relieved that Murray has gone out because the BBC coverage in the UK has been absolutely exhausting. Even today they were midway through…
WEDNESDAY IS GOING TO BE AWESOME. Play will begin at 12pm on Centre Court and No.1 Court, which both have three matches. All four mens quarters look fascinating on paper and are likely to kick off from about 2pm. Here is the first part of the mens quarter-final preview featuring the quarters from the top…
The match of the day on the mens side saw a truly staggering victory for Nick Kyrgios who came from two sets down and saved NINE match points to beat Richard Gasquet, 10-8 in the fifth set. This was a phenomenal victory. A projected Monfils v Gasquet third round match has now turned into Kyrgios…
The grass court season is throwing up its characteristic jamboree of eye catching results. Top of the list was Dustin Brown’s 6-4 6-1 victory over Rafael Nadal in Halle. Before you say anything about Rafa, Brown played a remarkable match. He absolutely went to town on Nadal’s serve and hit a shed load of return…
The main draws in Birmingham, Queens and Halle all kicked off today. My first round predictions for Birmingham are following a similar trend to 2013. Looking at my full draw predictions, i’ve never seen such a solid cluster of red. There were a number of surprising results; one of the more eye popping was Victoria…
The bottom half of the men’s draw was cut up into mulch on Sunday. Juan Martin del Potro withdrew due to the wrist injury and then Tomas Berdych, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gilles Simon were all knocked out of the tournament. Berdych’s loss to Roberta Bautista-Agut was particularly surprising based on his excellent start to the…
Acapulco wiped the floor with Dubai this week in terms of producing high quality and competitive matches. I had several gripes about the scheduling with five consecutive days of matches finishing past midnight. However it didn’t seem to affect the quality of tennis and the crowds were pretty spectacular all week. When the Murray-Dimitrov semi-final…
There is no doubt that the matches on the schedule for Day 6 are the best of the tournament so far. There are some showcase clashes in both the men’s and women’s draws… and it’s the weekend woohoo! Wozniacki v Muguruza is the most interesting match of the week in my opinion so please do…
1. Grigor Dimitrov v Tommy Haas (ATP Washington, QF) Tommy Haas My Washington predictions have gone wildly astray this week as I thought Juan Martin del Potro might struggle in his first event back after Wimbledon, but it has been quite the opposite as he comfortably saw off Ryan Harrison and Bernard Tomic yesterday. Another…
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