Rafael Nadal The first two days at Wimbledon are normally the most frenetic of the year and 2013 has already thrown up it’s fair share of incredible drama as Rafael Nadal was sensationally beaten by Steve Darcis, 7-6(4) 7-6(8) 6-4. Firstly, huge credit to Darcis for what was a terrific performance, but I found it…
The mens half has thrown up one half featuring Roger Federer, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, meanwhile Novak Djokovic and David Ferrer are comfortably sitting in the other half. Let’s get straight down to analysing the draw… First Quarter – N.Djokovic (1) v T.Berdych (7) Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic will have very happy…
There is so much to discuss so lets get straight down to dissecting the womens Wimbledon draw for 2013… First Quarter – S.Williams (1) v A.Kerber (7) Serena Williams Serena Williams will arrive in Wimbledon as the heavy favourite to win the Venus Rosewater Dish for the 6th time. Serena is on a 29-match winning…
1. Caroline Wozniacki v Jamie Hampton Jamie Hampton As most of the top womens players are headed to the Wimbledon party tonight, Caroline Wozniacki was still in Eastbourne digging deep and trying to turn her season around. She enjoyed a solid win over Ekaterina Makarova, 4-6 6-0 6-3, who has lost all 6 matches with…
This year I will be attending the WTA event in Birmingham and the WTA/ATP joint event in Eastbourne. For Birmingham, I have tickets for the Friday, which is quarter-finals day. I went for the first time last year and got pretty much rained off so I am hoping for more luck this year! The line-up…
My final day at Wimbledon this year was for the round of 16 at the Olympics… thanks to my Brother who took me with his tickets! As we had done for the past two days, we headed to the practice courts where things were much quieter. Suddenly Novak Djokovic darted in front us and we…
Roger Federer This week I have been too busy to provide my daily predictions, but they will be back from this weekend and for the US Open series! I am just preparing my final report from Wednesday’s action at the Olympics, which I will finish this weekend. Here are my predictions for tomorrows matches… Womens…
I managed to get some more tickets for the Monday on Centre Court through the Olympics website and was excited that finally throughout my summer of tennis, there would be confirmed tennis that would not be overshadowed by the Great British weather! We arrived at Wimbledon train station slightly earlier than Sunday and walked to…
In the original ballot of Olympic tickets in the UK, I managed to get a pair of tickets for No.1 court on the first Sunday of the Olympic games. I was looking forward to seeing how Wimbledon would be different for the Olympics compared to the main Championships. We arrived at Wimbledon station at about…
The tennis got underway today with Tomas Berdych the biggest casualty in the mens draw. I was at the table tennis today and will be going to the tennis tomorrow so unfortunately no time to post a proper blog, but I will start publishing my reports on Tuesday 🙂 I have updated my predictions for…
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