The Top 3 on Day 3 Tsvetana Pironkova 1. Maria Sharapova v Tsvetana Pironkova Sharapova faces a potentially tricky second round match against Pironkova. The Bulgarian has had a largely ineffective year so far, but always comes alive for the grass court season. She has made the semi-finals and quarter-finals at Wimbledon in the last…
Elena Vesnina The biggest surprise on the first day of the 2012 Wimbledon Championships saw the number six seed, Tomas Berdych bundled out of the tournament by Ernests Gulbis, 7-6 7-6 7-6 in a terrific Centre Court match. I questioned Berdych being put on Centre Court over Federer but massive credit to the schedulers for…
The first two days of Wimbledon are probably the most manic, crazy and exciting days during the whole year! Tomorrow’s scheduling has thrown up a number of surprises with Tomas Berdych put on the centre court schedule over Roger Federer. On paper, court number one has the best line-up of matches with Roger Federer neatly…
I cannot believe that Wimbledon is finally upon us! The draws have thrown up some intriguing clashes and as ever, the womens draw looks very open. Lets take a look at the 2012 Wimbledon draw… PROJECTED FIRST QUARTER – M.Sharapova (1) v A.Kerber (8) Maria Sharapova Maria Sharapova kicks off her Wimbledon campaign against Anastasia…
PROJECTED FIRST QUARTER – N.Djokovic (1) v T. Berdych (6) Novak Djokovic Novak Djokovic could face two tricky matches to begin the defence of his Wimbledon title, but will feel confident of going deep into the draw once more. Djokovic opens up against Juan Carlos Ferrero before a second round match against either Ryan Harrison…
The draws for this years Wimbledon Championships have been officially unveiled with some fantastic first round matches in both the mens and womens draw. I will be preparing some bumper previews and predictions for both draws. The womens is especially tricky this year so deciding my winner is going to be a tough challenge! My…
We joined the match between Tsonga and Dimitrov midway during the first set. The end of the first set was completely serve dominated; Tsonga looked slightly off colour as he struggled to get anywhere near Dimitrov’s booming serves. The first set went into a tiebreak and it was Tsonga who was the first to crack.…
We took to our seats, which were some of the best we have ever had for Number one Court. We were side on to the court but on the opposite side of the umpire and felt really close to the action. It was a really entertaining start to the second set as Anderson went toe-to-toe…
My second trip to Wimbledon was on the first Thursday and I went once again with my brother, David. We had tickets for Number one court… thanks Gran :))) I wasn’t feeling quite as excited the night before because I had looked at the weather forecast, which was not looking particularly promising! I was also…
After the Federer match, we headed out to watch some tennis on the outside courts. Me and David have entered a fantasy tennis game where you pick ten male and female tennis players to amass points over the tournament. We were keen to follow some of our players so we headed over to court 10…
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