My Matches 2014: Confidence is key, but so too is being able to see

Mike Drain def Al Warwick 6-1, 6-1, 6-4 Anyone watching this match – or moreso anyone listening to my opponents’ version of events – would struggle to believe that the head to head results between me and Mike last year were almost 5-5 but for a few points on the green stuff. It hasn’t materialised […]

My Matches 2014: When she’s on she’s really on! Scraping through against Soph

Match 6: Al Warwick def Sophie Dobinson 7-5, 6-2 The clueless will scoff and the arrogant will dismiss this fixture. We all know that momentum plays a huge part in tennis at all levels. Sometimes you find yourself ‘in the zone’ from the warm-up, other times you never really hit your stride. My fiancée Sophie […]

My matches 2014: All Lilleywhite on the Night after Dave falls for the Walls

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My Matches 2014: Mike stays cool in a heated game of two halves

Match 5: Mike Drain def Al Warwick 7-5, 7-5, 6-4 Yes, welcome to cliché city! Forgive the all-too-frequently used phrase in the title, but in this instance it is necessary. In a match that began at the tail end of the Wimbledon first week and finished only yesterday it is not surprising that there […]

My matches 2014: A bright start but still work to do as Mike blasts past

Match 4: Mike Drain def Al Warwick 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 It was a much tighter tussle than that damning score-line suggests, but this repeat match-up provided me with little more than a glimmer of hope that my game is coming back. After a rusty start from yours truly Mike – as he so often does […]

My matches 2014: Marathon-man Mike delivers wake-up call

<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:””; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-bidi-font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-language:EN-GB;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –> Match 3: Mike Drain def Al Warwick 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 Although he would struggle to admit it, there […]

My matches 2014: Super-Soph makes the difference in doubles victory

Match 2: Sophie Dobinson and Al Warwick def Sherrie Pemberton and Mike Drain 6-4, 6-2 There’s much to be said about the consumption of sport and the subsequent effects on one’s own game and technique. My long-suffering fiancée is clearly a case in point, as she has, over the years been made to watch copious […]

My matches 2014: Rob too strong on the slippery stuff

Match 1: Rob Field def Al Warwick 6-3, 7-5 On a crisp February morning it was business as usual for Rob who had enjoyed a comprehensive victory over me last year (three sets and giving up just 6 games: my biggest loss). It was tighter this time, my opponent busy adjusting to a new racquet […]

My Matches – An Introduction

In this section you’ll find the latest trials and tribulations from my own sorry tennis ‘career’ if one could call it that. Much like football, my love for the tennis has not materialized into any real ability, still I enjoy playing and can at least pull off some satisfying shots or rarely whole passages of […]

Westfield Driving Day 2011 – a look back at my day on the track

The perks of an Online Content Manager are few and far between. Attending motorshows and the odd driving day are certainly better than nothing however. Good thing too as reading about the automotive journos’ seemingly endless weeks of testing vehicular exotica breeds envy. It was one such driving day in July 2011 which saw me […]