TRIBUTE: Mercurial Marcos Baghdatis

A longtime fan favourite and a player who I always enjoyed watching either in person or on TV. Cypriot Baghdatis was an unpredictable player both in shotmaking and emotion. He would joke and play the jester at times, at others he would decimate the world’s very best. Most will rightly remember him best for his […]

NEWS: Australian Open air quality a massive unforced error

Concerning reports coming from Down Under today as highlighted by the BBC article on the first rounds of qualifying being majorly affected by the bushfire smoke engulfing Melbourne. Dalila Jakupovic, who retired a set up from her Q1 match due to the conditions described how it was difficult to breathe and naturally very alarming. Other […]

Guess who’s back (back yet again)

Another January post spouting the usual words of a renewed focus with this blog. Well, hopefully I can merely nail some sort of achievable schedule. Somewhere in between the daily posts of the first half of 2018 to the all-too-brief and lacking in heart content of late last year. What does this new year, indeed […]

NEWS: Grass season thoughts, Wimbledon predictions and Day One picks

It’s that time of year again, with football (the men’s game anyway) still languishing in the background, the sport of kings takes centre stage at its most prized of venues. Before we look at the contenders of Wimbledon 2019, who has performed best on the purist’s surface? WOMEN Fresh from Ashleigh Barty’s shock Roland Garros […]

AllThingsTennis will be back Tuesday evening

2 year wedding anniversary tomorrow etc etc

Roland Garros 2019: Osaka, Halep and Zverev taken the distance in a high quality Day 3

The final act of this strange three-day first round structure saw some decent match-ups across the board and served as another reminder of the rude health of the women’s tour. Contenders Sascha Zverev was first up on Chatrier and he was both at times his brilliant best and still managed to look passive. John Millman […]

NEWS: Rafa reigns in Rome as Konta comes close

Resurgences abound in Rome this week as a rain-battered tournament dealt another dramatic chapter to a stellar clay court 2019 season. First we had Kyrgios‘ continued baffling behaviour that I’m afraid to say is looking increasingly likely to derail his promise and his career for good. That, on the same day as both Djokovic and […]