Tennis is not an easy sport to cover, and doing a top 50 review is never easy. There are hundreds of players to keep an eye on, each with their own storylines as the season progresses. The season is also one of the longest of any professional sport, meaning itContinue Reading
With the tennis season now on hiatus (apart from a few events on the ITF and Challenger tour, we take a look at what happened during the 2024 season. There are always plenty of movers in the rankings, but for everyone that rises, another ranking must fall. We’re going toContinue Reading
Rafael Nadal has called time on his career, after one last Davis Cup tie in his home country of Spain. While it didn’t quite go to plan, not many retirements do. It doesn’t matter one iota. No amount of losses late in his career could tarnish a legacy of oneContinue Reading
Tennis currently finds itself in a slightly odd place. On the men’s side, we’re transitioning from the Federer/Nadal/Djokovic era of domination, into what many are predicting to be a Sinner/Alcaraz era of domination. Only time will tell, but right now, there’s a perceived dip in quality of matches, in qualityContinue Reading
Introduction Tennis has had a chequered history at the Olympic Games. Its path throughout the Olympics has been marked by periods of inclusion, exclusion, and reintroduction. It has also been through much discussion about whether the sport is really relevant at the Games, based on whether or not the OlympicsContinue Reading
Like: New names up in lights. Grand Slam events often allow for some lesser names to have their moment in the sun (no pun intended), and this year is no different. On the women’s side, the biggest story is New Zealand’s Lulu Sun, who started this tournament 2 weeks agoContinue Reading
During the era of the ‘big four,’ the top tier belonged to Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and to a lesser extent Andy Murray. They were simply in a class of their own. Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Tomáš Berdych, Grigor Dimitrov, and Kei Nishikori are a handful of examples in relationContinue Reading
Iga Swiatek has just won her 5th major title, and already there’s talk of comparing her to Steffi Graf and Serena Williams. While that might indeed be prophetic, she’s currently a long way off in terms of records. For the men, we were fortunate to have the Big 3, andContinue Reading
Fan behaviour and crowd atmosphere in tennis has forever been under the spotlight in what often becomes a divisive discussion. Is the customer, or in this case the fans, always right? It comes as former No.7 David Goffin claimed he was spat on by a member of the crowd duringContinue Reading
Round two on the women’s draw at Roland Garros will see a battle of the number 1’s….the number one Belarussian player, in Aryna Sabalenka, taking on the number one Japanese player, Moyuka Uchijima. Aryna needs no introduction to even the most casual of tennis fans, but if you haven’t heardContinue Reading
