September 12, 2021
Emma Raducanu has achieved the seemingly impossible and won the US Open. Here at WDH we saw superstardom beckoning for Raducanu last year and we told you she would be ‘massive.’ Yet another reason why you can trust our friendly experts to deliver for Wimbledon 2022. And we’re already preparing for the biggest event of […]
September 10, 2021
Emma Raducanu was compared to the great Rafael Nadal after becoming the first qualifier ever to reach a Grand Slam final. The British teenager has the experts and legends struggling for rational explanations. Her astonishing 6-1, 6-4 victory over the powerful Greek, Maria Sakkari showed superlative strength in all areas.. One of the greatest female […]
September 8, 2021
Emma Raducanu just became the first tennis starlet to go all the way from qualifying to the US Open semi-finals. No wonder she dropped her racquet and held her head in her hands in a moment of pure joy. Raducanu looked up at tier upon tier of admiring fans at Flushing Meadows and took it […]
September 6, 2021
Lucy Shuker and Emma Raducanu have provided inspiration to millions of tennis fans worldwide in the last week. Some 23 years and 6,743 miles separated British stars Shuker and Raducanu during their heroic exploits. Shuker won the most important Paralympic medal of her long and illustrious career in Tokyo. She showed that you can keep […]
August 31, 2021
Andy Murray bowed out after enhancing his reputation in a stunning and ultimately bad-tempered drama in New York. The result was expected but the level of performance from the Brit was something no one could have foreseen. He could and perhaps should have won the match in straight sets. As it was, nearly five hours […]
August 27, 2021
Andy Murray plays Stefanos Tsitsipas in a competitive match for the very first time in a few days. We can’t wait! They practised together a couple of years ago and the younger man says he found Andy inspirational. Now Tsitsipas will be the heavy favourite. Will he like that early weight of expectation? What a […]
August 23, 2021
Alexander Zverev and Emma Raducanu are at very different stages in their tennis development. The willowy German is well known as one of the rising stars in our sport. Indeed he has almost reached the summit. All that remains for Zverev is to taste Grand Slam glory. Flushing Meadows over the next few weeks could […]
September 14, 2020
Dominic Thiem won a psychological thriller of the highest dramatic quality to lift his first Grand Slam title. The record-books were rewritten – and not just because a man born in the 1990s won a major instead of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic. Thiem became the first man to come back from two […]
September 12, 2020
Naomi Osaka lay flat on her back and took it all in. US Open champion for a second time. A third Grand Slam title. Still just 22 years old. Osaka always wins her big finals. But she was almost blown away before she knew what was happening. Instead she found the inner strength to become […]
Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev will meet on Sunday evening in the German speakers’ US Open final. A new Grand Slam champion will then be crowned. One who was born in the 1990s. Such things are unheard-of in this golden era of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. The next generation finally has a […]