Nishikori Injury Helps Rafa Escape!
Locker Room
May 11, 2014
Kei Nishikori lost a great final in Madrid…but may well have won millions of new fans. ‘I’m very sorry for what’s happened,’ said Kei after having to retire, due to an injury to his lower left side, at 3-0 down in the final set. ‘It was hurting already.’ Yet he left with a top-ten ranking, […]
Swiss Timing! Wawrinka strikes back to deny Federer a first Monte-Carlo title
Locker Room
April 20, 2014
You might have thought he had already done it all. But Roger Federer was desperate to take his maiden Monte-Carlo title by beating his friend and fellow Swiss, Stanislas Wawrinka. For a while it looked more than possible – until Stan The Man finally found his best game and started to display his own impeccable […]
Monte Carlo – Fabulous Ferrer…but what has happened to Rafa?
Locker Room
April 19, 2014
Sometimes one spectacular result creates the enduring memory from a tournament – and it isn’t necessarily the eventual winner who makes the most waves. So it was in Monaco when David Ferrer beat Rafael Nadal for the first time in a decade on clay. However much we love Rafa, it was hard not to smile. […]
Italy Prevails in the Davis Cup against Great Britain
Wimbledon
April 7, 2014
Was Italy’s comeback one which should have been allowed to happen? GB led 2-1 against Italy going into the final day in Naples. It looked as though they had already done the hardest part in their bid for a first semi-final spot in 33 years. Then the wheels fell off. Andy Murray lost to Fabio […]
Incredible Novak Crushes Rafa in Miami
Locker Room
March 31, 2014
Wow! Did that really happen? Novak Djokovic has found a frightening new level Now, as the European clay awaits, the big question is this: can Novak finally win the French Open? Can Rafa really stop him this time? The scoreline in Miami was a straightforward 6-3, 6-3. But even that didn’t tell the full story. […]
Murray Loses Miami Mind Games Against Naughty Novak
Wimbledon
March 27, 2014
Andy Murray needs to start winning some mind games… and fast If he isn’t going to rush into appointing a new coach, he had better consider working with a new sports psychologist – because his head, quite frankly, is all over the place. We want Andy Murray back to his best form in time for […]
Novak triumphs in Indian Wells
Locker Room
March 17, 2014
A weird and wonderful final saw Novak Djokovic take his first title of 2014 by beating Roger Federer 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3). But Novak is still having trouble when it comes to closing out matches. And it wasn’t his own offensive stroke-play which carried the day, as he reversed Roger’s victory in Dubai a fortnight […]
Dubai – Fabulous Federer!
Locker Room
March 1, 2014
Welcome back to the King of Tennis; Fabulous Federer wins in Dubai It was like that line from the old Beatles song: “I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello.” Many of us weren’t listening. We’ll listen now. We thought we might have said farewell to the very best of him. Instead it […]
Grand Slam Tournaments: The Run Down
Debenture News
February 21, 2014
Grand Slam History: Wonderful Wimbledon Aces Them All All the Grand Slams have their history – but nowhere has quite as much as Wimbledon. You can feel it when you walk in. That magic took many years to create. You can’t feel it anywhere else, for all the qualities and diversity of the world’s other […]
Happily Ever After – Tennis Romances
Debenture News
February 10, 2014
Let’s Hear It For The Partners The team at WimbledonDebentureHolders.com have come up with their own Happily Ever After #HEA rating for our favourite tennis couples. Do you agree? Join in the conversation on twitter It’s amazing how many stable romances there are at the top of tennis. Especially when the top stars could have […]