Li Na And Wawrinka In Historic Exit But Murray Survives
Wimbledon
May 28, 2014
Li Na and Stan Wawrinka combined to create the wrong kind of history at Roland Garros yesterday. The only bonus is that both fallen stars will now be super-fresh for Wimbledon. Never before have both Aussie Open Champions been dumped out of the French Open in the very first round. In fact newly-crowned Grand Slam […]
Stan Shocked In Paris
Locker Room
May 27, 2014
Stan Wawrinka couldn’t take the pressure in Paris this weekend. Wawrinka just found out what it feels like to be one of the big guns going into a Grand Slam event – and he didn’t seem to like the pressure. The Aussie Open champ has always been the battling underdog with the supreme fighting spirit. […]
Caroline Wozniacki’s New Battle
Wimbledon
May 21, 2014
Caroline Wozniacki has been left heartbroken by Rory McIlroy – just before the French Open and Wimbledon. How will the former world number one cope with so much personal trauma just before the biggest tournaments of the European summer? On February 10, in our “Happily Ever After” feature, we warned the couple that they had […]
Novak Conquers Rome with Shot of the Year
Wimbledon
May 19, 2014
If one shot can win a big game of tennis, this was it. Technically immaculate, his head so perfectly still during the cross-court execution that his composure defied belief. Novak Djokovic should have been scrambling for all he was worth just to stay in the point. Rafa had driven for the corner and there was […]
Rome – Murray v Nadal – the match of the season!!
Locker Room
May 17, 2014
Make no mistake, Andy Murray could and should have notched his first ever clay-court victory over Rafa Nadal in Rome. Instead, a series of baffling unforced errors saw the battling Brit blow his big chance to make some personal history. This was gloriously unpredictable tennis, one moment almost superhuman in its breath-taking brilliance, the next […]
Survey Reveals Brits back Murray and Serena Williams
Wimbledon
May 15, 2014
An extraordinary 37% of those polled in the WimbledonDebentureHolders.com survey believe that Murray can reproduce last summer’s heroics. Even though the Scot has achieved little since winning Wimbledon in 2013. The patriotic British public are backing Andy Murray to retain his Wimbledon title. For the Men’s Singles title, both Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal received just […]
Best Coach-Player Combo Of All Time?
Wimbledon
May 13, 2014
What is The Best Coach/player combination of all time? It’s a hard one to judge. Is it someone who pushes you to the extremes, both physically and mentally? A person who is there to love and pick you up after a fall? The ability to squeeze the last drop of sweat from you on […]
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. […]