Police confirmed yesterday that Rufus – Wimbledon’s very own patrol hawk – has been stolen along with his cage sometime during Thursday night and Friday morning. Hawks have been a regular sight at the All England Tennis Club during the two-week Wimbledon Championships having been used by the tournament organisers [...]
Marin Cilic and Sam Querrey both had to dig deep during their third round encounter that lasted 5 hours and 31 minutes, making it the second longest match in Wimbledon history. It was the Croat Cilic, who had a lot more reasons to celebrate after beating the American in a [...]
No.7 seed Spaniard David Ferrer and the 5th seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France booked their place in the last 16 of this year’s Wimbledon Championships. Ferrer, who won last week’s tournament in Hertogenbosch, defeated American Andy Roddick as he came back from a set down to win 2-6 7-6 (8) [...]
Murray vs Baghdatis: Final 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 Just in the nick of time, Andy Murray beat Marcos Baghdatis in four sets to advance to play 16th seed Marin Cillic for a place in the quarter finals. Marcos Baghdatis leaves the 126th Championships with his head held high having given a [...]
A great day of tennis is in store on Centre Court on day six of the Championships, and here are some predictions for the matches ahead. Sixth seed Serena Williams gets things started against Chinese 25th seed Jie Zheng. Although Zheng will be ready for the battle, logic would suggest [...]
Czech Lukas Rosol played some unbelievable tennis to oust world no.2 Rafael Nadal from this year’s Wimbledon Championships. Rosol will surely get everyone’s attention after a superb 6-7 (9) 6-4 6-4 2-6 6-4 victory over the 7 time Roland Garros Champion Nadal. The Czech entered the center court without any [...]
Big-serving Ivo Karlovic believes he is the victim of favouritism following Andy Murray’s controversial win over the Croatian in the opening rounds of Wimbledon. Karlovic was beaten by Murray 7-5, 6-7(5), 6-2, 7-6 (4) on Thursday, however he has accused line judges of favouring the home player after a succession [...]
Wimbledon The Wimbledon fortnight commenced this week with a flurry of matches, and some surprising results. In the women’s singles Venus Williams failed to progress past this first round for only the 2nd time in her career, the first being in 1997 when she was again unseeded, and her début. Venus has [...]
Most professional tennis players would have a wealth of excuses to hand for losing such an important match as the opening round at Wimbledon. Not so Bernard Tomic who has been refreshingly honest in admitting he lacks motivation and that a lack of application was mostly behind his shock loss [...]
5th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga showed no mercy as he demolished the Austalian wild card holder and former world no.1 Lleyton Hewitt in three sets 6-3 6-4 6-4 and booked his place in the second round of Wimbledon 2012. Hewitt has been struggling with injuries recently and his ranking dropped to [...]
Following on from the controversy earlier this month when the All India Tennis Association (AITA) attempted to re-form the Grand Slam-winning doubles team of Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi for its only male doubles Olympic team, more trouble has been brewing thanks to its attempt to pacify Paes with a [...]
Following the controversy and player backlash that stirred up over the use of smurf-coloured clay at the Madrid Open last month, the ATP has announced this weekend that blue courts will be outlawed in 2013. The bright blue surface, which was only unveiled this year, attracted a wealth of criticism [...]
8th seed Janko Tipsarevic booked his place in the second round of the Wimbledon Championships 2012 after beating Queen’s Club finalist David Nalbandian 6-4 7-6 (4) 6-2. Nalbandian, who got disqualified from the AEGON Championships week before last, couldn’t convert any of the five break point opportunities he had at [...]
Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer both won their opening matches at Wimbledon 2012 in straight sets. Djokovic was the first one on center court, and started his title defence against former world no.1 Juan Carlos Ferrero with a 6-3 6-3 6-1 win. The world no.1, who defeated Nadal in last [...]
