Tennis
Sports thoughts from the weekend
FA Cup Quarter-Finals
The fixtures this weekend were full of those cup narratives you’ve come to know and expect. We had the Premier League juggernauts rolling on relentlessly to Wembley to defend their title. We had the lower league side live the underdog’s dream for half a game, before sliding towards defeat to a better side. We [...]
The best of Shahar Peer’s week in Dubai
A year ago Shahar Peer, a promsing female tennis player from Israel, was refused entry to the United Arab Emirates to compete in the WTA event in Dubai. We thought that the $300,000 fine that hit the event was amusingly trivial, but evidently something changed in the past 12 months, because last week she was [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Federer remains the world’s best
Make no mistake, Andy Murray turned up to the Melbourne final in extremely good form and ready to make the step up to Grand Slam champion. His fault was not to have the game to beat the greatest men’s player of all time playing at the top of his game. Despite owning [...]
The Nemesis
Roger Federer has reached the quarter-finals of the Australian Open and he’ll be playing someone who isn’t as exciting for Sun readers as a Murray or a Nadal, so fortunately they’ve found a way of spicing up the tie:
ROGER FEDERER will face nemesis Nikolay Davydenko in the quarter-finals at the Australian Open.
The Swiss [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Haven’t we been here before?
It’s the second week of a Grand Slam tennis tournament, and we have a Briton playing well facing a big quarter-final. Since the mid-nineties, this has been the point at which we begin to hope almost relentlessly for victory, a burden which had been carried by Rusdeski and Henman, and has now [...]
Treating a mixed doubles partnership with kid gloves
This was a story we missed last week in the midst of living in the real world and not updating a sports blog, but time hasn’t made it any less worthy of a mention here. The Daily Mail were going all aflutter about the prospect of Andy Murray and Laura Robson playing doubles together in [...]
The BBC not targeting the eradication of self-evident Murray headlines
Last summer during Wimbledon it transpired, shockingly, that one of the world’s best tennis players, Andy Murray, was trying to win the games that he contested. While this might appear obvious, it didn’t seem to stop the BBC from headlining their many articles on the Scot with inane words about him aiming to overcome his [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Mercury rising… and falling and rising again
English cricket continues to baffle. Last week we looked at the mercurial nature of the side that could be slain for more than 240 in 20 overs and then restrict South Africa to almost the same over 50 overs and knock off the runs with panache. This weekend the [...]
The most interesting aspect of the Agassi drugs case, as explained by Steven Howard
Some sound reasoning from the Sun’s Chief Sports Writer this week as he considers the ramifications of the revelations which have come from the serialisation of Andre Agassi’s autobiography.
ANDRE AGASSI admits he snorted crystal meth back in 1997.
The squeaky-clean Yank then failed a drugs test but astonishingly escaped any ban when he lied [...]
A month is a long time in sport…
You might have noticed that we spend an inordinate amount of time here watching sport. But when you don’t know what’s been going on for a month it’s amazing how much things have moved on. Or is it? Let’s review the evidence:
1. Justine Henin plays tennis again now.
2. Goals can and have been scored off a beach ball.
3. [...]