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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 [...]
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 [...]
US Open final provokes misuse of the word ‘certainty’
BBC tennis correspondent Jonathan Overend has seen enough. Juan Martin del Potro, crowned US Open Champion on Monday, is the future of men’s tennis. At the conclusion of the final he uttered the following:
0129: “This man Juan Martin del Potro will be the next world number one, it’s a certainty,” says 5 live’s Jonathan Overend.
Certainty? Alright.
There’s nothing wrong [...]
Beating a Scot in tennis and England in football - not so connected
Andy Murray’s been caught out three times this year in the final stages of grand slams already, by an inspired Verdasco in Australia, an irrepressible Gonzalez in France and a resurgent Roddick at Wimbledon. Last night, he bowed out of the US Open with a more listless effort against Croatia’s Marin Cilic. Disappointment all round, [...]
Stating the obvious: Murray headlines
What is it about Andy Murray and his burgeoning career which attracts such insipid headlines which barely constitute news? We looked at the phenomenon earlier this year during the Wimbledon fortnight, in which every round was met by a headline suggesting that Murray would target a win. But it didn’t stop there, sadly.
Murray won the first [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend - on second place
The race to be the best of the rest
Tyson Gay is the best sprinter there has ever been - bar one. Injured ahead of the Olympics last year, the 2007 World Champion had burst on to the scene with great times and conquered Asafa Powell wholly with his ability to produce when it mattered in big [...]
Sports thoughts from the weekend
Federer making history
Roger Federer finally did that thing that we’d all been anticipating and won the French Open, thereby joining the elite list of players to win all four Slams, and tieing the record for most Grand Slams won in the process.
Wait - that was last month.
This month he’s merely started a new club for men who’ve won [...]
Weak headlining - Andy Murray wants to win matches
While the need for a preview of Murray’s (and of course, other players - there are some other players at Wimbledon this year) every match is entirely justifiable and worthwhile, we’d like to make the following request to headline writers - please, please, please think about what you’re writing. So often, what the reader is [...]