Tennis Blog

#2 Or #23? As expected, it looks as though this year’s French Open Men’s Draw will be won by either Carlos Alcaraz or Novak Djokovic. Both men have progressed relatively [...]

No te Rindas Nunca, Rafa Post Australian Open, we’ve seen a year dominated by a totally new set of players. After Novak Djokovic claimed his 21st Grand Slam in Melbourne, [...]

Clay Court Season: Part 2 of 4 of 2023 Most normal people measure their years using normal units of time. 52 weeks, 365 days, 12 months. The tennis world sees [...]

It’s the match we’ve all been waiting for. When Medvedev was at the peak of his powers in 2021, Alcaraz was not yet ready for the demands of top level [...]

Britons Start Strong in Indian Wells Often dubbed “The Fifth Slam”, Indian wells is always terrific fun. One of 9 Masters 1000 tournaments taking place each year, it has the [...]

Murray Continues to Make Strides With Statement Week in Doha We may be witnessing the second coming of Andy Murray in 2023. I alluded to Murray’s renewed determination and grit [...]

Alcaraz Claim Buenos Aires Title on Return to Tour Carlos Alcaraz made the perfect return to the ATP Tour, quickly finding his match sharpness and playing some very solid tennis [...]

Sinner Finds Solution to Cressy Challenge; Wu Yibing Makes Chinese History After a week’s hiatus following the Australian Open, the ATP came back with a bang, with some big names [...]

Team GB Beat Colombia in Tricky Davis Cup Tie It was a good weekend for British tennis, as Team GB advanced to the Davis Cup Group Stages, beating Colombia 3-1 [...]

Djokovic and Sabalenka Crowned Champions Down Under Aryna Sabalenka hasn’t always had the most pleasant experience playing in Australia. Four years ago, while playing against home favourite Ash Barty, Sabalenka [...]

Sir Andy Murray Andy Murray has had (and is still having) a glittering tennis career, with his crowning achievements being 3 Grand Slam titles, 2 Olympic Gold Medals, a year-end [...]

Australian Open 2023: Preview The context of this year’s Australian Open is one of the most fascinating in recent times (from a tennis perspective, at least), with an exciting draw [...]

The United Cup: Another Successful Team Event? Thinking back to 2017, I remember the first edition of the Laver Cup. There was heavy scepticism about the event and how exactly [...]

2023 Season Kicks off with United Cup Tennis is back! After a few weeks of well-earned off season, the ATP and WTA Tours have restarted this week with a new [...]

The Iga Era? While many things have remained constant in men’s tennis, the long anticipated changing of the guard has undoubtedly occurred on the WTA Tour. Serena Williams, who was, [...]

What To Expect in 2023: ATP Version Every year at Wimbledon, there is no play on the 7th day of the tournament, known as middle Sunday. On this day, after [...]

Are the ATP Rankings Working? For much of this year, Daniil Medvedev has been World Number One. For a brief period in March, and then for most of the summer [...]

Caroline Garcia: A Lesson for Nick Kyrgios From a young age, Caroline Garcia was expected to achieve big things. She reached Number 5 in the Junior Rankings and transitioned almost [...]

Djokovic Dethroned by Ruthless Rune in Bercy It has been quite the year for Holger Rune. The young Dane started the year ranked 103 and went on a meteoric rise [...]

Lucky Number 13 for Felix in Basel This time last year, Felix Auger-Aliassime had lost 8 ATP finals in row and was yet to win a title. Despite his obvious [...]

Felix Fights off Korda to Edge Closer to Turin Felix Auger-Aliassime continued his good form this week in Antwerp, beating a strong Sebastian Korda 6-3 6-4 in a determined performance [...]

Court Quality Scandal Threatens Napoli Open In a shocking turn of events quite unlike anything seen ever before on the ATP tour, an event is on the brink of being [...]

Race To Turin Heats Up; Krejcikova Stuns Swiatek The race to qualify for next month’s Nitto ATP Finals took several twists last week, with key contenders posting mixed results in [...]

Djokovic Claims 89th Career Title in Tel Aviv Novak Djokovic got back to winning ways this week, winning 4 matches out of 4 without dropping a set to be crowned [...]

Tennis’ Forgotten Surface: Carpet Roger Federer’s last professional tennis match proved to be a momentous occasion. The 20-time Grand Slam champion announced that he would only play one match in [...]

Roger Federer: A Tribute I never used to like Roger Federer. As a child my idol was Andy Roddick. Roddick was an extremely talented young player, winning the US Open [...]

US Open 2022: Carlos Crushes Casper While Swiatek Tames Jabeur Tennis, after years of the same winners, runners-up, and consistent contenders, is finally becoming unpredictable. Since 2006, there had only [...]

US Open Week 1: Kyrgios and Serena Steal the Show Who said tennis would be no fun without the Big 3? The last week of tennis has proven exactly the [...]

US Open 2022: The Most Winnable Slam Ever? The US Open has always thrown up more surprises than other slams. In the last 13 years, 9 separate players have won [...]

A New Era of Tennis? This year’s US Open was simply incredible from a spectator’s perspective. From Day 1 to the final Sunday, there was a constant flow of sporting [...]

Roland Garros: The Worst Grand Slam? Everyone has their favourite Grand Slam. Mine is Wimbledon. For me, you simply can’t beat the great summer weather, the traditional all-white attire, and [...]

Grace in Victory The title of this blog describes my opinion of Naomi Osaka. A woman is who clearly as kind off the court as she is on it. She [...]

The 3rd Covid Slam: The Story So Far This year’s Australian Open was already mired in controversy before it had even started: positive test results of chartered flights on which [...]

No report this week or in the near future as the ATP and WTA are suspended due to Covid-19.  Please take care. Many thanks, Club Captain Phil Layfield

No report this week.  Emre will be back next week with a report on Indian Wells. Many thanks, Club Captain Phil Layfield

Nadal and Djokovic Win Titles, Thiem Cracks Top 3 Rafa Nadal and Novak Djokovic reasserted their dominance in the tennis world, cruising through difficult fields in Acapulco and Dubai to [...]

When Will The ‘NextGen' Break Through? After a week of mixed fortunes for those touted to succeed the Big 3 at the top of men’s tennis, many in the tennis [...]

Edmund Eases to Title in New York Kyle Edmund defeated Andreas Seppi 7-5 6-1 to win his second ATP tour level title at the New York Open, having previously triumphed [...]

Monfils Triumphs in Montpellier Gael Monfils got back to winning ways after his tame 4th Round Australian Open defeat to eventual finalist Dominic Thiem, beating Vasek Pospisil 7-5 6-3 in [...]

Kenin and Djokovic Win Australian Open Men’s and women’s tennis continue to follow differing patterns, with the lack of variety in the Grand Slam winners in men’s tennis continuing, while [...]

Seeds Stay Strong at Australian Open It’s been a week of relatively few surprises at the Australian Open, with the top seeds in both the men’s and women’s draws fighting [...]

Australian Open Kicks Off Despite the issues tournament organisers faced over player safety during qualifying, the Australian Open has started this week, in spite of fears the tournament could be [...]

First ATP Cup an Overwhelming Success After much debate and discussion on whether it was necessary to have the ATP Cup, considering team competitions like the Laver Cup and the [...]

2020 Season Begins After a 6-week break, tennis is finally back, but things are a little different this year. Instead of warm-up tournaments going no higher than ATP 250 level, [...]

Questions Over New Davis Cup Format In the final week of the 2019 tennis season, we saw the first edition of the revamped Davis Cup won by host nation Spain, [...]

Tsitsipas Wins Nitto ATP World Tour Finals It may not have been the Federer vs Djokovic final that many predicted before the start of this week, but it was every [...]

Thiem and Djokovic Make Strong Starts in London As the 2019 tennis season draws to a close, the stakes become even higher in the final battle for the world’s top-ranking [...]

Djokovic Wins Paris Masters to Set Year End Number One Showdown in London Novak Djokovic won his 5th Paris masters title this weekend, defeating a nervous Denis Shapovalov 6-3 6-4 [...]

Federer and Thiem Triumph in Home Tournaments Roger Federer continued his dominance of the Basel Open, winning his 10th Basel and 103rd ATP title by beating Alex de Minuar 6-2 [...]

Sensational Murray Defeats Stan in Antwerp Andy Murray is refusing to leave the spotlight just yet. Murray produced an incredible comeback to defeat 3-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka 3-6 [...]

Why Daniil Medvedev is the Next Big Thing This time last year Daniil Medvedev had only just broken into the world’s top 50. Now, after cruising to victory in the [...]

Top Seeds Triumph in Tokyo and Beijing The dominance displayed by those who have enjoyed an extended stay at the top of men’s tennis continued their success in the year’s [...]

De Minaur Making Waves on ATP Tour Alex de Minaur is only 20 years old, but is already showing evidence of just how much potential he holds, having won his [...]

World’s Best Wow Tennis Fans At Laver Cup The Laver Cup once again proved to be an extremely successful event this year, with the tournament once again going down to [...]

There will be no report this week. Emre will be back next week! Many thanks, Club Captain Phil Layfield

A Night to Remember After this year’s astonishing Wimbledon final, many tennis fans thought that the sport had reached its peak for the year. However, Rafael Nadal and Daniil Medvedev [...]

Big 3 Dominate in New York Federer, Nadal and Djokovic have once again stolen the show at a Grand Slam, cruising into the second week of a major once again [...]

Please note, there will be no report this week.  Emre is looking forward to telling you all about the US Open which started on Monday 26th August in his next [...]

Medvedev Clinches 1st Masters 1000 Title in Cincinnati Daniil Medvedev continued his sensational hard-court form this year by winning the biggest title of his career at the Cincinnati Masters, producing [...]

Nadal Wins 35th Masters 1000; Murray Confirms Singles Return An unstoppable Rafael Nadal swept past an in-form Daniil Medvedev 6-3 6-0 to win his 5thRogers Cup title and his 35th [...]

Nick Kyrgios: My Opinion After storming to a second ATP title of 2019, in a week which he described as one of the ‘favourite weeks of [his] life” and a [...]

Basilashvili Successfully Defends Hamburg Title Nikoloz Basilashvili is becoming the king of ATP 500s. The Georgian picked up his 3rd ATP Title (all of which have been at the 500 [...]

Isner Takes Newport Title John Isner’s comeback from an ankle injury that kept him out of tennis for several months this year is gathering steam as Isner beat Kazakh Alexander [...]

Djokovic and Halep Crowned Champions at Wimbledon Novak Djokovic fended off two match points to outlast Roger Federer in a thrilling Wimbledon final which lasted 5 hours and 2 minutes, [...]

No report this week.

Wimbledon 2019 Preview If you’re a tennis fan, the next two weeks will usually be the best 2 weeks of your year. Wimbledon is starting and this year, there is [...]

Lopez Completes Dream Week With Double Titles At Queen’s Things hadn’t been going particularly well for 37-year-old Feliciano Lopez this year. He fellto an ATP ranking of 113 and had [...]

Murray To Make Return to Tennis at Queen’s Just 5 months after the tennis world thought it had seen the last of Andy Murray, the former World Number 1 is [...]

Nadal Wins Unprecedented 12th French Open Title Rafael Nadal won his 3rd consecutive French Open crown on Sunday, beating 4th seed Dominic Thiem 6-3 5-7 6-1 6-1 in a high-quality [...]

Top Seeds Tumble in First Week at French Open The first week of this year’s French Open has thrown up some fantastic matches, some of which saw the best [...]

Roland Garros Begins The second Grand Slam of 2019 began on Sunday, kicking off the final leg of this year’s clay court season. Many things have changed since last year; [...]

Nadal and Pliskova Triumph in Rome Rafael Nadal finally kick started a stuttering clay court season with a hard fought 6-0 4-6 6-1 win over long-time rival Novak Djokovic to [...]

Adios David! After a career spanning over 19 years, the tennis world said farewell to one of the greatest players of its current generation. Former World Number 3 David Ferrer [...]

Konta Misses Out On First Clay Court Title It seemed as though the Johanna Konta of 2 years ago was returning this week, as the British number one made the [...]

Thiem Takes Title in Barcelona Dominic Thiem completed a week of stunning tennis by defeating Daniil Medvedev 6-4 6-0 in the Barcelona Open final. Thiem also beat Rafael Nadal on [...]

Forza Fogna! Fabio Fognini notched the biggest title of his career at the Monte Carlo Masters this week, defeating Dusan Lajovic 6-3 6-4 in an entertaining final. Both men had [...]

Welcome to The Dirt Season That’s right folks, it’s clay time. It’s that time of year again, the time of long rallies, longer slides and an even longer still stretch where [...]

Message from Emre Saridogan. No report this week as there has been no tennis. Usually the weekend after Miami would be reserved for Davis Cup but the existing format has [...]

Federer Keeps Rolling with Title Number 101 Just 4 months shy of his 38th birthday, Roger Federer stormed his way to his first Masters 1000 title since Shanghai in 2017, [...]

Week of Upsets in Miami After a surprising end to 2019’s first Masters 1000 in Indian Wells, which saw Dominic Thiem and Bianca Andreescu crowned champions, the draw was always [...]

Tales of the Unexpected at Indian Wells Dominic Thiem won his first ever Master’s 1000 title at Indian Wells this week, beating overwhelming favourite and 5-time champion Roger Federer 3-6 [...]

Big Names Start Strongly in Indian Wells: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are all safely through to the 3rd Round of Indian Wells having won their opening matches. [...]

Kyrgios Crowned King in Acapulco There are plenty of ways of silencing your critics, but Nick Kyrgios certainly chose the best method by storming to a 5th career title in [...]

Federer and Nadal Return to ATP Tour The end of February and the beginning of March sees an exciting period on the ATP Tour. 2 ATP 500 events run simultaneously [...]

Monfils Claims 8th Tour Level Title in Rotterdam  Gael Monfils showed the tennis world he’s not just here to show off his vast array of trick shots by beating a [...]

Tsonga Powers to Montpellier Title, Medvedev Making Waves (Written by Emre Saridogan) After a spending a long time on the side-lines, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is back! The Frenchman beat Pierre Hugues-Herbert [...]

Mixed Reaction to New Davis Cup Format (Written by Emre Saridogan) Following the hectic fortnight that was the Australian Open, there was a lull in the tennis action until this [...]

Dominant Djokovic Dismantles Rafa (Written by Emre Saridogan) Novak Djokovic defeated Rafael Nadal in a one-sided Australian Open men’s final to win the 15th Grand Slam of his illustrious career. [...]

Big Names Tumble In Topsy Turvy Aussie Open The main talking point of this year’s Australian Open has been the number of shock exits we’ve seen. In an incredible first [...]

A Bittersweet Week for Tennis Fans Although I hadn’t planned to write until after the Australian Open, the news this week which sent shockwaves reverberating throughout the tennis world compelled [...]

As the 2018 tennis season has ended Emre will be taking a well deserved break but will return in the new year to share his thoughts on the tennis world. [...]

Croatia Crowned 2018 Davis Cup Champions In what was a rematch of 2018’s football World Cup final, Croatia got their revenge on France as they defeated them 3-1 in this [...]

Zverev Wins ATP World Tour Finals To Claim Biggest Title of His Career The way Novak Djokovic had been playing prior to Sunday’s final at the year ending championships, many [...]

ATP World Tour Finals Start With a Bang A tournament that’s exclusive enough to only include the best performing 8 players of the year is always going to produce quality [...]

Super Khachanov Dismantles Djokovic For First Master’s 1000 Title Karen Khachanov surged to his first ever Master’s 1000 title on Sunday by beating world number one to be Novak Djokovic [...]

Federer Fights to 9th Title in Basel Roger Federer fought through a week in which he played some of the poorest tennis (by his lofty standards) to claim an astonishing [...]

Kyle Edmund Crowned King in Antwerp For the first time since Andy Murray’s triumph in Dubai in March 2017, a Briton has won a title on the ATP World Tour [...]

Djokovic Dominance Continues The race to finish 2018 as world number one in the men’s game is heating up. Novak Djokovic defeated surprise package Borna Coric 6-3 6-4 in the [...]

Basilashvili Stuns delPo To Claim Second ATP 500 in Beijing AT the start of 2018, Nikoloz Basilashvili had never won an ATP title. However, since July, he has picked up [...]

Tomic Storms Back Onto The Scene With Title In Chengdu, Murray Ends Season After Quarter Final Exit in Shenzhen Persistence. Mental strength. Determination. These are not words that one would [...]

Europe Successfully Defend Laver Cup Title You may (or may not) remember the Laver Cup from last year. If not, it is a team tennis event played over 3 days, [...]

Croatia and France to Face Off in Davis Cup Final   In the final rendition of the traditional Davis Cup format, 2016 finalists Croatia will face a tough task against [...]

Serena Steals Spotlight From First Time Slam Winner Osaka Despite the blistering tennis on display in the men’s final, the attention of the tennis world is still very much on [...]

Time For A Change?(written by Emre Saridogan) The same players seem to be winning over and over again in men’s tennis. Since the turn of the decade, there have only [...]

US Open Draw Throws Up Thrillers ( written by Emre Saridogan) It is rare that a player will have the same first round match-up for two Grand Slams in a [...]

Djokovic Claims Career Golden Master’s With Victory in Cincinnati (written by Emre Saridogan) It has been a strange week for Novak Djokovic, with fatigue and illness threatening to stand in [...]

Rafa Rises Above Tsitsipas Challenge To Win 33rd Masters 1000 There is no stopping Rafael Nadal at the moment. The world number one overcame stern tests from the likes [...]

Fabulous Fabio Defeats delPo For First Hard Court Title (written by Emre Saridogan) There was simply no stopping Fabio Fognini this week, as the fiery Italian stormed to an [...]

Unsung Heroes Defy The Odds (written by Emre Saridogan) Ever heard of Nikoloz Basilashvili? If you have, congratulations on being an ardent follower of tennis. If not, you are [...]

Seventh Heaven For Fognini This last week has felt very much indeed like the week following a grand slam in the world of tennis. Although 3 ATP tournaments took [...]

Djokovic and Kerber Crowned Champions at Wimbledon (written by Emre Saridogan) After week one of Wimbledon drew to a close, the draw was shaping up for a showdown between [...]

The Magic of 2008 Lives On (written by Emre Saridogan) 10 Years ago, when Rafael Nadal sank to the floor having beaten Roger Federer in what is considered to [...]