Tennis

Your chances of bumping into one of the world’s top tennis players along Derby Road this summer have just gotten higher. This month, Nottingham will host official WTA and ATP events as part of an extended grass-court season. For us here at UoN, the best part is that all...

Tennis world number 26 Peng Shuai of China has been forced to pull out of next month’s Aegon Open Nottingham, while former world number two and 2012 Wimbledon finalist Agnieszka Radwanska announced that she will play at the tournament. Peng, 29, suffered a season-ending lower back injury in her first round...

Can anyone stop Novak Djokovic? This is the big question in the world of tennis at the moment, and one that we might have a concrete answer to in the next few weeks. That’s because the second Grand Slam of the year, the French Open, gets underway on Sunday 24...

The seeds have been announced, the draw has been made. We now await the start of the first Grand Slam of the tennis year in Melbourne on Monday. But before the action gets underway, let’s take a closer look at the draw for the Men’s Singles. Top quarter The...

A humiliating 56 minute 6-0 6-1 annihilation at the hands of Roger Federer at the ATP World Tour Finals last week was hardly the climax to 2014 that Andy Murray would have wanted.  After coming through a gruelling six-week schedule to make it to the O2 Arena, his year...

Myriad predictions and observations from tennis pundits in the past eighteen months have proved to be grossly inaccurate or, at best, short-sighted. Whether it be regarding Federer entering his twilight years, or the ability of the aptly-titled ‘Big Four’ to hold off the challenge of the rest of the field,...

London’s O2 Arena is once again the site for the elite eight players of men’s tennis to conjure up an end-of-season extravaganza of breath-taking ball striking and intense emotion. After a brutally long and challenging year, the world’s top eight will attempt to muster together one last effort and...