By Lisa-Marie Burrows Not to be outdone by Novak Djokovic and his Gangnam Style dance performance in Beijing, two of the WTA’s young stars, Laura Robson and Genie Bouchard, decided to create a video of their own with the song. It features Maria Sharapova, Fernando Verdasco, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Samantha Stosur and Heather Watson and the […]
August 10, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows It seems that the Olympic year continued to have a profound effect on the health and fitness of the tennis players, with many under performing, looking tired and withdrawing due to injury. The Masters 1000 tournament in Toronto has been severely affected by withdrawals, early exits and injured players and now the […]
July 14, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows In the ATP tournament in Umag the clay-court contest saw Fernando Verdasco and Marin Cilic win in spectacular fashion and progress to the semifinals. The top-seeded Spaniard annihilated Kuznetsov 6-2, 6-2 whilst local favourite and second-seeded Cilic ousted Wayne Odesnik 6-4 6-0. It was a very encouraging display from both Verdasco and […]
July 12, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows Over the years as Twitter has progressed in popularity so has the number of ATP and WTA tennis players who have joined Twitter and are fairly active. Many of their tweets are entertaining, funny and honest. There is such a selection to choose from and no doubt everybody will have their different […]
June 30, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows This week has been the opening week at Wimbledon and I have been very lucky to have enjoyed several matches, beautiful weather and of course strawberries and cream! It has been lovely to be back at the All England Lawn Tennis Club again and see the quick paced matches with the players […]
June 9, 2012
As thoughts start to switch towards the grass season, Wimbledon and the Olympics, the build up tournaments at Halle and Queens have already experienced news of several withdrawals from both fields in the tournament and the line up at the AEGON Championships has been the tournament which has probably suffered the most. AEGON Championships, Queens […]
May 28, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows After an action-packed week on the red dirt of Rome, the finals Masters 1000 Series tournament before Roland Garros threw up some exciting matches, entertaining press conferences and an opportunity for memorable photographs to be snapped. Here is a collection of some of those events for you to enjoy featuring many of […]
May 28, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows After spending a very busy and exciting week in Madrid and Rome, I have compiled a collection of the best photographs of your favourite tennis players from all the events in Madrid – showing happy moments, times of desperation, disappointment and of course photos from some of the explosive press conferences. Hope […]
May 28, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows By Lisa-Marie Burrows Internazionali BNL d’Italia, Rome – The orange courts of Rome served up some high quality tennis this afternoon with two matches containing two same-country battles. Fernando Verdasco was vying to knock out another higher-ranked compatriot this week after his defeat over Spanish No.1 Rafael Nadal in Madrid, whilst on Court […]
May 28, 2012
By Lisa-Marie Burrows Mutua Madrid Open, Madrid – It was a tale of two different halves in Madrid today, as without a shadow of a doubt, the prize for best press conference this week has to go to the enigmatic Serena Williams who defeated Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-3 and the saddest of the day so […]
October 11, 2012
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