With his head hung low, tears in his eyes and a break in his voice, three-time Grand Slam champion, Sir Andy Murray admitted that he had been in severe pain for ‘a number of years’ and that he had originally planned to retire after Wimbledon this summer but he doesn’t know if his body can […]
By now, the story of Johanna Konta’s meteoric rise to the elite of the women’s game is well known in the tennis world. In June of 2015 she was ranked 146th in the world, struggling to make a living on the tour. Fast forward just under two years and she is now set to climb […]
Under the palm trees of Indian Wells, Andy Murray slumped to a straight sets defeat to Canadian world number 129 Vasek Pospisil. Pospisil is no slouch around the court, having previously reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon and claimed a doubles Grand Slam title alongside Jack Sock, but make no mistake: it was Murray’s match to […]
As Andy Murray took a deserved week off from competitive tennis, his compatriots – including his brother Jamie – were slogging it out in both Canada and Estonia, in the Davis Cup and Fed Cup respectively. The two tournaments are the largest and most prestigious international competitions that tennis has to offer; one of the […]
Scotland’s favourite sportsman and World Number One Andy Murray has celebrated a fantastic year in tennis, and once again the question of whether he will receive a Knighthood for his achievements at this year’s award ceremony has resurfaced. And with this rises the debate over whether or not Knighthoods as a concept are elitist, outdated […]
Britain has its first men’s world number one tennis player since the ATP tour points system was introduced in 1973, and that man’s name is Andrew Barron Murray. The 29-year-old from Dunblane reached the pinnacle of men’s tennis following the withdrawal of Milos Raonic in the Paris Masters semi-finals this past week. Murray did not […]
Great Britain’s Davis Cup semi-final defeat to Argentina, which ended the defence of the title they had won in Belgium last November, consisted of more twists and turns than a rollercoaster designed by a 10-year-old. After an opening day of competition that saw Andy Murray push himself to the absolute limits in a five-hour epic, […]
When Great Britain last won the Davis Cup, Stanley Baldwin was Prime Minister, Jesse Owens was tearing up the athletics track, and Czechoslovakia was still a country. That was 1936 and a lot has changed. It may have taken 79 years, but Britain can now claim to be world champions once again following their victory […]