Tag: Adrian Clarke
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Konta can climb to the summit
Two years ago Britain’s Jo Konta was practically a tennis nobody. Ranked a lowly 157th in the world, cursed by a reputation for mentally crumbling when the going got tough, it looked as if it may be prudent to start weighing up her options for a career outside the sport. Now 26, ranked 6th seed […]
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Eubank Jr to slay King Arthur slowly
Sometimes, you don’t need to have seen a boxer fight to know what style they bring to the ring. This is certainly true of Arthur Abraham, Chris Eubank Jr’s opponent at the SSE Arena this weekend. With his balding head, hooded brows, cold, hard stare and neck the size of a well-established tree trunk, the […]
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Who Will Be Britain’s Best? | British Team Trials
You don’t just magically appear at the World Athletics Championships, you need to earn your right to be there – and this weekend opportunity knocks for around 700 of Great Britain’s finest athletes. Doubling up as the British Championships and trials for the big one in London later this summer, Adrian Clarke takes us through […]
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Federer is the Pick of Wimbledon’s ‘Fab Four’
It’s been 15 remarkable years, an entire generation of tennis players, since one of Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal or Andy Murray HASN’T walked off Centre Court as the Men’s Singles Wimbledon champion. What a world-class shutout it has been. Put simply, nobody else has had a sniff at SW19, with this quartet of […]