Tag: Tennis
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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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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 […]
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French Open Quarter-Finals | Preview, Betting & Odds | 6 June
It’s quarter-finals day at Roland Garros and Rafa Nadal is an odds-on favourite to record his tenth French Open title. The Majorcan has looked imperious, having dropped just twenty games in four matches. It’s very difficult to make a case for compatriot Pablo Carreno Busta to end this run, given that he’s lost all three […]