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On Saturday, Judy Murray received the 10sballs.com Coach of the Year Award, at the end of a fun-filled morning for families and kids arriving early at The Royal Albert Hall, where the Champions Tennis is taking place.
Can this really be? The final tennis of the year on these fair shores? And what a way for it to end, with John McEnroe and wily old Henri Leconte keeping fans of all ages on the edges of their seats.
If the Friday day session belonged to the enigmatic, fun-loving Xavier Malisse, Friday night and Saturday afternoon were all about business, as James Blake had to outsmart Younes El Aynaoui...
Global Chick here, and racing to spend the remnants of Christmas shopping (well, getting swept in and out of random shops by the money-spending hoards on Oxford Street) but instead, I sit idly by watching planes take off and leave...
For many of the perhaps more casual tennis watchers, Judy Murray is the courtside supportive mother of her sons Jamie and Andy Murray since they both started to work their way up the tennis rankings in their respective disciplines.
Move aside, the Perry era, and welcome the age of Murray, as the world No. 2, British No. 1 and all round laird of our green and pleasant land put the icing on the cake, sealing a straight sets win 6-3 7-5 6-3 over Belgium’s David Goffin to bring Great Britain home 3-1.
Well the news is… we still have unconscionably unseasonal weather in Glasgow… and the real ‘news’ was that Leon Smith has opted to put the Brothers Murray in the doubles. Which was a surprise to… no-one.
I am not given to emotions lightly. I am rarely moved in films… I did not blub when ET went home. I was more interested in how the Titanic broke up than whether Rose and Jack would make it...
A few eyebrows were raised in that quintessential British way as the announcement came prior to the Davis Cup semi-final draw between Great Britain and Australia...
It only feels like yesterday since I was fighting off trench foot in the driving rain and sleet in March, and arriving in sunshine was… refreshing!
Well that’s what I try and tell myself as I creak my way down the stairs of a morning, thinking about a work-out… because it is the thought that counts, apparently.
And thus it came to pass that on the 13th day of the Slam hitherto termed The US Open, two players did verily take upon the court to do battle as the gladiatrices of old.
The courts were dry, there were even signs of sunglasses, t-shirts and shorts amongst the crowd, but would the first semi-final between Simona Halep and Flavia Pennetta shine?
Last time on Rozzington’s US Open round up, the last pairing was doing battle for a place in the last four, and things were finely between Simona Halep and Victoria Azarenka.
It is difficult to know if it is just something in the water that the 30-somethings are looking to rule the roost in Flushing Meadows.
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