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ATP Tour Finals @ the O2 Arena – The Final

ATP Tour Finals @ the O2 Arena – The Final

Day 8 of the ATP Tour Finals in London saw the finale of the end-of-season tournament and the finale of the 2010 ATP Tour as Roger Federer played Rafael Nadal. It seemed fitting that the two best ranked players would play each other to end a season that they’ve dominated, Federer winning the Australian Open [...] [...more]

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ATP Tour Finals @ the O2 Arena – Day Seven.

ATP Tour Finals @ the O2 Arena – Day Seven.

Semi-finals day of the ATP Tour Finals saw Rafael Nadal face home crowd favourite Andy Murray before Roger Federer played Novak Djokovic. These final four still left in the competition are the 4 best players in the World and are ranked accordingly. First up was #1 against #4 as Rafael Nadal looked to continue the [...] [...more]

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ATP Tour Finals @ the O2 Arena – Day 6

Day 6 of the ATP Tour Finals at the O2 Arena saw the finale of Group A as Rafael Nadal played Tomas Berdych before Andy Roddick faced Novak Djokovic. After 2 wins from his first 2 games Nadal knew that all he needed to qualify for the semi-finals was one set, Berdych on the other [...] [...more]

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ATP Tour Finals @ the O2 Arena – Day Five.

Day 5 of the ATP Tour Finals saw the culmination of Group B, which contained Roger Federer, Robin Soderling, Andy Murray and David Ferrer. The 1st game of the day was between Roger Federer and Robin Soderling. Federer came into the game having won his first two matches and knew that even if he lost [...] [...more]

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ATP Finals @ O2 Arena – Day Four.

Day 4 of the ATP Tour Finals at the O2 Arena saw Group A action as Rafael Nadal faced off against Novak Djokovic whilst Andy Roddick played Tomas Berdych. These were the 2nd round of Group A matches and first up was Roddick and Berdych, who both knew that a loss would make qualification for [...] [...more]

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ATP Tour Finals o2 Greenwich – Day Three

ATP Tour Finals o2 Greenwich – Day Three

The 3rd day of the ATP Tour Finals tournament saw Group B action, as Roger Federer and Andy Murray faced off in a 1st v 2nd clash whilst later Robin Soderling played David Ferrer. Before the match Federer was atop Group B thanks to a better game difference than Murray, who started the match badly. [...] [...more]

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ATP Tour Finals – Day Two

ATP Tour Finals – Day Two

On the 2nd day of the week long ATP Tour Finals tournament at London’s O2 Arena the sell-out crowd again witnessed some fine tennis. On Sunday it was the turn of Group B and Andy Murray, who won his match against Robin Soderling in straight sets and today it was the opening matches in Group [...] [...more]

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ATP Tour Finals – Day One

ATP Tour Finals – Day One

On Sunday the ATP Tour Finals tennis tournament began at the O2 Arena Greenwich. The end-of-season tournament comprises of the 8 best ranked men on the ATP Tour, which this year again includes Great Britain’s Andy Murray. The tournament is conducted in a round-robin format of 2 groups of 4 players. The player ranked 1st [...] [...more]

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The History of Wheelchair Tennis

Wheelchair tennis was created in 1976 by Brad Parks and Jeff Minnenbraker in the USA. After an accident which left him paralysed Brad read about Jeff, who was able to play tennis from a wheelchair. Through a massive coincidence while going through rehabilitation Brad’s therapist turned out to be none other than Jeff Minnenbraker himself! [...] [...more]

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Getting Kids Into Tennis

In late June the stars of tennis converge on SW19 to play at Wimbledon and every year the media focus on the possibility of a British singles winner for the first time since 1974 (in the case of the women’s singles) and 1936 (in the case of the men’s singles). Much is always made of [...] [...more]

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