In the depths of the capital secluded from sight and the balmy weather, a man stretches in his private chambers ahead of a grand performance. It is a performance he has undertaken many times before in his life, and as the crowd outside throngs and gathers, he touches his toes and completes jumping jacks and if anyone was present to…
As the action on Centre Court yesterday at Wimbledon spilled over into the hours of late evening, Andy Murray and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga knocked the tennis ball vigorously back and forth in a topsy-turvy bout which never seemed settled until late in the fifth set. Murray eventually prevailed, but only after saving break points at the start of the fifth which…
Things other than tennis balls came to a head on Centre Court at Wimbledon today, as Andy Murray called himself a ‘wee bastard’ in a heated on-court exchange with himself. While Murray dispatched with the sometimes volatile, at other times perfectly amiable young Australian Nick Kyrgios in straight sets, a tough opener saw a resurgence of the sort of on-court anger…
