Tennis is on. The French tennis. Angelique Kerber the reigning Wimbledon champion and fifth seed is already out. I’ve had to use the urban dictionary to decode some of the Guardian’s livestream coverage and the new stats widgets on the RG website are defeating me completely.
I only like watching the grass tennis. And even then mostly just to see how the courts wear over the course of a tournament. That said i do like it when the clay goes everywhere, like WHOOSH!
was really happy to see a couple of Tumaini Carayol pieces in the guardian lately
loads of good freelance tennis writers out there not getting enough work from the UK papers cos they’d rather just get Kevin Mitchell to write everything
Osaka’s only defending 3rd round points so could stay #1 regardless. Halep won last year so can’t reach it. not sure how far they’d have to get but Pliskova (please not again) or Bertens could make it with deep runs
I shouldn’t really mock. It ought to be healthy that there’s a several way fight to be the best woman player.
The other day it just popped into my head that in 2002 and 2003 there were eight different winners of the men’s slams, but only nine players have won one since.
think there’s a happy middle ground between the recent flux of the WTA and the stasis of the ATP. Osaka holding 2 slams is decent enough grounds for her being #1 though tbh, hope she keeps hold of it til the US Open