Australian Open 2022: It’s a Barty Party as Rafa reigns alone

We’re done and dusted Down Under, and as expected the tournament didn’t suffer one iota from the absence of Novak Djokovic, instead we had alot of feel-good stories and some telling indicators of what the 2022 season could have in store. Rafa reigns alone with 21 after inhuman effortOkay, so this received several re-writes over […]

AO22: Men’s SF Preview

Right, we have one final sorted for Saturday, and now time to try and guess who will contest Sunday’s final hurdle. Speaking of finals, a small note to try and catch what promises to be an absolute barnstorming Men’s Doubles Final, with both team’s homegrown and one of them of course the Special K that […]

AO 2022: Women’s Semi Final preview

All of a sudden, we’re right into the business end of things in Melbourne. Finally, the women have a starring role on their semi-final day tomorrow. Who will prevail? With a much healthier 87.5% win rate from my last predictions, AllThingsTennis wades in. Ash Barty vs Madison KeysThere really doesn’t look to be anyone who […]

AO22: QUARTER FINAL PREDICTIONS

Even by my own knowingly bad standards, 7 of 16 match predictions corectly guessed is pretty piss-poor. But then, who really expected Alize Cornet to reach her first major QF at 32, and against an admittedly gingerly-returning Halep? Shapovalov’s straight sets dismissal of Zverev is even more surprising, but hey ho. Despite some unfancied names […]

AO22: Fourth Round Predictions

Your resident author at AllThingsTennis Towers is only now getting back to normal after playing host since Tuesday to a nice flu/tonsillitis concoction, a negative PCR test along the way was some relief at least. I couldn’t watch much, but there have been some excellent contests in that time down in Melbourne, but now what […]

ao 2022: brits steal the show on day 2

This post arriving later than usual after some flu-like nastiness knocked me for six earlier today. Although I’m sure you coped with the wait! The gang from the irresistible Tennis Podcast proclaimed yesterday’s opening day of AO22 as something of a dud. Maybe I don’t care as much about the likes of Kokkinakis, Norrie or […]

Australian open 2022: day 1 results and day 2 picks

On what is apparently the 2022 edition of ‘Blue Monday’ I was feeling none of it, yes the first major of the year has begun, bringing with it the sun and (almost) all of the stars playing the sport of kings. A day of intriguing encounters, some feel-good performances and yes some obligatory shocks of […]

Australian open 2022: Predictions and day 1 pick of the draw

Yes, somehow we’ve made it to the eve of the tournament and the Novax saga looks to be over, more importantly at last we have the correct outcome. This is all covered in much more detail and with more professionalism on any other site, so I will comment no further. Instead, let’s talk about actual […]

Australian Open 2021: Novak and Naomi divide and conquer

After all of the quarantine controversies, the uproar over the mismanagement of both ATP and WTA tours and amidst the boos from the ‘opinionated’ home crowd – we had another succesfull major in the middle of a pandemic. Yes, we missed those crowds for a large chunk of the fortnight and yes we lost a […]

Australian Open 2020: Kenin and Djokovic victories are poles apart

We had two rewarding finals to cap off the fortnight in Melbourne Park. Speaking from the heart and not the head, this was not the ending I wanted. If Halep wasn’t to win then I would’ve liked to have seen Garbine triumph. But not only did the Spaniard not deserve to take the title Saturday […]