Owing to recent world events, a major tennis tournament, indeed all sport seems awfully trivial, but ATT will struggle on gallantly for you all. Another challenge is how does one write about a tournament they saw precious little of? Well that explains the lack of updates from yours truly, though I doubt it ruined anyone’s […]

Even if Fernandez and/or Raducanu do also join Alcaraz in exiting the Open at this next hurdle, the tournament has undeniably centered around their emergence. But we need to be mindful of how tennis’ Next Big Things often crumble and fall with worrying speed. Yes, for me personally with Raducanu – such is her oh-so-watchable […]

Post titles are getting worse I know, just blame a constant lack of sleep. I cannot even blame my baby daughter too much either. I was glued to the Tsitsipas Vs Alcaraz match the other night, which was just one of many a dramatic and surprising result in the 3rd round here in New York. […]

As the title suggests, the almost inexplicable scenario of rain delays on a show court packing as roof was the main water cooler moment of the second round at Flushing Meadows. In the frustratingly inconsistent Casper Ruud and Hubert Hurkacz’s exits we saw only a handful of bigger names fall. Grigor Dimitrov’s retirement too was […]

Predictably, the standards of tennis in this opening round in New York have been extremely high. People forget that the non-household names who occupy the lower half of the Worlds Top 100 are also amazing players, the very cream at the top of both tours’ 1,000+ professionals. In terms of shocks, we’ve had quite a […]