Roger Federer

We all know Roger’s played an inordinate number of great matches during his career; the Wimbledon 4th Round 2001 vs. Sampras, the French Open 2011 Semi Final vs. Djokovic, and the Wimbledon Semi Final vs. Murray in 2015 to name but a few. But what about some of the lesser known matches that weren’t at higher profile tournaments or simply …

A few weeks back a friend of mine called me and said I gotta show you something. I am coming over. Soon he was in my house and wasgasping for breath. He showed me this: And said “I was so surprised to get this. You involved?” I said “Not wholly, basically a whole load of followers of perfect Tennis have …

An acrostic is a poem or any other form of writing where the first letters of the paragraph form a word or a sentence by themselves. Leading authors like Edgar Allen Poe and Lewis Caroll have used this to highlight things. A name-acrostic is where you take the letters that constitute the name of a person and then use adjectives …

Yesterday I tweeted that Tennis shouldn’t be in the Olympics. It was met with disagreement with many believing the Olympics is as big if not bigger than a Grand Slam. Unfortunately I think if you believe that you’ve bought into what the media write and what the modern players put out there as part of their PR fluff. As with …

I had this post scheduled before Federer made the unfortunate announcement he wouldn’t be playing again in 2016 so I thought I’d still publish it. The Swiss would have taken to the court in this one at the Rogers Cup and in Cincinnati. It’s a Light Photo Blue polo and I think it would have been a winner. So far …

In terms of recent tennis history, Wimbledon 2008 represents a disruptive and pivotal event. The more poetic Fed fans might use imagery of light and darkness, and view the outcome of the men’s final as the point at which the rays of the long evening sun finally set, to be replaced not by a new dawn but by a different …

Sad news here as Federer has just announced on Facebook that his 2016 season is over. Somewhat unexpected that the remainder of 2016 is on ice but I had a funny feeling about that fall in the Wimbledon semi finals. Whilst he hasn’t gone into details it looks as though he’s done some more damage to the knee and you …

Life is cruel. Most of the time it gives us one single opportunity and if we don’t seize it, the door closes forever. Don’t for a minute belive it. That is what the cynics have to say and I am no cynic. If I was I wouldn’t be a Fed-fan and neither would many of us, though a few may …

Not entirely surprising news but Roger has just withdrawn from the Rogers Cup in Toronto. You can see his statement below: I have made the tough decision to withdraw from the Rogers Cup. Toronto is one of my favorite events on the calendar and I am disappointed that I won’t be able to compete in front of the great tennis …

In 1919, the German thinker, Max Weber – seen by many as one of the greatest thinkers of the modern world and as the spokesperson for “modernity” – delivered a lecture in Munich, entitled ‘Politics as a Vocation’. It is an erudite and wide-ranging text (and I strongly recommend it – and its sister text, ‘Science as a Vocation’ – …