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Andy Murray undergoes hip surgery in Melbourne
After dropping hints last week, including a memorably frank Instagram post, Andy Murray has had hip surgery in Australia and is hoping to be fighting fit again in time for the grass court season. It’s been a difficult six months for the now World No.30, who hasn’t played a competitive match since July last year.…
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How to prevent a wrist injury
If you play a lot of tennis, it’s more than likely that you’ve experienced at least a wrist “twinge” at some point. Annoyingly, it usually occurs just as you’re hitting your stride, increasing the temptation to ignore it and carry on hitting – which is the very last thing you should do. Just ask Juan Martin Del…
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What are Andy Murray’s chances of recovery?
Sir Andy Murray has never been one to shy away from speaking frankly about his own game. In a sport full of ultra media-trained players, it’s sometimes difficult to remember that they’re actually human beings – and the relentless, high-intensity tour takes a physical toll. It’s something that the World No.16 hammered home on Tuesday in a…
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Video highlights: Andy Murray vs Bautista Agut in exhibition match
Will Andy Murray be a contender in next year’s slams? It’s hard to be too optimistic watching these highlights of Andy playing Roberto Bautista Agut in an exhibition match, earlier today. To be fair, it was only a one-set match and this is his first since Wimbledon, but the hip still appears to be a…
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Things we learned from the Next Gen ATP Finals tournament
Apologies for my lateness. So much to do, so much tennis of my own to play, that I’ve only just caught up with the final of the Next Gen ATP Finals tournament last week (spoiler: Hyeon Chung won). If you haven’t seen it, and you’re an Amazon Prime subscriber, I thoroughly recommend you look at…
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What’s the best tennis shot you’ve ever played?
What’s the best tennis shot you’ve ever played? Take a minute, it’s a trickier question than you’d think. Is it the showiest, sweetest, most surprising, or most important? The criteria are different for every player, and it shifts the better you become at the game. Amateurs might spring for the forehand that won them their…
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The story behind ‘The Battle of the Sexes’
In hindsight, 1973 seems like a landmark year: it saw the UK hesitantly enter the European Economic Community (*cough*), Pink Floyd’sThe Dark Side of the Moon blow millions of teenage minds, Last of the Summer Wine blow millions of pensioners’ minds, Sunderland win the FA Cup and, most importantly, the first Pizza Hut open on UK soil. However, something even stranger…
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How tennis rackets have evolved
Nowadays, rackets are often seen as disposable tools: they’re replaced multiple times during matches and are flung round, snapped and smashed by frustrated players. But it wasn’t always this way. If, for example, you tried to smash a sixteenth-century racket, it would crack the floor – and possibly trigger an earthquake. Early days Before lawn tennis was even…
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What are the best films about tennis?
As two big-budget tennis blockbusters hit the cinema (Battle of the Sexes and Borg vs McEnroe), we’ve put together a list of the four best tennis films to grace the silver screen so far – in no particular order. “But why only four? Surely there are more than enough decent tennis movies to fill a top ten?” I hear…
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The Tennis Talent Rafael Nadal quiz
The undisputed “King of Clay” Rafael Nadal picked up his sixteenth Grand Slam trophy by winning the US Open yesterday. What better time to test yourself with a Tennis Talent quiz covering the the highlights of his career?
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