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Highlights: Andy Murray beats Karen Khachanov at the French Open
It wasn’t smooth sailing for the World No.1 at the beginning of the match, but Andy Murray recovered to beat an impressive Karen Khachanov 6-3 6-4 6-4 in the fourth round of the French Open. To see how the match unfolded in real time, head to Tennis Talent’s very first live blog. The victory sees…
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How Murray beat Khachanov: Live text
We bring you the latest from the British professionals at Roland-Garros, including live scores, results and, most importantly, tips that you can use to improve your game.
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The Tennis Talent French Open quiz
As the most famous clay tournament in the world slides into gear, we offer up a handful of fiendish questions to test your Roland Garros knowledge. Bonne chance!
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Why I love watching tennis (and why all tennis players should watch it too)
As I write this, tennis players are battling it out in Rome. I can think of no better setting than the home of the Colosseum, that epic battleground where gladiators would fight to the death, to symbolise all that’s amazing about tennis. For make no mistake, a true, intense tennis match is a fight. The…
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Video: How tennis balls are made
It’s a tough life if you’re a tennis ball: you’re thwacked around for a bit before being unceremoniously chucked into a bin, lost forever under a bush, lobbed to a drooling dog or sent as an insult to King Henry V. We take the luminous green creatures for granted, but how many of us actually know how…
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8 reasons you should join Local Tennis Leagues
Perhaps this sounds familiar: You play social tennis with the rest of the club on a weekday night, the occasional weekend. You do drills once a fortnight. You’re okay at this game, you think. But when it comes to matches, you fall apart. Certainly that describes my tennis life for years. It was fun so far…
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Tip of the day: Simple accuracy drill
This may be one of the simplest drills you’ll ever try, but it’s guaranteed to help improve both your cross-court and down-the-line accuracy. Plus, you’ll only need a racket, tube of balls and a few cones so you can practice to your heart’s content by yourself (it certainly worked for Don Bradman). To begin, mark…
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Video: Tennis on ice
As the UK experiences the last throes of winter (hopefully), we dip our toe into a particularly chilling episode from tennis history. Cast your mind back to 1938: Europe is teetering on the brink of cataclysmic war, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is blowing minds around the world, László Bíró has just patented his pen (finally giving people…
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Highlights: Aljaz Bedene extends unbeaten run to 14 matches
British No.5 Aljaž Bedene has won his fourteenth match on the trot by besting Dutchman Robin Haase 6-4 6-4 in the Hungarian Open. The win means Bedene will advance to the quarterfinal of the contest, where he will face either Ivo Karlovic or Damir Dzumhur. Here are the highlights: 2017 is proving to be a good year for the World No. 68,…
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Is it safe to play tennis while pregnant?
With the tennis world still reeling from the incredible news that Serena Williams won this year’s Australian Open while roughly eight weeks pregnant, we spoke to the UK’s Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and perused the National Institute For Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines to see if it’s safe to follow in the legend’s footsteps.…
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