Martin is a scriptwriter of plays and screenplays, including a biopic of Shakespeare, www.theshakespeareplays.com. He is an experienced journalist, writing on cinema for The Script Lab as well as on sport for LastWordSports.com/tennis and LastWordOnSports.com/Football.com. A poet, having written a collection of short poems, entitled Shards, extracts from which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Martin is married with three children and lives in London, UK.
One of the many reasons why the current Federer-Nadal-Djokovic (or “Fedalic”, for short) era is undoubtedly the greatest in the…
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have been showered with so many superlatives throughout their careers that in the future their…
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This late, great stage of Roger Federer’s career, which dates back to his remarkable rebirth as a Major-winner at the…
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After several years in the doldrums, Italian tennis is in the ascendancy again. First, Turin successfully secured the rights to…
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