Martin Keady
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.
Articles by Martin Keady
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Why Wimbledon 2019 Could Be One Of The Greatest Wimbledons Ever
Historic Majors, particularly historic Wimbledons, are by definition easier to identify in retrospect than in advance. For example, the Wimbledons…
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Rafael Nadal Is The Hellhound On Roger Federer’s Trail
The greatest song of the greatest blues man, Robert Johnson, was Hellhound On My Trail, in which Johnson famously imagined…
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For Federer, Nadal on clay still the ultimate test
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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With McEnroe In The Realm Of Perfection (And Petulance)
The list of great tennis films, both fictional and non-fiction, is depressingly small. Indeed, it may be the smallest for…
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Paris 2019: Nole Slam II or a Golden Dozen for Nadal?
Tennis is increasingly a numbers game. The seeming endless rise in the sheer number and range of statistics available (from…
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Roger Federer In 2019: Clay Feet or Capable of Great Clay Feats?
With the start of the French Open now just a fortnight away, the “state of clay” in the men’s game…
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A Brief History of Italian Tennis
After several years in the doldrums, Italian tennis is in the ascendancy again. First, Turin successfully secured the rights to…
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Has Johanna Konta become Britain’s new figurehead?
‘The King is dead! Long live the Queen!’ Andy Murray’s announcement earlier this year that sooner or later he will…
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Olympic decision shows five-set matches are endangered
The announcement by the International Tennis Federation that the Olympic men’s singles final will be reduced from five sets to…
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