Prospects for Men at French Open as Uncertain as the Clay Beneath Their Feet
Clay, like grass, is a live surface, so it can take players time to adapt to it. But this season,…
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.
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Jannik Sinner made it 15 wins in a row from the start of the year as yesterday, he added the…
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For a country that is fairly crazy about tennis, as judged by the number of tournaments that it stages, Italy…
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