TENNIS: From Madrid to Rome

Further on the Madrid Open, ( Read more... )

Anyway, tennis moved on to Rome and the Italian Open, where there are actual coin tosses and umpires going to check marks. I watched most of the second-round match between current Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka and 2020 Aussie Open champion Sofia Kenin. ( Read more... )

I like being able to have a look at what live matches are on and then choose to watch one from the start! I selected the third-round encounter between Beatriz Haddid-Maia and Magda Linette (not a match I’d have been excited about 10 months ago), both now top 20 seeds.

I was watching in a sunny south Wales, so it was odd to watch people in macs and huddling under umbrellas in Rome, ( Read more... )