13th seeds Irina Khromacheva and Fanny Stollar have had a good last few months on the doubles circuit, and were always going to be tough opponents for Erin Routliffe and Gaby...
The first of the three New Zealanders in action at the ATP Challenger tournament in Newport, and the only one I was able to watch before I went to bed, was Kiranpal Pannu, who...
The mixed doubles field at Wimbledon this year is so even that at least eight of the unseeded teams could have been seeded without an eyebrow being raised, so it wasn’t really...
Time zone differences have meant that I’ve only been able to watch one New Zealander at the ATP Challenger tournament in Cary, as I’ve been asleep each time after staying up all...
Finn Reynolds and James Watt have had a terrific spring and early summer on the Challenger circuit and, after a couple of weeks doing their own thing, reunited to play in Cary,...
Michael Venus and Nikola Mektić may have had a relatively straightforward introduction to Wimbledon this year, but that changed in a hurry when they faced the Brazilian pair of...
Lui Maxted and Connor Thomson may not be regulars on the ATP circuit, but have performed very well in American college tennis, so Michael Venus and Nikola Mektić weren’t taking...
It was left-handers against right-handers as Lulu Sun and Leylah Fernandez took on sixth seeds Asia Muhammad and Demi Schuurs in the first round of women’s doubles at Wimbledon,...
Erin Routliffe got her team off to the best possible start by holding to love when she and Gaby Dabrowski kicked off their Wimbledon campaign against the Chinese pair of Wang...
Lulu Sun was the first New Zealander in action at Wimbledon this year, and she finished the opening game of her first round singles match against Marie Bouzková with a beautiful...
Reece Falck got into the qualifying draw at the Challenger tournament in Cary as an alternate, so wasn’t really expected to hugely trouble sixth seed Hiroki Moriya. It didn’t...
Elyse Tse had had a couple of hours’ rest after her singles semi-final before she and fellow lefty Gala Arangio played their doubles final in Monastir against right-handers Julia...
