In the interests of "balance" (not that blogs need to be balanced - isn't that the whole point?) I thought I ought to say congrats to James Ward who beat Wawrinka at Queen's yesterday. A great result but I'm afraid still in the long tradition of unknown Brits getting one over a big name player at Queen's or Wimbledon. It's filed under "one swallow doesn't make a summer but one good win does make a British tennis season."
Before we start thinking that James Ward is the new future of British tennis, we have to remember that he's not a youngster like poor sacrificial Ollie Golding but, at 24 and the same age as Murray, Nadal and Djokovic, at his peak in tennis-life terms. So well-done James but one feels he is destined to be another Bogdanovic who's still slogging away and getting nowhere after all these years.
On a positive note, my tennis team had a crushing victory yesterday with me and my partner winning 6-0 6-0 and 6-1 6-2. We now expect the LTA to offer us huge sums for sponsorship and for us soon to be heralded as the future of British Tennis. Unfortunately, we are even older, by some way, than James Ward.
Anyway it's Andy Murray on in a minute. As usual, if he wins, he's British and if he loses, Scottish.
Give it some welly Andy!
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