Before opining on British tennis, I want to cover the most important tennis event of the moment: WTA finals in Istanbul.  Top 8 women are all from different nations this year.  Wonderful to see Sara Errani in the mix.  Something of Martina Hingis about her.  Hard to look past a Williams v Azarenka final.  Certainly, in the fashion stakes, based on the Miss World-style publicity shots, Serena has already trumped Victoria.  Absolutely grim outfit there from the World No 1. 

Starting Up

It is certainly strange to be writing this blog at the start of a new era for British tennis.  Up until a month or so ago, I would have been writing about the failure of the sport in the UK to deliver a Grand Slam champion for 76 years and 25 years respectively for men and women.  But that all changed on September 10th 2012, a date that became the AD for tennis. To everyone's surprise, including his own, as we all know, Andy Murray won the US Open.  This blog will therefore have a different objective from the one I would have written up until that point.  Instead it will focus on what it is like to be major league tennis fanatic following British tennis in this brave new world. I intend to make it entertaining and occasionally irreverent with fewer words on match analysis and certainly not a critique of Roger Federer's backhand. More to come ...