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 ...