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I love tennis but hate Wimbledon. That’s not quite fair on Wimbledon. If it wasn’t for that tournament, I wouldn’t like tennis. Huddled over Radio 5 (before it was also ‘live’) in 1991 with a supplement from a Sunday newspaper, I followed the tournament avidly (though could not complete the whole draw without teletext or [...]

Roger Federer is the greatest tennis player ever. Fact. By winning the French Open he has rendered all debate on the matter meaningless. For a while, it looked as though the greatest tennis player ever may not be rewarded in history. That there would always be a lingering question: ah, but he didn’t win the [...]