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Australian Open Recollections

January 30, 2013 By 3 Comments

By James A. Crabtree The Aussie Open is over and this means constant therapy and prescription pills until the French Open. Regardless, here are some pointless observations, rumours, thoughts and complete randomness that needs to be shared. 1. Fred Stolle said, adamantly, a few days before the tournament that “Djokovic will win it all unless [...]

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Roger Federer Will Continue to Make History

January 27, 2013 By 4 Comments

Roger Federer: 17-time Grand Slam champion, 6-time Year-End Championships winner, 21-time ATP Masters 1000 champion (he holds the record amount of titles alongside Spaniard, Rafael Nadal), Olympic silver medalist and Olympic gold medalist in the doubles with compatriot Stanislas Wawrinka. Overall, he has won 76 career singles titles in total, but why am I collating [...]

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The “ChiChi” Train Keeps Rolling

January 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment

What makes a successful doubles pairing? Of course there are the obvious things, like a dominant serve, a quality volley or solid groundstrokes. However, sometimes the most important thing in crucial situations is not the technical tennis, but the chemistry of the team. The most successful teams trust each other’s judgement completely, which allows them [...]

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“The Choke of the Year:” Victoria Azarenka Behind The Mic

January 24, 2013 By 1 Comment

Barring a toe injury that kept her from finishing a warm-up event in Brisbane, Victoria Azarenka has not lost a match all year. There have been a few tense moments during her matches in Australia, most notably when she fell behind a break to American Jamie Hampton in the third, and most recently when she [...]

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Tsonga and an opportunity lost

January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

James Crabtree is currently in Melbourne Park covering the Australian Open for Tennis Grandstand and is giving you all the scoop directly from the grounds. By James Crabtree MELBOURNE – As tough as Federer’s draw has been on paper this was his first real test. Jo- WilfredTsonga is a big, fast and intimidating player who [...]

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A Quick Pick of their Brain – Mark Woodforde

January 23, 2013 By Leave a Comment

James Crabtree is currently in Melbourne Park covering the Australian Open for Tennis Grandstand and is giving you all the scoop directly from the grounds.   By James Crabtree MELBOURNE – During a Jacobs Creek Promotion whilst being hydrated by a seriously good glass of rosé I had the opportunity to sit down with Mark Woodforde, [...]

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The Spanish Inquisition

January 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment

James Crabtree is currently in Melbourne Park covering the Australian Open for Tennis Grandstand and is giving you all the scoop directly from the grounds. By James Crabtree MELBOURNE – It is difficult to fathom how hard Nicholas Almagro strikes the ball. He glares with the eyes of a temperamental bull, but hits with the [...]

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“Bark or Bite?”: A Defense of Bojana Jovanovski

January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Yesterday, the up-and-coming Sloane Stephens fought off a mid-match surge from a game opponent to reach her debut Grand Slam quarterfinal. After taking the deciding set 7-5, the bubbly American was pleased to have put on a show for the crowd, and promised another one when she played her mentor and idol, Serena Williams. Leave [...]

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Another Federer Quarter

January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

James Crabtree is currently in Melbourne Park covering the Australian Open for Tennis Grandstand and is giving you all the scoop directly from the grounds. By James Crabtree MELBOURNE – History was not on the side of Canadian Milos Raonic. In fact when the vast majority of the tour face Federer, statistics and history are not [...]

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Crumbling Caroline: A Deposed Queen Struggles to Regain Lost Crown

January 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment

With a three-set loss to the resurgent Svetlana Kuznetsova today in Melbourne, Caroline Wozniacki has come full circle in the worst possible way. This isn’t simply the kind of match the former No. 1 used to win. This was literally a match the she was winning as of a little more than a year ago. [...]

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