Posts created by AlexWillis

By Alexandra Willis in Melbourne “Does Wimbledon have an extreme heat policy?” It was a perfectly innocent question. But if you’ve ever been to Wimbledon, you will understand why it was an amusing one. Rain delays, rather than heat delays, are a fact of SW19 life. The skies darken, the clouds let rip, the court […]

ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia sports journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her (terrible) backhand in her spare time. Follow @alex_willis on twitter On first viewing, American Football is pretty baffling. It looks very much like a lot of helmeted people running around crashing into […]

  * ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her (terrible) backhand in her spare time.    “If I were to go to a tennis tournament, it would be Indian Wells. No question.” That statement was not uttered by an […]

 * ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her (terrible) backhand in her spare time.   .   . By Alexandra Willis 31 August 2012 With two Grand Slam champions on her tennis conquests sheet, a first Grand Slam fourth round, […]

* ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between Wimbledon, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her backhand in her spare time. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went to Oxford (and not just shopping). . . By Alexandra Willis […]

* ALEXANDRA WILLIS is a multimedia tennis journalist who flits between the All England Club, SportingIntelligence, the TennisSpace and a few other outlets, while tweeting copiously and trying to improve her backhand in her spare time. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she went to Oxford (and not […]

By Alexandra Willis 27 October 2011 Nick Bollettieri has offered his support to the Women’s Tennis Association in their battle to contain the presence of grunting on the tennis tour, revealing that he and his team are already exploring the ways to teach young juniors not to grunt. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Bollettieri, also […]

By Alexandra Willis 5 May 2011 Come next Monday, with just two weeks to go to the French Open at Roland Garros, and six weeks to The Championships at Wimbledon, there will be no American players ranked inside tennis’s top 10 rankings for the first time in the history of the sport. Serena Williams, the […]

By Alexandra Willis in Indian Wells 20 March 2011 Novak Djokovic out-fought the game’s prize fighter to win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, coming from behind to defeat Rafael Nadal 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 and extend his figures for the 2011 season to 21-0. Despite coming out of the blocks marginally slower than his […]

By Alexandra Willis in Indian Wells 13 March 2011 Elena Baltacha may not have been able to pull off another match point-saving miracle against the No.13 seed Flavia Pennetta in their second round encounter at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, but the British No.1 feels that her performance, which saw her come within […]