By Nick Harris SPECIAL REPORT 3 January 2011 This is the story of an investigation into tennis integrity; of a mysterious betting coup at Wimbledon in the summer of 2009; of the protestations of innocence by Wayne Odesnik (the player who lost that match); of the different stories that Odesnik told about his physical condition […]
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ALEX WILLIS: ‘Preparing for the 2011 tennis season doesn’t mean turning up for a couple of days’ practice before the tournament … most players start pounding the Plexicushion almost as soon as they’ve stopped’
ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the former Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has the honour of sitting in on a few tennis tournaments from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you that she […]
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Picture special: the ice cream parlour that WON’T clear Salman Butt’s name
By Nick Harris 19 December 2010 Salman Butt, Pakistan’s suspended cricket captain, told Sky Sports News last week that some of the £29,000 cash found in his hotel room amid spot-fixing allegations at the Lord’s Test was from opening an ice-cream parlour called Afters, located in Tooting Bec, south London. That claim was widely reported, […]
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‘He had a nightmare … broken boat … sick … exhausted … battered … par for this course’
* SARAH HAMES is a lawyer by education but swapped the bar for the piste, then PR. She knows her sport from the inside, the offside and blind side, with a portfolio stretching from the hallowed corridors of the All England Club to the expanses of the Southern Ocean… . . . . . By […]
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ALEX WILLIS: ‘Whenever I watch great people playing great tennis, I have this sudden urge to rush out onto the nearest court, brandishing my not-used-enough racket, and serve like Serena, hit forehands like Rafa, or backhands like Federer’
ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the former Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has had the dubious honour of sitting in on a few tennis tournaments from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you […]
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ALEX WILLIS: ‘For some reason, whenever he plays Murray, Federer is that bit less likeable. Confidence becomes arrogance, honest becomes mean, and we decide he’s not such a saint after all’
ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the former Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has had the dubious honour of sitting in on a few tennis tournaments from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you […]
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ALEX WILLIS: ‘London’s O2 Arena, turned into a tennis court for one week of the year, has patriotic bottoms on practically every blue padded seat. Diego Maradona’s been hanging round a bit too, although no-one quite knows why’
ALEXANDRA WILLIS is the former Deputy Editor of ACE Tennis Magazine, and alongside mag work and an affair with social media, has had the dubious honour of sitting in on a few tennis tournaments from time to time as part of her professional duties. If you happen to bump into her court-side, she’ll probably tell you […]
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‘You get no greater level of troublemakers in football than in the police, army or in other business . . . Joey Barton is coming along fine’
By Ryan McKnight Editor of FC Business magazine 19 November 2010 Although this was my first ever ‘official’ interview with Gordon, having battled for a share of the microphone with him at numerous events over the years, I always knew it was going to be a conversation of few questions and a lot of listening. […]
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‘Alex Ferguson apparently was not overly fond of Brian Clough, regarding the inspirational Derby County and Nottingham Forest manager as rude’
* JOHN ROBERTS wrote for the Daily Express, The Guardian, the Daily Mail and The Independent, where he was the tennis correspondent for 20 years. He collaborated with Bill Shankly on the Liverpool manager’s autobiography, ghosted Kevin Keegan’s first book, and has written books on George Best, Manchester United’s Busby Babes (The Team That Wouldn’t Die) and Everton (The Official […]
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THE SPORTS LAWYER: ‘The jury is out on whether Wayne Rooney would have been an Article 17 bargain, but it’s clear he would have been a cut-price buy’
* THE SPORTS LAWYER is actually a posse of Britain’s brightest lawyers, from the Sport & Media team at UK law firm, Thomas Eggar, who will be contributing features, analysis and insight on a regular basis on the key sports law issues. In TSL’s latest column, Andrew Nixon and Thomas Barnard discuss Wayne Rooney, Article […]
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