Labor Day in the USA and I was again off to Flushing Meadows, this time with tickets for the night session in the Arthur Ashe Stadium. Because the schedule for the courts isn’t decided until the evening before, you’re unaware as to who you will be seeing when you buy the tickets. As it turned out, it wasn’t the greatest of lineups that evening (no Federer or Nadal) but I suppose it could have been worse. (read more…)

Another blisteringly sunny day in New York and what better way to spend it than at Flushing Meadows watching some top class tennis. (read more…)

Another early morning rise in Manhattan and a subway trip to Queens. It was Tuesday in the first week of the 2008 US Open and with my camera battery fully charged for a change, I was determined to see as many full matches as I could. I ended up leaving at about 9:30pm. (read more…)

The US Open is probably my favourite tennis grand slam event so I was pretty excited this morning to be heading to the opening day of the tournament. I had a grounds ticket for the day session which meant I could come and go as I pleased around any of the courts except for the Arthur Ashe Stadium. (read more…)

Being in a different timezone sucks for watching live sport in Europe but there was no way I was going to miss this year’s Wimbledon final between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, so up I woke at 6am and boy was it worth it! (read more…)

Three wins out of three in the group stages. In the quarter-finals they completely outplayed arch-rivals Italy and eventually won on penalties. They demolished Russia in the semi-finals and then today they outclassed Germany in the final, winning 1-0 for their third consecutive clean sheet in the knockout stage. (read more…)

Woooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

Our first trophy since winning the same cup in 1999. Chelsea thought they could win four trophies this season. Well they can scratch this one off the list. Spurs outplayed them and deservedly won. (read more…)

We all know the old saying – what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas! So obviously I can’t reveal too much about the last few days which I spent there. We stayed in the Planet Hollywood which was quite nice. A discreet $20 tip to the check-in clerk got us a room upgrade. Sleeping was kept to a minimum each day and only occurred a couple of hours each side of noon. (read more…)

(Prologue: I’m a Spurs fan.) Oh happy day! We didn’t just beat the enemy, we walloped them 5-1!!! One, two, three, four, five. Count them! (read more…)