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Roger Mottram

Northern Irish football, tennis and golf fan studying Sports Journalism at University of Central Lancashire

Berdych wins first title of the season

Embed from Getty Images Tomas Berdych defeated Richard Gasquet 7-6(5) 6-7(2) 6-3 after recovering from his appendix operation, having missed the last 2 months through appendicitis. He looked back to full fitness in the first set, but Gasquet came back in the second after Berdych had the opportunity to serve ...

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Young Guns Win Maiden Titles

Embed from Getty Images   Both Alexander Zverev and Lucas Pouille won the first titles of their careers at ATP 250 level on Sunday afternoon. Zverev, the 19-year-old German, won his first title after beating recent US Open champion Stan Wawrinka in 3 sets, 6-2 3-6 7-5 at the St ...

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Rafa returns in Monte Carlo

It’s hard to remember a match as good as the final of the Monte Carlo Rolex Masters between Rafael Nadal and Gael Monfils, and almost equally hard to remember a Masters 1000 final without Novak Djokovic. Embed from Getty Images On Sunday, however, Rafa Nadal looked to be back to ...

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Indian Wells Review: Djokovic reigns again

Embed from Getty Images   Novak Djokovic broke even more records after winning for the fifth time at the second most important tournament of the year so far, beating Milos Raonic in the final 6-2 6-0. The Serbian proved the dominant force of tennis again, after a shaky start. Djokovic would ...

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Davis Cup First Round Round-up

Embed from Getty Images Great Britain will play Serbia after beating Japan 3-1, after a marathon victory from Andy Murray against World Number 6, Kei Nishikori. On Friday, new father Murray beat the Japanese number 2 Taro Daniel. The Scotsman beat the World Number 87 6-1 6-3 6-1, before Kei ...

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ATP World Tour: Latest Update

Wawrinka Victorious in Dubai, Thiem Triumphs in Mexico, and Cuevas Wins Again in Brazil. Embed from Getty Images Stan Wawrinka won an enthralling and dramatic final 6-4 7-6 against journeyman Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis. The tournament featured Novak Djokovic, who failed to win a tournament after 17 consecutive ATP titles that ...

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ATP Tour Review: Kyrgios, Querrey and Cuevas Victorious

This is the first article in what will be a regular feature looking the ATP Tour, written for the Sports Lowdown by Roger Mottram. Embed from Getty Images It was a week to forget for the seeded players in this week’s tournaments with Marin Cilic the only seeded player to ...

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Top 5 Women’s Tennis Players of all time

View image | gettyimages.com The game of tennis has been the one constant for both Men and Women’s sport, in that it has arguably been the pinnacle of physical fitness and mentality and there have been many great tennis players in the Open era that have graced the game. In ...

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Who should GB choose for their Davis Cup team?

With the Davis Cup final being played in Ghent in an week’s time, Britain should be the favourites with the advantage of having World Number 2 Andy Murray in their team. However this week, the ITF have decided to postpone Great Britain’s request to play Britain’s number 2 Alias Bedene in ...

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