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About Abbie Boraston-Green

After her promising tennis career was cut short by a shoulder injury, Abbie went first into coaching and then a promotional position with the Lawn Tennis Association. She and her husband Paul live in Warlingham with their two children, where Abbie now works part-time for a national breast cancer charity. More Posts

The Ladies Final

There were too many unforced errors and pressures on Ons Jabeur to make the final enthralling but it was nonetheless an exciting encounter. Jabeur was carrying the torch for Arab women and the first African to win a ladies title. There was no such constraint on Marketa Vondrousova, the unseeded [...]

July 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

Thoughts on Wimbledon 2022

The editor gave me a wide brief to write on this year’s championship but to be “left field” – or perhaps “court” would be more appropriate. Before it began the Championship was denuded by the absence of Roger Federer and Daniel Medvedev. There was also much attention [...]

July 12, 2022 // 0 Comments

Wimbledon

Daddy bought me a debenture for Wimbledon but we agreed this year that I would sell the tickets for the fortnight back to the All England Club and use the money for a holiday. I’m a fully paid-up member of the “Watch it on television” Rusters group and cannot believe the prices asked [...]

July 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

Hail Emma

A fact little commented on before or after this wonderful victory is the joy it has brought the nation. We always like a British champion winning on foreign soil: think Ken Buchanan, Justin Rose winning the US Open and, before him, Tony Jacklin and the British Lions. First the stats. Emma Raducanu [...]

September 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

Djokovic triumphs

I was at Centre Court with one eye on the clock to get back for the Euro final. Matteo Berrettini started promisingly but there was too much in the Novak Djokovic locker. The Italian could offer pace and power but too often lost rallies to unforced error. It was not a vintage final. The greatest [...]

July 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

A day at Wimbledon

Uncle Bob (Robert Tickler) informed me that negotiations have broken down for the sale of his debenture ticket and would I like to go? Of course I would – though I have never accepted that Wimbledon is primus inter pares of the 4 Major tournaments. The staff were even more officious than [...]

July 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

Djokovic on course

One play in the French Open final defined why Novak Djokovic might well win the GOAT (Greatest of all Time ) debate. He was two sets down to Stefanos Tsitsipas, 12 years his junior, and he has never come back in a Major final with that deficit. Tsitsipas played an exquisite drop shot at the net. [...]

June 14, 2021 // 0 Comments

Women and sport

It is arguable that one of the greatest casualties of the global coronavirus pandemic has been the last half century’s advancement of female equality. Already it has been reported that, in direct consequence of the UK lockdown, female employees has been more likely to be furloughed and/or [...]

May 30, 2020 // 0 Comments

Djokovic wins at Melbourne

Of the four Majors my favourite is at the Rod Laver Arena arena at Melbourne, Australia’s premier sporting city. I don’t like the flummery of Wimbledon with cameras going to see which celeb is in the Royal Box; Roland-Garros is elegant but Rafa Nadal always rules on clay; and the American [...]

February 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

Second Tuesday thoughts

Yesterday afternoon, no doubt like many who had time and opportunity, I settled down in front of the television to watch the BBC’s live coverage of Wimbledon – specifically, by flicking back and forth between BBC1 and BBC2, the Women’s quarter-finals between Elina Svitolina and Karolina [...]

July 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

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