Tennis

These two have met seven times previously, with Ebden leading the head to head 5-2. All of their matches have been on hard courts, with Sugita winning their most recent encounter 7-6 6-3, in September 2016 on the hard courts of Kaohsiung,…

It's Sunday, meaning it's Final's day at the Aegon classic, Birmingham, England, and we have a match up for the neutrals to enjoy. These two have met just once before, at the French Open back in 2012, Kvitova won comfortably on that…

Today we turn our attention to the second Semi Final on court at the Gerry Weber Open, Halle, Germany, between world number 12 and home favourite, Alexander Zverev and French world number 30, Richard Gasquet. These two have met twice, both…

These two have met three times, with Kvitova leading the head to head 2-1. All of their previous matches have been on hard courts, and all have been won in straight sets. Their last meeting was back in 2015 in the Fed Cup, Kvitova coming…

This will be the pair’s first played meeting, they were due to face each other on the hard courts of Rancho Santa Fe, USA back in 2012, however Vandeweghe picked up an injury so the match was never played. Both started their grass court…

Today however sees us focus on the match between Czech wold number 41, Lucie Safarova and Japanese world number 61, Naomi Osaka. This will be the pair's first meeting, however both did play in Nottingham last week. Safarova reached the…

These two have met four times previously, with Tomic leading the head to head 3-1. The Aussie also won their last meeting on grass, in Stuttgart back in 2015. Haas only 'victory' over Tomic came in this tournament back in 2012, however…

These two are by no means strangers to one another, having met on fourteen previous occasions. Monfils leads the head to head 8-6, however this is the first time they have played on grass. Their most recent encounter was just a few weeks…

These two have met once before on clay, and it was in fact at the Semi Final's stage at this tournament last year, Lorenzi won a tight match 6-4 7-5. Looking at other clay court achievements this season, Lorenzi had a run to the Semi…

These two have met twice before, and both have won a match each. Both encounters were back in 2015, Pouille won in straight sets on the clay courts of Hamburg, Germany, before Paire won on a hard court in the Final of the Internationaux de…

These two have met once before, all the way back in 2009 on the grass courts of Halle, Germany, Haas was the victor on that occasion, winning 7-6 6-2. Both play well on the grass, are good movers, and will have equal support from the home…

These two have met once before, on the clay courts of Rome, Italy back in 2015. On that occasion it was Cecchinato who came out on top, winning 6-1 6-4. The Italian has been on good form on the clay this season, winning a Challenger in Rome…

This is the first time these two have met, however Kohlschreiber is no stranger to the grass courts of Germany, he has played at both Stuttgart and Halle since 2012 and loves playing in front of his home crowd. Johnson on the other hand is…

This is the first time these two have met, so we have no head to head records to look at. We do however know that Mayer loves playing on grass, especially in Germany. He won in Halle last year beating Alexander Zverev in the final, and it…

This is the sixth time these two have met, with Lopez leading the head to head 4-2. Lopez has won their two previous meetings today, including a tight three-setter just last month in Rome on the clay. The Spaniard has also won their only two…

This years contenders for the first piece of grass-court silverware are, Austalian world number 92, Jordan Thompson and Japanese wold number 78, Yuichi Sugita. This is the first time these two have met, so we have no prior head to head…

This will be the third time these two have met, with the head to head record standing at one a piece. Vesely has won their only previous match on clay, back in 2013 in Leberec, Czech Republic 6-7 7-6 6-4. It was Delbonis who won their most…

These two are no strangers to one another, having met seventeen times before, Murray leads the head to head 11-6. Wawrinka has won two of their three meetings today on clay, however Murray beat the Swiss at this stage in last years French Open…

We look at some of the specific differences between players playing at Challenger Tour level and those playing at World Tour Level, and most importantly how we can use these to profit.

This will be the first meeting between the pair, however both players have posted some strong results on the dirt this year. Both lost in the opening Round of the French Open, but prior to that qualified for the 250 tournament in Lyon.…

Their head to head record currently stands at two a piece, with Garcia winning their only previous meeting on clay in Madrid back in 2015. They have met this year, back in February on the hard courts of Doha, Qatar, Pliskova was the victor…

These two have met three times previously, with Ostapenko winning all three. Their first meeting was back in 2016 on the hard courts of New Haven, USA, the Latvian winning 7-5 6-2. They have also met twice on the clay, both meetings today coming…

These two have met 5 times, with Nishikori leading the head to head 3-2. They have played twice before on clay and both have a win a piece, Nishikori did however win their most recent clay court encounter last year in this very tournament.…

These two players have met once before, back in 2015 on the clay courts of Marrakech, Morocco. It was Mladenovic who prevailed on that occasion in two incredibly tight sets, 7-6 7-6. Mladenovic has really come of age since then and Muguruza…

These two have only met once before, all the way back in 2011 on the hard courts of Troy in the USA, with Cepede winning via a Duque-Marino retirement in the second set. Whilst always worth considering, we cannot draw any conclusions from…

These two have met three times previously, with Ramos winning twice, both times on clay. Their most recent meeting was in April this year in the Semi Finals of Monte Carlo, where Ramos won 3-6 7-5 6-1.