VLTC hosted a Green Tennis event recently to launch the NexiaBT U-16 European tournament which is going to be played here between August 5 and 10. Boys and girls between the ages of nine and 12 took part under the guidance of John Cassar, a VLTC...
Think Spanish sport and images that spring to mind include the nation’s all-conquering football team, Rafa Nadal hoisting aloft the French Open trophy or Fernando Alonso burning up a Formula One track in his Ferrari. While these are some of the...
The European tournament for Under-14 players at the Vittoriosa Lawn Tennis Club (VLTC), sponsored by Kettle Chips, came to a close recently with the two finals in the categories for boys and girls. The boys’ singles event was characterised by two...
Andy Murray is unsure whether winning Wimbledon makes him worthy of a knighthood. The Scot returned to the All England Club bleary-eyed yesterday morning after celebrating his stunning victory over Novak Djokovic at the Champions’ Ball late...
Home favourite Andy Murray wiped out 77 years of pain and hurt as he became the first British player since 1936 to win the men’s title at Wimbledon with a 6-4 7-5 6-4 victory over the world number one Novak Djokovic yesterday. Great Britain’s Andy...
Marion Bartoli described the circumstances of her Wimbledon triumph as “beyond perfection” as she landed her first grand slam at the expense of a tearful Sabine Lisicki. After beating Serena Williams and Agnieszka Radwanska en route to the final,...
Marion Bartoli... a tennis dream come true. Marion Bartoli would not have been high on any list of likely Wimbledon champions a fortnight ago but yesterday the quirky Frenchwoman overwhelmed Sabine Lisicki 6-1 6-4 to claim her first grand slam...
Tim Henman is backing Andy Murray to defeat Novak Djokovic this afternoon and win his first Wimbledon title. Henman, a four-time semi-finalist at the All England Club, has been impressed by the way Murray has negotiated the draw under great pressure...
Novak Djokovic withstood a ferocious onslaught from Juan Martin Del Potro to subdue the Argentine 7-5 4-6 7-6(2) 6-7(6) 6-3 in a titanic Wimbledon semi-final yesterday. The world no.1 will now face Andy Murray in tomorrow’s final after the Briton beat...
No one would have guessed that Sabine Lisicki is allergic to grass as she joyfully rolled on the most famous rectangle of turf after surviving a heart-pumping, nerve-jangling epic to set up a mind-boggling Wimbledon final against Marion Bartoli. A...
Djokovic, Del Potro through
The leading ladies have exited stage but the understudies kept this most volatile of Wimbledon scripts bubbling along yesterday to ensure a new name will be engraved on the trophy on Saturday. Emerging from a quarter-final line-up featuring women from...
Wimbledon entered the twilight zone yesterday as Serena Williams became the latest high-profile champion to fade into oblivion at a tournament where reputations and star status are counting for nothing. Just when it seemed that this year’s grasscourt...
Novak Djokovic might be expecting a tough challenge from Tommy Haas today but knows the German cannot handle his best tennis. The world number one was in imperious form on Saturday, dismantling 22nd seed Jeremy Chardy in straight sets on Centre...
Andy Murray had a message for those piling pressure on Laura Robson at Wimbledon: “Just let her enjoy it.” It was the Scot’s parting shot as he headed to the locker rooms after a relaxed hour’s practice with Kyle Edmund at the All England Club...
Novak Djokovic Like a ruthless emperor dismissing an underling, top seed Novak Djokovic ended a highly satisfactory first week at Wimbledon by brushing aside Frenchman Jeremy Chardy 6-3 6-2 6-2 to continue his serene progress, yesterday. Chardy, the...
Sergiy Stakhovsky tumbled from cloud nine at rainy Wimbledon yesterday as the man who dethroned Roger Federer returned to relative obscurity but British teenager Laura Robson was in no mood to waste the spotlight. Wimbledon’s Centre Court roof...
Serena Williams’ iron grip on the women’s game has reached such a level that even Andy Murray fancies taking on the American. Williams showed she remains the immovable rock at the top of women’s tennis with a comfortable 6-3 6-2 win over France’s...
An air of calm, and light rain, descended at Wimbledon yester-day as Serena Williams avoided the trail of destruction that decimated the field at the All England Club on day three of the grasscourt major. A day after men’s champion Roger Federer and...
Defending champion Roger Federer’s remarkable run of reaching 36 consecutive grand slam quarter-finals or better was ended in a shock second-round Wimbledon defeat by unheralded Ukrainian Sergiy Stakhovsky last night. Federer’s 6-7 7-6 7-5 7-6 loss in...
Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic proved shock-proof as a sense of order was restored yesterday after the tremors that rumbled around Wimbledon on opening night following Rafa Nadal’s defeat. The top seeds limbered up on a sunny Centre Court with easy...
Steve Darcis shouts in delight after defeating Rafa Nadal. Lightning struck twice for Rafa Nadal at Wimbledon as the Spanish 12-times grand-slam champion suffered a shock first-round defeat by Belgian Steve Darcis yesterday. There were no such problems...
A decade after he won his first grand slam title at Wimbledon, grass-court king Roger Federer is on a mission to join Rafael Nadal in an exclusive club. Two weeks ago the Spaniard won an eighth French Open title and in doing so became the first man...
The dust has barely settled since their French Open final scrap but Maria Sharapova fired the first volley at Wimbledon title rival Serena Williams yesterday, taking aim at the American’s personal life. Sharapova, who lost for the 13th time in a row to...
Roger Federer faces a tough road to another Wimbledon final after the draw yesterday threw Rafa Nadal and home favourite Andy Murray into the champion’s path and cleared the way for world number one Novak Djokovic. The third seed could face Spaniard...
Serena Williams has apologised for comments she made in a forthcoming interview in which she appeared to assign blame to the 16-year-old victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case for being drunk. The comments were reported in an interview with...
Rafa Nadal could face world number one Novak Djokovic, defending champion Roger Federer or home favourite Andy Murray as early as the Wimbledon quarter-finals after being announced as fifth seed for the tournament yesterday. Djokovic was named number...
The Vittoriosa Lawn Tennis Club, in conjunction with the Malta Tennis Federation, will be hosting the U-14 European tournament between June 29 and July 6. This tournament is being held for the sixth year running and is part of the U-14 Tour of Tennis...
Andy Murray is not worried about the Wimbledon draw and would happily sign up to play Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals. The focus of Friday’s men’s singles draw is guaranteed to be where Nadal falls, with the two-time Wimbledon champion expected to...
Andy Murray beat Marin Cilic in yesterday’s final at Queen’s Club. Andy Murray gave his fans a fright before recovering to beat Croatia’s Marin Cilic to win the Aegon Championships for the third time at Queen’s Club yesterday. The world number two, who...
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