Twitter Tuesday

This week the focus is on not a real account but a fake one and proud, this account has gathered a loyal following and it's easy to see why!

Not Roger Federer! (PseudoFed)

We all know Roger Federer is the GOAT, right? and that he's extremely humble? If you didn't Not Roger Federer will keep you reminded! 

Full of funny, often laugh out loud, tweets Not Roger Federer, who ever it is, does a fine job of following Rogers career and commenting on it, always justifying his loses and celebrating his wins, always in a #humble way of course. References to wife, 'Mirky' (apparently a secret Nadal fan) and his twins are also included, and occasionally you forget it's not really Roger Federer! 

A sample of some of Not Roger Federer's funniest tweets:

 As you can see Not Roger Federer makes light of many incidents on court, for example the blue clay one in which Djokovic and Nadal both said they would not return to the tournament is the clay was still blue, Not Roger Federer quickly jumped in and claimed he loved the blue clay!

For further, more in-depth, reading check out Not Roger Federer's blog!

The question is, who is Not Roger Federer? A  reporter, fan, hater or could it be the real Roger Federer? Who ever it is Not Roger Federer is a must follow, even if your not a fan of the GOAT!

Future Winners Friday

With the grass-court season returning on Monday, and the focus switching firmly to London, with Queens, Wimbledon and the Olympics all in a short space of time, I think the Future Winner's feature should focus on the young up-and-coming British players.

While it seems Britain does reasonably well in the juniors it is often that a lot of players get lost in the transaction from Juniors to the main ATP tour, one youngster who is trying to make a success of that transaction is Oliver Golding

Oliver Golding is a former child actor of stage and screen, but he retired from that in order to persue a career in tennis. 

His Juniors career was very successful as he became the youngest ever junior British number one, and the 2011 U.S.Open Boys Champion. He is also a  Youth Olympic Games gold medallist, having won gold in the boys' doubles event in tennis at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics with Czech partner Jiří Veselý.

After winning the Boys US Open Golding turned pro in 2011, fittingly his first appearance as a non-junior was at the Aegon Championships last year, held at Queens Club. Golding was given a wildcard but was knocked out by 2007 finalist Nicholas Mahut!

Golding still continues to play in junior events and has been successful in both boys Grand Slams and in doubles, he seems to get on well with the other British boys on tour and has teamed up with fellow Brit Liam Broady for doubles.

We will be seeing Oliver mixing with the pros again at the Aegon Championship where he has once again been awarded a wildcard, he will surely be hoping to advance further than last year, and prove that British junior talent can make a successful transaction to the main tour as he improves his ranking and plays more tournaments.

What do you think of Oliver Goldings chances next week? Is he the next British hope?

Twitter Tuesday

The world of tennis and twitter seems to have collided perfectly and for fans of social networks the best way to be keep up to date is definitely the twitterverse! To make up for my longtime away this new feature, Twitter Tuesday, is my apology. Each week I'll feature something tennis related from twitter!

This week we start with...

Micaela Bryan!

She may have only been born in late January but she has certainly made herself known! As Micaela, daughter of Bob and Michelle Bryan (Bob is one half of a formidable doubles pair along with his twin brother Mike!), can barely lift her own head let alone spell it is likely that one, or both, of her parents are responsible for running her twitter account.

Along with cute pictures of Micaela with her parents and in adorable outfits, mostly pink, the best part about Micaela's account is the unique view she provides of life on tour. Micaela seems to be a firm favourite with the players and most are happy to pose with her so that a joke can be made about them later on twitter! 

So for laughs combined with cuteness Micaela Bryan is definitely worth a follow!

Murray Watch Monday

I'm back! I'm very sorry that I haven't been updating recently but I have been swamped with exams and have been unable to give this my full attention, however I have now finished exams and I don't have any more till January so I expect this blog will be running as normal from now on. At least I'm back for the second week of Roland Garros, If I had missed a slam I would have felt terrible!

So since I've been away what has Mr Murray been up to? Well he's rejoined twitter! I wont bore you with everything he's said but here's a few of the comments he's made since he's been at the French Open, just so you can get a sense of whats going through his mind at this time.

 So as you can see he has been joking around most of the time and seems relaxed, however after his second round match, when he had to fight back from one set down with a back injury, he was keen to other his thanks for the support he received. The next day he seemed agitated at the speed it takes for the schedules to be released but it seems he's gone back to relaxing by playing scrabble with the 'missus' winning with 'hernias'!

We hope to see Andy Murray in action today and fingers crossed he is feeling in better shape and will not pull out of the Aegon Championships as the more time we get to watch grass-court tennis the better! 

If your a fan of the whole Murray family then this series of interviews with the brothers gives a snap-shot into their lives on tour, and off!

Andy Interviews Jamie

Jamie Interviews Andy

Best and Worst things about having each other as brothers