Murray is on fire, beating both Roddick and Simon to ensure he gets into the next round of the event.  THe question remains as to whether he can beat Federer for the second time in a row – its going to be close.  My moneys on a Murray win.

Can Murray win the event?  Yes without a doubt he can.  However the question is will he win and this is a different matter completely. My opinion = yes

Murray wins again.  Murray claimed victory in the Madrid Masters after beating Federer in previous round.  Murray is now ranked 4 in the world – yet still thinks Henman was a better player.  I think Murray should just admit he is miles better than Henman ever was (only down side is that Murray is Scottish).

Murray just played his best ever match in beat Nadal in the US Open semi final.  Murray mow becomes the first brit since 1997 to reach the US open final.  THe one player that now stands in his way is Federer.  The final could be onpen of the greatest matches in a long time with Federer fighting to regain his world no1 spot and Murray fighting for his 1st grand salm title.

Who’s going to win? Well in my opinion it could go either way, if Murray plays like he did against Nadal then the match should be his, you also have to take in to account the form of Federer so far this year hasnt been great for Roger so tis really is his chance to really shine for the fisrt time this year!  My moneys on Murray.

Lets just hope for a 5 set thriller

Last week I was trying to print some of my own quality business cards and flyers, I thought what better way to get cheap flyers than to print them myself.  I was soooo wrong though the effort required to print something that looked half decent was huge.  In the end I just decided that I didn’t have the right equipment to print at the desired quality.  I am still deciding as to whether I should purchase a new printer or get them professionally printed, either way I don’t think I am going to be able to carry out the printing all that cheaply.

This November McCarthy Park and The Midnight Horns will be playing Live in London.  This event is being organised by Grosvenor Tennis Club.  Tickets for this event will be £12.00.  This is an event not to be missed.  The night will also feature the very talented Sarah Lindsey and James Litherland.  This will no doubt be an event with loads of great music, laughs and no doubt a fair few pints.

Whilst thinking about why not also consider this an opportunity to play tennis in London, Grosvenor Tennis club is a friendly club with some great opportunities for all standards.

Now that Wimbledon has is over the nation as a whole will see a dip in the amount of tennis being played, however the biggest drop will be experienced in London.  The main reason for this drop in tennis in london is purely down to tennis being taken out of the public eye!  The benefits of this is that it frees up court time for the more experienced players.

Just a quick post to say how well Andy Murray played at Wimbledon this year.  Most people wrote Murray off before the tournament started.  If we exclude the final the Murray Vs Gasquet match was the match of the tournament without any doubt!

Lets just hope that Murray continues on from his good performance at Wimbledon and go on and have a great end of year, resulting in a deserved place at the end of year masters series event.

What a great Wimbledon final, needless to say Federer should have won with all the chances that he was handed on a plate.  however you have to hand it to Nadal, when Federer had a bad service game which he did, once in each set Nadal took his chance without hesitation.

It goes without saying that the press attention surrounding Nadal over the coming weeks is going to be huge since he just won the most important and respected tennis grand slam event of the year!  You will no doubt see Nadal appearing on TV, in posters on business cards and on all forms of leaflet printing and flyer printing.

Is Nadal going to continue with this form?  Yes, However the loss suffered by Federer in my opinion is going to spur him on to come back better than ever!  My prediction is that Federer will go on to win the US open and the end of year masters event.

Only time will tell!

In recent times, tennis has taken to promoting itself in a strong way, not only on the tv and in the press, but with the use of leaflets, flyers and business cards.  It’s really amasing what kind of promotional item come through my letterbox for tennis.  Not only that, whilst I was walking arround London last week I got handed a leaflet and some business cards by the same advertiser trying to get me to go to some great offer they had in their store around the corner.  It’s really strange how much of a push tennis is taking recently, you only have to walk down to Wimbledon and you get loads of free gifts and advertising given to you – will it continue – Yes, without doubt

I just wanted to say how well Andy Murray played against Gasquet on Monday night at Wimbledon, what a fantastic match.  My original prediction was that Murray would go out in the quater finals, however I really hope I’m wrong and that he puts up a great show against Nadal.  If he gets past Nadal who knows what could happen.  Andy would certainly be a great contender to give Federer a run for his money!

Believe it or not I was given this quality business card – it made me giggle.  Maybe not one for the girls.

Classic

Again a slightly off topic post, but I have been finding a couple of things very strange recently – whilst I have been travelling around playing tennis, I keep bumping into the same old people.  What has surprised me so much is the number of business cards that I have been given.  I cannot knock the business cards in any way as they have all been quality business cards with some great printing detail.  However I just dont understand why have been given these business cards whilst playing in a tennis tournament!  In terms of business card printing its most likely great for the printing industry, however do I need matt laminated business cards – I think not, I want to play tennis, talk tennis and drink beer.  Do I want to be constantly reminded of the opponents that I have either beaten of lost too – not really!!!!

End rant.

Aren’t flyers great!  I’ve recently being playing in some tennis tournaments and have been given a number of flyers which I thought were fantastic.  The quality of flyer printing was outstanding, and the use of eye catching graphics was great.  This is not normally the type of thing that grabs my attention when I supposed to be concentrating on the tennis tournament, but hey the cheap flyers caught my attention.  Needless to say the tournament was not a success for me, could this have been because I was spending to much time concentrating on flyers.  One thing to remind me of my lapse in concentration was the compliment slips which I was given to take away.  This will always remind me that the printing industry can serve as a great and yet surprising distraction whilst playing in a tennis tournament in Scotland.

Whilst browsing for the best ever tennis point ever I came across http://www.grosvenorltc.co.uk/besttennis.html which has a couple of vidoes showing the best ever points in tennis.  Including top players such as Sampras, Aggasi and Blake.  Well worth check out for those tennis fans who remember the likes of Pete Sampras and Andre Aggasi.

A big thanks to http://www.grosvenorltc.co.uk For the top quality video content

After winning the Aussie open Djokivic has lost to a qualifier in a Sony Erricsson open.  Top players losing to relatively unknown players is becoming a bit of a trend this year and could make for some interesting results.  Already this year both Andy Murray, Roger Federer and Nadal have lost matches they should have easily won.

How will the top players perform for the rest of the year who knows, but will any player other than Federer, Nadal or Djokovic win a Grand Slam? Probably not, the only player that could push them is going to be Andy Murray.

If anyone feels different to this or just wants to give their opinion comment away.

I came across the Grosvenor Lawn Tennis Club and from the looks of this tennis club has a really good mix of social and match play. They seem to be one of the friendliest clubs in their local area with lots of social events taking place throughout the year. Anyway to get to the point this I think this club is well worth checking out for anyone in the London or Essex area who likes a good game of tennis. For those of you who are not quite up to match play standard the club has a full time tennis coach !

Welcome to the Total Tennis Blog. I hope you will find this blog helpful for all things tennis. You can see that my first proper post concentrated on Grosvenor Tennis Club, but you will see the Total Tennis blog expand over time to cover all things tennis.

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