Welcome to TopicTennis

Hello everyone, and welcome to Topic Tennis the blog!

My name is Daniel Teasdale and i study English Literature at Manchester University, and hope to go on to do a Masters degree in Journalism, with a particular interest in sport...and in particular Tennis!

I started watching Tennis properly about 7 or 8 years ago and have since gone on to develop a passionate interest in both the mens and womens game. My interest in the sport ranges from the obvious joy of watching pro tennis, to the more fan specific elements like coaching, scheduling, and other things based around the financial and political aspects of the game.

My intention in creating this blog is both to hopefully provide an interesting place for other tennis enthusiasts to hear the thoughts of a fellow tennis nut, but also to gain some valuable experience that i may use and draw upon  when trying to kickstart a career as a tennis analyst/reporter in the near future.Therefore any feedback (which is hopefully constructive and not abusive lol) would be much appreciated.

Alongside my blog, i have also recently started a twitter page which you can find here: https://twitter.com/#!/TopicTennis

As this is my first blog post i thought i would reveal some of my favourite things about tennis :)

Favourite Men's player = Roger Federer
Favourite Women's player = Venus Williams
Favourite Doubles team = The Bryan Brothers
Favourite Grand Slam = Wimbledon
Favourite Court surface (to watch on) = Grass
Favourite "legend"= Bjorn Borg
Best ever Mens Singles match = Federer vs Nadal Australian Open 2009
Best ever Women's singles match = V Williams vs Davenport Wimbledon 2005


So there's your first taster of Topic Tennis. I will aim to post a blog every couple of days and the first blog (proper) will be published this Friday, with the title :

WTA tour- Do the young guns have what it takes, or will be 2012 be the year of the veterans.

Thanks for reading.

DJT