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What We Do in Wimbledon Fortnight, by Scott Barclay with Art by Nial Smith

Check out my new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. Clouds broke, breaching their way across the London sky, smokey and wispy in their sunburned paleness and altogether calming in their paced slowness. Below though, chaos reigned, raining down at speeds fearsome as racket hands shook and dreams shivered, wavered and […]

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Andy Murray: The Pressure of Wimbledon

Check out my new book Tennis Players as Works of Art with artwork from 45 artists. Pressure: “the exertion of a force on one body by another body, fluid, etc.” Item: Mouth ulcers every year when Wimbledon comes around. Cliché: Andy carries the weight of an entire nation, 76 years since the last male champion.  Item: Murray […]