After a deserved rest, the newly crowned Transylvania Open Champion continued her Swansong Tour with the next stop at Dubai, Sorana’s permanent place of residence for the last five years and a Happy Hunting Ground! Our Champ is a former quarter finalist at the WTA 1000 tournament here. In the first round she faced a…

January is often a favourite time of year for me in my capacity as a Tennis fan, I have been to Melbourne for the Australian Open once, way back in 2010 and it is my favourite of the Majors. Ever since, back in the UK I have often woken up in the small hours to…

Even on our journey home from Brasov we were planning our trip to Cluj in February, booking plane tickets in the pub at Victoria Coach Station whilst tucking into an all day vegetarian brunch and drinking a pint of Guinness zero. I had loved Brasov so much, I wanted to have gone to Iasi earlier…

Why it’s easy to support Oana Simion! Whilst my love of tennis extends back to Pete Sampras and Justin Henin, then later of course Roger Federer and Simona Halep, the latter opening me up to the world of Romanian tennis stars, one player has influenced and inspired me personally more than any other, Romania’s Oana…

THE EMOTIONS OF A FAN. When Miriam Bulgaru won her semi final yesterday I cried. Because she is my joint favourite active player and I was so happy for her. The two players who always felt all the emotions for were Roger Federer and Simona Halep. Both now retired and tennis feels empty without them.…

Tennis is an individual sport, first and foremost. Well often a player has their support team around them, coaches and family, however lower ranked players often only travel with one person or even no one. There are rare team events like the Olympics and Billie Jean King Cup of course where team mates play together…

Love. Obsession. Tennis. My novel ‘Advantage Dalca’ about two young Romanian tennis players whose lifelong friendship is destroyed in their quest to be World Number one is available now from Amazon. With the popularity of men’s tennis increasing due to the phenomenal stars such as Ralph Darendorf and Harbin Palomer, Ned Flash, the head of…

The Story behind PP Postivity Penguin or PP to his friends was originally intended as a good luck gift for Romanian tennis player, Miriam Bulgaru. He travelled from the South Pole to Cluj Napoca to meet Miri but ahead of her opening round match at the Transylvania Open sadly she fell ill and could not…