• Gabi Ruse versus Jessika Ponchett Quarter Final Friday 18th April Approx 1400 🇬🇧 1600 🇷🇴 Live Text Commentary for the Whole Match In loving Memory of @philipboosey of @wta_romania 🇷🇴♥️ Good afternoon everyone, welcome to the live text commentary, players are warming up. Ponchett won the toss and chose to serve first. Live text updates…

  • Age 43 Country – UK – Home Town – Bristol (North, the nicer part) Plays – Proper Handed – Single Handed Backhand Weapon of choice – Prince Warrior Clothing Sponsor – Mizuno Coaches – Positivity Penguin, Oana Simion Clubs – Almondsbury, Herbert Gardens Favourite surface – Grass Favourite players (past) Justin Henin, Simona Halep, Roger…

  • I must share here a link to Oana Simion’s wonderful blog ‘Court Chronicles’ I love her stories about life on tour. They are honest, interesting and insightful, she also writes with the most beautiful narrative. She is a gifted writer and very thought provoking. One of the kindest, caring and sharing tennis players in the…

  • 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…

  • Life on the road as a Professional Tennis Player

  • 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…