Back from the dead...

One of the best things about tennis is that a match is never over until the very last point is played. In theory, you can be 0-6, 0-5 and match point down, and still come back to win. Unlikely as it seems, this was the score faced yesterday by Tara Moore, Britain’s number 9 player, in her match against France’s Jessika Ponchet. Having saved match point with a fortuitous net-call, Moore rallied to win the second set on a tie break, then the third set 6-3. According to her tongue-in-cheek, after-match tweet, the result of the match was “Never in doubt”. Despite being number 479 in the world, I hope her ‘never say die’ attitude will take her up the rankings. She literally doesn’t know when she’s beaten. I wonder if she has any good ideas about Brexit…