This is a guest post by sportswriter and broadcaster David Fearnhead, who believed in the Grand Slam champion potential of Angelique Kerber from the moment he saw her match in Birmingham way back in 2007.
Angelique Kerber - 2016 Australian Open -DSC_0710-2For a few years now a friend has asked me which outsiders he should bet on at the Grand Slams. I’d give him a few names depending on form and surface. There was no secret to them, they were the same names I’d shared whenever I was guest on BBC Radio. Only he noticed something. One name would nearly always crop up. He knew I had friends on tour, and he knew that I didn’t know the player personally, so he assumed it was either I saw something…
