Category: Tennis
Swiatek Locks Down WTA Player of the Year Honors
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday December 11 2023 Iga Swiatek and her coach Tomasz Wiktorowski are the WTA’s Player and Coach of 2023. The WTA Tour announced the news today that 22-year-old Swiatek, who won her fourth major title this spring at Roland-Garros and finished the season at No.1 for the second consecutive…
Tennis Champion Nick Kyrgios Opens Up About the Darkest Period in His Life, “No one knew”
Courtesy of On Purpose with Jay Shetty. In the latest episode of On Purpose with Jay Shetty, world-ranking professional tennis player Nick Kyrgios joins the podcast. Nick burst onto the pro tennis scene in 2012 after a prolific junior tennis career. Since his start he has captivated fans with a larger than life personality, passion…
Match Point Nutrition: Canada’s Newly Crowned World Champions Share the Role Food Plays in Their Everyday Lives
As part of a six-part content series presented by Sobeys, we will share the expertise of multiple Tennis Canada spokespeople including our nutritionist Ariane Lavigne, coaches, advisors as well as players and their parents when it comes to food, family, and sport. In this third article, members of the Canadian Billie Jean King Cup team…
Djokovic On Nadal’s ‘Intimidating’ Pre-Match Routine
Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal have met more times than any duo on the ATP Tour, with the Serbian star leading the series 30-29. However, in the early phase of their careers, Djokovic was playing catchup against Nadal, who dominated their rivalry by winning 14 of their first 18 head-to-head collisions. Nadal won most of…
Djokovic Talks Federer, Nadal and Motivation in 60 Minutes Interview
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday December 11 2023 Novak Djokovic opened up on a wide range of tops in an interview with Jon Wertheim on 60 minutes, the Serb dishing on everything from his feelings about Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in the formative years of his career, to the inspiration that he…
Iga Swiatek is WTA Player of The Year
Iga Swiatek of Poland celebrates with her winners trophy after victory against Karolina Muchova of Czech Republic in the Women’s Singles Final match on Day Fourteen of the 2023 French Open at Roland Garros on June 10, 2023 in Paris, France. Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images The 2023 season is over, but Iga Swiatek just…
Alcaraz And Djokovic Among Most Googled Athletes Of 2023
Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic were among the most searched athletes via Google in 2023. The results perhaps come as no surprise, considering Alcaraz and Djokovic dominated the biggest ATP competitions in 2023. Overall, the duo won all four Grand Slams between them, but Djokovic edged his Spanish competitor by winning the Australian Open, Roland…
The Grandstand’s Top 10 Matches of the Year: 6-10
Getty Images With the 2023 tennis season in the rearview mirror, it’s time to recap the best matches of the year on the ATP Tour. The first half of the list includes a couple of late-night thrillers plus one of two Thanasi Kokkinakis marathons. 10) Tommy Paul vs. Taylor Fritz, Acapulco semifinals It’s unfair to…
Carlos Alcaraz & Rafael Nadal To Face Off At ‘The Netflix Slam’
Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal have planned a special match in 2024, which will be called ‘The Netflix Slam.’ For two decades, there was one man that Spanish fans, and many other fans around the world, followed on the ATP Tour. Rafael Nadal won 22 Grand Slam titles throughout his illustrious career, and exactly at…
Who Are The Top Ranked Tennis Players of All-Time from Colorado?
Colorado is full of athletes, some of them more known than others. On this occasion, we will dive into the performances of big names in tennis, including junior players like Jeff Cathrall, Grand Slam winners such as Rajeev Ram, and more tennis players who have left a mark in this sport’s history and who started…