Thursday’s night session matches eclipsed the earlier dramas of Day 5 at the Australian Open, and saw the departure of World No 3 and last year’s finalist, Elena Rybakina, after a thrilling encounter with Anna Blinkova, while Elina Svitolina led a band of 3 Ukrainians into round 3, and two-times former champion Victoria Azarenka prevailed…
Australian Open—Melbourne, Australia Former finalist Daniil Medvedev reached the second round of this year’s Australian Open on Monday, defeating Terence Atmane 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 1-0. Medvedev will next face Emil Ruusuvuori for a place in round three. Elsewhere, No. 7 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, No. 9 seed Hubert Hurkacz, No. 10 seed Alex de Minaur, No….
Australian Open—Melbourne, Australia Ten-time Australian Open winner Novak Djokovic was made to work during his opening round at this year’s event, defeating 18-year-old Dino Prizmic 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4 in four hours and one minute. The legendary Serb, who hit 11 aces during the contest, will next face either Alexei Popyrin or Marc Polmans for…
Top seed Elena Rybakina met her match on Thursday and was sent packing by Ekaterina Alexandrova, while Jessica Pegula came through her 2nd 3-setter in a row to get past Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Jelena Ostapenko saw off Marta Kostyuk, and Daria Kasatkina advanced to the semi-finals without striking a ball after Laura Siegemund pulled out of…
Qualifying for the Australian Open finally got off the mark on Tuesday after a full day of rain on Monday prevented any matches being played, and there were mixed results for British women players. Coming from United Cup and having to reset… it was definitely a bit of a mental battle. I’m super happy with…
Two Grand Slam champions feature in a quality field at the hardcourt Hobart International 2024 tournament this week, but only one has made it into round 2, and that is Sofia Kenin, who won the Australian Open in 2020, while Sloane Stephens, the 2017 US Open winner, was edged out by a qualifier. It’s my…
BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTED BY EVIE—Brisbane, Australia Semifinal results: Holger Rune Defeats Roman Safiullin 6-4 7-6(0)Grigor Dimitrov Defeats Jordan Thompson 6-3 7-5 ************ BANK OF CHINA HONG KONG TENNIS OPEN—Hong Kong, Hong Kong Semifinal results: Andrey Rublev Defeats Juncheng Shang 4-6 6-2 6-3Emil Ruusuvuori Defeats Sebastian Ofner 4-6 7-5 6-3 Watch all the action live this…
Poland and Australia reached the semi-finals of the United Cup with clean sweeps over China and Serbia, the latter which saw ATP World No 1 Novak Djokovic toppled by Alex de Minaur, while there was another stellar performance from the WTA World No 1 Iga Swiatek, who beat the talented young Chinese Qinwen Zheng in…
Two seeds advanced and two fell in round 2 of the ASB Classic in Auckland on Wednesday, with 4th and 5th-seeded Emma Navarro and Marie Bouzkova winning easily in straight sets, while Lesia Tsurenko and Wang Xinyu, the No 3 and 6 seeds made their exits. I think it couldn’t get any better for me….
BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL PRESENTED BY EVIE—Brisbane, Australia First-round results: Holger Rune Defeats Max Purcell 46 64 62Grigor Dimitrov Defeats Andy Murray 64 57 62Roman Safiullin Defeats Ben Shelton 63 67(5) 63 ************ BANK OF CHINA HONG KONG TENNIS OPEN—Hong Kong, Hong Kong First-round results: Juncheng Shang Defeats Laslo Djere 67(5) 63 76(8)Pavel Kotov Defeats Nuno Borges…
