Naomi Osaka finally learned her first-round opponent for the 2024 Abu Dhabi Open, and the draw could not have been more brutal to her than it was. While for much of her career, things came very easy to Osaka because of her ranking, this tennis comeback is proving to be very hard. The Japanese player…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday February 4 2024 Off the court since last August due to a back injury, and winless since Wimbledon 2023, Bianca Andreescu is targeting a return at Indian Wells in 2024. The 2019 Indian Wells and US Open champion was at the NHL All-Star game in Toronto on Saturday…
Monday’s schedule of play for the ATP Tour and WTA Events in Dallas, Marseille, Cordoba, Abu Dhabi, Cluj-Napoca and Mumbai can be found below. This week marks the beginning of a busy month of action in February. With six events on the schedule, tennis fans will have an abundance of matches to watch all week….
19-year old Diana Shnaider from Russia will face China’s defending champion Zhu Lin for the Thailand Open title after both secured straight-set wins on Saturday. It feels amazing to reach my second tour final. I have had good matches against amazing opponents this week. Every time you are in the final, it’s a new memory…
Getty Images Alexander Bublik became the first player in ATP history to win a tournament by winning every single one of his matches from a set down when he beat Borna Coric 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 in the Open Sud de France final on Sunday afternoon. Bublik completed his remarkable run to the title after firing…
Jelena Ostapenko charged to her eighth career title. Photo credit: Upper Austria Ladies Linz Facebook Second serves are terminal cases when Jelena Ostapenko is operating overwhelming returns. Playing declarative first-strike tennis, Ostapenko powered to her second title of the season. In a clash of former finalists, Ostapenko did not drop serve, sweeping second-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2, 6-3 to capture…
Jelena Ostapenko has been playing really well to start the year, and she earned her second trophy of the year already by beating Ekaterina Alexandrova in the 2024 Austria Open Linz final. Ostapenko entered this matchup as the favorite to win. She was just dominant the last few times they played, and Alexandrova hasn’t beaten…
Alexander Bublik aims to reclaim title (Photo by Mark Brake/Getty Images) At the Open Sud in Montpellier, France, Kazakh’s Alexander Bublik came back from a set down for the third time in a row to beat Canada’s Felix Auger Aliassime 4-6 6-4 6-4 in a close match to reach the 10th final of his career….
Stefanos Tsitsipas and his brother, Petros, stepped up and delivered the crucial point for Greece in the 2024 Davis Cup over Romania as the country won the tie 3-0. Tennis is growing in Greece, and it’s all thanks to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Maria Sakkari. They have been great ambassadors for the sport for a while,…
Top-seeded Jelena Ostapenko swept aside Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach the final of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz WTA 500 where she will meet Ekaterina Alexandrova, who needed 3 sets to get past Donna Vekic in their semi-final on Saturday. For me, tiebreaks, we have a hard relationship, especially in the last set. Even when it’s…
