[ad_1] Rob Shaw’s bid for a medal at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris came to an abrupt end on Monday in the quarter-finals of the quad singles wheelchair tennis event as he was defeated by world No. 2 Niels Vink of the Netherlands in straight sets. Vink, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion including earlier…
[ad_1] Aryna Sabalenka has been too overwhelming for all of her opponents at the 2024 US Open so far, and it’s not a surprise, because she’s hitting the ball harder than Carlos Alcaraz or Jannik Sinner. The Belarusian player plays with a lot of power. It’s why she’s been called a mini-Serena at times because,…
[ad_1] New York—Well-balanced and well-spoken, Emma Navarro went to the well during her three-set takedown of defending champion Coco Gauff in Arthur Ashe Stadium on Sunday. Playing a flawless match, the 23-year-old let her game slip late in the second set, as errors drizzled in and Gauff picked up her game. Suddenly, instead of stealing…
[ad_1] In Sunday’s night session matches, World No 2 Aryna Sabalenka eased past Elise Mertens to reach her 4th US Open quarter-final in a row, where she will meet Zheng Qinwen, the 7th seed who fought past Donna Vekic in a repeat of the Olympic Tennis Final in Paris. “I think she [Donna Vekic] performs…
[ad_1] A revitalized Frances Tiafoe will take a fresh batch of confidence and new coach David Witt into the U.S. Open quarterfinals, where he will battle tour veteran Grigor Dimitrov on Tuesday. Frances Tiafoe’s season looks like it was contested by two entirely different players–and in a way it has. The American barely managed to…
[ad_1] Yulia Putintseva had a really bizarre moment with a ball girl during her match against Jasmine Paolini at the 2024 US Open when she didn’t react as she was being given tennis balls. It was a really tense third-round match between Putintseva and Paolini, who reached back-to-back major finals in 2024, and it wasn’t…
[ad_1] 2023 US Open champion Coco Gauff was thwarted in her title defence on Sunday by her American compatriot Emma Navarro, who moves into the quarter-finals where she will meet Paula Badosa, a 4th-round winner over Wang Yafan. Emma NavarroGauff was hard pressed by Navarro in the second day session match on Arthur Ashe Stadium,…
[ad_1] Andrey Rublev recently spoke about his journey towards a better mental state, but his most recent US Open outburst left many wondering if he’s truly ‘out of it.’ Rublev has always been a very passionate player who lives his matches. If there was a clear opposite of a ‘poker face’, Rublev would have it…
[ad_1] The men’s draw has reached the quarter final stage and the first four to make the mark for the run in to the US Open title next Sunday, are Grigor Dimitrov, Taylor Fritz, Alexander Zverev and Frances Tiafoe. Grigor Dimitrov Dimitrov, who is enjoying his best run at Flushing Meadows for five years, survived…
[ad_1] This year’s Paris Olympics will go ahead without yet another big name and it’s Holger Rune who also announced his withdrawal from the Olympic Games. A few high-ranked players opted to skip this year’s Olympics weeks ago, but these past two days have seen some really unfortunate late withdrawals as well. Jannik Sinner announced…
