Karolina Pliskova defeated home favourite Ana Bogdan on Sunday to win the 2024 edition of the WTA 250 Transylvania Open, played in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and taking an hour and 25 minutes to capture her 17th career WTA singles title. It’s not a big tournament but it feels like a big tournament. I really enjoyed my…
Great Britain’s Heather Watson’s impressive run at the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open came to an end in the last 16 on Thursday, when she was beaten 7-6(1) 7-5 by the Spanish lucky loser Cristina Bucsa, while top-seeded Elena Rybakina reached the quarter-finals, coming from a set down to defeat Danielle Collins, and both Barbora Krejcikova…
Britain’s Emma Raducanu is back in action at the WTA 500 Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open and, on Monday, she delivered an impressive performance after a slow start, with a 6-4 6-1 win over former Wimbledon quarter-finalist Marie Bouzkova from the Czech Republic. I’m very patient and very grateful to enjoy what I’m doing. I’m just…
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…
February 2, 2024 by Admin The doubles team of Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram clinched the U.S. Davis Cup team’s spot in the Group Stage of the 2024 Davis Cup Finals on Friday in Vilnius, Lithuania, defeating a spirited Ukrainian team Vitaliy Sachko and Illya Beloborodko, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. The match was an indication of the…
Getty Images Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev rounded out a blockbuster semifinal lineup at the Australian Open by surviving some wild rides on Wednesday in Melbourne. Following Medvedev’s five-set win over Hubert Hurkacz, Zverev avoided an epic collapse to upset Carlos Alcaraz 6-1, 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-4 in the nightcap. The German, who led 5-2 in…
USATSI Houston didn’t get off to the best of starts in the Big 12 this season. It would be silly to suggest otherwise. The 1-2 record was the 1-2 record. But I always assumed, and the Top 25 And 1 always reflected as much, that the 1-2 start was a byproduct of the challenging schedule…
Getting into a survival of the fittest kind of battle with Alex de Minaur generally isn’t a good idea. That’s exactly what Andrey Rublev did on Sunday night at the Australian Open, but he lived to tell about it. “I started to say to myself, ‘No, you’re gonna die today, but you will do everything,’”…
Carlos Alcaraz has never made any noise of note at the Australian Open. In fact, last year he didn’t even play. Alcaraz hopes that changes in 2023. So far, so good. Alcaraz returned to Melbourne in victorious style on Tuesday night, defeating Richard Gasquet 7-6(5), 6-1, 6-2 in two hours and 22 minutes. The 21-year-old…
Getty Images Day 2 of the Australian Open wrapped up in entertaining and expected fashion, with a roller-coaster ride between Felix Auger-Aliassime and Dominic Thiem. It wasn’t always pretty–which didn’t come as a surprise given the respective form of the two players going into the season’s first Grand Slam–but Auger-Aliassime did just enough to fend…
