Tennis fans don’t need to adjust their senses, nor is this an April Fool’s joke, because Ashleigh Barty will be back on a tennis court at next month’s Wimbledon Championships. The three-time Grand Slam singles champion will play in the 2024 Wimbledon Invitation Doubles draw alongside her good friend Casey Dellacqua. Dellacqua, a proficient doubles…
Rafael Nadal hopes to be a good partner for Carlos Alcaraz at the upcoming 2024 Paris Olympics, where they’ll play doubles together. Nadal hasn’t played much tennis this year, but he returned to the courts on clay recently and played through all of the big events, including Roland Garros. His stay at that major was…
Coco Gauff shook off the disappointment of her singles loss in the semi-final of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia by reaching the doubles final with her new partner, Erin Routliffe, after defeating Wang Xinyu & Zheng Saisai in straight sets on Friday. It’s very special to be here in a final here in Rome with our…
It’s the kind of news that seemed fanciful at one point, but the dream pairing of Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz for Spain at the Olympic Games will happen. The Olympic tennis tournament will kick off on July 27th and run until August 4th. In singles, 64 players will compete to win bronze, silver, or…
Sara Errani & Jasmine Paolini delighted their home crowd at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia on Sunday when they pipped Coco Gauff & Erin Routliffe at the post to snatch the Italian Open Doubles title. I’m still here. It’s not easy, physically, but I’m really happy. I’m enjoying it and this is the most important thing….
Getty Images It’s official: Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz–if both are healthy when the time comes–will play doubles together at the 2024 Paris Olympics. David Ferrer, who is the captain of the Spanish National Team for the upcoming Games, announced the majority of his roster on Wednesday. “One pair, which I think everyone knows and…
Coco Gauff was pretty adamant about stopping playing doubles but she doesn’t regret her decision to keep playing after winning the 2024 Roland Garros doubles tournament. The young American was one of the rare top singles players who also played doubles regularly. The vast majority of top players simply focused on singles, which she’ll do…
There was double disappointment for Jasmine Paolini at the French Open, who lost the singles final on Saturday, while Coco Gauff assuaged her singles semi-final loss in Paris by landing her first Grand Slam doubles title alongside Katerina Siniakova on Sunday. Every match, I think, we played really well, even when we weren’t playing so…
It’s clear that Rafael Nadal has made the Paris Olympics his main priority for the remainder of the season and is already exploring multiple options to prepare. Nadal lost in the first round of his most recent tournament at Roland Garros. It was a historic defeat in the sense that he’d dominated the clay-court Grand…
Mate Pavic and Marcelo Arevalo celebrate with the trophy a (Photo by Mateo Villalba/Getty Images) Marcelo Arevalo of Salvador and Croatia’s Mate Pavic won the men’s French Open doubles title defeating the Italian partnership of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 7-5 6-3. Playing only their second major as a team, the Salvadoran-Croatian partnership also dispatched…
