[ad_1] For some, there is a swift turnaround from Billie Jean King Cup duty at the weekend to the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, the WTA 500 indoor clay court tournament in Stuttgart, which starts on Monday. The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix is one of my favourite tournaments. I’ve got great memories of Stuttgart, and not…
[ad_1] Dominic Thiem had some injury worries recently, but he forgot all about that, getting the opening-round win at the 2024 Estoril Open. Thiem hasn’t played very well lately. His last two losses were arguably some of his career’s worst losses. He lost twice to players who are ranked way outside of the Top 200,…
[ad_1] Novak Djokovic has been unstoppable in his quest to finish at the top of the Olympics Race and secure his status as the top seed at the tennis tournament in Paris later this year. The Olympics Race was invented in June 2023 to record points accumulated by all players in a 52-week window to…
[ad_1] The WTA 250 ATX Open in Austin, Texas, kicked off on Monday with China’s Wang Yafan pulling off a 1st-round upset win over 4th-seeded Lucia Bronzetti from Italy, 7-6(5) 6-4, while Diane Parry, Yuan Yue, and Camila Ororio also advanced to round 2. Wang won 81% of her first-serve points and saved 4 of…
[ad_1] Day 1 of this week’s Transylvania Open, the WTA 250 tournament at Cluj-Napoca in Romania, saw top seed Arantxa Rus, Anna Blinkova, the 3rd seed, and 8th-seeded Ana Bogdan safely into the 2nd-round, but Camila Osorio upset the No 7 seed, Viktorija Tomova, and Clara Tauson put paid to Nadia Podoroska’s hopes, the 9th…
[ad_1] By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday January 3, 2024 China’s Juncheng Shang is one of six teenagers inside the ATP’s Top 200 and generally thought of as a rising talent that could be a future top player. The former junior No.1 is a talented ball striker who qualified for three of the four…
[ad_1] CBS Sports graphic The holiday season is a wonderful time of the year for a variety of reasons — but it sure does bring college basketball to a crawl. Unlike the NBA and (now the) NFL, this sport largely avoids what amounts to a five-day window around Christmas. Things get super slow every year….
[ad_1] Coric and Griekspoor record impressive wins to set up a final clash tomorrow [December 2, 2023, Macau] Top-level professional tennis has finally arrived in Macau after a long time, as the opening matches of the highly anticipated “2023 MGM Macau Tennis Masters” finally got underway here Macau East Asian Games Dome. It was a…
