By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday October 14, 2024 American Sebastian Korda is currently recovering from right elbow surgery. The 24-year-old World No.22 posted the news on Friday. “I wanted to update you all—I’ve been dealing with some elbow issues and my team and I decided surgery was the best option,” Korda wrote. “Everything…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday October 14, 2024 Whether on the court or off, China’s Zheng Qinwen – aka Queenwen – is a hot commodity. On Friday, the 2024 Paris Olympics gold medalist became the first athlete to ever grace the cover of Vogue China. Seventh-ranked Zheng, who also reached the final at…
The WTA Tour continues in China, at the Ningbo Open, and in Japan, at the Kinoshita Group Japan Open in Osaka this week… China | WTA 500 Ningbo Open With the WTA Finals just 2 weeks away, the WTA 500 in Ningbo has seen the withdrawal of top seed Jasmine Paolini, and No 5 seed…
Rafael Nadal is a big fan of Real Madrid, and his uncle, Toni Nadal, says he could become the club’s Director of Football after his retirement. Nadal devastated millions of tennis fans worldwide last week by announcing his retirement from professional tennis. His final appearance will be representing Spain alongside Carlos Alcaraz at the Davis…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday October 14, 2024 The field for next month’s WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is rounding out. Four players qualified for singles on Monday, with the WTA announcing that Coco Gauff, Jasmine Paolini, Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula had all made the cut. The quartet joins Iga Swiatek…
Paula Badosa returned to the tennis courts at the 2024 Ningbo Open, but she needed a comeback to win her first match at the WTA 500 event. The Spanish player’s past few weeks have been very interesting, both in positive and negative ways. After reaching the US Open quarter-finals, she continued her good form also…
Tennis and poker may seem worlds apart, but for some tennis stars, the transition from the court to the felt has been a natural progression. Both pastimes require otherworldly mental fortitude, as well as handling the harshest of pressures under the brightest of lights. While one is a lot less physically demanding than the other,…
The Asian swing on the WTA Tour continues with the 2024 Ningbo Open, and there is a superb draw for the event. The 2024 Ningbo Open is the first time the tournament is played with WTA 500 status. It started as an ITF and a WTA 125K event until 2014 before not being played from…
It took Jannik Sinner just under 97-minutes to squeeze past Novak Djokovic in the final of the Rolex Shanghai Masters to collect his seventh title of the year in what is proving a very successful season for the Italian. He was serving great the first set, I couldn’t find a way to break him. I…
Coco Gauff will compete in the year-end championships on the WTA Tour, and she had a hilarious moment when talking about it at the 2024 Wuhan Open. For many of the top tennis players, the main goal for every season, apart from winning titles, is qualifying for the year-end championships. For Gauff, qualifying for the…
