After days of speculation, Dominic Thiem has finally confirmed that the 2024 ATP season will be the last of his professional career. On Wednesday, reputable sources from Austria broke the news of Thiem’s retirement at the end of the regular season and that his final tournament will be the Vienna Open, which will give him…
Aryna Sabalenka is a pretty emotional player whose emotions show in various ways, including screams or smashed rackets. The Belarusian always approached tennis with a lot of passion. She’s one of the fiercest competitors on the WTA Tour, which is why some of the best on the Tour tremendously respect her. Iga Swiatek paid tribute…
Seeds sprang into action on Thursday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia in Rome, and Iga Swiatek led the charge into round 3 with a resounding win over Bernarda Pera, while Coco Gauff charged past Magdalena Frech, Marketa Vondrousova overtook Ana Bogdan, and Zheng Qinwen saw off Shelby Rogers. There were wins also for Naomi Osaka,…
The Italian Open defending champion, Elena Rybakina, withdrew from the WTA 1000 event ahead of her first match. Rybakina’s biggest clay trophy came last year in the Italian capital when she went all the way to win the trophy. Triumphs along the way included one over defending champion Iga Swiatek, and it was a huge…
Controversy gripped the first-round match between Daniel Evans and Fabio Fognini at the Italian Open, in which chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani made a massive error of judgment. Evans and home crowd favorite Fognini were locked in a tight encounter on Thursday night at Grand Stand Arena. After the British one-hander leveled the match by coasting…
Naomi Osaka will attempt to secure her third consecutive victory on clay against Daria Kasatkina at the 2024 Italian Open in Rome. Osaka has registered two consecutive wins on clay for the first time in years. Both triumphs occurred at the Italian Open, where she displayed a smooth swinging rhythm and dominated her opponents from…
The first round of the men’s Rome Masters draw, played over the last two days, was blighted by rain but the delays weren’t enough to overly disrupt the programme though quite a few matches were held over from one day to the next. That was not my best match, I was practising better than I…
One of the Czech Republic’s rising young talents, Nikola Bartunkova, has been provisionally suspended by the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA). In a press release on Thursday, May 9th, the ITIA noted that Bartunkova tested positive for trimetazidine twice, which is a prohibited substance under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (TADP). In its statement, the ITIA…
Carlos Alcaraz was ruled out from competing at this year’s Italian Open in Rome, but he is already preparing for his return at Roland Garros. Alcaraz has had a rollercoaster year marred by multiple injuries and has already lost five matches this season. By contrast, he lost three matches at this stage last season and…
Day Two Italian Open 2024 Round of 128 Results Jaume Munar def. Rinky Hijikata: 6-4, 7-5 Dominik Köepfer def. Andreas Vavassori (WC): 6-4, 6-3 Hamad Međedović (Q) def. Alexei Popyrin: 6-3, 6-2 Thiago Seyboth Wild def. Gregoire Barrere (Q): 6-4, 6-2 Corentin Moutet (LL) def. Roman Safiullin: 3-6, 7-6(1), 6-2 Matteo Gigante (WC) def. Giulio…
