[ad_1] 12-time Grand Slam champion to receive the Order of Sport alongside five other athletes, two builders and one trailblazer Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame has announced that Daniel Nestor will be inducted as part of their Class of 2024 and receive the Order of Sport, Canada’s highest sporting honour, this October. “I feel truly…
[ad_1] Defending champion Frances Tiafoe is out of the 2024 Stuttgart Open after losing out to an inspired Jack Draper, who put on a clinic. Draper is a natural on grass, thanks to growing up in Great Britain, where there is an abundance of grass courts. He moves supremely well on the surface and just…
[ad_1] Andy Murray may not have been able to try and defend the title which he won last year at the Surbiton Racket & Fitness Club, but otherwise the Surbiton Trophy provided an excellent opening week to this year’s lawn tennis season. It is hard not to feel a great deal of fondness for the…
[ad_1] Jannik Sinner has been officially crowned the world number one, and he reflected on this in an interview with the ATP. The Italian earned the chance to become the 29th world number one by putting together a really impressive showing at Roland Garros, where he advanced to the semi-final. He was fairly close to…
[ad_1] Aleksandra Krunic delivered the shock of the Libéma Open on Thursday when she outlasted top-seeded Jessica Pegula, 7-6(3) 6-7(3) 6-4, in a Last 16 upset win that lasted 2 hours and 44 minutes in ’s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. It definitely takes a lot to beat Jess on grass. I think it took absolutely everything…
[ad_1] Andy Murray plans to retire sometime this year, and if it happens at Wimbledon, the event is prepared for that. Earlier this year, the 37-year-old admitted that he would retire this year after being unable to find any kind of form. It’s been a long time coming for the Brit, as he always maintained…
[ad_1] Two Chileans could be appearing in the final of the Rome Masters following the conclusion of the quarter finals on Thursday, when Nicolas Jarry stunned the favourite Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Monte Carlo champion and Barcelona finalist, to join his compatriot Alejandro Tabilo in the last four. Tabilo had secured his semi-final place 24-hours earlier….
[ad_1] Matteo Berrettini was in London for Roger Federer‘s retirement at the 2022 Laver Cup, and he shared what the Swiss legend told his teammates who were there. The 20-time major winner held out hope that he would be able to return from a knee injury, but ultimately, he had to give up when it…
[ad_1] Emma Raducanu reached her first grass-court quarter-final at WTA Tour level at the Rothesay Open in Nottingham on Thursday with another impressive display easing her past notorious giant-killer Daria Snigur, while fellow Brit Fran Jones’ 2nd-round match with Ashlyn Krueger was left hanging overnight when she was serving for match with a 6-4, 4-6,…
[ad_1] Carlos Alcaraz will compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics and he hopes to return with a medal and, possibly, a new tattoo. Tattooing sporting success isn’t a new concept in sports because many have done it before. We’ve seen different iterations of that over the years. For example, Dominic Thiem’s mother gets a tattoo…
