[ad_1] Celebrated American coach Brad Gilbert recently gave a candid evaluation of Rafael Nadal‘s future in tennis. Nadal is currently competing at the Bastad Open for the first time in 19 years. He amused the crowd earlier this week by saying he was “defending” the title he won in 2005. He has successfully reached the…
[ad_1] Matteo Berrettini won his first-ever ATP trophy at the Swiss Open in Gstaad in 2018, and this year, the Italian re-lived that experience by winning it again. The Swiss Open in Gstaad holds a special place in Berrettini’s heart because the Italian won his maiden ATP trophy in the city in 2018. It was…
[ad_1] With the Olympic Tennis Event on the near horizon, some players have been gaining valuable clay court match practice at the WTA 250 events in Hungary and Italy this week. Every match is difficult on the level that we are playing here. Very happy that I managed to win all four matches [this week],…
[ad_1] Rafael Nadal said it is “great news” that he will be competing in his first ATP final in two years at the Bastad Open. After a couple of straightforward wins over Swedish wild card Leo Borg and former British no. 1 Cameron Norrie, his run has been nothing short of laborious. He needed precisely…
[ad_1] Rafa Nadal has reached his first final in two years as he prepares for the Paris Olympics which start on Friday; his last final was the French Open in 2022. I think it was a tough match,. My opponent had one of the best backhands that I played against Rafa Nadal The 38-yesar-old Spanish…
[ad_1] Novak Djokovic blasted the Wimbledon crowd after his win over Holger Rune for being, in his mind, disrespectful, but the Danish player defended them. At one point in their fourth-round match at SW19, the crowd started chanting Rune’s name, trying to support him. Djokovic took offense to that, not because they were supporting his…
[ad_1] Rafael Nadal will stand in the 2024 Bastad Open final, which will be a hugely important final for him as he treats the event as a very important tournament. The Spaniard played in Bastad 19 years ago, but returning this year, he wanted to see where his tennis stands ahead of the 2024 Paris…
[ad_1] This year’s Olympics will be special for Coco Gauff because it will be her debut at the Olympic Games, but she doesn’t really want to make a big deal out of it. The previous Games were held in 2021 in Tokyo after being moved forward one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At that…
[ad_1] Carlos Alcaraz did a short feature for the ATP during his stay at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, and he named Holger Rune the biggest trash talker on the ATP Tour. The sport is not as associated with trash-talking as some other sports, like basketball, which is very loud and very much a talky sport….
[ad_1] The U.S. Open entry list was released earlier this week and Rafael Nadal is on it. At No. 261 in the world, Nadal obviously isn’t ranked high enough to earn direct entry. However, due to his extended injury layoff over the past couple of seasons he was able to use a protected ranking of…
