Alexander Bublik is a showman, and even his opponent, Denis Shapovalov, was slightly surprised by some of his tricks during their most recent clash at the Montpellier Open. Shapovalov was playing in just his fourth match since last year’s Wimbledon, having spent considerable time rehabbing from injuries. He required a wild card to play in…
By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, February 2, 2024 The 2024 season can spark a new beginning or signal the beginning of the end for Dominic Thiem. In a new interview with Austrian outlet Der Standard, Thiem says this is a make or break season for his career. More: Richard Evans Q&A “I see this…
The ATP Tour and WTA 2024 schedule of Play for Saturday, February 3 for Montpellier, Linz and Hua Hin can be found below. This week’s events the first week of action in February. The world’s best players will hone their skills for the upcoming Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami. Watch all the…
The top four seeds have all advanced to the Montpellier semifinals, making for a blockbuster order of play on Saturday. Holger Rune is going up against Borna Coric, while Alexander Bublik faces Felix Auger-Aliassime.(1) Holger Rune vs. (4) Borna Coric Both Rune and Coric are rounding into form as they head into their first-ever head-to-head…
Photo credit: Saulius Čirba The U.S. delivered a double dose of commitment to return to the Davis Cup World Group. Austin Krajicek and Rajeev Ram beat Illya Beloborodko and Oleksii Krutykh, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 clinching the U.S. Davis Cup win over Ukraine and return to the World Group today. The victory gave the United States an insurmountable 3-0 lead over Ukraine in…
Holger Rune had to show his better level to defeat Michael Mmoh at the 2024 Montpellier Open, but the Danish number one won in two sets. This was anything but an easy match for Rune, but it was a straight-sets win nonetheless. The American is a tricky player because he’s just so solid overall, and…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday February 2 2024 Jessica Pegula took an earlier than expected loss at this year’s Australian Open, falling in the second round to France’s Clara Burel, 6-4, 6-2. Now the World No.4 will take a few weeks off. Pegula has elected to skip this year’s events in Doha and…
After narrowly surviving his opening match of the tournament, Félix Auger-Aliassime had much easier go in the quarter-finals of the Open Sud de France in Montpellier, defeating local wildcard Harold Mayot in straight sets. Auger-Aliassime played catch-up through the early stages of the first set, but as the match went along he began to assert…
Felix Auger-Aliassime seemed sick yesterday at the 2024 Montpellier Open, but the Canadian recovered well enough to win comfortably today and advance to the semi-final. The Canadian had an interesting start to the year, with the Australian Open being a solid but not sensational outing. He’s had somewhat of a down year last year after…
Top-seeded Jelena Ostapenko needed all her wits to survive a strong challenge from Clara Tauson to open her account at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz on Thursday, and set up a 2nd-round meeting with British No 2 Jodie Burrage, while fellow seeds, both of whom received 1st-round byes, Donna Vekic and Elise Mertens got off…
