Iga Swiatek is set to face a fresh challenge from her closest rivals, who are bidding to dethrone her from the World No. 1 spot early next season. Swiatek lost her number one ranking during the course of 2023 to Aryna Sabalenka but managed to reclaim her throne by beating the Belarusian at the WTA…
Ben Shelton had never left his country before this year, and he was shocked by quite a few things. Exploring the world should be something everybody does because there is so much to see and so much to learn. Ben Shelton got the chance to do that in 2023, and it’s been quite an amazing…
The story of Beatriz Haddad Maia is a spectacular one that is still going on as she hopes to add more great chapters in 2024. Beatriz Haddad Maia has had a very eventful career so far. The Brazilian broke out some six years ago, reaching a maiden WTA final and becoming a Top 100 player….
Mirra Andreeva got a chance to play at the 2023 World Tennis League alongside some seasoned pros, Daniil Medvedev and Andrey Rublev, and it’s been a wonderful experience for her. The 16-year-old amazed many with her tremendous tennis last year, making her way into the Top 100 after some pretty solid finishes. The Russian is…
Victoria Azarenka and Jessica Pegula united for one last preseason practice session before Christmas. Azarenka, a two-time Grand Slam champion, took to X (formerly Twitter) to share a photo of them smiling just before practice at Woodfield Boca Raton in Florida. The two WTA stars recently took part in the fourth annual tennis fundraiser –…
The former coach of Serena Williams, Rick Macci, is backing Jannik Sinner to become World No. 1 “someday” and reckons it will happen “sooner rather than later.” Macci, one of the world’s most celebrated coaches in tennis, has taken a bird’s-eye view of the proceedings of the men’s tour this past season. Sinner has established…
A brand new tennis season will soon get underway in less than a week, and for tennis fans, a scratchpad is handy at this time of the year. The 2024 Australian Open will start on January 14, and it is time to make some early predictions on who will win the tournament. Historically, the Melbourne…
Former ATP player Tim Henman finds it very hard not to count Rafael Nadal as one of the favorites for Roland Garros. It’s quite self-explanatory why. No player dominated one event as much as Nadal did across many years. He’s known as the King of Clay because he’s just been so dominant on that surface…
The World Tennis League is not affiliated with the ATP or WTA, so organizers are at liberty to enforce the rules they want at the event. Because of that, Casper Ruud ended up eliminating his team on Saturday and prevented them from headlining the final match on Christmas Eve despite winning his match. For context,…
Emma Raducanu has scaled up her training sessions and has been working on her baseline game just days before the start of the 2024 tennis season. British sensation Raducanu has not played a competitive match since mid-April when Jelena Ostapenko thrashed her in the first round of the Stuttgart Open. Since then, she has been…
