There were some serious injury doubts about Carlos Alcaraz leading up to his first match at the 2024 Madrid Open, but he erased all of them with a spectacular performance. This is Alcaraz’s first big clay event this year. He played briefly in South America, but that wasn’t a long stay on the surface, and…
Photo: Ashley Potts Sheldon Dries had a goal and an assist to pace the Abbotsford Canucks to a 4-2 win over the Colorado Eagles in the opener of their best-of-three Pacific Division first-round series at Blue Arena on Wednesday night. The Canucks can wrap up the series with another win on Friday. Dries, who spent…
Everything flowed smoothly during Rafael Nadal‘s winning start to his 2024 Barcelona Open campaign except for one moment when a fan made fun of his opponent. Nadal, who had been out of action since January, was playing his first match in over two and a half months. But he didn’t lack any match sharpness in…
Great Britain included five debutants in their World Championship squad for Riga, and the players received their caps today (Sunday) in the dressing room before warmup began. Players are ‘capped’ whenrepresenting GB in a World Championship or Olympic Qualification game, and each player has a unique all-time squad number. Before today there had been 143…
Saturday got off to a disappointing start for the Canadians in Indian Wells, as Leylah Annie Fernandez was sent packing in her opening match by Diane Parry while Milos Raonic withdrew with an injury. Fernandez battled as she always does but found herself playing catch up for most of the day. Eventually, Parry was able…
Inter Miami welcomed Real Salt Lake to the newly christened Chase Stadium for the first game of the 2024 Major League Soccer (MLS) campaign. With Miami securing only one win in their seven pre-season matches in 2024, many had reservations about the condition of Lionel Messi’s team. The doubts were soon allayed, as the hosts…
DELRAY BEACH OPEN—Delray Beach, Florida Defending champion Taylor Fritz notched his seventh career title on Monday in Delray Beach, Florida, dismissing good friend and fellow American Tommy Paul 6-2, 6-3. In a match that lasted one hour and 40 minutes, Fritz used his powerful serve and potent groundstrokes to offset his speedy opponent. Reaching the…
Gael Monfils won the Rotterdam Open twice in his life, and he’s back this year, starting off with a banging win over Denis Shapovalov. Shapovalov isn’t playing the best tennis right now, but that’s because he just recently returned from a long injury layoff. The Canadian had some decent moments in recent weeks but, for…
Britain’s Emma Raducanu is back in action at the WTA 500 Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open and, on Monday, she delivered an impressive performance after a slow start, with a 6-4 6-1 win over former Wimbledon quarter-finalist Marie Bouzkova from the Czech Republic. I’m very patient and very grateful to enjoy what I’m doing. I’m just…
The first of the four British players featuring in the Australian Open’s men’s main draw, was in action on day two of the season’s first grand slam but unfortunately his stay was limited to just the opening round. It’s very tough to play against a legend like Andy, he’s one of my idols. We played…
