Getty Images In a significant change dating back to last season, Masters 1000 tournaments in Madrid and Rome are now two-week events instead of one and the draw sizes have increased to 96 (the 32 seeds get byes in a bracket of 128). Yes, that means they are on par with Indian Wells and Miami….
When Rafael Nadal takes the court for his first-round match at the Mutua Madrid Open on Thursday, he will be facing a player 21 years younger than him – 16-year-old American Darwin Blanch. Blanch, an IMG client, received a main-draw wild card for this Masters 1000 tournament. This is not the first time he has…
Coventry City’s promotion aspirations may be in jeopardy, but Mark Robins’ team is still vying for silverware this spring. The Sky Blues are set to clash with Manchester United on Sunday in the FA Cup semifinals at Wembley Stadium. Haji Wright and his Coventry City teammates are aiming for another upset after defeating Wolves in…
Juventus’ Serie A hopes may be dashed, but they still have a shot at reaching the Coppa Italia Final. Tim Weah, Weston McKennie, and the rest of the team will face Lazio in the semifinal showdown. McKennie and Weah will aim to lift a trophy at the club level before pursuing U.S. men’s national team…
The Mutua Madrid Open, the first WTA 1000 of the clay-court swing, has set its draw with Emma Raducanu facing Karolina Pliskova in the 1st-round, while Katie Boulter enjoys a bye as the No 26 seed. Raducanu, fresh off a quarter-final appearance at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, will be looking to continue her form…
Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas will be squaring off for the fifth time in their careers and in a second consecutive title match when they meet again on Sunday at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. They also faced each other in the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters final exactly one week ago, when Tsitsipas rolled 6-1, 6-4….
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Casper Ruud will be facing each other for the fifth time in their careers and in a second consecutive final when they battle for the title of the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell on Sunday afternoon. They also squared off in last Sunday’s Monte-Carlo championship match, with Tsitsipas triumphing 6-1, 6-4 to pull…
Rafael Nadal was not seriously tested in his comeback match at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell, but that figures to change in the second round. After cruising past Flavio Cobolli 6-2, 6-3 on Tuesday afternoon, Nadal will face fourth-seeded Alex de Minaur on Wednesday. The 37-year-old Spaniard leads the head-to-head series 3-1, but they have…
Finally, Rafael Nadal is back. Nadal will be playing an official ATP tournament for the first time since Brisbane in January when he takes the court for opening-round action at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell on Tuesday. The entirety of his 2024 body of work is a quarterfinal performance in Brisbane (lost to Jordan Thompson)…
UConn opened the 2023-24 season with the seventh-best odds (20-1) to win the national title. The Huskies started the year behind Kansas, Michigan State, Kentucky, Duke, Purdue and Arizona. On Monday night in Glendale, Arizona, the Huskies became the first team since Florida in 2006-07 to repeat as national champions with a 75-60 statement win…
