[ad_1] Carlos Alcaraz‘s first-round opponent at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, Mark Lajal, has started playing mind games on social media before their opening-day meeting. The draw for this year’s Championships was revealed on Friday, whereby defending champion Alcaraz learned that he would play Estonia’s Mark Lajal, ranked 262nd in the ATP rankings. It will be…
[ad_1] Two unseeded players will fight for the title at the Bad Homburg Open in Germany on Saturday after Diana Shnaider upset No 3 seed Emma Navarro, 7-5 2-6 6-3, and Donna Vekic defeated qualifier Viktoriya Tomova 6-0 7-6(6) in Friday’s semi-finals. I think, in tennis, when you win the first set 6-0, it’s sometimes…
[ad_1] Novak Djokovic credited his fellow ATP rival Taylor Fritz with guiding him through rehabilitation from the torn meniscus he sustained at this year’s Roland Garros. Djokovic was a major doubt to play at the 2024 Wimbledon Championships, which commence on Monday, July 1st. He slipped on the court multiple times while playing Francisco Cerundolo…
[ad_1] Emma Raducanu has made an instant return into the Top 10 of the UTR (Universal Tennis Rating) rankings. For context, the UTR rankings are different from official WTA rankings in many ways. The latter is specific to professional players competing on the women’s circuit and is dependent on a points system calculated from results…
[ad_1] The WTA has appointed former World No 1 Garbiñe Muguruza as Tournament Director of its season-ending championships in Saudi Arabia, which features the Top 8 singles players and doubles teams on the PIF Race to the WTA Finals Riyadh. I know how special this event is for our top players, and I’ve also seen…
[ad_1] Novak Djokovic probably couldn’t be happier after he saw his draw for the 2024 Wimbledon Championships. Draws are random, as officials take tokens with numbers out of a bag, and these numbers are then ordered next to each other to form a draw, the same as for the 2024 Wimbledon Championships draw. In the…
[ad_1] The 3 Britons fell short of advancing beyond the quarter-finals at the Rothesay International in Eastbourne on Thursday. This marked the first time in 46 years that 3 British women had reached the Last 8. Like Anne Hobbs, Michelle Tyler, and Virginia Wade at the 1978 Colgate International, Katie Boulter, Emma Raducanu, and Harriet…
[ad_1] A Flag, But No Finish Line: The Story of Andrea Jaeger A 1984 Olympian who helped pave the way for others nearly 40 years later. The 1984 Los Angeles Olympics marked a seismic shift. For the first time, certain sports allowed professional athletes like Andrea Jaeger, then the world’s No. 3 tennis player, to…
[ad_1] According to former WTA player Laura Robson, Emma Raducanu is playing well above her ranking and is a dark horse candidate at Wimbledon. Raducanu is currently ranked outside the Top 100 on the WTA Tour, but her level is obviously far better than that. Growing up in Great Britain allowed Raducanu to learn how…
[ad_1] It’s here. The summer of grass has arrived at the home of tennis. What could be more glorious? The aperitifs, Queen’s Club, Nottingham, Birmingham, Eastbourne, as well as grass events in Germany and the Netherlands, are done and dusted and now fans, over half a million of them over the coming fortnight, will head…
