12-day format and 96-singles player main draw to be introduced next year, bringing it closer than ever to a Grand Slam format. The summer of 2025 will kickstart a new era for the National Bank Open presented by Rogers (NBO) as Canada’s showpiece tournament is redefined both on and off the court with the introduction…
Iga Swiatek has been incredibly dominant in recent years, but she could still enforce her game on opponents more, according to Martina Navratilova. The Polish player has been the best player in the world for about two years now, and her clay dominance has been particularly impressive. She just completed a triple on the WTA…
Emma Raducanu played her first match on grass in 2 years, and rolled to a 6-1 6-4 win over Japan’s Ena Shibahara in the 1st-round of the Rothesday Open in Nottingham on Wednesday, joining fellow-Brits Katie Boulter, Heather Watson and Fran Jones in round 2. All credit to Ena, she’s making it very tricky on…
Roger Federer gave a rousing commencement speech at Dartmouth last weekend. Photo credit: Getty Call him Dr. Roger. Roger Federer delivered a thoughtful and funny commencement speech at Dartmouth College over the weekend when he officially received an honorary doctorate. The Swiss Maestro received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the university before…
Carlos Alcaraz is and will inevitably be compared to Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, and Roger Federer, but he doesn’t think it matters. No young player enjoys being compared to legendary players because it’s just a tremendous amount of pressure in a position where they already have a tremendous amount of pressure. We’ve seen it repeatedly:…
In addition to qualifying for the French Open, there are 2 WTA 250 tournaments being played in Strasbourg and Rabat this week, as the big guns rest and practice ahead of Roland Garros, which starts on Sunday. I think it was an unbelievable match today. I was 6-4, 2-0 down, so it was not easy…
Emma Raducanu made a triumphant return on the grass courts of the 2024 Nottingham Open but was highly critical of the absence of the Hawk-Eye challenge system. Raducanu played her first match since late April when she bowed out of the Madrid Open. Since then, she elected not to compete in the Roland Garros qualifying…
128 women are fighting it out in French Open qualifying this week for 16 places in the main draw at Roland Garros, where they will provide a real threat to those direct entries they meet as they will be battle-hardy and well-used to the clay courts and match conditions, having played 3 rounds for the…
Tennis fans on social media debated whether Rafael Nadal‘s shock loss to Frances Tiafoe at the 2022 US Open was fueled by the news of Roger Federer‘s impending retirement. Federer’s official retirement message, which he shared on social media, was on September 15th. However, as revealed in his documentary Federer: Twelve Final Days, he had…
Players are now having to change their clay court shoes for grass court ones and quickly adapt to the natural surface in preparation for the Wimbledon Championships which start on the 1st of July. On a quick surface like grass, the sets are tight. When your chances come you have to be clinical – he…
