Mate Pavic and Marcelo Arevalo celebrate with the trophy a (Photo by Mateo Villalba/Getty Images) Marcelo Arevalo of Salvador and Croatia’s Mate Pavic won the men’s French Open doubles title defeating the Italian partnership of Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori 7-5 6-3. Playing only their second major as a team, the Salvadoran-Croatian partnership also dispatched…
Stefanos Tsitsipas and his younger brother Petros Tsitsipas will leave Roland Garros with a portion of their prize money reduced due to code violations related to excessive coaching. In April, Tsitsipas was warned by the chair umpire during a match at the Barcelona Open after his father Apostolos crossed the line with coaching, leading to…
As the red dust settles on Roland Garros, the grass court swing gets under way at the Rothesay Open in Nottingham and the Libéma Open ’s-Hertogenbosch in Den Bosch in the Netherlands, both WTA 250 tournaments. 14 Brits are competing in Nottingham in either the qualifying this weekend or in the main draw, led by…
The 2024 Birmingham Classic will take place from June 17th to 23rd, and details about the prize money have been disclosed. It is one of the three grass-court events happening in the UK this month and is part of the WTA 250 series. This tournament acts as a bridge between clay and grass, easing the…
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid equalled the overall record for Grand Slam doubles titles won by any one partnership on Saturday as they clinched their fifth successive French Open wheelchair doubles title and 20th Grand Slam title together following a 6-1 6-4 victory over Japanese second seeds Takuya Miki and Tokito Oda. “It wasn’t something…
After several attempts to win a Grand Slam doubles trophy, Coco Gauff finally got one when she and Katerina Siniakova bested Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini at the 2024 Roland Garros. Gauff admitted ahead of the final that she would like to win a doubles Grand Slam trophy because she won’t be playing as many…
Danielle Collins, Liudmila Samsonova, and Madison Keys advanced to the Internationaux de Strasbourg semi-finals on Thursday, with Marketa Vondrousova and Anhelina Kalinina’s quarter-final postponed until Friday due to rain. “I’m feeling really good so far with my clay season. Having missed the beginning of the season, I was really wanting to have a couple of…
Iga Swiatek has been honored by her clothing and footwear sponsor, On, with a new pair of sneakers to celebrate her fifth Grand Slam title. The Polish sensation was simply in a league of her own on Sunday as she demolished first-time major finalist Jasmine Paolini in the 2024 Roland Garros championship match. She won…
– – – World No 1 Iga Swiatek Becomes Fourth Woman to Win 4 French Open Titles World No 1 Iga Swiatek made history at Roland Garros by becoming the fourth woman in the Open era to win 4 French Open singles titles, joining the ranks of Chris Evert, Steffi Graf, and Justine Henin. Swiatek…
Naomi Osaka will start her grass season at the 2024 Libema Open against the fourth-seeded Elise Mertens. The Japanese player last stood on the tennis courts in Paris, where she battled Iga Swiatek. It was a spectacular match by Osaka, who blasted north of 50 winners en route to almost beating the Polish number one,…
