By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, April 18, 2024 Elena Rybakina celebrated her return to clay getting her feet dirty. Rybakina rapped her Yonex racquet off the sole of her shoe to free some clotted clay caught in her treads. More: Ruud Shocks Djokovic Then Rybakina put her foot down edging former Charleston champion Veronika Kudermetova 7-6(3), 1-6,…
Britain’s No 2 Jack Draper produced another impressive performance to recover from a set down to reach the last eight of the BMW Open in Munich, on a day when rain disrupted the schedule allowing only two matches to be completed. In the second and third, the sun came out and I started feeling better….
Getty Images Only one of the top four seeds is through to the quarterfinals in Barcelona, as No. 3 Casper Ruud continues to take care of business following his runner-up performance in Monte-Carlo. Ruud will face Matteo Arnaldi on Friday. Matteo Arnaldi vs. (3) Casper RuudThe 2023 campaign was a disappointing one by Ruud’s recent…
Emma Raducanu continued her tremendous clay streak by securing win number four in a row against teenage sensation Linda Noskova. Noskova and Raducanu had played against each other before this meeting at the 2024 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, and the Czech player won that match. It happened on clay at Roland Garros in…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday April 18, 2024 He may be 276 in the rankings at the moment, but Brazil’s Joao Fonseca is looking like a future star. The 17-year-old locked up his second ATP quarterfinal on Thursday at Bucharest, and he did so in decisive fashion, backing up his opening-round win over…
Rafa Nadal’s comeback at the Barcelona Open has been cut short by Alex de Minaur but as is his nature, he went down fighting. I decided to try and make the rallies quite physical and long, use my speed to my advantage. It’s never easy against him Alex de Minaur The 37-year-old Spaniard who has…
Marta Kostyuk clashed with the chair umpire over poor officiating at a crucial juncture in her first-round match in Stuttgart. Kostyuk was embroiled in a marathon opener at the 2024 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix against former champion Laura Siegemund. The Ukrainian was playing her first match in precisely a month because of an injury setback….
The 1st-round of the Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole, the WTA 250 in France, was completed on Wednesday, which saw Martina Trevisan down wild-card Naomi Osaka in straight sets, while Mirra Andreeva, Sloane Stephens and Magda Linette won their 2nd-round matches to advance to the quarter-finals. I have never been the type to make excuses for…
Ons Jabeur has been struggling with her tennis for a while, and she admitted that it’s affected her mental health. The Tunisian player hadn’t had a very good month in tennis since last summer when she made the Wimbledon final. It was the second Wimbledon final she played in and arguably her most painful loss…
Late on Wednesday night, Emma Raducanu and Aryna Sabalenka won their opening matches at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, with more or less drama, while Coco Gauff and Ons Jabeur also advanced earlier on Day 3 of the WTA 500 indoor clay-court tournament in Stuttgart. At any moment she [Angelique Kerber] can just turn it…
