Aryna Sabalenka bested Ons Jabeur in a prestigious exhibition match played at the 2023 Riyadh Season in Saudi Arabia. The two players probably got the best possible preparation for the new season, as they got to play an exhibition match during the 2023 Riyadh Season at the exhibition called the Tennis Cup, which will also…
Cameron Norrie is supposed to play at the 2024 United Cup in a few days, but his tennis shoes are missing, and he’s trying to get them back. Traveling can be such a rewarding experience unless your bag goes missing. Then it turns badly rather quickly, and that’s what happened to Norrie recently as he…
Carlos Alcaraz has a growing rivalry with Jannik Sinner and Holger Rune, and it’s important for tennis, according to Eurosport analyst Tim Henman. Rivalries are what many consider to be the driving forces of sport. While individuals can do it independently, rivalries make everything much better. Take modern tennis, for example. We had Roger Federer,…
Roger Federer of Switzerland in action at the Australian Open tennis tournament at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, 28 January 2020. EPA-EFE/SCOTT BARBOUR The Tennis Player A Poem by Christopher Chaffee The tennis player Knows how precious time is It is a gift and also a curse The road to follow Might be…
Ben Shelton had never left his country before this year, and he was shocked by quite a few things. Exploring the world should be something everybody does because there is so much to see and so much to learn. Ben Shelton got the chance to do that in 2023, and it’s been quite an amazing…
Former ATP player Tim Henman finds it very hard not to count Rafael Nadal as one of the favorites for Roland Garros. It’s quite self-explanatory why. No player dominated one event as much as Nadal did across many years. He’s known as the King of Clay because he’s just been so dominant on that surface…
The World Tennis League is not affiliated with the ATP or WTA, so organizers are at liberty to enforce the rules they want at the event. Because of that, Casper Ruud ended up eliminating his team on Saturday and prevented them from headlining the final match on Christmas Eve despite winning his match. For context,…
Emma Raducanu has scaled up her training sessions and has been working on her baseline game just days before the start of the 2024 tennis season. British sensation Raducanu has not played a competitive match since mid-April when Jelena Ostapenko thrashed her in the first round of the Stuttgart Open. Since then, she has been…
British tennis player Tara Moore has been cleared of any wrongdoing in an alleged case of doping following a harrowing 19 months of investigations. Moore, primarily a doubles specialist these days and the highest-ranked Briton in doubles on the WTA Tour during her provisional suspension from tennis in April 2022, is now free to resume…
Sofia Kenin is continuing her tremendous week in Abu Dhabi by besting Aryna Sabalenka and basically ensuring that her team, the Eagles, win the 2023 World Tennis League. After three doubles matches, the World Tennis League final continued with the first singles match. It was Sofia Kenin and Aryna Sabalenka, with the former team having…
