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 from…
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 its…
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 draw,…
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 Dart…
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 grace…
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 to…
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 to…
Tennis Mastermind: Henri Cochet Elegant Master Of The Volley “The Tournament In Paris” At three o’clock in the afternoon, the Parisian sunshine reflected off the dusty clay of Stade Roland Garros. There was tension in the air even though the International Challenge Tournament had already been settled. The decisive doubles match earlier had ended the…
Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have weaknesses, according to former ATP legend Mats Wilander, but Novak Djokovic doesn’t. The era of the Big Three is the greatest era of tennis simply because the players that marked it are so great. Each one of them has a case to be considered the greatest of all time,…
Andy Murray could say farewell to Wimbledon in the doubles with brother Jamie if fit. It’s complicated, and it’s made more complicated because I want to play at Wimbledon one more time Andy Murray The injury-hit two-time singles champion is set to retire this summer. The former world No.1 has been drawn to face Tomas…
