Carlos Alcaraz was very worried about having to dance with the Ladies’ Singles champion at the 2024 Wimbledon Champions Ball, but he handled it as a pro. As usual, the winners of the Gentlemen’s and Ladies’ Wimbledon Singles events attend the Champions’ Dinner, during which they dance together. This year, Barbora Krejcikova won the Ladies’…
England’s semi-final hero Ollie Watkins has stated that the Three Lions are not concerned with how they win or score, in response to King Charles’ message to the team. Watkins sealed the victory against the Netherlands in the semi-final with a last-minute goal after coming off the bench in the final ten minutes of the…
In a year where Scottie Scheffler has won six times and dominated the PGA Tour, it has also been a good season for first-time winners on Tour. Whether it was the amateur winning for the first time in 33 years in January or a scoring record going down in July, there have been nine first-time…
As rain disrupted play on the outside courts at Wimbledon on Tuesday, pushing matches back and causing many to be cancelled for the day, World No 1 Iga Swiatek successfully navigated her way past fellow Grand Slam champion Sofia Kenin under the comfort of the closed roof of No 1 Court. It was a solid…
Monday Sees Lower Half of Ladies Singles Draw Complete 1st Round at Wimbledon Monday marked the completion of the 1st-round matches in the lower half of the Ladies Singles draw at Wimbledon. Coco Gauff, Naomi Osaka, Emma Navarro, and Linda Noskova were among the notable players who advanced safely to the next round. However, World…
Carlos Alcaraz might look calm and collected on the tennis court, but he’s not always like that, admitting to episodes of shaking recently. The Spaniard is one of the most electric tennis players we’ve ever seen. His meteoric rise a few years ago was something to see, and very quickly, he became one of the…
Florida State golf alums John and John Pak each recorded professional victories on Sunday, continuing the Seminoles’ run of strong play at golf’s highest levels. With an exemption to the PGA Tour Americas following an eighth-place finish in the PGA Tour University rankings, Kjettrup won in his tour debut at The Beachlands Victoria Open in…
In a recent USGA press conference before the U.S. Open, CEO Mike Whan, president Fred Perpall, and chief championships officer John Bodenhamer discussed the possibility of amateurs being paid their share of event winnings. Whan highlighted the evolving landscape of college athletics and the introduction of NIL (name, image, likeness) as a factor that the…
I’m not as stridently anti-tanking as some people — in my youth, I was a Sixers blogger during The Process, so I can say from experience that rooting for a historically bad team has its moments — but there is one thing that bugs me about the Orioles and Astros and so on from the…
