Former Wimbledon winner Angelique Kerber of Germany has received a main-draw Wimbledon wild card. EPA-EFE/NEIL HALL The Wimbledon wild card field pops with Grand Slam champions. Four of the seven Wimbledon ladies’ wild card recipients—Angelique Kerber, Naomi Osaka, Briton Emma Raducanu and Caroline Wozniacki—are former Grand Slam champions. Osaka, Kerber and Wozniacki each returned to…
Richard Gasquet has received a 2024 Roland Garros wild card. Photo credit: Yann Caradec/Wikimedia Commons French veterans headline the list of Roland Garros, but several Grand Slam champions were bypassed for wild cards. Richard Gasquet and Alize Cornet, who announced 2024 is her farewell season, lead the list of Roland Garros main-draw wild cards. The…
The women’s Tour moves from the hard courts of north America to the long clay court season this week, with a WTA 500 event in Charleston, a WTA 250 in Bogota, and a WTA 125 at La Bisbal d’Empordá in Spain heralding the build-up to the French Open in late May. On the grey-green clay…
Rain delayed the start of play at the WTA 500 Credit One Charleston Open by 6 hours on Wednesday, making the conditions heavy going, but Anhelina Kalinina and Victoria Azarenka were among the winners of the 8 completed matches to make it into the 3rd round on Day 3. I had to keep my…
Billie Jean King Cup play is already under way in the regional Group stages this week, which are divided into regions: Africa, Americas, Asia/Oceania and Europe. At Group I and II level, Europe and Africa are merged to form Europe/Africa. Group I is the highest regional division and Group IV the lowest. Group events are…
Caroline Wozniacki returned to clay and outplayed her opponent, McCartney Kessler, at the 2024 Charleston Open for a very good start. The Danish player has exclusively played on hard courts since her comeback last year, but she finally returned to clay. It’s not the red clay but rather green clay; however, it was good to…
The 2024 Charleston Open is the first WTA 500 clay-court tournament, and the draw for the event promises a lot of exciting action. The Charleston Open is one of the most popular events among the players because it’s just a little bit different. The facilities are excellent because they are run by the Navarro family,…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday March 27, 2024 Every year the clay season kicks off on the green clay of Charleston South Carolina, and this year the Credit One Charleston Open boasts a brilliant field – buoyed by a quartet of must-see wild cards. On Wednesday the tournament awarded wild cards to former…
Caroline Wozniacki will play at the 2024 Charleston Open as she leads the list of players who received wild card entries into the WTA 500 event. The clay-court tournament in Charleston is pretty popular among players and the only one played on green clay on the WTA Tour. It’s a special type of clay that…
Caroline Wozniacki will leave her family behind for the first time since returning to professional tennis. When Wozniacki retired from tennis many years ago, the Danish player was not a mother and only recently married. A few years passed between her retirement and her comeback last year, and she’s now a mother. That added another…
