Emma Raducanu isn’t known as a very experienced clay player, but she hasn’t been surprised by the excellent play she’s produced this week. This time last week, Raducanu was in France playing at the Billie Jan King Cup, and she hoped to do well. She did more than well, winning two crucial matches that ensured…
Friday morning, at Montreal’s IGA Stadium, Tennis Canada officially launched the Billie Jean King Cup Champions Tour, a journey that will see the renowned trophy from the international team competition make stops in all 10 provinces across the country. Team Canada, comprised of Leylah Annie Fernandez (Laval, QC), Gabriela Dabrowski (Ottawa, ON), Rebecca Marino (Vancouver,…
Aryna Sabalenka‘s very complicated match at the 2024 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix ended with a late push from Marketa Vondrousova that sent her packing. The Czech player seemingly had a chance of beating her opponent in this match. However, it seemed far-fetched because Sabalenka played three times in the final of the WTA 500 event…
Thursday at the Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole, the WTA 250 tournament in France this week, saw Arantxa Rus of the Netherlands topple Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the No 1 seed from Russia, but Caroline Garcia and Anhelina Kalinina had an easier time of it, winning through to the quarter-finals in straight sets. In a marathon encounter lasting…
Elena Rybakina is through to the 2024 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix semi-final, after beating Jasmine Paolini in three sets. The Italian player has been flying under the radar recently, but she’s actually set to reach her career-high 13th place after the WTA 500 tournament in Stuttgart, and she’s very close to Top 10 breakthrough. That’s…
Britain’s Emma Raducanu set up a quarter-final contest with World No 1 Iga Swiatek at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix on Wednesday, riding the momentum she began rolling at the BJK Cup last weekend with an impressive 6-0 7-5 win over Linda Noskova at the WTA 500 indoor clay-court tournament in Stuttgart. Well, she [Emma…
For Rafael Nadal, this year’s Roland Garros will be unlike any other he has participated in because he will be unseeded. The legendary Spaniard is the most successful player at the clay Slam. He has won 14 titles, which is the single-most in a Grand Slam tournament. His 112-3 record in Paris is also unmatched….
Cameron Norrie powered into the Barcelona Open quarter finals with a 6-4 6-3 victory against home favourite Roberto Bautista Agut for his 200th win on the Tour and was surprised when that mark was pointed out to him. I think on the score it was easy, but there were a lot of tough points in…
Coco Gauff started her 2024 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix Open with a win, but it was a tough win, so what happens when she faces Marta Kostyuk, an even better player? Gauff’s first match in Stuttgart didn’t go as smoothly as some might think because the American dangerously flirted with losing the match. Her compatriot…
Holger Rune going for a third Munich title Photo by Sebastian Widmann/Getty Images for BMW) Holger Rune, champion the BMW Open champion of the last two years, started his 2024 campaign for a third title in Munich with a 6-4 6-2 win ove Danile Elabi Galan of Colombia. The Munich title was the first of…
