The 23-year-old World number two, Japanese Naomi Osaka has withdrew from French Open over controversy over her refusal to grant after match interview . She had indicated last week she would not do news conferences at Roland Garros to protect her mental health. She said on Monday she “never wanted to be a distraction” to […]
The 29-year-old Spanish 168 ATP ranked Tennis Player, Enrique Lopez Perez, who reached a career-high singles ranking of 154 in 2018 and a best doubles ranking of 135 last year, has been banned from the sport for eight years for his involvement in match-fixing activities in three separate instances in 2017, the Tennis Integrity Unit […]
World Tennis No 45, Australia Nick Kyrgios (25), who started seeing a psychologist in 2018, recalled a time in Shanghai when he “didn’t want to see the light of day”. Kyrgios who has been criticised for not caring enough about his tennis career, has opened up on his battle with depression and says returning to […]
The French Open, the last tennis Grand Slam tournament of the season, has comes and gone. But the numbers of viewers has greatly exceeded expectations according to a data report released by the organizing committee on the event. Despite the number of viewers at the French Open has been greatly restricted due to the epidemic, […]
The second highest ranked Chinese Women Tennis player and currently ranked number 26, Wang Qiang was defeated by young player Yang Ziyi and missed the quarterfinals in the current China Tennis Tour. Men’s singles top seed Zhang Zhizhen narrowly defeated Li Jianhui 20:18 in the final set of the “Ten Ten” battle. In women’s singles, Wang […]
The mother of Sir Andy Murray, former Tennis World no.1, Jude Murray has open up on how deeply she was offended by German former world no 1, Boris Becker’s comments after her son Andy Murray’s 2011 Australian Open final defeat. Playing in his second consecutive final at Melbourne Park, Murray again came up short as he was […]
The World number one, Novak Djokovic and his Jelena has joined the number of top tennis players to test positive after Grigor Dimitrov, Borna coric, Viktor Troicki had coronavirus after playing at Djokovic’s Adria Tour competition. Great Britain’s Andy Murray said the positive tests were a “lesson for us”, while Australian Nick Kyrgios called playing […]
In an interview on “In Depth With Graham Bensinger”, Novak Djokovic made know his determination to break grand slam record. Djokovic insists that he will win the most Grand Slam titles and become the longest-reigning world No. 1 by the time he is ready to retire. Djokovic’s 17 Grand Slam titles are three shy of […]
The former World Tennis Association (WTA) number one, Naomi Osaka has decided to open up instead of allowing her compulsive shyness and occasional depression to wrestle her career height from her. “I think people know me as being really shy,” she told CNN Sport from her home in Los Angeles. “I want to also take […]
Ines Ibbou, a young Algerian tennis player who hit back at Dominic Thiem for saying he did not want to give money to lowly-ranked players, has drawn support from Venus Williams as well her country’s government. “Dear Dominic,” Ibbou, who is 620th in the WTA singles rankings, said in an emotional nine-minute video posted on social […]
The world Tennis ATP number one rank player Novak Djokovic got himself in bad book on Monday by breaking Spain’s covid-19 rules. The tennis superstar not only broke Spain’s social distancing rules on Monday to play tennis — he seems to give no qualm by posted video of himself doing it! The 32-year-old posted footage […]
The big three, Nadal, Federer and through men’s world No 1, Novak Djokovic, last week urged players to contribute to a fund set up by the sport’s major governing bodies, in order to help players affected by a shutdown which began in March. But in a distaste to the proposal, Dominic Thiem has completely rejected […]
The 20 times grand slam winner Roger Federer has called for merger of women (WTA) and men (ATP) pro tennis tours for stronger tennis body post covid-19 pandemic; in string of posts on twitter on Wednesday. The professional era in tennis started in 1968, and the ATP was founded in 1972 and has run the […]
In magnanimous move, the big three” in men’s tennis have proposed the creation of a $4 million (£3.2 million/€3.7 million) relief fund to help those ranked between 250 and 700 in the world during the coronavirus pandemic. Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have suggested players in the top 100 of the Association of […]
A Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff the youngest women tennis association (WTA) ranked (No.49) tennis player as confessed that rapid rise and hype led to her depression. “Throughout my life I was always the youngest to do things, which added hype that I didn’t want,” Gauff wrote in a post for Behind The Racquet. “It added this pressure […]
The two-weeks famous tennis event Wimbledon, which was set to take place on Monday June 29, has been cancelled following an emergency board meeting held on teleconference between Wimbledon chiefs. The decision was made by a committee involving four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist Tim Henman, former cabinet secretary Lord Gus O’Donnell, new chairman Ian Hewitt and ex-player […]
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