The Tennis Premier League (TPL) conducted its highly anticipated Season 7 Player Auction on Thursday in Mumbai, with tennis legends Leander Paes, Sania Mirza, and Mahesh Bhupathi in attendance alongside league Co‑Founders Kunal Thakkur and Mrunal Jain. The auction witnessed intense bidding, as franchises competed to assemble their squads ahead of a landmark season scheduled…
Daniil Medvedev on Wednesday got his revenge against US teenager Learner Tien, beating him in a nail-biter 7-6 (8/6), 6-7 (1/7), 6-4 to proceed to the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals. There he will meet world number seven Alex de Minaur, who cruised past Portugal’s Nuno Borges 7-5, 6-2 earlier in the day. Victory in Shanghai comes…
Novak Djokovic said Thursday that talk about reorganising the tennis schedule has been going on for at least 15 years and his fellow players are “still not united enough”. The amount of tennis the elite play was thrust back into the spotlight this week after world number one Carlos Alcaraz pulled out of the Shanghai…
Alexander Zverev beat racket snapper Corentin Moutet on Sunday to book a quarterfinal date with Daniil Medvedev at the China Open. The world number three from Germany kept his calm to edge out the Frenchman 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 and set up a 21st Tour meeting with his Russian rival. “I’m looking forward to the…
The exciting on-court battles and the endearing off-court friendship between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal defined tennis for close to two decades. Not only did the two officially face each other 40 times, including nine Major finals, between 2004 and 2019, they also played a few exhibition events to promote the sport. Swiss maestro Federer,…
Comeback victories from Jessica Pegula and Emma Navarro against Great Britain sent the United States through to its first Billie Jean King Cup final since 2018 in Shenzhen on Saturday. After Navarro opened proceedings with a hard-fought 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 win over Sonay Kartal, Pegula sealed the tie for the Americans with a 3-6, 6-4,…
Two-time major singles finalist Jasmine Paolini vowed Monday to “fight until the last ball” as she hopes to guide Italy to a second consecutive Billie Jean King Cup title this week in Shenzhen. The Italians are looking to become the first country to successfully defend their crown in the women’s team competition since the Czech…
Defending champion Magdalena Frech was sent packing from the Guadalajara Open after a 7-5, 6-4 quarterfinal defeat by 19-year-old Czech Nikola Bartunkova on Friday, while German sixth seed Tatjana Maria was knocked out by Elsa Jacquemot. Bartunkova secured the win over Polish fourth seed Frech, who won the WTA 500 hardcourt tournament last year by…
Britain’s Jack Draper has called time on his season after an arm injury that also forced him to withdraw from the U.S. Open, he said on Monday. Fifth seed Draper pulled out of the tournament before his second-round meeting with Zizou Bergs in late August after first overcoming Argentine qualifier Federico Agustin Gomez. Draper’s appearance…
Jerome Kym, who qualified and reached the third round of the US Open, will spearhead the Swiss team against India in the Davis Cup World Group-1 tie to be played on an indoor hard court in Biel on September 12 and 13. The 22-year-old Jerome was ranked a career-best 123 in May this year, but…