Diede de Groot is the reigning Paralympic champion in both singles and doubles. The world’s best player at the moment is now also considered the top favorite for two gold medals. Lizzy de Greef is also participating in both the singles and doubles tournaments. In the doubles, she is an outsider for a medal together … Read more
GREGORY LEON Champions suffer at the US Open. The New York tournament does not allow for any lapses. Sinner, under universal scrutiny since his positive doping test came to light, was run over in the first set against McDonald, but then straightened out and avoided disaster. Tsitsipas could not do it and is out. And … Read more
The winner of 11 WTA tournaments and last year’s US Open semi-finalist was bombarded with heavy blasts on social media after her first round defeat by Mexico’s Renata Zarazu. “Here are some of them, but there are hundreds of them,” the familiar French woman began her long answer on the X network, in which she … Read more
The thirty-third player in the world went through a terrible five-set battle with compatriot Francisco Cerundola in an unpleasant heat. When he took a 4-1 lead in the fifth set and the match had already lasted almost four hours, a difficult time came for Etcheverry. He was about to receive a serve, he walked slowly … Read more
The top-ranked Argentinian in the ATP was forced to abandon the second round of the last Grand Slam of the year due to foot problems while playing his duel against Tallon Griekspoor. Sebastián Báez, the highest-ranked Argentine in the ATP, had to withdraw due to an injury to his right foot and abandoned his US … Read more
Next win for Zverev? After winning the German duel against his Olympic roommate Maximilian Marterer (29), Alexander Zverev (27) now meets in the second round of the US Open 2024 on the Frenchman Alexandre Muller (27). Here’s how to watch the duel live on TV. Zverev was actually supposed to play against the Finn Emil … Read more
Last year’s semi-finalist found herself under pressure at 4:1 and 15:40, but did not allow her American opponent Katie Volynets to finish the sixth game yet. The 28-year-old Czech picked her smash in a spectacular way in a jump behind her and turned it into a lob that fell into the court. The local tennis … Read more
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Imagine for a second that Roger Federer had won that day the two points he needed to clinch a 6th consecutive US Open, synonymous with a new Little Slam, 2009 joining its little brothers of 2004, 2006 and 2007. No one would have really blamed Juan Martin Del Potro. What would have been said if … Read more
The French Tennis Federation wants to keep its top-level director. This Tuesday, the FFT “reaffirmed its confidence” in Ivan Ljubicic, despite his resignation from the position of head of the French teams after the French failure at the Olympic Games. No Frenchman had reached the quarter-finals of the Olympics this summer in Paris, a first … Read more