Tennis players Tu and Sweeny say goodbye to the Canberra tournament

the australian players Jason Taylor and Adam Taylor won in the quarterfinals of the tournament Canberra in one hour and fifteen minutes 6-2 and 6-2 to the australians Li Tu and Dane Sweeny, ATP number 261 and ATP number 235 respectively. After this result, we will continue to see the winners of this match in the semifinals of the tournament Canberra.

During the match Taylor and Taylor, the winners, managed to break their opponents’ serve 5 times, on the first serve they had 71% effectiveness, committed a double fault and got 69% of the points on serve. As for the defeated couple, they managed to break serve on one occasion, obtained 70% effectiveness, made a double fault and managed to win 46% of the points on serve.

After this duel, the semifinals will take place in which Taylor and Taylor will face the winners of the match between Calum Puttergill and Brandon Walkin against Matthew Dellavedova and Alexander Crnokrak.

The celebration of the tournament Canberra (ITF Australia F6) takes place from March 29 to April 2 on clay in the open air. During this competition a total of 16 couples face each other.

Tennis, a sport much loved by the public

Tennis is undoubtedly a classic sport. Every year, four tournaments (the so-called ‘Grand Slams’) concentrate all the world’s attention: the season begins with the Open de Australiacontinues with the clay track of Roland Garrosthen moves on to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and finally ends up in the USA with the US Open.

In the rest of the year, players continue to compete around the world completing seasons on the different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay O Herb.

Tennis was born in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sport date the tour opened. It was especially popular with the upper classes in English-speaking countries, but today it is a global sport. It’s divided in of the categories: the men’s (ATP) and the women’s (WTA) competition.

ATP

The ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players that brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.

The ATP tour organizes several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (if a player wins the tournament, he will take 1000 points to add to the ATP ranking), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, in a lower step we would have the ATP Challenger Tour, where the future stars of world tennis face each other . In addition, the association also handles the Grand Slams.

The fight to be the best in history is still active in the men’s category. The Spanish Rafael Nadalthe Serbian Novak Djokovic and the swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all records and collect the largest number of Grand Slams. The three players are popularly known as ‘Big Three‘ versus the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.

These promising tennis stars have entered the global tennis circuit with a bang, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasof the Italian Matteo Berrettinithe German Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev and Rublev.

Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 of the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.

WTA

The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was founded in 1973 by the famous former tennis player Billie Jean King. The Californian won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active career and is an icon in the world of tennis.

Currently, there are many tennis players in the women’s category who compete to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (champion of Roland Garros in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari O Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the famous top 10 of the WTA ranking.

In the year 2022, the Australian player Asleigh Barty announced his definitive retirement from tennis and put an end to an impressive career with several Grand Slams behind him. Now it is the turn of the other players to take the witness and become number 1.

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