After undergoing his latest knee surgery, Roger Federer says that “the worst is behind me” and that he hopes to return to the tennis court in 2022. The 20-time Grand Slam champion announced in August he would be “out many months” following… Read More ›
NEW YORK: Moments after Novak Djokovic reached the U.S. Open final on Friday and moved one step from clinching an elusive calendar Grand Slam, a group of fans in Arthur Ashe Stadium unfurled a banner with a photo of the smiling Serb…. Read More ›
NEW YORK, Sept 4 (Reuters) – With the old names missing, new faces have taken the spotlight at the U.S. Open as fearless teenagers and hungry qualifiers leave their mark on the year’s final Grand Slam. “It’s a crazy ride,”… Read More ›
Roger Federer is such a master of timing, it’s only apt that an expansive new biography about him arrives at an uncanny moment. Subtitled “The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer,” “The Master” unfolds with the mostly chronological… Read More ›
40 – The age Federer is now! The Swiss is the only 40-year-old inside the Top 100 of the FedEx ATP Rankings, the elite group he has been part of — without dropping from it — since 11 October 199939 – Combined… Read More ›
Alexander Zverev just might have figured something out. Zverev, the talented German battling to break into the highest level of his sport, won the gold medal in the Olympic tennis tournament Sunday, defeating Karen Khachanov of Russia in straight sets… Read More ›
Belinda Bencic is the Tokyo 2020 Olympic women’s singles champion, becoming the first Swiss woman to win a gold medal in tennis in Games history after a hard-earned three-set victory over Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova at Ariake Tennis Park. The… Read More ›
The Tokyo Olympics are underway after a unique and moving opening ceremony, and it was Naomi Osaka who officially set the event into motion when she lit the Olympic Cauldron.https://85191d9c298058d068f34369e22e95f9.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html The four-time Grand Slam champion and Japanese star received the… Read More ›
For 97-year-old Leonid Stanislavskyi, a Ukrainian who has been playing amateur tennis for over half a century, it is next to impossible to find a worthy adversary in his age group. That has not stopped him from participating in the… Read More ›